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GLOBAL TERRORISM INDEX 2022 - MEASURING THE IMPACT OF TERRORISM

11 May 2022

The GTI assesses four measures, the number of attacks, deaths, The primary driver of this reduction in 2021 has been a fall in wounded and hostages, using a 5 year weighting system to the intensity of conflict in the Middle East, and the subsequent determine the level of impact for any given year. [...] However, system allows for the impact of the lingering effect of terrorism increases in the number of deaths were recorded in three of the on a country’s psyche. [...] Of the five countries that experienced the highest levels of INCREASE AND DECREASE IN TERRORISM terrorism, four countries, Afghanistan, Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, recorded an increase in the number of deaths, while the Figure 1.3 shows the countries that experienced the largest total number of deaths fell only in Somalia. [...] Islamist state spanning countries such as Iraq, Syria and other areas of the Levant.10 IS used affiliate groups to promote their The Taliban ideology in other parts of the world including Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP) in Afghanistan and Pakistan and later The Taliban emerged in Afghanistan in 1994 as a reactionary the Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA), which operates in the group that. [...] While IS activities have significantly declined since the Iraqi government declared the military defeat of IS in Iraq in 2017, it IS claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in Iraq in 2021, is clear that the group’s threat to the security of the region has when a bomb detonated at a market in a Shia-majority not disappeared.
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