"As Western governments grapple with heightened apprehension about the spread of Islamic militancy, an independent study on Tuesday offered little solace, saying the number of fatalities related to terrorism soared 60 percent last year.
Pointing to a geographic imbalance, the report by
the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace said five countries —
Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria — accounted for
four-fifths of the almost 18,000 fatalities attributed to terrorism last
year. Iraq had the bloodiest record of all, with more than 6,300
fatalities.
At
the same time, the statistics in the organization’s Global Terrorism
Index suggested that the world’s industrialized nations — often the
target of threats by groups such as Al Qaeda and the Islamic State, which is also known as ISIS or ISIL — had suffered relatively few attacks on their soil since the Sept. 11, 2001, onslaught in the United States and the July 7, 2005, suicide bombings in London."
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