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A 2017 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that of the 85 deadly extremist incidents since 9/11, far right-wing extremist groups were responsible for 73%, while radical Islamist extremists were responsible for 27%.
The second peak was in 2007 at the height of the Iraq war. The 2007 increase is mainly attributed to al-Qa'ida affiliated terrorist groups and coincided with the coalition troop surge in Iraq. The third wave started in 2012 and is still continuing, with the economic impact of terrorism peaking at US$105.6 billion in 2014. [7]
US Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organizations, released April 8, 2008 Fact Sheet, upon which this article is based, which also contains the legal references. US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 'What you need to know about U.S. Sanctions' European Union list of terrorist groups and individuals, 2007
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
Following the Fall of the Assad regime in December 2024, it was unclear if the United States planned to drop Syria from the list of the State Sponsors of Terrorism, although Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which contributed to Assad's fall and was led by current Syrian president Ahmed al-Sharaa, had been labeled as a terrorist group in 2018. [32]
Hate and extremism in Georgia was on the rise in 2023, according to the results of an annual report released this week by the Southern Poverty Law Center that tracks extremist groups across the U.S.
A report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence found that domestic violent extremists posed an increased threat in 2021, with white supremacist groups and anti-government ...
In 1999, the SPLC listed 457 hate groups; that number steadily increased until 2011, when 1,018 groups were listed. [2] [12] [13] The rise from 2008 onward was attributed in part to anger at Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States. [2] Thereafter, the number of hate groups steadily dropped, reaching a low of 784 in 2014 (a ...