According to a new report from the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), terrorism continues to spread around the world, and in 2024 it was more common in the West than ever before.
GTI released its 2025 report on Wednesday, finding that the number of countries that recorded terrorist attacks rose from 58 in 2023 to 66 last year. This reverses nearly a decade of improvement to the issue, GTI said.
In the West, 93% of deadly attacks were carried out by lonely wolf terrorists.
“Today, the majority of Western attacks are carried out by individuals who are not affiliated with formal groups that are radicalised through social media, gaming platforms and encrypted messaging apps,” GTI said in the report.
FBI Director Kash Patel allegedly handed over to us by the Abbey Gate plotter to “facing our 13 justices.”
The lonely wolf attacks accounted for 93% of 2024 Western terrorist attacks. (AP photo)
“The shift to online radicalization allows potential terrorists to access and organize extremist content with minimal physical contact. The radicalization of algorithms on popular social media sites can gradually drive users to extreme content over time,” the report continued.
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The report came on the same day that US authorities arrested the suspect who said they had confessed to scouting the attack route in 2021 Abbey gate bombing in Afghanistan; Thirteen service members have died.
Muhammad Sharihula, a suspect in the bombing of the monastery, who killed 13 American service members during the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, was handed over to the US on Wednesday. (FBI Director KashPatel)
ISIS-K member Mohammad Sharihula appeared in Virginia's first federal court on Wednesday on charges of conspiring to provide and conspiring to provide material support and resources to designated persons. Foreign terrorist organizations, As a result, death.
Sharifullah was handed over to the US on Tuesday night to “facing American justice,” FBI director Kash Patel said.
“Three and 1/2 years later, 13 justice,” Patel added to X.
Mohammad Sharihura is a member of Iraqi Islamic State and Ash Sham Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the Ministry of Justice says. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office)
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president Donald Trump During his speech in front of the council meeting on Tuesday night, he announced the capture of Sharihula, saying that he was “pleasant to announce that we have just arrested that we were held responsible for the atrocities.”
