Croatia►0▲7

Chad▼22▲6

Spain▲16▲6

Jordan▼0▼6

Poland►0▲6

Finland▲2▲4

South Africa▲2▼6

Senegal▼1►4

Belgium▼0▼4

Macedonia►0▲4

Azerbaijan▲8▲3

Guinea▲6▲3

Brazil▼1▼3

Mauritiania▲1▲3

Morocco▲1▲3

Albania▼0▲3

Argentina►0▼3

Georgia►0▼3

Ireland▼0▲3

Montenegro►0▲3

China▲5▲2

Uganda▼4▼2

Guatemala▼3▼2

Austria▲2►2

Madagascar►2▲2

Australia▲1►2

Netherlands▲1▼2

Bolivia▼0▼2

Ghana▼0▼2

Lithuania►0▲2

Malaysia►0▼2

Panama►0▲2

Kyrgyzstan▲1▼1

Rwanda▲1▼1

Tajikistan►1►1

Togo▲1▲1

Armenia▼0▼1

Belarus►0▲1

Belize►0▲1

Bulgaria►0▼1

Cyprus►0▼1

Czech Republic►0▼1

Dominican Republic▼0▼1

Ecuador►0▲1

Estonia►0▲1 Estonia►0▲1

Estonia►0▲1 Gabon►0▲1

Estonia►0▲1 Gambia►0▲1

Estonia▼0▼1 Haiti

Estonia▼0▼1 Honduras

Estonia▼0▼1 Kazakhstan

Estonia►0▲1 Latvia

Estonia►0►1 Papua New Guinea

Estonia►0▲1 Puerto Rico

Estonia►0►1 South Korea

Estonia▼0▼1 Sri Lanka

Estonia►0►1 Switzerland

Estonia►0▲1 Turkmenistan

Estonia►0▲1 Norway

Syria ▲8,440 ▼3,641

Yemen ▲1,326 ▼1,092

India ▼758 ▼338

Ukraine ▼3,735 ▼177

Afghanistan ▼661 ▼2,299

Turkey ▼470 ▼226

Somalia ▼445 ▲1,466

Libya ▲414 ▼606

Philippines ▲337 ▲268

Democratic Republic of Congo ▲321 ▼445

Pakistan ▼367 ▲797

Colombia ▲261 ▲77

Cameroon ▲153 ▲262

Myanmar ►142 ▲129

Sudan ▼116 ▼130

Thailand ▼111 ▼52

United Kingdom ▼100 ▲38

Saudi Arabia ▼93 ▼51

South Sudan ▼73 ▼227

Venezuela ▲83 ▲19

Greece ▲80 ►0

Kenya ▲72 ▲129

Nepal ▲90 ▲4

Mali ▲131 ▼163

Nigeria ▲231 ▲918

Egypt ▼166 ▲700

Iraq ▼2,164 ▼3,378

Central African Republic ▲154 ▲259

Gaza and the West Bank ▼119 ▼14

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Lebanon ▼63 ▲28

United States ▼62 ▼20

Israel ▼55 ▲10

France ▲44 ▼3

Tunisia ▼43 ▼4

Bangladesh ▼41 ▼8

Russian Fed. ▼38 ▲37

Burkina Faso ▲32 ▲60

Burundi ▼31 ▼35

Chile ▼29 ▼1

Ethiopia ▲27 ▼14

Niger ▼21 ▼88

Iran ▲21 ▲47

Germany ▼21 ▼1

Indonesia ▲19 ▲9

Algeria ▼18 ▼9

Bahrain ▲15 ▲4

Mozambique ▼13 ▼14

Mexico ►12 ▲8

Sweden ▲12 ▲5

Côte d'Ivoire ▲11 ▼1

Angola ▲10 ▲15

Canada ▲10 ▲6

Kosovo ▼10 ▲1

Italy ▲10 ▼0

Peru ►9 ▼8

Paraguay ▼9 ▼1

Congo-Brazzaville ▼8 ▼35

Tanzania ▲7 ▲16

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Primary Tactics 2017

Stand-off/area attack 7,534(33.5%)

Engagement 5,876(26.1%)

Hit and run 3,230(14.4%)

Assassination 1,868(8.3%)

Raid 1,115(5.0%)

Assault 1,060(4.7%)

Ambush 655(2.9%)

Kidnap 489(2.2%)

Suicide Attacks by Country - Top 10

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691

Fatalities

3,828

Primary Targets 2017 13,474 (59.9%)

3,670 (16.3%)

3,627 (16.1%)

Security forces 1,360 (6.0%)

1,274 (5.7%)

787 (3.5%)

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Attacks

1: Islamic State ► ▲4,612Orientation: Sunni IslamistScope: Transnational Objective: Revolutionary

▼6,499

The 4,612 attacks by the Islamic State made the group the most active NSAG worldwide in terms of attacks for the fourth consecutive year. While Islamic State attacks rose 8.9% from 2016, the number of resultant fatalities fell by 39.9% to 6,499. Under heavy pressure across the year, the Islamic State lost control of the key cities of Mosul and Raqqa, before losing all territorial control in Iraq and Syria in early November. Nonetheless, the threat posed by the group will continue both locally through a reversion to insurgent operations and internationally through an ongoing ability to inspire and guide punitive violence.

2: Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) ► ▼2,851Orientation: EthnoculturalScope: Local Objective: Separatist

▼122

The 2,851 attacks by the pro-Russia separatist Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) made the group the second most active NSAG worldwide for the second consecutive year. Nonetheless, this total represented a 16.6% decrease from 2016, while the 122 fatalities from DPR attacks represented a 15.3% decrease from 2016. The separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine remained essentially static across the course of the year, with frequent exchanges of fire with the security forces but little attempt to seize ground. The vast majority of attacks were conducted by the DPR in Donetsk, and the decrease in violence was somewhat attributable to several partial ceasefires in Luhansk and Donetsk across the summer months.

3: Qiwaat Suriyya al-Dimoqratiyya (QSD) ▲ ▲1,179Orientation: TerritorialScope: Local Objective: Resistance

▲90

The 1,179 attacks by the Kurdish-led Qiwaat Suriyya al-Dimoqratiyya (QSD) – or Syrian Democratic Forces – made the group the third most active NSAG worldwide, up from seventh in 2016. The attack total represented a major 115.5% increase from 2016, and the 90 recorded non-militant fatalities was a significant increase from zero in 2016. The QSD was almost entirely focused on fighting the Islamic State in northern and eastern Syria across the year and among other operations the QSD engaged in prolonged, heavy urban fighting to capture the group’s de facto capital of Raqqa.

4: Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ► ▲909Orientation: Sunni IslamistScope: Domestic Objective: Revolutionary

▼458

The 909 attacks by Syrian militant Islamist coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham made the group the fourth most active NSAG worldwide. While attacks rose 32.3% from 2016, fatalities fell 22.5%. The group, a coalition of militant Islamist groups based around former Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fath al-Sham, was founded in January and across the year engaged in heavy fighting with both pro-government forces and NSAG rivals, particularly Ahrar al-Sham and the Islamic State. In July the group took full control of Idlib governorate following heavy inter-group clashes and thereafter focused heavily on attacking pro-government forces in Hama governorate.

5: Luhansk People's Republic ▼ ▲832Orientation: EthnoculturalScope: Local Objective: Separatist

▼25

The 832 attacks by the pro-Russia separatist Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) made the group the fifth most active NSAG worldwide, down from third in 2016. This total represented a moderate 13.4% increase from 2016, although the 25 non-militant fatalities was a 30.6% decrease. Operating in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine, the LPR’s operational tempo is low in comparison to the neighbouring DPR but the steadily increasing tempo of violence since 2015 has underlined the localised capabilities of the group.

6: Ansar Allah ► ▲829Orientation: EthnoculturalScope: Local Objective: Political

▼553

The 829 attacks by Ansar Allah – better known as the Huthis – made the group the sixth most active NSAG worldwide. The attack total represented a substantial 48.6% increase from 2016, although resultant fatalities decreased by 28.6% in the same period. The continued sharp increase in violence since 2015 underlined the intensification of the ongoing civil conflict in Yemen. While the majority of the group’s attacks were conducted within Yemen itself – particularly in Taiz governorate, which accounted for 29.4% of all attacks – Ansar Allah cross-border attacks into Saudi Arabia continued, most notably an intercepted ballistic missile attack reportedly targeting Riyadh airport in November.

7: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK) ▼ ▼443Orientation: EthnoculturalScope: Domestic Objective: Reformist

▼195

The 443 attacks by the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK) made the group the seventh most active NSAG worldwide, down from fifth in 2016. Indeed, the 443 attacks represented a 24.3% decrease from 2016, alongside an even sharper 67.9% decrease in resultant fatalities. While the PKK insurgency continues, its decreased intensity was underlined by a notable reduction from 41 vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) attacks in 2016 to three in 2017. This may have been driven by a more than tripling in counter-terrorism operations against the group, as well as likely participation in operations against the Islamic State in both Syria and Iraq.

8: Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen ▲ ▼354Orientation: Sunni IslamistScope: Transnational Objective: Revolutionary

▲860

The 354 attacks by Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen made the group the eighth most active NSAG worldwide, up from ninth in 2016. While the number of al-Shabaab attacks decreased slightly by 8.8%, resultant fatalities increased by a minor 2.3%. Under intensified US counter-terrorism pressure, al-Shabaab focused on isolating and attacking rural security force bases and increasing its de facto territorial control, alongside high-impact attacks in the capital Mogadishu. The group was most likely responsible for the 14 October Mogadishu attack that killed 512, but this could not be definitively ascertained and so was excluded from the group’s count.

9: Taliban ▼ ▼353Orientation: Sunni IslamistScope: Domestic Objective: Revolutionary

▲1,270

The 353 attacks by the Taliban made the group the ninth most active NSAG worldwide, down from eighth in 2016. Nonetheless, Taliban attacks decreased by 33.8% from 2016, in addition to a 14.0% decrease in non-militant fatalities in the same period. For a second consecutive year the group failed to capture a provincial capital – due directly to NATO air-support but also as a consequence of internal schisms and continuing hostilities with the local Islamic State affiliate – but continued to challenge state territorial control across Afghanistan and conduct significant operations against state and security force targets.

10: Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) ► ▼314Orientation: Marxist/MaoistScope: Domestic Objective: Revolutionary

►159

The 314 attacks by the Communist Party of India – Maoist (CPI-M) made the group the tenth most active NSAG worldwide, the same position as in 2016. This attack total represented an 11.5% decrease from 2016, although resultant fatalities remained the same. The CPI-M conducted the majority of its attacks in the contiguous southern areas of the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha, focusing on low-level small-arms and explosive device attacks against the security forces. While only two CPI-M attacks caused more than four fatalities, they consisted of two large-scale operations in which a total of 37 paramilitary police officers were killed.

JTIC 2017 Global Attack Index

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Acts of terrorism, insurgency, and politically- or ideologically-motivated violence by non-state actors recorded worldwide from open sources by Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre in 2017.