10 COUNTRIES MOST IMPACTED BY TERRORISM

GTI RANK GTI SCORE 4,271 DEAD

INJURED
Iraq
4,086

1 9.746
1,956 INCIDENTS

Total deaths since

Deaths by Attacks by
2001
group target
12000 ISIL Private citizens &
property
65,519 Unknown
Unknown
Other
8000 Police & military
Business

Other
4000

2001 2017

Worst attacks
Despite a significant drop in deaths from 2016 to 2017, Iraq
remains the country most impacted by terrorism, a position it
MOSUL
has held since 2014.
Assailants stormed a
TAL AFAR residential building and
took civilians hostage in
The total number of deaths from terrorism in Iraq fell from Maawsil al-Jadidah
9,783 to 4,271 between 2016 and 2017, a 56 per cent decline neighbourhood, Mosul,
Nineveh, Iraq
and the country’s lowest number of deaths since 2012. There
was also a fall in the number of incidents, dropping to 1,956
from 2,969 in 2016. There was also a substantial drop in the
lethality of attacks with 2.2 deaths per attack compared to 3.3
in 2016.

ISIL was responsible for 83 per cent of terror-related deaths in

Iraq in 2017. In line with the overall decrease in terrorist
activity, deaths cause by ISIL decreased by 52 per cent from
2016 to 2017, dropping from 7,368 deaths to 3,554.

ISIL experienced severe territorial and financial setbacks in

2017 as a result of international and Iraqi-led coalitions. After
the government reclaimed major Iraqi cities such as Mosul and
al-Qaim, there was a substantial drop in terrorism.10 A
clear indication of the improvement was that there were
only 60 attacks in Mosul in the second half of 2017, “The total number of deaths
compared to 334 attacks in the first six months of 2017.
from terrorism in Iraq fell from
ISIL controlled its largest amount of territory in August 9,783 to 4,271 between 2016 and
2015, and the group’s current territorial hold in Iraq is at its
lowest point since the group’s inception. The remaining 17 2017, a 56 per cent decline.”
per cent of terror deaths were committed primarily by
unknown groups. The second most active group in 2017 was
Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, which was responsible for 20 deaths in
2017.

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