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Post-1970 terrorist incident database by the University of Maryland, College Park
The deadliest single-day terrorist attack since 1970 remains the September 11, 2001 strikes that killed about 2,990 people, and the largest recent mass-casualty Islamist events include October 7, 2023...
Political violence in the United States has risen since 2016 and spiked around and after the 2020 election period, and available reporting and datasets show that while incidents linked to both sides h...
President Trump’s term (2017–2021) saw a mix of direct U.S. combat operations, regional escalations, and diplomatic-military actions rather than a single large new ground war; . Contemporary reporting...
The available analyses converge on a clear but narrow finding: ; comprehensive, ranked lists require filtering a large database like the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) to exclude Islamist motivations...
Since 2000, the deadliest non‑Islamist extremist violence has come from three broad categories: far‑right/white‑supremacist movements (notably in the United States and Europe), ethno‑nationalist and s...
The deadliest non-Islamist terrorist attack of the 20th century commonly cited in modern datasets is the 1988 Lockerbie bombing (Pan Am Flight 103) and other large-scale incidents listed in major comp...
There is no single, authoritative tally in the provided reporting that gives a definitive count of “right‑wing extremist attacks” in the United States for the entire calendar year 2020; multiple reput...
Since 2001 the global landscape of terrorism has shifted: datasets and scholars show that, once civil-conflict trends are controlled for, has been less “terror‑prone” than the years before 2001 , even...
There is no single, authoritative count of “terrorist attacks in the U.S. in 2024” available in the supplied reporting; open-source datasets and expert analyses offer partial tallies by subset and per...
Since 2001, public data sets and academic analyses consistently show that New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles are the U.S. cities with the largest tallies of recorded terrorist incidents,...
The FBI’s public hate-crime statistics record bias-motivated offenses by protected characteristics (race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, ethnicity) rather than by “far‑left...
Political motivations — a broad category that includes partisan, anti-government, ethnonationalist and other politically framed grievances — now account for the largest share of terrorist incidents in...
Since 2000 academic datasets have moved from coarse, often binary labels of “terrorism” or “political violence” to multi-dimensional, transparent codebooks that separate perpetrator, target, tactics, ...
The 76% figure attributing U.S. domestic-terrorism deaths to right-wing extremists is not from a single primary source but is an approximate consensus estimate produced by triangulating federal data a...