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There is no single, authoritative count of “how many Islamist terrorist attacks have there been” in the sources provided; databases and analyses count attacks differently and focus on specific years, ...
Available reporting and studies in the provided sources do not give a single, definitive death‑rate comparison of "religious violence" between Muslims and Christians; instead they offer disparate metr...
Assessing whether “Islam is dangerous to the West” requires distinguishing between a tiny minority of violent extremists and the vast majority of Muslims, and between criminal-terror threats and broad...
Across multiple episodes from 2017 through 2025, reporting and legal filings allege President Donald J. Trump disclosed sensitive national-security information: most prominently a May 2017 disclosure ...
Australian authorities and national leaders say the December 14, 2025 Bondi Beach attack was a targeted terror strike on a Hanukkah celebration driven by Islamic State (IS) ideology and antisemitism: ...
President Barack Obama publicly signaled readiness for military strikes on Syria in 2013 but , a sequence that surprised some aides and reshaped U.S. action. Reporting shows the administration moved f...
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...
The Obama administration carried out the vast majority of its acknowledged drone and airstrike campaign in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, with reporting groups counting roughly 540–570 strikes in those ...
Global data assembled in the provided analyses show that , with the Sahel, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), South Asia, and parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa bearing the brunt of Islamist extremist ...
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...
Several Muslim-majority governments and major Islamic institutions adopted measures after 2014 aimed at protecting Christian communities—ranging from legal reforms in Egypt and curriculum or endowment...
Australian mass-shooting perpetrators since 1995 show two dominant profiles: lone actors driven by personal grievances and antisocial histories (exemplified by Port Arthur in 1996), and a smaller but ...
Available sources show that Islamist extremist groups have been responsible for large numbers of deaths in several majority-Muslim countries (for example, the claim that 83% of attacks and 90% of deat...
Australian authorities say two men — a father and son identified in media as Sajid and Naveed Akram — were the only suspects in the Bondi Beach attack as of mid-December 2025; police have repeatedly s...
Islamist terrorism shows both revival in lethality and geographic spread in 2024–2025: the Global Terrorism Index finds Islamic State remained the deadliest group in 2025, causing 1,805 deaths and ope...
Under President Trump (2017–2021), U.S. policy in Syria combined counter‑ISIS military operations, selective strikes against the Assad government, backing for local partners (notably the Syrian Democr...
Police and senior officials have publicly named the two Bondi Beach suspects as father and son Sajid Akram and Naveed Akram ; media reports say the elder was shot dead at the scene and the younger was...
The February 29, 2020 U.S.–Taliban "Doha" agreement required a phased, conditions‑based withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces within 14 months and secured Taliban commitments to prevent Afghan territory ...
U.S. troop levels in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan have been drawn down in a phased, conditions-based way: roughly 2,500 U.S. troops were in Iraq at the start of 2025 with fewer than 2,000 expected afte...
The publicly available reporting shows federal authorities characterize the Michigan Halloween case as inspired by the Islamic State (ISIS) and have filed terrorism charges tied to that claim; prosecu...