India third worst hit in world by terror, after Iraq and Afghanistan: US study

This is for the second time in the row that India has been listed at the third position in the world terror victim list after Iraq and Afghanistan.

The US study claimed that CPI-Maoists are the fourth deadliest terror group after Islamic State (IS), Taliban and Al Shabaab.

Maoists were responsible for carrying out 53% of terror attacks in India.

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According to the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, the total number of terrorist attacks worldwide in 2017 decreased by 23 per cent and total deaths due to terrorist attacks decreased by 27 per cent, compared to 2016. While numerous countries saw a decline in terrorist violence between 2016 and 2017, this overall trend was largely due to dramatically fewer attacks and deaths in Iraq.

Twenty-four per cent of all deaths in terrorist attacks in 2017 were perpetrator deaths, down from 26 per cent in 2016. This statistic was historically much lower but began to increase in the 2000s, largely due to shifting tactics in Afghanistan and, to a lesser extent, in Iraq in the 2010s.

In several countries, including Kenya, Somalia, and the United Kingdom, the number of terrorist attacks and total deaths increased in 2017.

Although terrorist attacks took place in 100 countries in 2017, they were concentrated geographically. Fifty-nine per cent of all attacks took place in five countries (Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Philippines), and 70 per cent of all deaths due to terrorist attacks took place in five countries (Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, and Syria).

The US department study further said there were around 43 terror groups which were active in India. It added that the number of deaths in terror attacks also increased from 344 in 2016 to 380 in 2017.