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Title: August 15, 2025

GATHERING STORM INTEL BRIEF 15 AUGUST 2025

THE STATS/FACTS ABOUT JIHADIST/SALAFIST TERRORISM

1: Between 1979 and April 2024, we recorded 66,872 Islamist attacks worldwide. These attacks caused the deaths of at least 249,941 people.

·         1979-2000: 2,194 attacks and 6,817 deaths.

·         2001-2012: 8,265 attacks and 38,187 deaths.

·         2013-April 2024: 56,413 attacks and 204,937 deaths. Islamist attacks around the world are more numerous today than ever before.

2: On average, an Islamist attack caused the deaths of 3.7 people.

·         1979-2000: an attack killed an average of 3.1 people.

·         2001-2012: an attack killed an average of 4.6 people.

·         2013-April 2024: an attack killed an average of 3.6 people.

3: Firearms were the most used weapons (26,925), followed closely by explosives (25,832), melee weapons such as knives or machetes (2,479) and incendiary weapons (1,162).

4: The Middle East and North Africa, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 96.7% of Islamist attacks between 1979 and April 2024.



South Asia: 31.2% of attacks, 33.7% of deaths.



Middle East and North Africa: 30.4% of attacks, 33% of deaths.



Sub-Saharan Africa : 35.2% of attacks, 30.1% of deaths.



Southeast Asia: 2.6% of attacks, 1.1% of deaths.



Europe and Russia: 0.4% of attacks, 0.7% of deaths.



North America: 0.1% of attacks, 1.3% of deaths.



Oceania: 0.01% of attacks, 0.005% of deaths.



South America: 0.004% of attacks, 0.05% of deaths.

5: Within the European Union, France was the country most affected by Islamist terrorism, with 85 attacks committed on its soil between 1979 and April

2024. At least 334 people were killed in these attacks.

·         1979-2000: 24 attacks, 32 deaths.

·         2001-2012: 8 attacks, 8 deaths.

·         2013-April 2024: 53 attacks, 294 deaths.

6: Afghanistan was the country most affected by Islamist terrorism, ahead of Somalia and Iraq.

The countries most affected by Islamist terrorism are Afghanistan (17,075 attacks), Somalia (10,768 attacks), Iraq (8,209 attacks), Nigeria (3,950 attacks), Syria (3,421), Pakistan (2,635), Mali (2,289 attacks), Israel (1,748 attacks), Yemen (1,657 attacks), Algeria (1,387 attacks), Egypt (1,367 attacks), Mozambique (1,302 attacks) and Cameroon (1,230 attacks).

In these thirteen countries, 218,734 deaths were caused by Islamist terrorist attacks, representing 87.5% of the total number of deaths worldwide.

7: The indirect confrontation in Afghanistan between the American and Soviet powers is one of the major causes of Islamist violence of the 21^st century.

The United States and Russia have also been hit by jihadist terrorism. During the period 1979-April 2024, there were 60 attacks in the United States and 3,121 deaths, and 86 attacks in Russia, resulting in 988 deaths.

8: The military is the main target (34%) of Islamist terrorists, ahead of civilians (27.7%) and police forces (15.3%).



1979-2000: military (343 attacks, 15.6%), civilians (530 attacks, 24.1%), police forces (408 attacks, 18.6%).



2001-2012: military (1,410 attacks, 17.1%), civilians (2,506 attacks, 30.3%), police forces (1,424, 17.2%).



2013-April 2024 : military (20,556 attacks, 37.2%), civilians (15,111 attacks, 27.4%), police forces (8,217 attacks, 14.9%).

9: Most (86.3%) of Islamist terrorist attacks have occurred in Muslim countries.

Similarly, the vast majority of deaths from Islamist terrorist attacks (88.9%) occurred in

Muslim countries.

Number of Islamist terrorist attacks in Muslim countries: 57,726 attacks (86.3% of Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide).



Number of deaths caused by Islamist terrorist attacks in Muslim countries:

222,236 deaths (88.9% of deaths caused by Islamist terrorist attacks worldwide).

It should be noted that these figures underestimate the reality since they do not take into account the Islamist terrorist attacks perpetrated in countries with a non-Muslim

majority where Muslim populations are concentrated in certain provinces.

This is the case, for example, in southern Thailand, where Muslims are in the majority in the provinces of Satun, Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat, but also in the Philippines, in the region of Mindanao; in India, in the province of Jammu and Kashmir; and in China, in the Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang.

10: Over the entire period of time studied here, the Taliban was the deadliest group. Its terrorist actions resulted in the deaths of 71,965 people.

The deadliest terrorist organizations, taking into account their various offshoots, were the Taliban (71,965 deaths), the Islamic State group (69,641 deaths), Boko Haram (26,081 deaths), Al Shabaab (21,784 deaths), and al Qaeda (14,856 deaths).

These five terrorist groups were responsible for more than three-quarters (81.8%) of the victims of Islamist terrorist attacks between 1979 and April 2024.

Conclusions

American citizens are not prepared for upcoming Oct. 7th style attacks.

We have not seen the same level of violence on U.S. soil from Jihadists (with the exception of 9-11) that the Middle Eastern, African, Southeast Asian and European countries have.

Most Americans have no basic medical skills, no communications training and very little self defense or actual firearms training.

More importantly, most Americans are not engaged with the community they live in and have no emergency response training , CERT or FEMA training, or stress inoculation training.

Pray.

Train.

Stay informed.

Build resilient communities.

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