(MENAFN- QNA) The US State Department released the Country Reports on Terrorism finding that nearly 33,000 people were killed and 34,700 injured in almost 13,500 terrorist attacks around the world in 2014.
That is a 35 percent increase in terrorist attacks and an 81 percent increase in total fatalities since 2013.
The terrorist attacks took place in 95 countries, but were concentrated in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Syria. Twenty attacks in 2014 were particularly lethal, killing more than 100 people.
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