Islamic extremism and efforts to combat it are responsible for 84,000 deaths in 2017, according to a new report from an organization founded by former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
According to the Global Extremism Monitor by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change released Thursday, at least 84,023 people in 66 countries died because of “violent Islamism” in 2017.
Of the 84,023 deaths, about 48,164 are the deaths of extremists themselves, while just under 22,000 were civilian deaths, 10,337 were security personnel and 3,307 were deaths of non state actors. The identities of 292 people killed could not be confirmed.
The report states that even though there were major military defeats of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, around 120 other “violent Islamist groups are still inspiring and orchestrating attacks around the world.”
The annual monitor tracks violent Islamic extremism from English-language open-source data. For 2017, the organization’s analysts found that there were “27,092 incidents of violent Islamist extremism and state and nonstate efforts to combat it.”
While the data found that there were 7,841 attacks in 48 countries in 2017, at least 47 Islamic extremist groups deliberately “orchestrated fatal campaigns against civilians.” Those attacks, the report says, were “designed to instill fear and erode public morale.”
The report calls out Nigeria’s Boko Haram terrorist organization as being the terror group that most targeted civilians. Seventy-one percent of Boko Haram attacks targeted civilians.
Meanwhile, the report finds that the…
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