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The terrorist attacks of lone wolf were more common than ever in the West during 2024, since terrorism continues to spread throughout the world, according to a new report of the global terrorism index (GTI).
The GTI published its 2025 report on Wednesday, discovering that the number of countries that registered a terrorist attack He grew from 58 in 2023 to 66 last year. That invests almost a decade of improvement in the subject, said GTI.
In the West, 93% of the fatal attacks were carried out by solitary wolf terrorists.
“Most Western attacks are now carried out by individuals without formal group affiliations, which radicalize through social networks, game platforms and encrypted messaging applications,” GTI said in his report.
Lone wolf attacks represented 93% of terrorism incidents in the West in 2024. (Photo AP)
“The change towards online radicalization has allowed potential terrorists to access the extremist content and organize with minimal physical contact. Algorithmic radicalization in popular social media sites can lead users to progressively more extreme content over time,” the report continued.
The report occurred on the same day that US authorities arrested a suspect that the Department of Justice says he confessed to exploring the attack route in 2021’s Bombing of the Abbey Gate in Afghanistan, that left 13 members of the dead service.
Muhammed Sharifullah, the alleged conspirator of the bombing of the Puerta de la Abadía that killed 13 members of the US service during the withdrawal of the United States of Afghanistan, was extradited to the United States on Wednesday. (Director of the FBI Kash Patel)
The ISIS-K member, Mohammad Sharifullah, made his first appearance in the Federal Court in Virginia on Wednesday for a position to provide and conspire to provide support and material resources to a designated Foreign terrorist organization, resulting in death.
Sharifullah was extradited to the United States on Tuesday night to “face US justice,” said FBI director Kash Patel.
“3 and 1/2 years later, justice for our 13,” Patel added in X.
Mohammad Sharifullah is a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the province of Ash-Sham-Khorasan (ISIS-K), says the Department of Justice. (Alexandria Sheriff Office)
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President Donald Trump He announced the capture of Sharifullah during his speech before a joint congress on Tuesday night, saying that he was “pleased to announce that we just stopped the Top Terrorist responsible for that atrocity.”
