Terrorist Attacks: Taliban, Al-Qaida, Islamic State ⚔️📊

This data visualization and animated map tracks international terrorist attacks from the 3 prominent terrorist organizations: Taliban, Al-Qaida, Islamic State from 1998 through 2021. The size and scale of the dots are determined by the estimated death toll of each terrorist attack. The graph at the bottom tracks the cumulative number of terrorist attacks for all three terrorist organizations.

GTD (*) Definition of Terrorism and Inclusion Criteria
The GTD defines a terrorist attack as the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation. In practice this means in order to consider an incident for inclusion in the GTD, all three of the following attributes must be present:
 The incident must be intentional – the result of a conscious calculation on the part of a perpetrator.
 The incident must entail some level of violence or immediate threat of violence -including property violence, as well as violence against people.
 The perpetrators of the incidents must be sub-national actors. The database does not include acts of state terrorism.

In addition, at least two of the following three criteria must be present for an incident to be included in the GTD:
 Criterion 1: The act must be aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal. In terms of economic goals, the exclusive pursuit of profit does not satisfy this criterion. It must involve the pursuit of more profound, systemic economic change.
 Criterion 2: There must be evidence of an intention to coerce, intimidate, or convey some other message to a larger audience (or audiences) than the immediate victims. It is the act taken as a totality that is considered, irrespective if every individual involved in carrying out the act was aware of this intention. As long as any of the planners or decision-makers behind the attack intended to coerce, intimidate or publicize, the intentionality criterion is met.
 Criterion 3: The action must be outside the context of legitimate warfare activities. That is, the act must be outside the parameters permitted by international humanitarian law, insofar as it targets non-combatants

The Taliban, which refers to itself as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), is a Deobandi Islamist movement and military organization in Afghanistan, currently waging war (an insurgency, or jihad) within the country. Since 2016, the Taliban's leader has been Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada. In 2021, the Taliban was estimated to have 200,000 fighters.

In mid 2021, the Taliban led a major offensive in Afghanistan during the withdrawal of US troops from the country, which gave them control of over half of Afghanistan's 421 districts as of July 23, 2021

By mid-August 2021, the Taliban controlled every major city in Afghanistan; following the near seizure of the capital Kabul, the Taliban occupied the Presidential Palace after the incumbent President Ashraf Ghani fled Afghanistan to Tajikistan on 15 August 2021.

Al-Qaeda, (alternatively spelled al-Qaida and al-Qa'ida) is a militant Sunni Islamist multi-national organization, widely regarded as terrorist, founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and several other Arab volunteers during the Soviet–Afghan War.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, officially known as the Islamic State (IS) and also known by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a militant group and former unrecognized proto-state that follows a Salafi jihadist doctrine.

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Chapters:
00:00 Prominent terrorist organizations: Taliban, al-Qaida, Islamic State
00:23 Origin of al-Qaida
00:42 Origin of the Taliban
01:00 Taliban and Sharia Law
01:18 TTP as largest Taliban group
01:36 Origin of the Islamic State (IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh)
01:59 Taliban and Islamic State comparison
02:18 Taliban and al-Qaeda comparison
02:36 US forces withdrawal from Afghanistan
02:53 Taliban ideology and views on women
03:15 "Happy" Muslim women!

📊 Data:
(*) Global Terrorism Database | https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/

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