For the past few years, the State Department's annual report on global terrorism has been dismal reading. Between 2012 and 2014, deaths from terrorism around the world spiked by 200 percent.
But this year's report, released late last week, found that this trend has reversed. Terrorism deaths actually declined in 2015, by about 13.4 percent:
As with all single-year statistics, this could just be a blip. It's possible the trend line will go back up when we get next year's report on 2016, and what looks like progress this year will end up being ephemeral.
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WNU Editor: A positive trend .... but global tensions and rising conflicts in Africa (and elsewhere) can (and probably will) reverse this trend in a heartbeat.
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