RUDAW: ISIS greatest terror threat, Iran greatest terror sponsor – US report
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - The US State Department has released its annual report on international terrorism activity and concluded that Islamic State (ISIS) is "the greatest threat globally" while Iran is the main state sponsor of terrorism.
The report estimates that deaths caused by terrorist attacks across the world had actually declined in 2015 by 14% compared to 2014.
While terror bombings in France, Lebanon and Turkey made headlines, attacks in terror hot-spots like Iraq, Nigeria and Pakistan decreased.
On average 981 acts of terror were carried out across the world each month, killing a total of 28,328.
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WNU Editor: The report is here .... U.S. State Department Country Reports on Terrorism 2015.
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