Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2020 Marks Afghanistan to be the most impacted nation by terrorism, the country was subjected to 26 world’s terrorist attacks out of 50 worst terrorizing incidents, reports The Khaama Press on November 26. According to the report, while deaths caused by terrorism declined in 2019, the Taliban still remains the deadliest terrorist group in the region. According to GTI 2020, peace talks in Afghanistan have a substantial impact on terrorist activity, but still, terrorism is active in the region.
The global economic impact of terrorism in 2019 has cost 26.4 billion, 25% lower than the war expenditures of 2018, 16.7% of Afghanistan’s GDP was impacted by war, making it highest in the rank. No country in the world experienced the cost of terrorism bigger than 4% of its GDP. 10 countries were accounted for deaths from terrorism in 2019, most of the deaths in a single country were recorded in Afghanistan, 41% of deaths connected to a terrorism incident. A very slight improvement since 2018, that the country was accounted for 45% of terrorist-act related deaths.
Leading the rank as the deadliest terrorist group Taliban were followed by Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) as the second deadliest group. As per the report, IS-K faced significant losses in Kunar and Nangarhar Provinces after offensive attacks by the Coalition Forces, despite fall 2019 was still the deadliest year on record.