Terrorist attacks and deaths were on the decline worldwide for the second year in a row in 2016, according to The Country Reports on Terrorism report from the US Department of State.
The report said that year-over-year terror attacks were down nine 9 percent and deaths caused by terrorist attacks decreased 13 percent. The report attributed the drops to fewer terrorist attacks in Afghanistan, Syria, Nigeria, Pakistan and Yemen. At the same time, the report said attacks in the Congo, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan and Turkey increased between 2015 and 2016.