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The number of terrorism-related deaths fell for a second year in 2016, even though more countries in the West were affected as tactics shifted to lone-wolf attacks.
According to the fifth annual Global Terrorism Index, by the Institute for Economics and Peace, deaths from terrorism fell 13% to 25,673 last year, and were 22% lower than the 2014 peak.