The New Jihadism: A Global Snapshot

The aim of this project was to produce a global snapshot of jihadist violence by recording all the reported deaths that were caused by jihadist groups and networks during the month of November 2014.

This task was made possible by combining the vast intellectual, journalistic and professional resources of the BBC World Service, BBC Monitoring, and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR).

The findings illustrate the enormous human suffering caused by jihadist violence. Over the course of just one month, jihadists carried out 664 attacks, killing 5,042 people – the equivalent of three attacks per day on the scale of the London bombings in July 2005.

While comparisons to earlier periods are difficult, the overall picture is that of an increasingly ambitious, complex, sophisticated and far-reaching movement – one that seems to be in the middle of a transformation:

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