The monitoring conducted by the "National Center for Studies (NCS)" of activities and interactions related to the terrorist phenomenon in the countries of the Middle East and the Arab region during the month of October revealed a decrease in the rate of terrorist attacks witnessed in the region.
During this period, the Center monitored about 131 terrorist attacks; In comparison to 140 attacks during September, after excluding all the combat operations carried out by terrorist organizations within some countries of the region in the context of ongoing conflicts with other illegal armed organizations, the NCS indicated that about 116 terrorist attacks occurred within the countries of the region experiencing conflicts or political instability; with 88.5% of the total number of attacks, while he indicated that about 15 terrorist attacks took place in the countries that the report describes as “stable”; This represents 11.5% of the total attacks.
As for the patterns of attacks, “Al-Watani” revealed that the vast majority of them - as usual - declined between armed attacks and explosions, after monitoring over the course of the month the occurrence of about 56 armed attacks (including 55 attacks in conflict countries and one attack in stable countries), and the occurrence of about 50 explosions (including 44 in conflict countries and 6 bombings in stable countries), at a time when the NCS indicated that the number of kidnappings and killings carried out by terrorist organizations had increased significantly, After the number of operations during October reached 8; This compares to 3 operations throughout the month of September, before indicating that the rate of suicide operations remained stable during the last two months at 4 suicide operations.
At the geographical level, the 10th issue of the MEAR Terrorism Index revealed that Iraq remained at the forefront of countries most vulnerable to terrorist attacks, after the total number of attacks it was subjected to about 54 attacks. In comparison to 56 attacks during September, Afghanistan retained second place, which it occupied with 36 attacks; In contrast to 29 attacks in September.
The Middle East and Arab Region Terrorism revealed that Syria and Somalia exchanged the third and fourth positions; Somalia ranked third with 17 attacks, While Syria - along with Yemen - came in fourth place with 4 operations for each of them. The rate of attacks against Somalia during MEAR’s issue of September was 16 attacks, while the number of attacks on Syria in September amounted to about 22 attacks.
In the same context, the National Center for Studies indicated the wide geographical scope of terrorist attacks in the countries that the index describes as stable (21 out of 29 countries that the index tracks), as terrorist attacks during the month of October affected 7 countries: (Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Egypt and Algeria), in Compared to only 4 countries that were subjected to such attacks during September, These were (Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran), which the index attributed to the intensification of specific regional crises and conflicts; Chief among them is the Yemeni crisis and the hidden conflict between Iran and Israel.
On the other hand; The Center warned that the Islamic State (ISIS) was seeking to use the sectarian card, which emerged in the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq, after the organization carried out a number of fierce attacks against Shiites in the two countries, which resulted in hundreds of casualties.
The Center monitored the distinguished efforts made by the security and intelligence services in Iraq and Sudan, which resulted in the fall of “Sami Jassim” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s deputy and responsible for transferring ISIS families from Syria to Iraq at the hands of Iraqi intelligence; As well as the fall of many ISIS elements who were intending to carry out some terrorist attacks in Sudan.
Finally, the index reviewed the most prominent information about Muhammad Khalifa, the owner of the voiceover on most of the video clips issued by the Islamic State, which Western security services dubbed “the voice of ISIS.”
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