Jihadi attacks - the data behind November's 5,000 deaths
More than 5,000 people, mostly civilians and overwhelmingly Muslims, were killed in jihadi attacks in November, according to a study documenting the toll of Islamist violence worldwide.
About 60% of these deaths were caused by the militant groups Islamic State and Boko Haram, suggesting a transformation in the nature of jihadi groups from terrorists to “more conventional forces that are fighting to gain or hold territory against state armies”, the report by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and the BBC, said.
Drawing on local media sources, non-government organisations and the BBC’s monitoring services, the study found that extremist groups adhering to the austere Salafist ideology carried out 664 attacks that killed 5,042 people in November.
Iraq suffered 1,770 deaths, but the deadliest attacks were carried out in Nigeria, where just 27 incidents took 786 lives. The “battle zone” between Syria and Iraq where Islamic State has dug in saw the largest number of fatalities, and the death toll in Yemen, Somalia and Pakistan also stretched into the hundreds.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/jihadi-attacks-killed-more-than-5000-people-in-november-the-vast-majority-of-them-muslims