Information on Over 80,000 Terrorist Attacks

The Global Terrorism Database (GTD) is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2007 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 80,000 cases. Learn more

The GTD Data Rivers is an interactive visual exploratory tool that allows users to investigate temporal trends in terrorism in the Global Terrorism Database (GTD). The GTD Data Rivers aggregates important variables from the database and visualizes them as a comprehensible stack chart.

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November 7

2006

Unknown, Afghanistan

11/07/2006: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in eastern Afghanistan, leaving two militants and one police officer dead.

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2006

Baghdad, Iraq

11/07/2006: An attack by a suicide bomber inside a Baghdad, Iraq, coffee shop late in the day, killied at least 17 civilians and wounded at least 20. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Related Datasets From START: Radicalized Ethnic Minorities

In addition to the GTD, researchers at START created and presently maintain the Minorities at Risk Organizational Behavior (MAROB) dataset.