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 21

2002

Kabul, Afghanistan

11/21/2002: A rocket exploded in the centre of a residential area of Kabul, Afghanistan. The rocket damaged a bus shelter roof. There were no casualties as a result of the incident, suspected to have been carried out by the Taliban.

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2002

Sidon, Lebanon

11/21/2002: Nurse at a U.S. Christian mission, Bonnie Penner Whitherall, was shot dead by an unknown perpetrator in her clinic in Sidon, the Lebanese port city 45km south of Beirut, Lebanon. No group claimed responsibility. The victim was the first US citizen to be killed in Lebanon since the civil war of 1975-90.

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GTD In The News

Shortly after the Mumbai, India, terror attacks, an article from the December 15, 2008, issue of Newsweek, "No Fanning the Flames", relied upon data from the GTD to provide context on the frequency and impact of terrorist attacks in India since 1970.