Institute for Economics and Peace published Tuesday the Global Terrorism Index about the most countries affected by terrorism. The report said "There were almost 10,000 terrorist attacks recorded in 2013 representing a 44% increase on 2012, resulting in almost 18,000 deaths representing a 61% increase from the previous year." Indicating that most terrorism attacks in 2013 were by four organizations, and they are ISIL, Boko Haram, al Qa'ida and Taliban, causing 66% of total fatalities. Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria and Syria witnessed more than 80% of recorded deaths from the total terrorist attacks in 2013 were. Terrorism has also increased outside these five countries as there were 3,721 attacks recorded in the rest of the world killing 3,236 people. The index noted that more than 90% of all terrorist attacks happen in countries that have human rights violations. Mentioning that Iraq is the most impacted country by as there were 2,492 terrorist attacks, killing 6,362 people. Egypt ranked 13 in GTI out of 162 countries with 202 attacks and 181 fatalities and 450 injuries.
