IS committed in 2018, most of the suicide attacks

Despite their military defeats in Syria and Iraq, the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) world-wide responsible for the most suicide bombings in 2018. That should be apparent from an Israeli study.

The jihadist militia last year, was directly or indirectly responsible for 172 suicide attacks, it sounds in the report of the institute for national security studies (INSS), in Tel Aviv was presented. That is 59 percent of the global attacks. "The Islamic State remains the hoofdvertolker of suicide attacks, despite the military defeats and the loss of territories in the Middle East", the study said. the

Last year were a total of 505 suicide bombers involved in 293 attacks in more than 20 countries. Allegedly were 84 of the suicide bombers are women. When the attacks came 2.845 people and got to eur 5,160 wounded.

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generally, the number of suicide attacks since 2016, however, decreased. The terrorist network al-Qaida and associated militias committed in 2018 in a total of 67 suicide bombings, or 23 percent of all attacks. the

The last year, most severely affected region by suicide bombings was Asia, it sounds in the report. Alone in Afghanistan occurred in 83 suicide attacks. (Read below.)