Lone wolf attacks surge in the West as terrorism intensifies globally

Lone-wolf violent attacks were much communal than ever successful the West during 2024 arsenic coercion continues to dispersed crossed the globe, according to a caller study from the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

The GTI released its 2025 study connected Wednesday, uncovering that the fig of countries that recorded a violent attack grew from 58 successful 2023 to 66 past year. That reverses astir a decennary of betterment connected the issue, GTI said.

In the West, 93% of fatal attacks were carried retired by lone wolf terrorists. 

"The bulk of Western attacks are present carried retired by individuals without ceremonial radical affiliations, who radicalize done societal media, gaming platforms and encrypted messaging apps," GTI said successful its report.

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Lone wolf attacks accounted for 93% of coercion incidents successful the West successful 2024. (AP Photo)

"The displacement towards online radicalization has enabled imaginable terrorists to entree extremist content, and signifier with minimal carnal contact. Algorithmic radicalization connected fashionable societal media sites tin thrust users toward progressively much utmost contented implicit time," the study continued.

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The study came the aforesaid time U.S. authorities arrested a fishy who the Justice Department says confessed to scouting the onslaught way successful 2021’s Abbey Gate bombing successful Afghanistan, which near 13 work members dead.

Muhammed Sharifullah, the alleged plotter of the Abbey Gate bombing that killed 13 American work members during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, was extradited to the United States connected Wednesday.  (FBI Director Kash Patel)

ISIS-K subordinate Mohammad Sharifullah made his archetypal national tribunal quality successful Virginia Wednesday connected a complaint of providing and conspiring to supply worldly enactment and resources to a designated foreign violent organization, resulting successful death.

Sharifullah was extradited to the U.S. connected Tuesday nighttime to "face American justice," FBI Director Kash Patel said.  

"3 and 1/2 years later, justness for our 13," Patel added connected X.

Mohammad Sharifullah is simply a subordinate of the Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham-Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the Justice Department says. (Alexandria Sheriff's Office)

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President Donald Trump announced Sharifullah’s seizure during his code earlier a associated Congress connected Tuesday night, saying helium was "pleased to denote that we person conscionable apprehended the apical violent liable for that atrocity."