By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Burkina Faso. Overview: Terrorist attacks increased in 2021, compared with 2020. The Global Terrorism Index ranked Burkina Faso as the country fourth-most affected by terrorism in 2021, after Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia. JNIM continues to be the most prominent terrorist group in Burkina Faso, followed...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Ethiopia. Overview: The Government of Ethiopia continued to partner with the United States government on counterterrorism issues in 2021, though in a diminished capacity owing to emerging domestic security threats. Al-Shabaab and ISIS terrorist threats emanating from Somalia remain a high priority for...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Kosovo. Overview: Kosovo continued its counterterrorism cooperation with the United States and the international community as a member of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. The government is drafting a new combined Strategy and Action Plan for Counterterrorism (CT) and Countering Violent Extremism ...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Philippines. Overview: The Philippine government placed significant resources toward countering threats from terrorist groups that operate primarily in the country’s South. Philippine military forces remained engaged in counterterrorism operations. The Philippine military, law enforcement, and judicial...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Cyprus. Overview: The Republic of Cyprus collaborated closely with the United States, the EU, and other countries - bilaterally and multilaterally - in international counterterrorism efforts in 2021. Since 1974, the island of Cyprus has been de facto divided into the Republic of Cyprus government-controlled ...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Uganda. Overview: Uganda is considered to have one of the most effective security forces in the region with respect to CT capabilities. Nonetheless, in 2021 Uganda experienced the first terrorist incidents on home soil since the 2010 bombings claimed by al-Shabaab. Four bombings in October and November...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Côte d’Ivoire. Overview: Côte d’Ivoire was added to the 2021 Country Report on Terrorism because a significant increase in attacks from violent extremists in the North spilled over the porous border from Burkina Faso. The Government of Côte d’Ivoire assesses the Macina Liberation Front (aka Katiba Macina)...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Thailand. Overview: Thailand did not experience any attacks attributed to transnational terrorist groups in 2021, and violence was limited to attacks attributed to ethnonationalist insurgents in the country’s Deep South (the southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and parts of Songkhla).
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: The C5+1 diplomatic platform represents the U.S. government’s whole of government approach to Central Asia, jointly engaging all five Central Asian governments (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Today, the Department of State issued the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism (CRT), which provide a detailed look at the counterterrorism environment in 2021. Each year, the CRT provides insight on important issues in the fight against terrorism and helps the United States make informed decisions about policies, programs, and resource allocations as we seek to build counterterrorism capacity and resilience around the globe.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Today begins the UN Human Rights Council’s 52nd regular session. The United States returned to the body in January 2022 as a full member, fulfilling a pledge made by President Biden and reflecting the centrality of human rights and multilateralism to our nation’s foreign policy.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Healthy democracies benefit from strong institutions and a plurality of voices. The United States supports independent, well-resourced electoral institutions that strengthen democratic processes and the rule of law.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Philippines. Overview: The Philippine government placed significant resources toward countering threats from terrorist groups that operate primarily in the country’s South. Philippine military forces remained engaged in counterterrorism operations. The Philippine military, law enforcement, and judicial...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Tanzania. Overview: In 2021, the Government of Tanzania and the United States engaged in limited counterterrorism and countering violent extremism cooperation. Counterterrorism has risen in importance for the Government of Tanzania, as Tanzania faces terrorist threats within the country and along three...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Democratic Republic of the Congo. Overview: More than a dozen significant armed groups and about 100 criminal gangs and local militias operate in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). ISIS maintains links with local affiliate ISIS-DRC, locally known as the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), and...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Today, the Department of State issued the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism (CRT), which provide a detailed look at the counterterrorism environment in 2021. Each year, the CRT provides insight on important issues in the fight against terrorism and helps the United States make informed decisions about policies, programs, and resource allocations as we seek to build counterterrorism capacity and resilience around the globe.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) issued the following statement today in advance of the World Health Organization’s Intergovernmental Negotiating Body meeting this week.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Brazil. Overview: Brazil and the United States maintained strong counterterrorism cooperation in 2021, building on collaborative efforts under way since the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Brazilian Federal Police (PF), Brazil’s lead CT agency, worked closely with the United States and other nations’ law...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Côte d’Ivoire. Overview: Côte d’Ivoire was added to the 2021 Country Report on Terrorism because a significant increase in attacks from violent extremists in the North spilled over the porous border from Burkina Faso. The Government of Côte d’Ivoire assesses the Macina Liberation Front (aka Katiba Macina),...
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2023
Release: Türkiye. Overview: Türkiye experienced a significant decrease in terrorist incidents within its borders in 2021, compared with prior years. However, it has expanded its counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Syria and provided counterterrorism support to Somalia. Media reported that Turkish airstrikes ...
