{"id":4276,"date":"2018-09-12T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T12:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.cat-int.org\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:52:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:52:48","slug":"why-a-dramatic-dip-in-isis-attacks-in-the-west-is-scant-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.cat-int.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/12\/why-a-dramatic-dip-in-isis-attacks-in-the-west-is-scant-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a \u2018Dramatic Dip\u2019 in ISIS Attacks in the West Is Scant Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source : New York Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

By\u00a0Rukmini Callimachi<\/span><\/p>\n

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The attacks seemed to come one after another: In 2015, the Islamic State shot up the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, killing 89 people.<\/span>Credit<\/span>Credit<\/span>Pierre Terdjman for The New York Times<\/span><\/h6>\n
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The attacks seemed to come one after another:\u00a0130 dead<\/a>\u00a0on the floor of the Bataclan concert hall and on the streets of Paris.\u00a0Eighty-six<\/a>\u00a0mowed down on\u00a0Nice\u2019s historic promenade<\/a>. Twenty-two people, many of them\u00a0teenage girls<\/a>, killed at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Since the lightning rise of the Islamic State in 2014, law enforcement has scrambled to stop an endless array of plots. It is only now, more than four years after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his caliphate, that the cadence has finally slowed.<\/p>\n

Islamic State attacks in the West fell steeply in 2018 compared with the previous four years, the first time the number has fallen since 2014. But the number of attempted attacks remained steady, suggesting that the group remains committed to carrying out catastrophic harm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n