Country Reports on Terrorism 2016
Country Reports on Terrorism 2016
Country Reports on Terrorism 2016 is submitted in compliance with Title 22 of the United States Code, Section 2656f (the “Act”), which requires the Department of State to provide to Congress a full and complete annual report on terrorism for those countries and groups meeting the criteria of the Act.
Beginning with the report for 2004, it replaced the previously published Patterns of Global Terrorism.
Chapters
Chapter 1. Strategic Assessment
Chapter 2. Country Reports: Africa
Chapter 2. Country Reports: East Asia and Pacific
Chapter 2. Country Reports: Europe
Chapter 2. Country Reports: Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 2. Country Reports: South and Central Asia
Chapter 2. Country Reports: Western Hemisphere
Chapter 3: State Sponsors of Terrorism
Chapter 4: The Global Challenge of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, or Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism
Chapter 5: Terrorist Safe Havens (Update to 7120 Report)
Chapter 6. Foreign Terrorist Organizations
Chapter 7. Legislative Requirements and Key Terms
Annexes
National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism: Annex of Statistical Information [ PDF version ]
Terrorism Deaths, Injuries and Kidnappings of Private U.S. Citizens Overseas in 2016
Full Report
Pentagon Suspends Program Granting Citizenship to Foreigners with Key Language Skills
Pentagon Suspends Program Granting Citizenship to Foreigners with Key Language Skills by Howard Altman - Tampa Bay Times
The military needed people with skills in foreign languages and in health care, more than it recruit, so it turned to immigrants classified as resident aliens and offered them citizenship in return.
Designed to draw 1,000 people when it launched in 2009, the program eventually attracted 10 times that many…
The need for people like Ahluwalia and Montesdeoca remains strong in the military and the reasons given for the suspension of the MAVNI program are overblown, said Margaret Stock, a retired Army lieutenant colonel who came up with the idea for the program and pushed for its creation.
Losing the program, she said, would be a "big hit" to U.S. Special Operations Command. Headquartered at MacDill, SOCom relies on people with culture and language expertise to help U.S. troops and train foreign allies...