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‘Escalating’ far-right violence in U.S. to pose greatest terrorist threat: experts
extremism is by far the most common ideology behind terrorist incidents in the United States, according to a new analysisIn a report released last week, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) analyzed 25 years of domestic terrorism incidents, finding that “right-wing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994,” outpacing terrorist acts by all other sources such as “far-left networks and individuals inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaeda.” Over 6,600 right-wing extremist social media channels, accounts linked to Canada, study finds Furthermore, the report found that occurrences of these right-wing attacks have since grown significantly in the past six years,