On the September 11, 2001 series of terrorist attacks in has happened in the United States. Al-Qaeda militants hijacked passenger aircrafts. They sent planes to the World Trade Center. The Twin Towers has collapsed.

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September 11, 2001: 18 years later

Norway should prepare for homegrown far-right extremists carrying out terrorist acts in the coming year, the country&#8217;s police service warned on Friday, Euronews <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/07/norway-likely-to-be-hit-by-right-wing-terror-attacks-soon-police-say">reports</a>.
The Police Security Service (PST) flagged in a statement that the March 15 attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, is likely to inspire several other right-wing extremists in the West in the coming year.
Fifty-one people were killed and another 49 were injured when Brenton Tarrant opened fire at the Al-Noor mosque and later at the Linwood Islamic Centre. Before carrying out his attacks, which were live-streamed on social media, the 28-year-old Australian had posted a manifesto on 8chan.
Since then, at least four terrorist acts for which the perpetrators were inspired by Tarrant have been recorded, PST said, including one in Norway.
One person was injured in the August 10 gun attack at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Baerum, about 20 km west of Oslo. The gunman&#8217;s step-sister was later found dead in a suspected murder.
&#8220;Several Norwegian right-wing extremists in 2019 have expressed support for perpetrators behind terrorist attacks in New Zealand and the United States. PST has also registered some supporting statements to the perpetrator behind the mosque attack in Baerum on August 10,&#8221; the PST said.
&#8220;The statements show that terrorism as a method has support among several Norwegian right-wing extremists.
&#8220;We now consider it possible that Norwegian right-wing extremists will try to carry out terrorist acts in the coming year,&#8221; it added.
According to the authorities non-Western immigrants, Muslims, Jews and LGBT groups are particularly vulnerable. Politicians are also potential targets as right-wing extremists see them as to &#8220;blame for facilitating immigration and the alleged negative development of society,&#8221; PST explained.

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Norway likely to be hit by right-wing terror attacks soon, police say

A relative lull in international terrorist attacks carried out by Islamist groups could end before the end of this year, United Nations experts have warned.
UN monitors said <a href="https://undocs.org/S/2019/570" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in a report</a> submitted to the Security Council last month that although the geographical caliphate of the so-called Islamic State (IS) had been successfully dismantled, the group&#8217;s leadership &#8220;aims to adapt, survive and consolidate&#8221; through sleeper cells &#8220;in preparation for an eventual resurgence&#8221;.
&#8220;ISIL [another name for IS] will reinvest in the capacity to direct and facilitate complex international attacks when it has the secure space and time to do so,&#8221; the report states.
&#8220;The current abatement of such attacks, therefore, may not last long, possibly not even until the end of 2019; meanwhile, more ISIL-inspired attacks will occur, possibly in unexpected locations,&#8221; it adds.
<h4>Risk &#8216;remains high&#8217;</h4>
The report, based on information provided by UN member states, flags that the risk of terror attacks in Europe &#8220;remains high&#8221; despite a &#8220;reduced incidence of successful attacks&#8221; over the past year.
The Old Continent was particularly stricken in 2015 and 2016 when terror attacks resulted in 150 and 135 fatalities respectively, according to figures from the <a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/priorities/terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">European Parliamen</a>t. In 2017, deaths had more than halved and some 20 people are believed to have lost their lives in terror attacks last year.
Chief among European UN member states&#8217; current concerns is the potential for nationals to initiate home-grown attacks.
The radicalisation of criminals within the prison systems is also a &#8220;critical concern&#8221; as &#8220;some of the first wave of returnees from the &#8220;caliphate&#8221; to be imprisoned are expected to be released in the coming year.&#8221;
Finally, many Europeans who travelled to Iraq and Syria to fight for IS &#8220;remain unaccounted for&#8221; while deradicalisation programmes for those who were imprisoned &#8220;have not proven to be fully effective.&#8221;
But the report underlines that the Sahel and West Africa have been the theatre of the &#8220;most striking international developments&#8221; over the past few months with fighters aligned with IS and al-Qaida collaborating to &#8220;undermine fragile national jurisdictions.&#8221;
IS-inspired attacks like the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka — in which more than 350 people were killed — and the March attacks on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand — in which 51 people died — also &#8220;offer a troubling narrative of escalating interfaith conflict,&#8221; the monitors stressed.

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Lull in terror attacks may not last ‘until the end of 2019’: UN experts

Islamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack at the communications ministry in the Afghan capital Kabul that killed seven people, the militant group’s Amaq news agency said on Sunday.
Saturday&#8217;s attack began when a suicide bomber detonated explosives just outside the ministry building and three other assailants then entered the premises, <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/21/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-for-deadly-attack-on-afghan-ministry-amaq">Euronews</a> reports.
Three attackers were killed by security forces who battled and also evacuated over 2,800 Afghans from the government buildings.
Among the dead were four civilians and three police officers, while another eight civilians were wounded.
The Afghan affiliate of Islamic State, sometimes known as Islamic State Khorasan &#8211; ISIS-K after an old name for the region that includes Afghanistan, has been active in the country since 2015, fighting the Taliban as well as Afghan and U.S. forces.
It is difficult to say how many Islamic State fighters are in Afghanistan because they frequently switch allegiances, but the U.S. military estimates there are about 2,000.

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Islamic State claims responsibility for deadly attack on Afghan ministry – Amaq

A lawyer says Tunisian authorities have given seven suspects life in prison and handed out other sentences in the trial over two separate 2015 attacks in Tunisia that killed some 60 people, mainly tourists, VOA news <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/get-life-in-prison-for-tunisia-s-2015-terror-attacks/4779964.html">reports</a>.
Samir Ben Amor, the lawyer for one of the 44 defendants, said the verdicts were handed down Saturday for the deadly attack against the country&#8217;s famous Bardo Museum and a massacre at a popular seaside resort.
He says other defendants received jail terms ranging from 16 years to six months, while the charges against 27 of the suspects were dismissed. No one got the maximum penalty of capital punishment.
Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for the attacks, which, along with an attack on the Imperial Hotel, devastated the country&#8217;s vital tourism sector and prompted foreign governments to issue travel warnings for Tunisia.

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7 Get Life in Prison for Tunisia’s 2015 Terror Attacks

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A new study by a defense analysis company indicates there was a 33 percent drop in global terror attacks in 2018, and terrorism fatalities fell to a 10-year low, <a href="https://www.voanews.com/a/study-global-terror-attacks-down-thirty-three-percent/4756052.html">VOA</a> reports.
Jane&#8217;s Terrorism and Insurgency Center released its annual Global Attack Index on Wednesday, saying one of the central reasons for the decrease in incidents and fatalities was the decrease in violence in Syria, where the government has gained control of territory previously occupied by Islamic State militants.
Attacks by IS in 2018 declined by nearly 75 percent compared to 2017.
The study said in addition to Syria, IS was also affected by losses in Iraq, which &#8220;noticeably reduced&#8221; the militants&#8217; capability to operate, forcing them to switch to &#8220;lower intensity insurgent operations.&#8221;
With violence down in Syria, Afghanistan became the deadliest country worldwide in 2018 in terms of nonmilitant fatalities. Jane&#8217;s said attacks rose by almost one-third last year, while fatalities rose 80 percent.
Ukraine also saw a marked rise in violence. In the east, home to a Russia-backed separatist insurgency, attacks have been rising 18.4 percent over the past year. The report attributed that rise &#8220;almost entirely&#8221; to two pro-Russia separatist groups operating in Ukraine&#8217;s eastern Donbas region where the separatist movement is strongest.
The report said it recorded 15,321 attacks in 2018, which resulted in a total of 13,483 nonmilitant fatalities.
Jane&#8217;s has been issuing its reports since 2009. It said the 2018 study showed the lowest fatality numbers since it began issuing the report 10 years ago.
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Study: Global Terror Attacks Down 33 Percent