Online Resources

The ICD is the most comprehensive open source counterterrorism database available today with more than 370 million data points on terrorist, rebel, proxy and separatist groups. The ICD contains 17 different database components covering raw terrorist materials such as video and audio releases, photos, graphics, magazines, books, training manuals and cyber tools as well as link analysis charts, dynamic maps, hostage data, terrorist messages, incident reports, terrorist logos, identity data, terrorist social media accounts, emails and phone numbers and more going back to the early 1990s. 

The International Crimes Database (ICD) website, hosted and maintained by the T.M.C. Asser Institute in The Hague and supported by the ICCT, offers a comprehensive database on international crimes adjudicated by national, as well as international and internationalised courts.

The Jihadi Casualty Database, managed by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR), is an open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2020 (with annual updates planned for the future). Unlike many other event databases, the GTD includes systematic data on domestic as well as international terrorist incidents that have occurred during this time period and now includes more than 200,000 cases.

The RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents is a compilation of data from 1968 through 2009. This legacy RAND project developed and maintained a database of terrorism incidents stretching back to 1968, which provides comprehensive information on international and domestic terrorism. Over the years, many public and private sponsors have contributed to the maintenance of the RDWTI and its predecessors, the RAND Terrorism Chronology and the RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident Database.

The Global Repatriations Tracker, operated by Right & Security International, tracks estimated global repatriations from camps, prisons, and other detention facilities in northeast Syria since the start of 2019. The camps, prisons, and other detention facilities hold people found in former Islamic State territory. 

The RTV Dataset documents right-wing terrorism and violence in Western Europe since 1990. On this website you can download the dataset, use the RTV Map Tool, and read RTV Trend Reports. 

The Terrorist Content Analytics Platform (TCAP) is an automated database tool that detects and analyses verified terrorist content found on smaller internet platforms. 

The Terrorist and Organised Criminal Search Database (TOC) search database provides data and information on terrorist incidents, terrorist groups, members and group leaders. It also contains information on organised crime.

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping project. ACLED collects information on the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and protest events worldwide. The ACLED team conducts analysis to describe, explore, and test conflict scenarios, and makes both data and analysis open for free use by the public.