The Threat Record Does Not Lie.

Every current-day threat analysis rests on a historical spine. The Threat Record is that spine.

200,000+ mapped incidents. 200+ countries. 3,500+ armed groups. From 1970 through the most recent operational cycle. Every incident tagged by group, by target category, by casualty count, by geography, by tactic.

Why Historical Depth Matters

Modern armed groups do not appear from nothing. The Taliban of 2026 traces to the mujahideen networks of the 1980s. The Houthis of today trace to the Zaidi revival of the early 2000s. ISIS traces to Al-Qaeda in Iraq traces to the Zarqawi network of 2003. Understanding the current picture requires the historical one.

The Threat Record ties current operations to prior operations by the same group, the same leadership lineage, or the same tactical playbook. Query by group name, and MERIDIAN returns every documented operation attributed to that group and its predecessors going back to the earliest available record.

Top Country Snapshots

These are sample snapshots from the platform. The full database contains every incident, not just top-country rollups. Query by group, by year, by tactic, or by target type.

How the Record Is Built

The Threat Record combines the Global Terrorism Database with MERIDIAN's own incident tracking, non-state actor operations logs, and cross-referenced open source reporting. Every entry cites its sources. Every attribution is auditable.

Where sources disagree on casualty counts or group attribution, both figures are stored and flagged for review. This is analytical honesty rather than a single-source claim.

Related

See Nuclear Incidents for the separate M-File database of nuclear and radiological events, and Non-State Actors for the profile-level view of the groups behind the incidents.