2013年国际恐怖活动呈现了一些新的发展趋势。在经历了一段相对低潮期后，“基地”等恐怖组织的恐怖活动在2013年“卷土重来”，重大恐怖事件在世界各地此起彼伏。非洲的恐怖活动呈急剧上升势头。在非洲恐怖活动中最活跃、破坏力最大的恐怖组织主要是“伊斯兰马格里布基地组织”、“索马里青年党”、尼日利亚的“博科圣地”，目前这几个恐怖组织有“合流之势”。西亚的恐怖活动呈反弹之势，叙利亚成为恐怖活动的又一大本营，伊拉克的恐怖活动反弹，也门的阿拉伯半岛基地组织不断扩张。俄罗斯北高加索的恐怖活动依然猖獗。在国际恐怖活动呈反弹之势的大背景下，中国的恐怖活动再次呈高发状态，且呈现出恐怖活动地域扩大的趋势、以政府机构和军警为主要袭击目标、恐怖势力使用冷兵器等简陋工具作案的新特点。
In the year 2013，international terrorism presented some new trends. After a low tide period，terrorist activities of “Al Qaeda” and other terror groups staged a comeback. Serious terrorist incidents escalated everywhere in the world. Terrorist activities in Africa rose sharply. Among them，the most active and damaging terror groups were Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb，Somalia’s Al-Shabaab and Nigeria’s Boko Haram. Currently，these terror groups have a trend of “confluence”. In western Asia，terrorist activities bounced back. Syria became another base camp of terrorism. In Iraq，terrorist activities were rampant again. Yemen’s “al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula” were constantly expanding. Terrorism in Russia’s north Caucasus was still active. Under this background，China has been experiencing a growth spurt of terrorism and some of the new traits are：the terrorist activities are expanding to more regions；terrorists are targeting more on government institutions and police and soldiers；terrorists use simple tools like cold enginery.
