Telegraph: Countries with highest terror threat level (map)

Belgium had the highest terror threat level long before the deadly attacks on a metro station and airport in Brussels. It was one of more than 40 countries around the world where the threat from terrorism was rated “high” by the Foreign Office.

The Foreign Office website states: “There is a high threat from terrorism. Attacks could be indiscriminate, including on public transport and transport hubs and in other places visited by foreigners. Brussels hosts a number of international institutions (EU and NATO) and government and foreign embassy buildings which are sensitive locations.”

Other countries where the threat from terrorism is rated “high” include France. The Paris attacks in November, in which 130 were killed, were the deadliest on French soil since the Second World War.

“High profile terrorist attacks have taken place in Paris in 2015 and other smaller attacks have taken place across France,” says the Foreign Office website. “On 7 January 2015, terrorists attacked the ‘Charlie Hebdo’ offices. On 9 January 2015 there were further attacks at a Jewish supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, Paris, and a police officer was shot dead in Montrouge. On 21 August 2015 there was a terrorist attack on the Amsterdam to Paris high speed Thalys train service. On 13 November 2015 terrorist attacks killed 130 and injured hundreds more at multiple sites across Paris.”

The terror threat is also “high” in Egypt, where a Russian aircraft was bombed last year, Tunisia, where 30 Britons were killed in a massacre last summer, Indonesia, Russia, Myanmar, Kenya, the Philippines and Colombia, Turkey, Thailand and Australia.

The inclusion of much of the Middle East, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Afghanistan, will come as no surprise.

Countries where the terror threat is low include Iceland, Bolivia, Ecuador, Poland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Hungary, Vietnam and Japan.

The British Foreign Office has four terror threat levels. The Telegraph drew a map based on the travel instructions released by Foreign Office, where those countries in dark red have a “high” threat from terror, those in red a “general” threat, those in orange an “underlying” threat and those in yellow a “low” threat.

Destinations with a “high” threat of terror