INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION Tengizova Jeanne Adalbievna, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: North-Caucasus Institute for Advanced Studies. <...> E-mail: mashekuasheva@mail.ru Annotation: The article reveals the common characteristics and trends and regulatory experience of counterterrorism is a complex multidimensional phenomenon, which causes difficulties in the development of a universally accepted definition. <...> As part of the article discusses, various aspects of the counter, in connection with which this phenomenon has been studied from different points of view of scientific knowledge. <...>