Islamic State
Salafi jihadist militant Islamist group
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| June 7 2025 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted to arming a gang with alleged ties to ISIS during the Gaza war, acknowledging controversial support connections. |
| May 28 2025 |
ISIS carried out a bombing in the Tulul al-Safa region, targeting U.S.-backed Free Syrian Army fighters with an IED, claiming to have killed one fighter and wounded three others.
ISIL (ISIS) launches first attacks against new Syrian government | Armed Groups News | Al Jazeera
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| May 22 2025 | ISIS detonated a car bomb targeting Syrian government forces in the Tulul al-Safa region, claiming to have killed or wounded seven soldiers. |
| May 5 2025 | A violent shootout in Makhachkala resulted in the deaths of three Dagestani police officers and two gunmen after authorities attempted to pull over the suspects' vehicle. |
| April 25 2025 | At the Kandadji Dam in Niger, an attack by Islamic State – Sahel Province resulted in the abduction of five Indian workers. |
| April 24 2025 | Russian FSB officers shot and killed two Central Asian militants after preventing a planned drone attack on a petrochemical facility in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. |
| April 24 2025 | Islamic State – Sahel Province ambushed a military unit north of Sakoira, Niger, killing 12 soldiers. |
| April 24 2025 | In Derbent, Dagestan, local law enforcement killed one armed militant and arrested four others while foiling a bombing attack on a police station. |
| April 16 2025 | Turkish authorities conducted coordinated security operations across 17 provinces, arresting 89 individuals suspected of Islamic State affiliations. The operations targeted provinces including Istanbul, Antalya, Gaziantep, Hatay, and Van. |
| April 15 2025 | ISPP claimed responsibility for an improvised explosive device attack on a bus carrying Pakistani security forces personnel, killing three soldiers and injuring twenty others in a targeted assault. |
| April 15 2025 | Islamic State Pakistan province claimed responsibility for bombing a bus carrying Pakistan security forces, killing 3 and injuring 16. |
| April 13 2025 | Swiss community worker Claudia Abbt was abducted by armed men from the Islamic State – Sahel Province in Agadez. |
| April 1 2025 | During Assyrian New Year celebrations in Duhok, Iraq, a Syrian national affiliated with the Islamic State conducted an axe attack, injuring two to three people. |
| March 31 2025 | Canadian Government extended Operation Impact until this date. |
| March 2025 | Ongoing Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus region, with 5 casualties reported in the current year |
| March 2025 | Engaged in ongoing clashes in Daraa, Syria, against Ba'athist Syrian government forces. |
| March 21 2025 | An armed assault on a mosque in Fambita, Kokorou, Niger resulted in 44 fatalities and 13 injuries. The Nigerien government declared a three-day national mourning period. Security authorities attributed the attack to the Islamic State – Sahel Province (ISSP). |
| March 14 2025 | Current date reference point for assessing the Islamic State insurgency timeline in Iraq. |
| March 2025 | In Paris, Oussama Atar was convicted in absentia of kidnapping and torturing four French journalists in Syria between 2013 and 2014, receiving another life sentence. |
| March 5 2025 | Russian counter-terrorism forces killed four ISIS-K affiliated militants who were plotting an attack against a regional interior ministry branch in Dagestan. |
| March 3 2025 | Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) thwarted a series of terrorist attacks planned for the Moscow metro and a Jewish religious institution, killing the accused planner. |
| February 28 2025 | A bombing during Friday prayers at Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Pakistan killed at least seven people, including prominent cleric Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani, and injured approximately 20 others. The Afghan interior ministry blamed the Islamic State for the attack. |
| February 20 2025 | Security Service of Georgia conducted operations against ISIS militants, capturing RG-42 grenades, F-1 grenades, explosives, detonators, UZRGM fuzes, AK-74 Bakelite magazines, and 5.45x39mm ammunition during a raid. |
| February 17 2025 | A video surfaced where the Islamic State claims they arrived in Uruguay to expand to America and carry out attacks. The video's author pledged allegiance to Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. |
| February 15 2025 | A 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker linked to the Islamic State stabbed six people in Villach, Austria, killing a 14-year-old boy and seriously injuring two others. |
| February 12 2025 | Allied Democratic Forces militants beheaded at least 70 Christian civilians in Kasanga, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Kasanga Massacre. |
| February 12 2025 | Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a faction of Islamic State - Central African Province, entered Mayba village in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, abducting and beheading 70 Christian civilians in a Protestant church in Kasanga. |
| January 26 2025 | A suicide bomber from the Islamic State drove a vehicle with explosives into a Nigerian troops' convoy in Malam-Fatori, Borno State, killing 27 soldiers and himself, with several troops critically injured. |
| January 11 2025 | Eva Gretzmacher, an Austrian development worker, was abducted by armed men from the Islamic State – Sahel Province in Agadez. |
| January 11 2025 | Puntland state launches 'Operation Hillaac', capturing numerous ISS bases in the mountains of Bari Region. |
| January 1 2025 | A man drove a pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, killing 14 and injuring 57. The attacker pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was fatally shot by police after a shootout. |
| 2024 | Carried out the Kerman bombings in Iran and the Crocus City Hall attack in Russia. |
| 2024 | ISS expanded its presence from Qandala, striking Al-Shabaab forces east of Bosaso and expanding west to the coastal town of Alula, covering approximately 100km. |
| 2024 | ISPP claimed responsibility for the Sibi bombing in Balochistan. |
| 2024 | The Islamic State continued to conduct insurgent activities and terrorist attacks in various regions, including parts of Iraq, Syria, and Africa, maintaining its operational presence despite significant previous territorial losses. |
| 2024 | IS attacks have dramatically decreased by 94% compared to 2019, demonstrating a substantial decline in the group's operational capabilities. |
| 2024 | The Islamic State – Turkey Province carried out a shooting at a church in Istanbul, demonstrating the group's violent activities in the region. |
| 2024 | IS attacks have declined by 94% compared to 2019, significantly reducing the group's operational capacity in Iraq. |
| 2024 | Major escalation with 227 killed and over 610 injured |
| December 31 2024 | Puntland authorities announced eight militants were killed following IS attacks on security forces in the Dharjale and Bari regions. IS claimed responsibility the next day, stating they killed 22 security personnel and injured dozens of others. |
| December 29 2024 | France carried out airstrikes against IS positions in Syria. |
| December 23 2024 | A suspected IS supporter from Howden was accused of plotting a terrorist attack using mustard gas. |
| December 20 2024 | A man from Springfield, Virginia was convicted of funding IS after raising over $185,000 in cryptocurrency. An American airstrike in Deir ez-Zor killed two IS militants, including the group's leader in Syria, Abu Yusif. |
| December 19 2024 | Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein warned that IS seized a large amount of abandoned Syrian weapons and is reorganizing its forces. |
| December 16 2024 | American airstrikes on IS camps and members in Syria killed 12 militants. |
| December 11 2024 | An IS suicide bombing in Kabul killed seven people, including Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani, who was the highest-ranking Taliban official killed since 2021. |
| December 10 2024 | IS militants killed 54 Syrian soldiers fleeing a rebel offensive in Al-Sukhnah, Homs Province. |
| December 8 2024 | US conducted approximately 75 strikes on IS targets in the Syrian Desert to prevent control of Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. German authorities arrested two Lebanese IS sympathizers and a suspected Turkish accomplice for planning an Islamist attack. |
| December 2 2024 | The Swedish Prosecution Authority charged three people for the preparation of an IS-linked terrorist crime. |
| November 2024 | Joint Iraq-KRG operation involving CTG, Iraqi National Security Service, Iraqi warplanes, and Peshmerga commandos launches large raids in Sulaymaniyah, Halabja, Kirkuk, and Ranya. The command structure of the Islamic State in Kurdistan is destroyed, and the Asayish proclaims the 'dissolution of the Kurdistan Province'. |
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