Islamic State
Salafi jihadist militant Islamist group
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| April 15 2025 | Islamic State Pakistan province claimed responsibility for bombing a bus carrying Pakistan security forces, killing 3 and injuring 16. |
| 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 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 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 | 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 | 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'. |
| October 2024 | AFRICOM commander US Gen. Michael Langley claimed in an interview that ISS had grown 'twofold' over the previous year. |
| October 2024 | Violence in Iraq reaches its lowest point in 21 years, with only 20 civilians losing their lives in violence-related incidents. |
| October 2024 | S. B. de P., the author of a video claiming Islamic State's expansion to America, was arrested in Uruguay. |
| October 28 2024 | US airstrikes on IS camps in central Syria killed 35 militants. |
| October 22 2024 | A joint US-Iraqi raid in the Hamrin Mountains killed eight IS militants, including Jassim al-Mazroui Abu Abdul Qader, the group's leader in Iraq. Two US soldiers were also injured. |
| October 20 2024 | A suspected IS affiliate from Libya was arrested in Bernau for allegedly planning a shooting attack against the Israeli embassy in Berlin. |
| October 18 2024 | Singapore's Internal Security Department revealed the August arrest of a teenager who planned a stabbing attack against non-Muslims, reportedly radicalized by IS propaganda. |
| October 10 2024 | 5 Israeli-Arab citizens from Tayibe, Israel, were arrested for plotting car-bombings at Tel Aviv's Azrieli Mall on behalf of IS. |
| October 9 2024 | A man who set bushfires in Melbourne was sentenced to eight years in prison for previously pledging allegiance to IS in a video. |
| October 8 2024 | An Afghan man was arrested in Oklahoma City for planning an IS-affiliated attack on Election Day. |
| October 5 2024 | IS claimed responsibility for two attacks in Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing 15 and 3 Christians. |
| October 4 2024 | A Yazidi woman kidnapped by IS from northern Iraq and trafficked to the Gaza Strip was freed in an operation involving Israel, the US, and other countries, and subsequently repatriated to Iraq. |
| October 2 2024 | IS claimed responsibility for an ambush on Iraqi soldiers in Kirkuk, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 4 others. |
| October 1 2024 | United States Africa Command announced that IS – Somalia Province had doubled in size throughout the past year. |
| September 27 2024 | The US announced it would withdraw troops engaged in the US-led coalition against IS from some bases in Iraq by 2025. |
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This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Timeline of the Islamic State (2024), List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State, Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus, Islamic State – Somalia Province, Islamic State – Pakistan Province, Islamic State insurgency in Iraq (2017–present), List of wars and battles involving the Islamic State, Collaboration with the Islamic State, Islamic State beheadings, Islamic State – Kurdistan Province & Islamic State – Turkey Province, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.