Islamic State – West Africa Province
Militant group and branch of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| September 25 2024 | Islamic State militants launched an ambush on Nigerien forces near the village of Ikniwan in the Tillia area, Tahoua Region, resulting in the deaths of 30 soldiers. |
| September 22 2024 | The Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on MILF fighters, killing 3 of them in Shariff Aguak, and killing a Filipino spy in Ampatuan, southern Philippines. |
| September 16 2024 | A US airstrike on an ISIS camp in central Syria killed 28 militants, including four senior members, which was announced by CENTCOM on 29 September. |
| September 15 2024 | ISIS planted a bomb in Kuchlak, Pakistan that exploded near a police car, killing two officers and injuring two others. On the same day, an ISIS attack between Ithriya and Khanasir killed five Syrian militants with ties to Hezbollah. |
| September 14 2024 | The Turkish National Intelligence Organization announced the arrest of an ISIS member who planned the 28 January Istanbul church shooting. |
| September 12 2024 | ISIS militants armed with machine guns opened fire at a bus in central Afghanistan, killing 14 Shiite civilians and injuring six others in the 2024 Afghanistan bus shooting. |
| September 6 2024 | A Pakistani man was arrested near the Canada–United States border for planning a shooting attack at a Jewish center in Brooklyn, New York in support of ISIS on the anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Israel. |
| September 2 2024 | A suicide bombing targeting Taliban government employees in southern Kabul killed six people and injured 13 others, with ISIS claiming responsibility the following day. |
| September 1 2024 | US and SDF captured senior IS leader Khaled Ahmed al-Dandal, who had helped five militants escape the Raqqah Detention Facility the week prior. |
| September 1 2024 | Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani declared that ISIS was no longer a threat to Iraq. |
| August 30 2024 | ISWAP claimed responsibility for an attack on a school in Yobe holding Shias, killing 3 students. |
| August 30 2024 | Turkish authorities detained 119 suspected ISIS associates in an operation across 23 provinces. |
| August 29 2024 | A joint US and Iraqi raid in western Iraq killed 15 ISIS members and injured seven US personnel. |
| August 25 2024 | Turkish authorities arrested 72 people suspected of collaborating with ISIS during an operation across 13 cities. |
| August 23 2024 | Four ISIS-linked prisoners took twelve people hostage at the IK-19 penal colony in Surovikino, Russia. Four prison staff were killed, three were injured, and the perpetrators were subsequently killed by snipers. |
| August 23 2024 | In Germany, a stabbing at a festival in Solingen killed three people and injured eight others. ISIS claimed responsibility the next day, stating it targeted Christians in response to killings of Muslims. |
| August 23 2024 | Iranian authorities arrested 14 ISIS-K members in raids across four provinces. |
| August 22 2024 | Shin Bet announced that an Israeli doctor from Soroka Medical Center was indicted earlier in August for pledging allegiance to ISIS. |
| August 11 2024 | ISKP claimed responsibility for an explosion on a bus in the Hazara-dominated Dashte Barchi area in Kabul, killing 1 civilian and injuring 13 others. |
| August 9 2024 | Delhi Police arrested Rizwan Ali, a wanted member of ISIS's Pune module, on the Delhi-Faridabad border. |
| August 8 2024 | UN counterterrorism office warned that ISIS-K has increased its capabilities and could potentially carry out more attacks outside Afghanistan, with potential expansion in parts of Africa from Mali to northern Nigeria. |
| August 7 2024 | Austrian authorities arrested two men over a terrorism plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna, inspired by ISIS and al-Qaeda. A third suspect was arrested two days later. |
| August 2 2024 | A British man was sentenced to 11 years in prison by the Birmingham Crown Court for being a member of ISIS. |
| July 31 2024 | A father and son were charged for planning a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS in Toronto, Canada. |
| July 27 2024 | Belgian authorities charged three Chechen natives of planning a terrorist attack on behalf of ISIS-K. |
| July 25 2024 | Turkish authorities detained 72 people linked to ISIS across 13 provinces. |
| July 17 2024 | CENTCOM reported that ISIS attacks in Iraq and Syria were set to double compared to 2023. |
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