Territory of the Islamic State
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| March 2025 | Ongoing Islamic State insurgency in the North Caucasus region, with 5 casualties reported in the current year |
| 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 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. |
| 2024 | ISPP claimed responsibility for the Sibi bombing in Balochistan. |
| 2024 | Major escalation with 227 killed and over 610 injured |
| 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'. |
| September 19 2024 | Islamic State claimed its first attack in Azerbaijan, reporting the killing of 7 Azeri security personnel and wounding of 1 in a clash in Qusar district, Northern Azerbaijan. One IS militant was also killed during the incident. |
| August 23 2024 | Four IS-linked prisoners took over the Surovikino penal colony in Volgograd Oblast, killing nine prison staff and taking hostages. All four prisoners were killed by Russian national guard snipers. |
| August 9 2024 | Rizwan Ali, an ISIS operative, was arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) while planning an attack in New Delhi. |
| June 23 2024 | At least five suspected Islamic militants attacked a church and synagogue in Dagestan, killing 17 police officers and five civilians. The attackers were killed, with some identified as relatives of a local district head. |
| June 16 2024 | Six IS-linked detainees abducted two Russian prison staff at a detention centre in Rostov. Five assailants were killed and one captured, with prison staff freed. |
| June 6 2024 | Georgian State Security Service detained and arrested two ISIS-affiliated militants along with a weapon cache in the city of Batumi. |
| April 22 2024 | IS gunmen attacked a Russian police patrol in Karachayevsk, killing 2 police officers and wounding a third, and seizing their weapons. |
| April 15 2024 | ISPP bombed a bus carrying Pakistani Security Forces, killing 3 personnel and injuring 18 in a deliberate attack targeting military personnel. |
| April 11 2024 | According to IS's Al-Naba newspaper, the group continued attacks on the Philippine Government, Army, and Moro militias, though not yet confirmed by official Philippine sources. |
| March 22 2024 | The Philippines announced that Abu Sayyaf had been 'fully dismantled', ending decades of jihadist insurgency. |
| March 22 2024 | Four Tajik IS–K gunmen attacked a concert hall and shopping mall in Krasnogorsk, Russia, killing 145 people in the group's first attack beyond Afghanistan's neighbors. |
| March 20 2024 | Special forces arrest ISIS India chief Haris Farooqi and an associate while attempting to cross from Bangladesh to India, with police revealing plans for sabotage activities and IED attacks. |
| March 3 2024 | Karabulak clash: A deadly stand-off between Russian security services and a cell of Ingush militants affiliated with Islamic State – Caucasus Province. |
| March 2 2024 | A shoot-out in Karabulak, Ingushetia resulted in six gunmen and a civilian killed, with 3 policemen injured. Russian authorities claimed the men were IS-associated. |
| 2023 | Resurgence of conflict with 15 killed and 13 injured |
| August 2023 | IS experienced a major resurgence in the Philippines, claiming more attacks than in the previous two years combined, including the Mindanao State University bombing in Marawi. |
| June 2023 | ISWAP significantly increases small-scale raids in Cameroon's Far North Region, targeting multiple locations and causing severe economic disruption |
| January 21 2023 | A civilian died in Makhachkala after being detained by police, killed during interrogation related to an armed conflict in the city. |
| January 7 2023 | Bengali police arrested two men suspected of being ISIL members in Howrah's Tikiapara area in Kolkata, with one suspect admitting connections to ISIL functionaries in Pakistan and West Asia. |
| 2022 | Relatively low-intensity conflict with 6 killed and 0 injured |
| 2022 | Georgian State Security Service arrested a member of the Islamic State terrorist organisation at Tbilisi International Airport through its Counter-Terrorism Centre. |
| 2022 | Nigeria announced plans to redesign its currency to combat terrorism financing. In response, ISWAP declared that taxes should be paid in CFA franc. |
| 2022 | ISWAP acknowledged five sub-divisions or governorates: Lake Chad, Sambisa, Al Farouq, Kerenoa, and Banki. A 'Central Nigeria' cell became active, operating as a guerrilla force. |
| 2022 | ISWAP continued internal reorganization, granting considerable autonomy to its sub-units (governorates), allowing them to separately pledge allegiance to the new IS caliph, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi. |
| December 2022 | State Security Service of Georgia detained Tsiskara Tokhosashvili, brother of ISIS commander Tsezar Tokhosashvili, on charges of joining ISIS and assisting terrorist activities in Syria and Iraq. |
| December 2022 | ISWAP pledges allegiance to the new IS caliph, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi |
| November 2022 | Tsezar Tokhosashvili, known as Al-bara Shishani, was arrested in a joint special operation in Kyiv, Ukraine. |
| November 18 2022 | Dozens of IS fighters clashed with the Egyptian army on a government building in Al-Ismailia, resulting in killing and wounding 6 army members. |
| July 9 2022 | An IS suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacks a Houthi convoy about 160 km southeast of Sana'a in the Afar region of al-Bayda, killing or wounding several Houthis. |
| May 2022 | Tbilisi City Court convicted five individuals arrested in August 2021 for ISIS membership and plans to travel to a terrorist camp in Syria. |
| May 2022 | Bako Gorgore and Abu Ibrahim serve as co-commanders of ISWAP |
| May 8 2022 | Attacked a checkpoint at a water pumping station in El Qantara, killing ten soldiers and one officer. |
| March 2022 | ISWAP ceased acting as an umbrella organization for all IS factions in West Africa, including the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (IS-GS), despite previously having limited ties. |
| January 24 2022 | ISWAP captures the town of Gudumbali, declaring it their new capital, before being quickly counter-attacked and driven out by Nigerian troops |
| 2021 | Reduced intensity of conflict with 20 killed and 10 injured |
| 2021 | ISWAP created four governorates centered at Lake Chad, Sambisa Forest, Timbuktu, and Tumbuma, each headed by a wali with their own governing structures. |
| 2021 | The leadership of ISWAP changed rapidly, with the position of wali or leader reportedly passing through multiple individuals including Ba Lawan, Abu-Dawud, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Malam Bako, Sani Shuwaram, Bako Gorgore, and Abu Ibrahim. |
| 2021 | Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself during a battle with ISWAP, marking a significant turning point in the militant group's leadership and internal conflicts. |
| December 13 2021 | Kurdish security forces disrupt Islamic State sleeper cells, arresting the cell leader after previously arresting 25 members from various regions including Halabja, Said Sadiq, Khurmal, Sirwan, and Erbil. |
| October 2021 | Malam Bako is allegedly killed while serving as defense minister and acting leader |
| September 2021 | Abou Aseyia becomes Ameer Fiya of Sambisa Forest after Abou Abdulrahman is killed |
| September 2021 | Huozaifah Ibn Sadiq becomes Ameer Fiya of Timbuktu |
| August 2021 | Five individuals were arrested for membership in IS and plans to travel to a terrorist camp in Syria. |
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