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 |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| August 2021 | Abu Musab al-Barnawi reportedly killed, either in battle with Nigerian Army or during internal ISWAP clashes |
| August 2021 | 'Abu Dawud' / 'Aba Ibrahim' becomes leader of ISWAP from August |
| July 2021 | Lawan Abubakar 'Ba Lawan' serves as Wali of ISWAP and Wali of Tumbuma |
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