ISIS Calls For Attacks Around the World

In its April 3, 2026 edition of al-Naba, its Arabic-language weekly newsletter, ISIS called on Muslims worldwide to set fire to churches and synagogues across the United States, Europe, Russia, and India, naming specific targets in Tunisia, Morocco, the UAE, and Syria.

The group cited Israel’s closure of the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount as justification, a site Israeli authorities closed to Muslim worshippers in late February citing security risks.

The newsletter called for attacks on “Jewish gatherings” and instructed supporters to emulate what it called the “Sydney Heroes,” a reference to the December 2025 Bondi Beach terror attack, and claimed, without independent verification, to have inflicted 60 casualties across 15 operations in the preceding week.

The Bondi Beach attack, which ISIS invoked as a model, occurred on December 14, 2025, when a father and son killed at least 15 people at a Hanukkah gathering in Sydney.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed the attack was inspired by ISIS ideology, and ISIS flags were found in the attackers’ vehicle.

On December 18, 2025, ISIS released al-Naba issue 526 featuring an editorial titled “The Pride of Sydney,” praising the attackers and calling for further attacks, singling out specific countries including Belgium.

While the casualty figures ISIS claimed cannot be verified, the group and ISIS-inspired individuals carried out attacks across multiple continents in the months preceding the Easter bulletin.

In the Middle East, ISIS ambushed a U.S.-Syrian joint patrol near Palmyra on December 13, 2025, killing two U.S. Army soldiers and an American civilian interpreter, triggering Operation Hawkeye Strike, a sustained U.S. retaliatory airstrike campaign across Syria.

In February 2026, ISIS declared war against the Syrian government, criticizing its alignment with the U.S. and Turkey, and reportedly killed ten government forces members.

ISIS cells continued attacking army checkpoints, SDF positions, and security personnel in Aleppo, Deir ez-Zor, and Raqqa.

A northeastern Syria offensive by the Syrian transitional government against the Kurdish-led SDF created a security vacuum in January 2026, resulting in the escape and mass transfer of thousands of ISIS detainees from facilities including al-Shaddadi prison.

In Iraq, an ISIS suicide bomber detonated explosives at a hideout in Al-Qa’im District during an attempted arrest, killing himself and injuring two security officers.

In Africa, ISIS-affiliated groups carried out a sustained campaign of mass casualty attacks.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Allied Democratic Forces, which pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2019, executed approximately 70 civilians in a Christian village in North Kivu in February 2026, beheading men, women, children, and elderly victims, as documented by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in its March 31 report.

ADF fighters attacked the villages of Muchacha and Babesua on March 11 and 16, killing 50 people and forcing more than 31,600 inhabitants to flee.

On the night of April 1–2, ADF fighters attacked Bafwakoa in Mambasa territory, Ituri province. Regional army spokesperson Lieutenant Jules Tshikudi Ngongo confirmed that at least 43 civilians were killed and 44 homes burned, while human rights activists put the toll at 70 deaths.

Between 2018 and July 2024, ISIS-DRC carried out 1,506 documented attacks resulting in 8,130 fatalities, making it the most lethal violent extremist group in the DRC.

In Nigeria, ISWAP killed nine soldiers in a landmine attack on January 5 and 15 Christians in raids across northeastern Nigeria on January 8.

On February 4, IS-affiliated Lakurawa gunmen killed at least 162 people in attacks on two villages in Kwara State. ISIS-Pakistan Province claimed responsibility for the 2026 Islamabad mosque bombing, which killed at least 31 people and injured more than 169.

In the United States, on December 31, 2025, federal authorities arrested 18-year-old Christian Sturdivant of Mint Hill, North Carolina, charging him with attempting to provide material support to ISIS after recovering written plans titled “New Year’s Attack 2026” targeting a grocery store and fast-food restaurant.

On January 1, 2026, Shamsud-Din Jabbar drove a vehicle into a crowd on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, killing 14 people. The FBI described him as “100 percent inspired by ISIS,” having self-radicalized online with no prior known ties to extremist networks.

On March 7, Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, both U.S. citizens from Pennsylvania, attempted to detonate two TATP-based improvised explosive devices at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in New York City, telling investigators they were inspired by ISIS.

On March 12, a gunman who had previously pleaded guilty to providing material support to ISIS killed one person at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

The same day, a naturalized Lebanese American citizen attacked a synagogue outside Detroit; security personnel shot and killed him.

In Asia, ISIS-Khorasan Province attempted to bomb the Israeli embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, in January 2026, a plot foiled by the State Security Service.

Seven people were killed and 20 were injured in a bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Kabul in January.

Six people were arrested on terrorism charges linked to ISIS in Malaysia on March 6. In South America, an ISIS member was arrested in Brazil for allegedly planning a suicide attack.

Arson attacks and bombings targeting Jewish institutions were reported in Belgium and the Netherlands following the U.S.-Israeli operation against Iran launched on February 28, an explosion struck the U.S. embassy in Oslo on March 8 and four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set on fire in north London. None of these incidents have been confirmed as ISIS-directed.

The Atlantic Council noted in March 2026 that ISIS portrayed the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a “divinely sanctioned” conflict, and the group appeared eager to exploit regional instability to attract followers and inspire attacks.

A senior threat intelligence analyst at Tech Against Terrorism told the Daily Express that ISIS editorial messaging “weaves together conflicts in Iraq and Palestine with apocalyptic imagery that frames all opposition as part of a single cosmic battle,” adding that the decentralized, internet-based strategy poses risks in Western settings where online radicalization can translate into violence.

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