Category Archives: Islamic State Terrorist Attacks

The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025

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Dealing with the Conspiracy Theory that Islamic State “Never” Attacks Israel

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 May 2025

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The Progress of the Islamic State’s New Foreign Terrorism Campaign

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 August 2024

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Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024

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Islamic State Khorasan Province is Looking More Dangerous

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2024

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Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2023

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Al-Qaeda Claimed It Was Behind the 2015 ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attack. But Was It?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 December 2022

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Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 September 2022

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Islamic State Attacks Israel for the First Time in Five Years

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2022

Israeli security forces reacting to the terrorist attack in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, 29 March 2022 || Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said his country is “facing a new wave of terrorism” after five attacks in the last ten days have killed eleven people. The Islamic State (IS) has effectively admitted to carrying out two of the atrocities, the first time in five years the terrorist group has carried out attacks in the Jewish state. This hiatus, partly a reflection of the fact that, unlike some other Islamist extremists, IS does not make the anti-Israel cause a central plank of its propaganda, also reflects the relatively small inroads IS’s ideology has made to this point among Palestinian and Israeli Arabs. Whether this is now changing is unclear. Continue reading