2015

January—Syria—Omran ­al-Abadi, an ­Egyptian-trained physician and son of Jordanian parliament member Mohammed ­al-Abadi, joined the Nusra Front in Syria and was killed in January in a gun battle with the Syrian army.

January—Syria—Swedish freelance journalists Nicolas Hammarstrom and Magnus Falkehed were freed in early January after being held for a month and a half by unknown kidnappers. Swedish officials declined to identify their captors or how they were set free. 14129901

January—UK—Zack Davies, 26, attacked Sikh trainee dentist Sarandev Bhambra, 24, hitting him in the head with a ­foot-long machete in a supermarket in Mold, Wales. Witnesses heard him yell “white power” and “this is for Lee Rigby,” a British soldier stabbed to death by jihadi terrorists on a London street on May 22, 2013. Former soldier Peter Fuller stopped the attack. Bhambra suffered “life changing” injuries, according to prosecutors. Police found white supremacist material in Davies’s home. He told police he was a member of the neo–Nazi National Action group. He claimed he was inspired by Jihadi John. On June 25, 2015, AP reported that Davies was convicted of attempted murder. He was to be sentenced in September 2015 after a psychiatric assessment. Gareth Preston of the Crown Prosecution Service Wales deemed him “a dangerous young man whose distorted and racist views led him to commit a terrifying act of violence.” Bhambra’s family said police and prosecutors should have called the attack terrorism because, “Sarandev was singled out because of the color of his skin. This should have been rightly defined as an act of terrorism.” 15019902

January—Philippines—Abu Sayyaf kidnapped South Korean man ­Noi-seong Hong, 74, from his house in southern Zamboanga Sibugay Province. He was brought to Sulu. On November 1, 2015, AP reported that his body was found on a roadside in Indanan town in Sulu Province the previous day. He appeared to have died from an illness. 15019903

January 1—Somalia—Al-Shabaab commander Ibrahim Filey and 3 other terrorists died in a gun battle with Somali forces in the southern town of Kurtun Waarey.

January 1—Turkey—Istanbul Police Chief Selami Altinok told the ­state-run Anadolu Agency that police arrested a man after he threw grenades and fired a weapon at officers near the prime minister’s offices at the Dolmabahce Palace in downtown Istanbul. Police destroyed 2 unexploded grenades. The man was armed with a small weapon and an assault rifle. The offices are used by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and previously by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Neither was present. Police said the man had served jail time and belonged to a terrorist organization. The leftist Revolutionary People’s Liberation ­Party-Front (DHKP-C) claimed credit.

Turkish Army officer Ozgur Orsun was kidnapped while on duty in Kilis Province along the ­Turkish-Syrian border. He was released on January 5, according to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who cited a “successful operation of The National Intelligence Organization” (MIT). He was investigating a smuggling case. Turkish media suggested Islamic State involvement.

January 1—Iraq—During the night, gunmen ambushed a car carrying 3 Sunni clerics near Basra, killing the trio in the mostly Sunni district of Bab ­al-Zubeir. The terrorists seriously wounded 2 other clerics traveling with the victims.

January 1—Bulgaria—On January 13, AP reported that Bulgarian authorities said they had arrested Frenchman ­Fritz-Joly Joachin, 29, on January 1. He was believed to have links to Cherif Kouachi, one of the Charlie Hebdo attackers of January 7. Joachin was trying to cross into Turkey. He was held under 2 European arrest warrants, according to Darina Slavova, the regional prosecutor for Bulgaria’s southern province of Haskovo, who said “He met with Kouachi several times at the end of December.” Slavova said one warrant noted Joachin’s alleged links to a terrorist organization and the other for allegedly kidnapping his 3-year-old son and smuggling him out of the country. Joachin, of Haitian origin, left France on December 30. He agreed to be extradited after southern Bulgarian district court Judge Stratimir Dimitrov approved extradition. Joachin was represented by attorney Radi Radev. On January 20, the district court in the southern city of Haskovo agreed to extradite Joachin, who said he was innocent and wanted to return to Paris to clear his name. On January 29, 2015, ABC News reported that Bulgaria extradited him to France to face charges of links to terrorism. He was ordered jailed for at least 4 months pending investigations. French officials filed preliminary terrorism charges of participating in an organized crime group with aims to prepare a terrorist act, and seeking to join extremist fighters in Syria.

January 2—Iraq—A roadside bomb exploded in central Baghdad, killing 4 civilians and wounding 12.

January 2—Somalia—Voice of America News reported that ­al-Shabaab attacked a military base outside Baidoa, killing 6 Somali soldiers and wounding 18 people.

January 2—Sweden—The International Business Times reported that a man threw an incendiary at a mosque in Uppasala, Sweden’s third arson attack on a Muslim center within a week. The building did not catch fire. The suspect also left a text on the mosque’s door, expressing his “contempt for religion,” according to a police official. The mosque was empty at the time; no one was hurt. AFP reported that the crime was classed as attempted arson, vandalism and incitement to hatred.

January 3—Greece—In the early afternoon, police in the suburb of Anavyssos, southeast of Athens, arrested convicted November 17 terrorist Christodoulos Xiros, 56, who had failed to return to prison while on a furlough on January 7, 2014. Xiros was serving 6 life terms for his role in the group’s murder of 23 people, including Greek politicians, businessmen and British, American and Turkish diplomats and military officials, from 1975 to 2000. Weeks after he skipped furlough, he released a video complaining of the government’s handling of the financial crisis, threatening politicians and journalists and warning of additional attacks. Greek police chief Dimitrios Tsaknakis said that a search in Xiros’s safe house found notes on Korydallos prison and that Xiros was planning a jailbreak for fellow convicted terrorists. Police also seized rifles, explosives and ­rocket-propelled grenade launchers.

January 3—Libya—At 2:30 a.m., 15 masked gunmen in Sirte kidnapped 13 Coptic Christians, rousting them from their rooms in their residence. The gunmen used identification papers to separate Muslim workers from Christians, then handcuffed the Christians and drove away with them in 4 vehicles. 15010301

Abu Makar, a Coptic priest in the workers’ hometown of Samalout in southern Egypt, said 7 other Coptic Christians from Samalout were taken while trying to escape Sirte a few days earlier. 15019901

On January 12, AP reported that a Libyan affiliate of the Islamic State claimed credit for kidnaping 21 Coptic Christians and released pictures of the captives on jihadi forums used by Islamic State supporters. The caption read, “The soldiers of the Islamic State in the province of Tripoli hold captive 21 Christian crusaders.” Family members and a priest from Samalout confirmed the photos’ authenticity.

January 3—Iraq—The Islamic State released its 8th video of hostage British photojournalist John Cantlie, this one giving a tour of Mosul, Iraq. He said, “The media likes to paint a picture of life in the Islamic State as depressed, people walking around as subjugated citizens in chains, beaten down by strict totalitarian rule. But really, apart from some rather chilly but very sunny December weather, life here in Mosul is business as usual.” The video lasts 8 minutes and 15 seconds. It was produced by the IS’s foreign language division, ­al-Hayat Media Center. At the end of the video, he yells at a plane overhead, “You’ve come to rescue me again? Do something! Useless! Absolutely useless!” he says.

January 3—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped 4 policemen from Wardak Province. The victims’ bodies were found dead hours later near the provincial capital ­Pul-i-Alam.

January 3—Nigeria—UPI reported that Boko Haram coming from the north, west, and south attacked a base of the ­Multi-National Joint Task Force in Baga in Borno State, forcing the soldiers and nearby residents to flee. The Task Force includes troops from Nigeria, Chad and Niger. At least 14 soldiers were killed.

January 3—Indonesia—The U.S. Department of State warned of potential threats against U.S.-owned hotels and banks in Surabaya, Indonesia’s ­second-largest city.

January 3—Cameroon—Boko Haram attacked a bus in northern Cameroon transporting passengers from Kousseri to Maroua. The press said 15 people were killed and 10 injured; a senior Cameroon officer said 25 people were killed. 15010302

January 4—Burundi—AFP reported that a Burundi Army general said that “after 5 days of ­non-stop military operations, the armed group which attacked Burundi has been wiped out by our security forces. In total, we killed 105 of them and captured 4, out of a total of the 121 who entered Cibitoke Province from the Democratic Republic of Congo. “We also seized a 60mm mortar, 5 rocket launchers, machine guns and more than 100 assault rifles.” Two Burundi soldiers were killed. The gunmen crossed into Burundi on December 29 from Congo’s Kivu region during the night.

January 4—Somalia—The Voice of America and AP reported that an ­al-Shabaab suicide car bomber set off his explosives on the airport road in Mogadishu’s Waberi district as a convoy of U.S.-trained elite “Alpha Group” security forces drove by, killing 4 people, mostly pedestrians. ­Al-Shabaab claimed credit on its Radio Andulus. Mohamed Yusuf, the spokes­man of Somalia’s National Security Ministry, said the car bomb was detonated while the attacker was being pursued.

January 4—Afghanistan—In a morning ambush, gunmen killed 5 policeman, including their commander, in the Baraki Barak district of Logar Province.

January 4—Tunisia—The Interior Ministry announced that jihadis slit the throat of a police officer and knifed him in the heart as he returned to his home in Zaghouan from work. The attackers used a saber to cut off a finger of his right hand.

January 4—Yemen—AQAP claimed credit for bombing a local headquarters of Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Dhamar Province, killing 6 Houthis and wounding 31. One of the dead was a journalist who worked for a ­Houthi-affiliated television station.

AQAP was suspected in the assassination of an army brigadier general in Shabwa Province.

January 5—Syria—NPR reported that the Islamic State released a $2 billion budget and controlled the equivalent of the UK in territory in Syria and Iraq.

January 5—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber set off his explosives near the headquarters of the European police training mission in Kabul, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding 16 people, including 3 Afghan troops. EUPOL said the terror-ist apparently targeted a mission convoy of vehicles near its headquarters on the eastern outskirts of Kabul. None of the convoy occupants were injured. 15010501

A bomb went off near Kabul’s international airport, causing no casualties.

A roadside bomb hit a NATO convoy in Nangahar Province, damaging a vehicle but causing no casualties. 15010502

A suicide bomber tried to kill deputy police chief Ghulam Jilani Farahi in southeastern Zabul Province, which borders Pakistan. The morning attack killed 2 civilians and wounded 4.

January 5—Mali—Jihadis in a dozen vehicles attacked Nampala at 5 a.m., killing 2 soldiers and initially forcing the army to flee the central Malian town. AQIM later claimed credit and claimed to be holding captured soldiers. A military official later said 6 soldiers were killed and several injured. A local resident counted 10 bodies.

January 5—Pakistan—AFP reported that the government of ­Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province announced a bounty of 10 million rupees (U.S. $100,000) for information leading to the arrest or death of ­Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Mullah Fazlullah. The government offered a combined bounty of RS760 million (U.S. $7.5 million) for a list of 615 senior jihadis, including Mengal Bagh, chief of ­Lashkar-e-Islam, a ­Taliban-linked group operating in the Khyber tribal district.

On April 12, 2015, the Associated Press reported that U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan, Pakistan killed 2 leaders of ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, according to an audio message by AQIS spokes­man Usama Mahmood, who identified the dead as deputy chief Raja Suleman, alias Ahmed Farooq, and Hidayatullah, alias Qari Imran, in charge of the group’s Afghan affairs. He said Raja Suleman graduated from Islamabad’s International Islamic University and that Hidayatullah was from Multan in Punjab Province.

January 5—Saudi Arabia—Four armed men, one wearing a suicide vest, attacked a border guard patrol, killing 3 guards and wounding 3 at dawn near Arar, the capital of Northern Borders Province near the Iraqi border. The guards killed 3 terrorists; the other set off his vest, killing himself. No one claimed credit, but the Islamic State was suspected. The al-Sharq ­al-Awsat newspaper quoted officials saying 3 terrorists were Saudi citizens, one of whom had a prior security record. Authorities seized grenades, pistols, rifles, tracking devices and significant sums of money in U.S., Syrian, Iraqi and Saudi currencies. 15010503

January 5—Iraq—The Islamic State said on Twitter that it killed 8 men, including 5 police officers and 2 informants, in Salahuddin Province for cooperating with security forces and coalition airstrikes against IS. The blindfolded men were lined up on their knees at a riverbank and shot in the head.

January 5—Indonesia—UPI reported that the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs warned tour­ists to avoid Indonesia, saying it had received information suggesting terrorist attacks in Indonesia may be imminent. The government’s “Smart Traveler” website noted, “We continue to receive information that indicates that terrorists may be planning attacks in Indonesia, which could take place at any time…. Gatherings of Westerners over this period could also be appealing targets for terrorists. Terrorists have previously attacked or planned to attack such places, including nightclubs, bars, restaurants, international hotels, airports and places of worship in Bali, Jakarta and elsewhere in Indonesia. These types of venues could be attacked again.”

January 6—Iraq—A suicide bomber hit a meeting of Sahwa militia near Jubbat al-Shamiya in the morning. Dozens of Islamic State terrorists then attacked nearby army and police positions. In the ensuing gun battles, 23 troops and Sahwa were killed and 28 wounded.

In the morning, the IS attacked and seized the Albu Risha police station in northern Ramadi, killing several police officers and injuring at least 2 other people.

January 6—Turkey—An ­English-speaking female suicide bomber walked into a police station in Istanbul’s Sultan Ahmet district, which is popular with tourists. She claimed to be reporting a missing wallet, but then blew herself up, injuring 2 police officers, one of whom later died. Reuters reported that the Revo­lutionary People’s Liberation ­Party-Front (DHKP-C) claimed credit for the attack across the square from the Aya Sofya museum and the Blue Mosque. ­DHKP-C posted on the website “The People’s Cry” that the bombing was against the ruling AK Party over the killing of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan, who died in March 2014 after 9 months in a coma from a head wound sustained during an ­anti-government protest. “It is the same state which shot Berkin Elvan and which protects the thief ministers.” ­DHKP-C later withdrew its claim. It initially said the bomber was Elif Sultan Kalsen, but her family told police at the criminal medical center that the body was not that of their daughter. Some Turkish media identified the bomber as a Russian citizen of Chechen origin. On January 13, the ­state-run Anadolu Agency said authorities were questioning 6 people, including some foreigners, about the case.

January 6—Egypt—Gunmen shot to death 2 policemen guarding a Coptic church in Minya as Coptic Christians prepared for Orthodox Christmas Eve.

A police officer died while dismantling a bomb planted at a gas station in Giza. Three gas station work­ers were injured.

January 6—Central African Republic—Dominic Ongwen, alias Moussa, a senior member of the Lord’s Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, defected to U.S. military personnel in Obo. He was wanted by the International Criminal Court on 7 counts of crimes against humanity, enslavement, murder and inhumane acts of inflicting serious bodily injury. He joined the group in 1989 as a 10-year-old abductee. In 2005, the Ugandan military incorrectly pronounced him dead; in 2006 the ICC said that genetic fingerprinting confirmed it was someone else. On January 12, AP reported that Uganda’s government said it wanted to try him in Uganda for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Uganda’s military announced the next day that Ongwen would be tried in The Hague. U.S. Special Forces handed him over to Ugandan troops on January 14. On January 19, Seleka rebels said they were entitled to a $5 million reward from the U.S. for capturing Ongwen. He appeared before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on January 26, 2015, on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

January 6—Afghanistan—The Taliban fired a rocket at a house in Nawzad District in Helmand Province, killing 3 family members—a man, woman, and child. Two other children from that family were wounded.

January 6—Libya—Gunmen kidnapped Italian doctor Ignazio Scaravilli. On June 9, 2015, AP reported that an Italian Foreign Ministry official said he had been freed and was in Tripoli. 15010601

January 7—U.S.—Police fatally shot Hashim ­Abdul-Rasheed, 41, outside Ohio’s Port Columbus Airport after he lunged at an officer with a knife. He had 2 knives taped to his legs, which police said was “consistent with someone who intended to hijack an aircraft.” He tried to purchase an airline ticket using a woman’s ID. His SUV contained more knives, a gas mask, other masks, computers, cameras and cellphones. Police said he had a history of mental illness.

January 7—U.S.—U.S. News and World Report reported that a bomb went off at 10:45 a.m. next to a gas can and against the exterior wall of a building that houses the NAACP chapter and the Mr. G’s Hair Design Studio in Colorado Springs, Colorado. No injuries were reported. The gas can did not ignite. The FBI was searching for a balding white man in his 40s who might have driven a dirty, white pickup truck which could have an open tailgate or a missing or covered license plate. On February 20, 2015, Thaddeus Murphy, 44, told federal agents he made the pipe bomb out of a shotgun shell and fireworks fuses and was targeting his accountant’s office because of his financial problems. He claimed the accountant would not return calls or return his tax records. Murphy was charged with arson and being an armed felon.

January 7—Colombia—The National Liberation Army’s senior commander, Nicolas Rodriguez, alias Gabino, released a video in which he told rebel fighters at a jungle congress that the ELN would disarm if peace talks led to political participation by leftist groups.

January 7—Afghanistan—A Taliban bomb exploded in Jalalabad, killing Judge ­Mohammad-ul Hassan and wounding 2 of his daughters. He served in Laghman Province, which borders Pakistan.

Gunmen killed 6 people working on a road project, including the head of a construction company, and wounded one person in Baghlan Province. Two people were missing.

Three Taliban suicide bombers attacked a police academy in Khost Province, wounding 3 police officers. One set off his car bomb while the other 2 were shot by police.

Two children gathering firewood were killed by a bomb in Kandahar Province’s Zhari District. Another 10 children were injured, 7 critically.

January 7—France—Amedy Coulibaly was initially believed to have seriously wounded a jogger in the Fontenay aux Roses suburb of Paris. He would go on to kill a policewoman on January 8 and 4 hostages on January 9 in a Paris kosher deli, before he was killed in a ­shoot-out with police. The prosecutor’s office told the news media that ballistics tests on shell cases from the shooting linked them to the automatic weapon at the kosher store. On January 11, video surfaced of Coulibaly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and praising the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the deli.

By January 15, police were searching for a 4th suspect in the ­Coulibaly-Kouachi nexus, saying that the individual might have been involved in shooting the jogger and was believed to be an individual from Seine Saint Denis with a lengthy criminal record. He may have already fled to Syria.

CNN reported on December 15, 2015, that French authorities were questioning Claude Hermant and his wife in the investigation on the siege of the Hyper Cache kosher grocery store in Vincennes. The duo was accused of involvement in arms trafficking; Claude Hermant had been in jail for arms trafficking since January 2015. Some of Coulibaly’s weapons were believed to have originated from Hermant or his wife. Hermant was picked up from his jail cell in the Lille area, where his wife was apprehended.

January 7—France—At ­mid-day, masked gunmen yelling “Allahu Akbar” fired Kalashnikovs inside the Paris offices of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, killing 12 people, including ­editor-in-chief Stephane Charbonnier and 3 cartoonists, and injuring 20, 4 critically, before exchanging gunfire with police while escaping in a vehicle. They later eluded police by hijacking a second car in Porte de Pantin. The paper had been threatened for running ­Muslim-related cartoons. The government began a manhunt and raised the terrorist alert to its highest level. Hours earlier, the magazine had posted on Twitter a cartoon entitled “Still No Attacks in France” depicting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi giving a New Year’s greeting. “Just wait. We have until the end of January to present our New Year’s wishes.” The paper also noted a new novel, “Submission,” set in a France led by an Islamic party that imposes strict codes such as banning women from the workplace. President Hollande said several other terrorist attacks had been stopped “in recent weeks.” Jihadi websites praised the attack. A witness heard the gunmen shout, “we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad; we have killed Charlie Hebdo. You can tell the media it’s al-Qaeda in Yemen.” Other websites featured an image “Je Suis Charlie” (“I am Charlie”). Vox.com listed the victims as including:

• Stephane Charbonnier, nom de plume Charb, 47, ­editor-in-chief of Charlie Hebdo. In 2012, he told the Associated Press, “Mohammed isn’t sacred to me. I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Quranic law.” He told Le Monde in 2012 that he didn’t fear jihadi retaliation, observing, “I have no kids, no wife, no car, no credit. This may be a bit pompous what I’m saying, but I prefer to die standing up than live on my knees.” He also told ABC News in 2012, “Our job is not to defend freedom of speech, but without freedom of speech we are dead,” he said. “I prefer to die than live like a rat.” His name appeared on a hit list in a 2013 edition of the AQAP online magazine Inspire.

• Georges Wolinski, 80, a cartoonist who had worked for L’Humanité, Libération, and Le Nouvel Observateur

• Bernard Verlhac, nom de plume Tignous, a cartoonist who had worked for Charlie Hebdo, Casus Belli, and Marianne, and participated in Cartooning for Peace, which strives for “a better understanding and mutual respect between people of different cultures and beliefs.” He told Le Monde, “A drawing can make one laugh. When it’s truly received, it can make one think. If it makes one both laugh and think, then it’s an excellent drawing. But the best drawing makes one laugh, think, and provokes a feeling of shame. The reader experiences shame for having laughed at such a grave situation. This drawing is magnificent, because it’s the one that stays.”

• Bernard Maris, nom de plume Uncle Bernard, 68, a French economist and shareholder in Charlie Hebdo who served as a member of the Bank of France’s General Council.

• Jean Cabut, nom de plume Cabu, 76, a cartoonist

• Two police officers, including the editor’s bodyguard, Franck Brinsolaro, 49. Ahmed Merabet, 40, a Muslim policeman, was shot in the head as he writhed on the sidewalk from a first gunshot wound. “Je Suis Ahmed” became a new catch phrase.

• Others identified by Didier Guillaume, a member the French Senate, were Michel Renaud, Mustapha Ourrad, Elsa Cayat and Frederic Boisseau.

By the evening, French police had identified 3 male suspects, including 2 French brothers from the Paris region, Said Kouachi, 34, and Cherif Koua­chi, 32, and Hamyd Mourad, 18, from Reims, who might be French. One official said they were linked to ­al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a ­Yemen-based terrorist group. AQAP later claimed it directed the attack.

Cherif was arrested in January 2005 when he and a male colleague were about to go to Syria and on to Iraq. He had appeared in a 2005 French TV documentary Evidence for the Prosecution on Islamic extremism. During the documentary, he said a radical cleric “told me that (holy) texts prove the benefits of suicide attacks. It’s written in the texts that it’s good to die as a martyr.” His attorney, Vincent Ollivier, said he was more “pot-smoker from the projects than an Islamist. He smokes, drinks, doesn’t sport a beard and has a girlfriend before marriage.” He was an aspiring rap musician. At his trial, authorities said he was influenced by radical Muslim imam Farid Ben­yettou at the Addawa mosque in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. Benyettou was also convicted in the recruitment ring case. Cherif was convicted in 2008 for helping send fighters to ­al-Qaeda in Iraq and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. In 2010, Kouachi was charged regarding a foiled plot to break out Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, an Algerian Islamist imprisoned for bombing a Paris commuter rail station in 1995. Prosecutors dropped the charges. Cherif was born in Paris to Algerian parents, who died when he was young. He was raised in Rennes. He worked as a pizza deliveryman. Cherif used Said’s ID card to go to Yemen for terrorism training in 2011.

Police found an ID document of Said in the stolen Citroen getaway car. When Cherif was arrested in 2005, the brothers were staying in Paris with a French male Islamic convert. An imam in Reims, ­Abdul-Hamid ­al-Khalifa, said that Said often went to a prayer room on the ground floor of an apartment building. He wore traditional North Africa clothes to prayers and kept his distance from other worshippers. U.S. officials suggested he received ­small-arms training in Yemen in 2011, but later said Cherif had used Said’s ID card. Yemeni security officials said he was suspected of having fought for AQAP in Yemen’s Abyan Province, where he resided until 2012, and that he met American AQAP operations leader Anwar ­al-Aulaqi in Shabwa Province.

ABC News reported on January 12 that Yemeni journalist and researcher Mohammed ­al-Kibsi said he had met Said in Sana’a in 2010 while Said was studying Arabic. Said claimed to have lived with underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The brothers appeared on a U.S. ­no-fly list.

Mourad surrendered to police at 11 p.m.; his classmates said he was in class with them at the time of the attack. BFMTV reported that he is in the final year of high school in ­Charleville-Mezieres.

By the next morning, police had arrested 9 people, including a sister of the men as well as her companion and the wife of Said Kouachi. By January 14, authorities had detained 54 people for questioning.

Designer Corinne Rey said 2 hooded ­French-speaking gunmen forced her to enter her passcode at the door just before the 11:30 a.m. editorial meeting. They rushed in, shooting a person in the reception area. They then killed 8 journalists, a security guard, and a visitor. One person hid under a table.

Hebdo is short for hebdomadaire, which means weekly. “Charlie” was from the Charlie Brown comic strip.

The duo stole food and gasoline from a gas station near ­Villers-Cotterets in the northern Aisne region. Witnesses said the thieves fled in a Renault Clio that had guns on the back seat. The license plate was covered.

The Islamic State praised the attack in an Internet audio bulletin, observing, “We start our bulletin with France. Heroic jihadists killed 12 journalists and wounded 10 others working in the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, and that was support for our master (Prophet) Mohammad, may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him.”

Police exchanged gunfire with the brothers, who crashed through a police roadblock, abandoned a stolen car and hid in a Creation Tendance Decouverte printing house in ­Dammartin-en-Goele, about 25 miles northeast of Paris, near Charles de Gaulle Airport on January 9. The brothers took at least one hostage. They said that they were seeking martyrdom.

A slightly conflicting report said a businessman named Didier who had an appointment in the building mistook a brother for a police special forces team member accompanying the printing company’s owner and shook hands with the brother at 8:30 a.m. The owner told Didier to leave and the gunman said, “Go, we don’t kill civilians.”

Authorities evacuated a school near the CTD printing plant around noon after the terrorists agreed by phone to grant the children safe passage.

Amedy Coulibaly, who said on a video that they were coordinating their actions, killed 4 people in a kosher market 18 miles away in eastern Paris, took several hostages, and demanded the brothers’ release. The brothers died in a hail of gunfire on January 9 at 5 p.m. Coulibaly, an acquaintance of one of the brothers, died minutes later. French judicial documents indicated that in 2010, Coulibaly was sentenced to 5 years in prison for the failed attempt to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem from prison. Cherif was detained in the case, but not tried. While searching Coulibaly’s residence in 2010, police found a crossbow, 240 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, films and photos of him during a trip to Malaysia, and letters seeking false official documents. News media ran several photos of Coulibaly’s wife, Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, wearing a full hijab and brandishing a crossbow at the camera. Cherif and Coulibaly traveled with their wives in 2010 to central France for a meeting with jihadi Djamel Beghal, who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on a ­terrorism-related charge. The same year, Coulibaly told police that he had met Cherif in prison and that they saw each other often, according to the Journal du Dimanche newspaper. Prisoners called him “Dolly.” He said, “I know a lot of criminals because I met heaps of them in detention.” He later worked as a temp at a ­Coca-Cola factory. Boumeddiene and a girlfriend of one of the Kouachi brothers exchanged 500 phone calls.

On January 11, Paris prosecutor’s spokeswoman Agnes ­Thibault-Lecuivre said that 5 people detained in connection with the case were released from custody and that family members of the attackers had been given preliminary charges. At least 16 people had been detained for questioning.

AQAP senior cleric Sheikh Harith ­al-Nadhari posted a recording on Twitter feed praising the “blessed raid on Paris.” He railed against the “filthy” French and called them “the heads of infidelity who insult the prophets.” He said the “hero mujahedeen” had “taught them a lesson and the limits of freedom of speech.” He added, “How can we not fight those who hurt our Prophet, slandered our religion and fought the faithful.” He told the French, “It better for you to stop striking Muslims so you can live in peace. But if you only wish for war, then rejoice, you will not enjoy peace as long as you wage war on God and his prophets and fight Muslims.”

An AQAP spokesman said the group “chose their target carefully as revenge for the honor of the prophet.” France had an “obvious role in the war on Islam and oppressed nations. The crimes of the Western countries, above them America, Britain and France will backfire deep in their home.” He warned that “touching Muslims’ sanctity and protecting those who make blasphemy have a dear price and the punishment will be severe.” He said AQAP would continue to follow ­al-Qaeda chief Ayman ­al-Zawahiri’s counsel of “hitting the snake’s head … until the West retreats.” In the recent edition of Inspire, the group called for lone wolf attacks in “America, if not possible then the UK, if not, then in France.”

AQAP tweeted noted that former ­al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden “warned the West about the consequences of the persistence in the blasphemy against Muslims’ sanctities…. Sheikh Osama said in his message to the West: ‘If there is no check on the freedom of your words, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions.’“ On January 14, AQAP ideological leader Nasr ­al-Ansi issued a 11-minute video claiming credit for the “blessed battle of Paris,” which was carried out as “vengeance” for publishing images of the Prophet Mohammed. ­Al-Ansi said the group “chose the target, laid the plan, financed the operation.” He called the brothers “heroes of Islam” during the video, entitled “Vengeance for the Prophet: A Message Regarding the Blessed Battle of Paris.” The video, which carried the logo of AQAP’s media group ­al-Malahem, showed the Eiffel Tower dissolving into smoke.

Authorities said the brothers had Kalashnikov assault rifles, ammunition. Molotov cocktails, a gre­nade, a Skorpion machine pistol, handguns, a loaded rocket launcher, and a revolving light that could be placed on a car roof to make it look like an undercover police car.

On August 18, 2015, UPI reported that Lapere, 26, one of the Charlie Hebdo employee/hostages, was suing TV stations France TF1, France 2 and RMC radio for endangering his life during its live coverage of the ongoing siege, saying that some hostages might not have been discovered by the terrorists.

January 7—Iraq—A bomb exploded during the night near a Baghdad falafel restaurant, killing 3 and wounding 12.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in Mahmoudiya, killing 2 and wounding 6.

Drive-by gunmen fired on an army checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 9.

January 7—France—Metronews reported a car explosion in front of a Sarcelles synagogue at 2:30 p.m., hours after the Paris attack.

January 7—Yemen—A car bomb exploded outside a Yemeni police college in Sana’a, killing 37 people, wounding 64, and setting alight a passing car. A paramedic told Reuters, “We found the top part of one person yelling, while his bottom half was completely severed.” Victims included college students, people waiting in line to enroll with police, and passersby. AQAP was suspected.

January 7—Pakistan—Police in Taxila, 25 miles from Islamabad, found the ­bullet-riddled body of Abid Mehmood, 52, a Muslim arrested in 2011 after claiming to be Islam’s prophet. He was recently freed from prison after authorities determined he was mentally ill.

January 8—France—AFP reported that 3 blank grenades were thrown at a mosque after midnight in Le Mans. Police also found a bullet hole in a mosque window.

Several shots were fired at an empty Muslim prayer hall in the ­Port-la-Nouvelle district near Narbonne shortly after evening prayers.

A bomb exploded in the morning at a kabob shop near a mosque in ­Villefranche-sur-Saone.

Police in Poitiers arrested a man who painted “Death to Arabs” on the gates of a mosque.

A car belonging to a Muslim family in Caromb was shot at.

Small bombs went off near a mosque in another French city.

Police said on January 13 that Amedy Coulibaly apparently set off a car bomb in Villejuif on January 8, causing no injuries.

January 8—France—NPR reported that Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, shot to death a French policewoman, Clarissa ­Jean-Philippe, 27, in southern Paris after she stopped to investigate a traffic accident. A nearby street sweeper was injured in the ­pre-dawn attack. The killer escaped, but was killed the next day when he took hostages at a kosher deli in Paris. The news media initially reported that he was accompanied by Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, but police later believed that she had fled to Turkey on January 3 en route to Syria.

January 8—Iraq—A suicide bomber crashed into a police checkpoint in Youssifiyah, killing 3 police officers and 4 civilians and wounding 21 other people.

A suicide bomber crashed his pickup truck into a checkpoint run by police and Sahwa militia near Samarra, killing 8 and wounding 23.

Following noon prayers, a suicide bomber set off his explosives belt among Shi’ites leaving a mosque in western Baghdad, killing 8 and wounding 16.

January 8—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb exploded in the afternoon when a police vehicle drove over it in Tarin Kot in Uruzgan Province, killing a policeman and wounding 3 others.

January 8—Uruguay—Police dogs detected an explosive device in a supermarket near a building housing the Israeli Embassy. Police detonated the device. The embassy is located on the ninth floor of a tower in an office complex.

January 8—Nigeria—UPI reported that Boko Haram attacked the town of Baga, burning down most of its buildings. Amnesty International said there were reports that more than 2,000 residents were missing and feared dead. Many dead bodies were spotted littering the streets. District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims were children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough to avoid being hit by fire from ­rocket-propelled gre­nades and assault rifles. During the week, the group also attacked “10–20” nearby communities, according to Ahmed Zanna, a senator for Borno State. On January 13, the Nigeria Ministry of Defense said 150 people, including many terrorists, were killed and that the earlier tallies were “exaggerated.” Overhead satellite imagery suggested a much larger casualty tally.

January 9—France—Armed with a rifle, Amedy Coulibaly, 32, shot his way into the Hyper Cacher kosher deli in Porte de la Vincennes in Paris, killing 4 shoppers before taking hostages. He demanded the release of the Kouachi brothers, the Charlie Hebdo killers who were surrounded at a warehouse in Paris. Coulibaly threatened to kill the hostages if police launched an assault against the brothers. Ten hos­tages, including some who were injured in the take­over, escaped and got medical attention. Couli­baly was killed in a gun battle with police, who freed 15 hostages.

During the attack, Lassana Bathily, 24, a Muslim shop assistant originally from Mali, hid a group of shoppers, one with a baby, in a basement cold storage room. He told French television, “When they came running down I opened the door of the fridge. Several came in with me. I turned off the light and the fridge. When I turned off the cold, I put them in. I closed the door. I told them to stay calm and I said ‘you stay quiet there, I’m going back out.’” Police initially thought he was a conspirator, and cuffed him for 90 minutes. He was given expedited French citizenship on January 20.

The news media initially reported that he was accompanied by his wife, Hayat Boumeddienne, 26, who escaped with fleeing hostages. It was later determined that she had flown from Madrid to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport on January 8. She apparently was never convicted of a crime before the attacks.

The BBC and Haberturk newspaper reported on January 12 that the Turkish police had released CCTV footage that showed Boumeddienne arriving at an Istanbul airport from Madrid and going through passport control with Mehdi Sabri Belhouchine, variant Mehdi Sabry Belhoucine, on January 2. Turkish surveillance established that Boumeddiene and Belhouchine stayed in a hotel for 2 days; she bought a mobile phone and SIM card. They took a domestic flight to Sanliurfa near the Syrian border on Janu-ary 4. She made several phone calls to France. They did not use their return tickets to Madrid, which were dated for January 9. The duo moved on to Syria on January 8. She made another phone call from Tel Abyad, Syria, on January 10. Belhouchine was not on a watch list.

Le Journal de Dimanche reported that Coulibaly was the only son of 10 children. At age 17, he was convicted for theft and narcotics. He robbed a bank in Orleans in September 2002. He and Boumeddiene, who has an Algerian background, wed in July 2009 in an Islamic religious ceremony, which is not recognized by French law, according to the Daily Mail.

ABC News reported on January 11 that Coulibaly recorded a 7-minute online video over several days—he changed clothes several times—before the attacks, which he labeled “totally legitimate.” He said, “I pledge allegiance to the emir of the faithful Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi,” the leader of the Islamic State. He spoke mostly in French and halting Arabic.

The Times of Israel reported on January 12 that Coulibaly deliberately targeted Jews. Former hostage Nessim Cohen told Liberation that Coulibaly forced many of the hostages to come back upstairs. When he and his girlfriend did so, “A young man also followed us back upstairs. We go back into the store and the young man notices that Coulibaly had laid down one of the Kalashnikovs on a box next to where he was standing. He seized the weapon and tried to fire at the terrorist. I hid behind an aisle and heard a bang. When I looked again, the young man was on the ground.” The Times suggested he was Yoav Hattab, 21, a ­Jewish-Tunisian university student living in Paris by himself. Coulibaly then said “look at what just happened to the guy who tried to defend himself.” Coulibaly then killed Yohan Cohen, 22, an employee of the market, Phillipe Barham, a father of 4 and an IT executive, and François-Michel Saada, a retired father of 2. “One of the men was still suffocating [from being shot] and Coulibaly asked us ‘do you want me to finish him off?’ We said no and he didn’t do it. After a half an hour, the person made no sound.” The 4 murdered Jewish men were scheduled to be buried in Israel. Cohen said Couli­baly identified himself as “the one who killed the policewoman in Montrouge, and claimed that he knew the Kouachi brothers well, and had served in prison with them…. He told us he was doing this in the name of the Islamic State, [talked about] the caliph­ate and all that. He even told us he had nothing against Jews, but that we paid taxes to the French state and so we condoned [its actions].” Coulibaly called ­BFM-TV and told them to mention that he had killed several hostages. “After that, I think the authorities got on the line because he started issuing demands. He told them that he wanted French troops to withdraw from all Muslim lands.”

CNN and RTL reported on January 12 that police raided Coulibaly’s apartment, finding IS flags, automatic weapons, detonators and cash in an apartment.

Police said on January 14 that Coulibaly had rented a small suburban house in Gentilly, south of Paris, the previous week and stocked it with weapons. During the search of the house, police identified a potential 4th attacker who has a long criminal record and might have escaped to Syria. Police said the terrorist cell might have 6 members at large, including Boumeddiene.

Police were also searching for a man seen driving Boumeddiene’s Mini Cooper after she had left for Syria.

By January 16, police had detained 9 men and 3 women to be questioned about “possible logistic support,” such as weapons and vehicles, they may have given to the terrorists. France released 3 female detainees on January 18. Nine other suspects—8 men and one woman—remained in custody (the media did not explain the discrepancy).

On January 20, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office announced that 4 men, aged 22, 25, 26 and 28, would appear before an investigating judge to face preliminary charges of providing logistical support to Amedy Coulibaly. It was not clear whether they were involved in plotting the attacks or even aware of his plans. Five others were released without charge. On January 21, an ­anti-terror court charged Willy P., Christophe R., and Tonino G. with procuring weap­ons, a car and other gear for Coulibaly. Mickael A. was charged with possession and transport of a weapon in connection with a terrorist operation. Prosecutors said some of his DNA was on a revolver found in Coulibaly’s apartment and on one of the gloves he wore during the attack. Prosecutors said Mickael A. met Coulibaly in prison between November 2011 and May 2013. All suspects except Tonino G. have criminal records, mostly driving without a license and aggravated robbery. Coulibaly was in regular contact with the suspects, including 18 telephone contacts between him and Mickael A. on January 6. Cell phone position records indicated that Coulibaly and Mickael A. were together for 6 hours on January 5.

On January 30, 2015, CNN reported l’Express had found that Coulibaly wore a GoPro camera to tape 7 minutes of the attack, including when he killed 3 people. Eric Pelletier, a national security reporter for L’Express, reported that Coulibaly used a computer at the market to ­e-mail the video.

On March 9, CNN reported that French police had arrested 4 people linked to Amedy Coulibaly, including a French policewoman who worked at the Fort de Rosny Sous Bois, northeast of Paris. Le Figaro reported that the Fort de Rosny Sous Bois is the location of an intelligence center.

On March 13, AP reported that 2 of the men, Amar R. and Said M., were handed preliminary charges in a Paris court for participation in a terrorist group with the intent to commit crime. Prosecutors said Amar R., a jailhouse acquaintance of Amedy Couli­baly, had exchanged more than 600 texts with him from September 2014 to January 2015 and met him on January 5 and January 6, 2015. Said M.’s DNA was recovered from a stun gun in Coulibaly’s belongings at the market, according to a prosecutor. Said M. and Amar R. contacted each other more than 1,200 times between February 2014 and January 2015 and saw each other regularly. The prosecutor said that the 2 men destroyed their telephone microchips on January 9.

Two other people, including a policewoman reportedly in a relationship with one of the suspects, were released.

On April 3, AP reported that families of the victims in the kosher supermarket sued BFM ­all-news television over its live coverage of the attack, saying it endangered the hostages’ lives.

January 9—U.S.—NPR and Ya Libnan reported that U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan sentenced Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, alias Abu Hamza ­al-Masri, 56, to life in prison. He was convicted in May 2014 of helping Yemeni terrorists to kidnap Western tourists in 1998. He also helped establish a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon.

January 9—Pakistan—In an evening attack, a suicide bomber set off his explosives outside a Rawal­pindi Shi’ite mosque, killing 5 people, including 4 civilians and a police officer, and wounding 16. Authorities believed the terrorist tried to go into the mosque, but set off his bomb when he was halted at the entrance. Sunni terrorists were suspected.

January 9—Guantanamo Bay—The Pentagon announced that charges had been dismissed against former Guantanamo Bay Sudanese prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed. He had pleaded guilty in February 2011 to providing material support to a terrorist organization and conspiracy at a military commission. He was sentenced to 34 months on top of the 9 years he had already spent at Guantanamo. He faced up to life in prison. An appeals court had ruled that material support is not a legitimate war crime under the law authorizing military commissions.

January 9—Canada—Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrests of brothers Ashton Carleton Larmond and Carlos Larmond, both 25, for terrorism-related offences. Police said they planned to engage in terrorist activities abroad. Ashton was charged with facilitating terrorist activity among other charges. Carlos Larmond was charged with participation in the activity of a terrorist group and attempting to leave Canada to participate in terrorist activity abroad. Ashton was arrested in Ottawa; Carlos was picked up at Montreal’s Trudeau international airport.

January 9—Pakistan—AFP reported that during the night, the ­Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of ­Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a suicide attack against a Shi’ite mosque in Rawalpindi, killing 7 and wounding 15. Dozens of Shi’ites were distributing alms to celebrate the Prophet Mohammed’s birthday. TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan ­e-mailed, “We claim responsibility of the attack on the Shi’ite mosque and vow to continue such attacks against enemies of Islam. We want to make it clear to these infidel rulers that we will not be impressed by any of their laws or hangings,” he added.

January 10—Austria—Authorities detained 2 teen­age girls in Salzburg and Upper Austria suspected of seeking to travel to Syria as potential wives for Islamic State terrorists fighting there. The Austria Press Agency said the Salzburg suspect was 16 and originally came from Chechnya, while the other girl was 17 and born in Bosnia. Austrian authorities opened an investigation in December 2014 when the 16-year-old was returned to Austria by Romanian authorities while en route to Syria. She was suspected of recruiting potential IS wives, including the 17-year old.

January 10—Germany—Prosecutors arrested a suspected Islamic State member. The federal prosecutor’s office identified him as Nils D., 24, who was detained in Dinslaken in western Germany when his apartment was raided. He allegedly traveled in October 2013 to Syria, where he joined IS fighters and received firearms and explosives training. He allegedly was tasked from April until November 2014 with tracking down deserters, and was said to have given IS up to 9,000 euros ($10,060). He returned to Germany in November 2014. A Dusseldorf prosecutor opened a terrorism investigation against him in early 2014. Federal prosecutors said there was no indication that he was planning attacks, and did not link the arrest to the Paris attacks. On September 9, 2015, the federal prosecutor’s office charged him with mem­bership in a terrorist organization.

January 10—Pakistan—Dozens of former members of the Pakistani Taliban, including spokesman Shahi­dullah Shahid, along with other gunmen from Af­ghani­stan and Pakistan, were shown in a video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and beheading a Pakistani soldier. 15011001

January 10—Iraq—AFP reported that the Islamic State crossed the Zab River by boat and attacked Kurdish asayesh and peshmerga security forces in Gwer, killing 26 of them.

January 10—Lebanon—The ­state-run National News Agency said 2 suicide bombers hit a coffee shop in Tripoli’s predominantly Alawite neighborhood of Jabal Mohsen at 7:30 p.m., killing 7 and wounding 36. NNA said the army identified the 2 bombers as Taha Samir ­al-Khalil, 20, and Bilal Mohammad ­al-Maraiyan, 26, Lebanese citizens from the nearby poor neighborhood of Mankoubeen. AFP ­reported that Khalil was wanted on suspicion of links to an extremist group and taking part in fighting with Jabal Mohsen residents in 2014. ­Al-Maraiyan was a father of one with no criminal record. Security officials later said a grenade was thrown inside the café, then a single suicide bomber entered. Some reports said 9 people were killed. The ­al-Nusra Front, the Syrian al-Qaeda faction, claimed credit. Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk later told reporters that “preliminary information indicates that (the Islamic State) is behind the explosion.” 15011002

January 10—Nigeria—AFP quoted police as saying a bomb worn by a 10-year-old girl exploded as she was being searched at the entrance to the live chicken section of the Monday Market in Maiduguri, killing 20 and injuring 18 at 12:40 p.m. Witness Abubakar Bakura said, “The blast split the suicide bomber into 2 and flung one part across the road. Among the dead are 2 vigilantes who were searching the girl. I am pretty sure the bomb was remotely controlled.” Abubakar Faruq, spokesman for a vigilante group, said the group had screened her with metal detectors as she entered the market. They noticed a bulge around her waist as she resisted the screening. The bomb then went off.

Hours later, a suspicious vehicle stopped at a checkpoint outside Potiskum in Yobe State exploded at a police station as its driver was being taken in for questioning. The driver and a police officer were killed.

January 10—France—UPI reported that the hacktivist group Anonymous recently took down ­ansar-alhaqq.net, a French jihadist website. The group issued a press release for #OpCharlieHebdo saying, “Freedom of speech and opinion is a ­non-negotiable thing, to tackle it is to attack democracy. Expect a massive frontal reaction from us because the struggle for the defense of those freedoms is the foundation of our movement.” An hour later, the website was back up.

January 10—Turkey—The Dogan news agency reported that police defused a bomb found in a mall in an eastern suburb of Istanbul and potentially explosive butane canisters found at another mall nearby. No one claimed credit.

January 10—Mozambique—The New York Daily News and other media outlets reported that traditional beer contaminated with crocodile bile killed 72 people attending a funeral. Another 51 people were admitted to hospitals in the Chitima and Songo districts in the northeastern Tete Province. Another 146 reported to hospitals to be examined for the poisoning, according to district health official Alex Albertini in an interview with Radio Mozambique. Pombe, a traditional Mozambican beer, is made from millet or corn flour. Police believed the beer was poisoned at the funeral because people who drank it in the morning were fine, but those who drank it in the afternoon became ill with diarrhea and muscle pain. The female brewmeister was among the dead. The government declared 3 days of mourning.

January 10—Syria—Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani released a video in which he called on followers to “rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers and civilians” in the United States, France, Australia and Canada.

January 11—Kenya—Al-Shabaab was suspected when gunmen killed a pastor at the entrance of the Mvita Primary School, which hosts the Maximum Revival Centre, a mosque and another church in Mombasa. 15011101

January 11—Germany—At 2 a.m., arsonists set alight the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper, which had republished Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons. No injuries were reported. Police detained 2 young men near the newspaper building but released them the next day. Several files in the paper’s archives were destroyed. Police spokeswoman Karina Sadowsky said several stones and a Molotov cocktail were found in the newspaper’s archive in the basement of the building.

January 11—Nigeria—Breitbart reported that a man claiming to be Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released a video threatening to attack deeper into Cameroon. “Oh [Cameroon President] Paul Biya, if you don’t stop this, your evil plot, you will taste what has befallen Nigeria…. Your troops cannot do anything to us.” Shekau shouted.

Around noon, AFP, UPI and al-Jazeera reported that another 2 10-year-old girls set off their suicide vests in an open market where mobile phones are sold in Potiskum in Yobe State, killing 6 people.

January 11—Belgium—The Brussels offices of Belgian newspaper Le Soir were evacuated after receiving an anonymous phoned bomb threat.

January 11—Egypt—In an ­hour-long interview posted on jihadi websites, Magd Eddin ­al-Masri, who claims to be the leader of Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers), called for jihad by young Egyptians. His group is less prominent than the ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, which has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. He said his group targets security forces, not civilians, and has no links to any other groups and has no foreign fighters. “Jihad in Egypt is an obligation,” to avenge “the killing of our men, the dragging of our women and the imprisoning of our youth.”

January 11—France—The largest demonstration in French history brought together 3.7 million people, including 40 world leaders, at an ­anti-terrorism rally in Paris and several others throughout the country. Those participating with the 1.5 million demonstrators in Paris included French President Francois Hollande, British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Hungary’s Viktor Orban, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Queen Rania, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane La­mamra, United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheik Abdullah bin Zayed ­al-Nahyan, Gabonese President Ali Bongo, and Dalil Boubakeur, rector of the Great Mosque of Paris and president of the French Council of the Muslim Faith. Ambassador to France Jane Hartley represented the United States. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry later said that he was going “to share a big hug with Paris” and brought with him James Taylor to sing “You’ve Got a Friend” at a town hall meeting.

On January 11, a 7-minute video surfaced of Couli­baly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State and praising the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the deli. The video appeared to have been filmed over several days—he changed clothes several times—before the attacks. It showed him with a gun, exercising and giving speeches in fluent French and halting Arabic. He identified himself as Abou Bassir AbdAllah ­al-Irfiqi. He praised the attacks on Charlie Hebdo and the kosher deli, where he died, observing, “What we are doing is completely legitimate, given what they are doing. You cannot attack and not expect retribution so you are playing the victim as if you don’t understand what’s happening.” He said, “I pledge allegiance to the emir of the faithful Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi,” the leader of the Islamic State. He spoke mostly in French and halting Arabic. He explained that he and the brothers, who claimed AQAP support, acted together—apparently despite the ongoing deadly rivalry between AQAP and IS. “We did things a bit together and a bit apart, so that it’d have more impact.” He said he gave the brothers “a few thousand euros” for their attack. The Associated Press said 2 drug dealers who had worked with Coulibaly confirmed his identity on the video. Police were searching for the person who edited and updated the video.

January 12—Internet—UPI reported that someone claiming Islamic State affiliation hacked the Twitter and YouTube accounts for U.S. Central Command, posting the hashtag “CyberCaliphate,” tweeting “American soldiers, we are coming, watch your back,” “ISIS is already here, we are in your PCs, in each military base.” and “We won’t stop! We know everything about you, your wives and children” and posting a photo with personal information claiming to be a retired Army general officer roster. The postings included “In the name of Allah … the CyberCaliphate under the auspices of ISIS continues its CyberJihad.” and “You’ll see no mercy infidels. ISIS is already here.” The individual claimed the Pentagon was hacked and posted purported strategic scenarios about dealing with China and Korea. The individual also posted videos entitled “O Soldiers of Truth Go Forth” and “Flames of War ISIS Video.” The videos showed scenes of war and suggested targets could include the White House and President Barack Obama. The “Truth” video aimed to “rally all the soldiers” to “wipe out all the borders.” It observed, “Jewish Rabbis are humiliated. Break the crosses and destroy the lineage of the grandsons of monkeys.” “Flames” declared “fighting has just begun.”

January 12—Spain—Spanish police in Madrid and the northern Basque and Navarra regions arrested 16 people, including 12 lawyers and 4 treasurers for a group that represents ETA prisoners, for ties with the Basque Nation and Liberty (ETA). The Interior Ministry said the 16 were charged with membership in a terrorist organization. Twelve were charged with money laundering and tax fraud.

January 12—Afghanistan—During the evening, a policeman opened fire on his colleagues in Nowzad district in Helmand Province, killing a district chief and a police unit commander and wounding 3 other policemen. The attacker was shot and killed.

Afghan officials confirmed that the Islamic State had entered Afghanistan. AP reported that IS commander Mullah Abdul Rauf was recruiting fighters in Helmand Province. The Taliban threatened people to avoid him. Rauf was a Taliban corps commander before 2001 and was detained for years at Guantanamo Bay.

January 12—China—In the morning, police shot to death 6 ­would-be bombers in a business district in Shule in Xinjiang. TS News reported that police were summoned to investigate a suspicious man carrying an explosive device. Police killed him after he charged at them with an axe and tried to set off the device. In a cleanup operation, police killed another 5 people carrying bombs. No other injuries were reported.

January 12—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a gathering of soldiers and Shi’ite fighters in Abasiyat, killing 10 Shi’ite militiamen and 2 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 18 people.

Iran’s ­semi-official Fars news agency reported hat Mahdi Norouzi, a member of the Revolutionary Guard’s paramilitary wing, was killed while fighting the Islamic State in Iraq.

January 12—Canada—The Royal Canadian Mounted Police arrested and charged Suliman Mohamed, 21, with participating in the activity of a terrorist group. He was linked to the Larmond brothers, who were arrested the previous week.

January 12—Hong Kong—Firebombs hit the offices of a ­pro-democracy Next Media Group and the home of its owner, Jimmy Lai, in morning attacks that caused no injuries. Two getaway cars were found on fire in Kowloon.

January 12—Cameroon—On January 13, AP reported that government spokesmen said that its ­military killed 143 Boko Haram terrorists who attacked a Cameroonian military camp in Kolofata on January 12 after crossing the border from Nigeria. The ensuing gun battle lasted 5 hours. A Cameroonian corporal was killed and 4 other soldiers were wounded.

January 12—Lebanon—France 24 reported that Lebanese authorities had discovered and dismantled a “jihadist emirate” in Roumieh Prison’s Block B near Beirut. While prisoners rioted, guards transferred more than 900 inmates to another wing of the prison. Prison guards went into action after intercepting telephone calls suggesting that the prisoners had taken part in the planning of a double suicide attack on a restaurant in the Alawite Jabal Mohsen neighborhood in Tripoli. Authorities confiscated mobile phones, computers with Internet connections, and weapons. Some prisoners were members of the ­al-Nusra Front and the Islamic State. The ­al-Nusra Front threatened to retaliate by executing Lebanese military hostages held since August 2014.

January 13—Belgium—Belgian authorities in Char­leroi reported that an arms trafficker surrendered to them and claimed to have swindled Amedy Coulibaly in a car sale. Police later determined that they were negotiating about the sale of ammunition for a 7.62 mm caliber Tokarev pistol that Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris.

January 13—U.S.—UPI reported that the U.S. State Department, authorized under Executive Order 13224, designated Mullah Fazlullah, head of ­Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a “global terrorist.” He was named TTP chief in November 2013 after the death of his predecessor, Hakimullah Mehsud. State added, “Prior to becoming the leader of TTP, Fazlullah claimed he was behind the killing of Pakistani Army Major General Sanaullah Niazi in September 2013, as well as ordering the shooting of schoolgirl and activist Malala Yousafzai in 2012. Fazlullah was responsible for the beheading of 17 Pakistani soldiers after an attack in June 2012 and also ordered the targeted killings of elders who led peace committees against the Taliban.” The designation bans U.S. persons from doing business with Fazlullah, and any property he holds within the United States will be frozen.

January 13—Syria—The Huffington Post reported that the Islamic State released a 7-minute video entitled “Uncovering the Enemy Within” that shows a 10-year-old East Asian child shooting 2 suspected “Russian spies” in the back of the head and then celebrating the murder. The 2 ­shaved-headed men were speaking Russian. Introductory text, with a Russian voiceover, said “The following presentation is a portion of the confessions of 2 agents recruited by ­Russian Intelligence.” It said the agents of Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB) were Mamayev Jambulat Yesenjanovich, 38, of Jambul, Kazakhstan, and Ashimov Sergey Nikolayavich, 30, of undisclosed nationality. In the video, Yesenjanovich said he was sent to the area controlled by Islamic State, which they call “Sham,” to “gather information about fighters from Russia” and to hack a laptop of an unnamed person in Turkey to extract information. Nikolayavich said he was sent to find the residence of an unnamed IS leader and to kill him. Both men are dressed in grey sweaters and filmed sitting against a white wall. The child, deemed a “lion cub,” was holding a pistol and was accompanied by a terrorist holding a machine gun and clad in green combat gear. Next to him stands a ­long-haired child, around 10 years old, who appears to be of East Asian origin. He is wearing an enormous watch and holding a pistol. Titles say the men were in the custody of the “lion cubs.” The child is asked, “Who will you be in the future, insha’allah [God willing]?” He answers in Russian, “I will be the one who slaughters you, O kuffar [unbelievers]. I will be a mujahid, insha’allah.”

January 13—Italy—The Italian news agency ANSA and the ­state-run TV network RAI reported that prosecutors in Rome were investigating 12 foreigners living in Italy for subversive association with the aim of terrorism. The individuals were identified through Internet traffic tied to Islamic fundamentalist and extremist sites. ANSA said the suspects are not believed to be part of an organized cell. They were being investigated.

January 13—Afghanistan—A Taliban roadside bomb exploded in the morning under a car in Kabul, killing a civilian and injuring 3 other civilians, including a woman. The car was destroyed.

January 13—France—CNN reported that al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb warned on jihadi websites that “France pays the cost of its violence on Muslim countries and the violation of their sanctity…. As long as its soldiers occupy countries such as Mali and Central Africa and bombard our people in Syria and Iraq, and as long as its lame media continues to undermine our Prophet (Mohammed), France will expose itself to the worst and more.”

January 14—Kenya—In a ­shoot-out with ­al-Shabaab in Lamu County, a Kenyan soldier and 5 terrorists died. The military said the terrorists were planning an ambush. 15011401

January 14—U.S.—The FBI in Ohio arrested Chris­topher Lee Cornell, 20, alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah, after he purchased 2 ­semi-automatic rifles and about 600 rounds of ammunition. An FBI agent said the public was never in danger. Authorities said he planned to attack the U.S. Capitol, setting off pipe bombs and shooting at those trying to flee. He graduated from Oak Hills High School in Cincinnati in 2012. He tweeted sympathies with jihadis.

January 14—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abu­bakar Shekau released an 8-minute ­Arabic-language video in which he said, “We have felt joy for what befell the people of France in terms of torment, as their blood was spilled inside their country.”

January 14—Nigeria—CNN quoted the Nigerian Defense Headquarters as saying that soldiers had foiled a Boko Haram attack against Biu, arrested 5 terrorists and seized 2 ­anti-aircraft guns. Residents said 40 terrorists were killed in a 2-hour gun battle, which began when Boko Haram gunmen riding 10 pickup trucks and 2 motorcycles attacked the town at 7:30 a.m.

January 14—Guantanamo Bay—The Pentagon released to Omani prisons 4 Yemeni detainees identified as ­al-Khadr Abdallah Muhammad ­al-Yafi, Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif, Abd ­al-Rahman Abdullah Au Shabati, and Mohammed Ahmed Salam. A 5th Yemeni detainee, Akhmed Abdul Qadir, was sent to Estonia. The U.S. had approved their transfer 5 years earlier.

January 14—Germany—The body of Khaled Idris Behray, 20, an Eritrean ­asylum-seeker, was found dead on a street near his home in Dresden. Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll said, “It is murder. We now have evidence to confirm that a stab from a knife was the cause of his injuries.” Swastikas were painted on the door of the residence Behray shared with 7 other ­asylum-seekers.

January 14—France—Authorities announced the arrest of 54 people, including 4 minors, for engaging in hate speech, anti–Semitism and glorifying terrorism. Among those arrested was comedian Dieudonné M’bala M’bala, who was earlier convicted of racism and anti–Semitism. Several were convicted under special measures for immediate sentencing.

Charlie Hebdo’s defiant new “All Is Forgiven” edition, showing Mohammad wearing a “Je Suis Charlie” ­T-shirt on the cover, sold out 3 million copies before dawn around Paris. Charlie Hebdo published its “survivor’s edition” in English, Turkish, Spanish, Arabic and several other languages. That afternoon, the publishers increased the print run to 5 million copies. Iran Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said running the new cartoon “provokes the sentiments of Muslims the world over.” Turkish police stopped trucks carrying an edition of the Cumhu­riyet newspaper that included images from the new edition.

AQAP claimed credit for the Charlie Hebdo attack in “vengeance for the Prophet.”

January 15—Afghanistan—The Afghan Taliban condemned the publication in France of further cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, and lauded the attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine office in Paris. Regarding the cartoons, the group said in English that they “strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action and consider its perpetrators, those who allowed it and its supporters (to be) the enemies of humanity.” The killers were “bringing the perpetrators of the obscene act to justice.” The group said further cartoons should be halted because they were “further harming world peace,” and that “the beliefs and sacrosanctity of over a billion people is desecrated and the world is pushed further into the fire of hatred and war.”

January 15—Syria—AFP and the National Post of Canada reported that 5 Canadians died fighting alongside the Islamic State in Syria. One of them was ­Ottawa-born John Maguire, alias Abu Anwar ­al-Canadi, who had called for lone wolf attacks in Canada in a 2014 video. He joined IS in Syria in January 2013, and died on January 14 in Kobane. He had studied at the University of Ottawa. CBC reported that 4 other Canadians from a single family of Somali origin died in recent months. Three of the cousins were thought to have left Canada in October 2013. Ahmed Hirsi said his 20-year-old son Mahad was killed in the fall of 2014 along with cousins Hamsa and Hersi Kariye. Another cousin from Minnesota, Hanad Abdullahi Mohallim, also died.

January 15—Germany—Police in Wolfsburg arrested ­German-Tunisian dual national Ayub B., 26, on suspicion he had fought in Syria for the Islamic State in 2014. Federal prosecutors said there was no evidence that he was planning any attacks.

January 15—Ethiopia—The Ethiopian ­state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate radio station reported that a court sentenced 2 Britons and a Somali man to 4–7 years in prison on ­terrorism-related charges. The trio were charged with trying to establish a caliphate in Ethiopia and were found guilty of recruiting, taking part in military training and conspiring to carry out terrorist attacks in the country. They were identified as Ali Adros Mohammad and Mohammad Sharif Ahmed, who had lived in London, and Mohammad Ahmed, from Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa.

January 15—Lebanon—ABC News reported that the Lebanese army arrested 3 men—2 Leba­nese and a Syrian—suspected of plotting suicide attacks against military outposts and residential areas. The detainees were carrying forged identification papers. The army said they had fought in Syria and pledged allegiance to unspecified terrorist organizations.

January 15—Belgium—UPI and Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported that police conducted an ­anti-terrorism operation at the height of rush hour at a former bakery near the train station in Verviers, 70 miles from Brussels, against several suspects who had returned from Syria. Two suspects were killed in a gun battle. The New York Times later quoted the Belgian Prosecutor’s Office as saying they were Sofiane A., a ­Belgian-Moroccan born in 1988, and Khalid B., a Belgian born in 1991. A third individual, Marouane ­el-Bali, was badly injured and arrested on charges of belonging to a terrorist organization, possession of explosives with intent to commit a criminal attack, and other charges, according to defense attorney Didier De Quevy, who said his client was just delivering shoes to a friend. The group was believed linked to the Islamic State and was planning attacks within hours against police officers and police stations in Belgium. Police searched a dozen locations in Ver­viers and the Brussels area, confiscating 4 Kalashnikov assault rifles, hand guns and explosives. In Verviers, police found several police uniforms. Authorities charged 5 suspects with “participating in the activities of a terrorist group” because of links to the Islamic State.

By January 16, authorities had arrested 13 suspects, most of whom were Belgian citizens. Belgium released 3 detainees on January 18. Two people were held after threats were made against police at a police station in Molenbeek, a municipality in the west of Brussels. A third freed detainee had earlier pretended to shoot at police officers in western Brussels.

On January 29, Greece extradited to Belgium an individual believed connected to the case. He was charged with participation in a terrorist group.

January 15—France—Police arrested 2 Belgians living in France, apparently in connection with the arrest in Belgium of 13 terrorism suspects.

Admiral Arnaud Coustilliere, head of cyberdefense for the French military, said there had been 19,000 cyberattacks conducted against French websites since the Charlie Hebdo shootings of the previous week. Some of the attacks were conducted by jihadi hackers. Targets included military regiments and pizza shops.

January 15—Libya—UPI reported Samir Salem Kamal, Libya’s representative to the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Nations (OPEC), was kidnapped after leaving his office in Tripoli. He was blindfolded when kidnapped. He was released on February 1, 2015.

January 16—Iraq—A booby trap exploded at a house in Zalaya village, which was recently retaken from the Islamic State, killing 17 people, including 8 soldiers, and wounding 12 as Iraqi troops searched the premises.

Mortar shells hit houses in Baghdad’s northwestern Shi’ite district of Shula, killing 4 people and wounding 13.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s northeastern Shi’ite suburb of Husseiniya, killing 3 people and wounding 11.

A bomb exploded near a row of shops for spare parts for cars in western Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 9.

January 16—Syria—The Washington Post reported that ­jihadist-linked Twitter accounts began tweeting links to khilafalive.info, a Web site purporting to be an “official website for the supporters of the Islamic State Caliphate.” The site included video and radio channels, some playing Islamic State propaganda videos and others jihadi nasheeds (a type of Islamic vocal music). Users could chat with fellow viewers. Two channels said they would soon broadcast “directly” from the Islamic State. The domain was registered in Australia. The Islamic State had earlier created regional broadcasters, including FM radio station al-Bayan in Mosul, Iraq and satellite TV station Tawheed in Libya.

January 16—Pakistan—AFP photographer Asif Hassan was shot and seriously injured while covering an anti–Charlie Hebdo protest by the student wing of the ­Jamaat-e-Islami religious party outside the French consulate in Karachi. Hassan was caught in the crossfire between police and protestors who had been shooting at police. Hassan was hit in the back; the bullet hit his lung while passing through his chest. He was out of danger following surgery at Karachi’s Jinnah Hospital.

January 16—Germany—At least 250 Berlin police officers raided 11 residences at dawn, arresting 2 Turkish men on suspicion of recruiting fighters and procuring equipment and funding for the Islamic State in Syria. The group’s leader, Ismet D., 41, was accused of recruiting mostly Turkish and Russian nationals to fight against “infidels” in Syria. Emin F., 43, was accused of being in charge of finances. Recruits included Murat S., a 40-year-old Turkish man who was arrested in September 2014 after returning from Syria where he allegedly had gone to fight. Three other men were under investigation. The duo were suspected of leading what police described as an Islamist group of “Turkish and Russian nationals from (the Caucasus regions of) Chechnya and Dagestan.”

January 16—France—AFP reported that a man armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs took 2 hos­tages in a post office in Colombes, northwest of Paris. Several other post office clients escaped. Police said he was “speaking incoherently” in calls to police. He surrendered later that day. Police said the incident apparently was not related to the jihadi attacks.

During a bomb scare, authorities evacuated the Gare de l’Est train station in Paris during the morning rush hour. No bomb was found.

January 16—Afghanistan—A Taliban roadside mine went off under a police vehicle in Faryab Province’s Almar District, killing the police chief of Almar District and his police bodyguard.

January 16—Ireland—Irish police arrested a suspected ­French-Algerian militant at Dublin Airport as he tried to enter Ireland using a false passport. He was on a ­European-wide watch list after he expressed support in social media for the terrorist attacks in Paris.

January 16—UK—Reuters reported that during the night British police at Stansted Airport arrested an 18-year old woman on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism and membership of a banned organization. She had arrived at the airport. The arrest was linked to the arrest of a 21-year-old man in October 2014. She remained in custody at a London police station.

January 17—Canada—At 3 a.m., during an RCMP investigation of a stolen vehicle in an industrial area, a gunman shot and seriously injured 2 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers at the Apex Casino in St. Albert. RCMP Assistant Commissioner Marlin Degrand said Constable David Matthew Wynn, 42, was in “very grave condition” and Auxiliary Constable Derek Walter Bond, 49, was in “serious but stable condition.” The white male gunman, aged 25 to 35, fled to an area southeast of the Sturgeon Valley Golf course. Police found the dead body of the suspect in a private residence in a rural area east of St. Albert. The RCMP said he had apparently forced his way into the otherwise empty home.

January 17—Niger—During protests against Charlie Hebdo’s running a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad, 2 Niamey churches were burned to the ground. Two churches were burned in Maradi, and a 5th church and a foreign minister’s residence were burned in Goure. The previous day, 5 people were killed and dozens injured during demonstrations in Zinder, during which protestors destroyed shops owned by Christians and set fire to the French cultural center. By January 19, the Niger government said at least 45 churches had been torched and 10 people had died during the violent protests. The victims were inside churches and bars that were attacked.

January 17—Iran—The government banned the daily Mardom-e-Emrooz (Today’s People) after it ran a ­front-page headline that quoted George Clooney as saying “I am Charlie Hebdo.”

January 17—Gaza Strip—Vandals scrawled graffiti on the walls of the French Cultural Center in Gaza City, saying “To hell, to a miserable destiny, French journalists.”

January 17—Iraq—The Islamic State freed between 200 and 350 Yazidis who were kidnapped the previous summer. They were mostly infants and elderly and disabled refugees who needed medical attention in Kirkuk. Peshmerga and Yazidi leaders said the IS still held 3,000 Yazidi male and female hostages.

January 17—Morocco—Reuters reported that Morocco claimed to have dismantled a jihadi cell that was sending fighters to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State. The cell was active in Meknes and the towns of ­el-Hajeb and ­el-Hoceima in the Northern Rif mountains. The government said, “According to intelligence reports, Moroccans fighting in Syria and Iraq have been trained in handling weapons and manufacturing explosives to perpetrate attacks once they return to Morocco…. Some of the 8 members of the cell have been convicted in other terrorism cases in the past.”

January 17—Yemen—In a morning attack, Houthi gunmen kidnapped Ahmed Awad bin Mubarak, 46, chief of staff to the country’s president, and his 2 guards when they stopped their car in central Sana’a. No initial ransom demand was made. A Houthi spokesman said the group intended to disrupt a meeting scheduled for that day that was to work on a new constitution and reorganize the country into 6 federally organized regions. “We will not allow this draft resolution to pass.” On January 27, AP quoted a Houthi spokesman who said that Mubarak had been handed over to local tribes in Shabwa Province.

Authorities announced the arrests of 2 French citizens suspected of AQAP membership. They were picked up before the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack.

January 17—Greece—Police arrested 4 suspected terrorists, including an individual initially identified as Brussels Molenbeek district resident Abdelhamid Abaaoud, alias Abou Omar Soussi, 27, who was sought by Belgian authorities as the ringleader of a jihadi cell they had dismantled earlier in the week. Belgian media said that investigators were still looking for a Belgian with Moroccan roots who had gone to fight with the Islamic State. Police believed Abaa­oud had fled to Greece. Abaaoud appeared in an Islamic State video in early 2014 showing him in a pickup truck dragging 4 corpses. The next day, police said the detainee was not the one being sought by Belgium. Nonetheless, Belgium requested extradition on January 18. The Belgian federal prosecutors’ office said “Further analysis of the elements of our investigation gave us enough reasons to ask for the extradition of one of the persons that were arrested yesterday by the Greek authorities.” A 33-year-old Algerian wanted in Belgium was scheduled to appear before a Greek council of judges regarding the extradition request. He had been living in Athens. He was formally arrested on January 18.

January 17—Central African Republic—Came­roonian peacekeepers arrested Rodrigue Ngaibona, alias Andilo, a leader of CAR’s anti–Balaka Christian militia, in Bouca. He was implicated in attacks on civilians throughout the country.

January 17—Iraq—A bomb went off in the morning at a vegetable market in a village near Iskandariyah, killing 4 and wounding 14.

Also that morning, a bomb went off at a market in the Shi’ite village of Saba ­al-Bour, killing 5 and wounding 14.

During the night, a motorcycle bomb exploded near a line of cell phone shops in Sadr City, killing 9 people, wounding 25 others, and damaging several shops and cars.

January 17—UK—SkyNews reported that 15 hostile emails and letters were sent to various London mosques, including Finsbury Park Mosque. They included hand-drawn images depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a devil worshipper. Although Finsbury Park Mosque had changed in the past decade to a community leader, it was better known to the public for its earlier ties to jihadi preacher Abu Hamza, who was sentenced to life in prison in January for supporting terrorist organizations. A previous mosque member was Djamel Beghal, who attended the mosque in the late 1990s and later mentored Paris terrorists Amedy Coulibaly and Cherif Kou­achi.

January 17—Pakistan—The government hanged Ikramul Haq, a member of banned Sunni jihadi group ­Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, in Lahore. His execution was reinstated after a court rejected a January 8 pardon from his victim’s family. It was the 19th execution since Pakistan lifted the 6-year moratorium on capital punishment for terrorism following the December 2014 school massacre. He had been sentenced to death by an ­anti-terror court in 2004 for killing a Shi’ite in 2001. He was represented by attorney Ghulam Mustafa Mangan.

January 17—Libya—A bomb thrown from a passing car hit a guard station at the Algerian Embassy, wounding 3 guards and damaging a diplomatic vehicle and 3 other cars. A conflicting report said the attack seriously wounded a guard and lightly injured 2 ­passers-by. AP later reported that the Islamic State’s Libya branch—the Islamic State in Tripoli Province—said “soldiers of the caliphate” were responsible. 15011701

January 17—Mali—In the morning, gunmen attacked a checkpoint less than a mile from the UN peacekeeping base in Kidal, killing a UN peacekeeper from Chad and wounding another.

The attack began when 2 suicide vehicle bombs went off at an entrance to the base—no UN staff were harmed. Several mortar rounds were then fired, causing the casualties. 15011702

January 17—Iraq—Prime Minister Haider ­al-Abadi issued a statement condemning the recent Charlie Hebdo edition.

January 17—Afghanistan—President Ashraf Ghani condemned Charlie Hebdo, saying the new edition’s cover image of the Prophet Muhammad was a blasphemous and irresponsible act.

January 17—Qatar—Qatari citizen Ali Saleh Khalah ­al-Marri returned to his country after being released from a U.S. prison. The Bush administration had deemed him an enemy combatant in 2003 for his links to ­al-Qaeda. He was arrested in December 2001 while in graduate school at Bradley University in central Illinois. He was held without charge for nearly 6 years in a U.S. Navy brig in South Carolina. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced in 2009 to more than 8 years. He was represented by attorney Andrew J. Savage.

January 18—Syria—South Korea’s Allkpop news service reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Korean male student Kim, 17, was missing and was likely involved with the Islamic State. The service said he flew to Turkey on January 8 and was missing on January 10. He told his mother he was going to visit a Turkish pen pal named Hassan and was accompanied by Hong, 45, a family friend. The duo traveled to Kilis, Turkey, near the Syrian border. Hong told the Korean Embassy in Turkey that Kim was missing on January 12. Milliyet soon reported that a Korean student had illegally entered Syria and joined IS. Kim’s desktop computer used as a background a photo of IS members in front of the IS flag. His Twitter account had similar photos. Using the online identity sunni mujahideen, he tweeted, “I want to join ISIS,” and asked questions regarding how to join in October. He also posted, “This is an age where men are sexually discriminated against,” and, “I detest feminists. And so, I like ISIS.” Hong returned to South Korea on January 17, but refused to cooperate with authorities in their investigation. On February 24, 2015, AP reported that Lee ­Byung-kee, director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, told legislators that Kim was in Syria with the Islamic State’s combat training unit.

January 18—Germany—The Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) called off its weekly Monday rally in Dresden against “the Islamization of the West” following a terrorist threat against one of its organizers. The previous week, 25,000 people attended. PEGIDA said on Facebook that police believed “there is a concrete threat against a member of the organization team.” Dresden police chief Dieter Kroll said there had been a call for attackers to mingle with the demonstrators and kill one of the protest organizers, PEGIDA leader Lutz Bachman. PEGIDA ­co-organization leader Kath­rin Oertel later said the cancellation “doesn’t mean that we’ll let ourselves be gagged … deprived of the right to freedom of assembly and opinion” and scheduled a demonstration for the following week. On January 21, Lutz Bachmann, ­co-founder of PEGIDA, stepped down after Bild ran a photo of him with a Hit­ler mustache and hair combed over like the Fuehrer.

January 18—Italy—Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said the country had expelled 9 suspected jihadis, including 5 Tunisians and citizens from Tur­key, Egypt, Morocco and Pakistan, since late De­cember in a terrorism crackdown. The expulsions began before the January 7 Charlie Hebdo attack. The 9 held residency permits and included people who supported, and recruited members for, the Islamic State and who “radicalized themselves on the Web.” Alfano added that 59 people had traveled from Italy to Syria to fight, including 5 Italian citizens and 2 with dual nationality. Italy was watching “far more than 100” suspected jihadis.

January 18—Golan Heights—Hizballah claimed that Israeli airstrikes on a convoy of 3 cars near Quneitra killed 6 Hizballah members, including Jihad Mughniyeh, son of slain top military commander Imad Mughniyeh. The Times of Israel said the strike also included 6 Iranian soldiers. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) website said “General Mohammad Ali Allahdadi and a number of fighters and Islamic Resistance [Hizballah] forces were attacked by the Zionist regime’s helicopters. This brave general and some members of Hizballah were martyred.” Channel 10 reported that others killed included Abu Ali Tabatabai, head of Hizballah’s offensive operations; and Mohammed Issa, a commander responsible for Hizballah operations in Syria and Iraq. Tabatabai’s identity was disputed; Israel Radio and Walla News, said Tabatabai was an Iranian officer and a member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, sent to assist Hizballah in an advisory position. Also dead was Abbas Hijazi, whose father Kamal was one of Hizballah’s founders; and Hizballah commander Abu Ali Reza, who was of Iranian origin.

January 18—UK—The Guardian and The Observer reported that the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King’s College London identified a group of 30 British women who joined the Islamic State in northern Syria were encouraging other women in the UK to carry out terrorist attacks back home. Several were IS recruiters and praised the Charlie Hebdo attack on social media.

January 18—Israel—Shin Bet announced the arrest of 7 members of the first known Islamic State cell operating inside the country. Shin Bet said they were caught just before executing an attack and were practicing on animals how to behead people.

January 18—U.S.—Reuters reported that ­drive-by shooters opened fire on a public road several hundred yards from Vice President Joe Biden’s residence near Wilmington, Delaware, at 8:25 p.m. The gunmen fled. The Secret Service said the Vice President and his wife, Jill, were not at home. Around 9 p.m., local police arrested a driver who attempted to pass an officer securing the area.

January 18—India—During a clash between Hindus and Muslims after a young Hindu boy’s body was found on a farm in Sarayian village more than a week after he went missing, 3 Muslims were burned to death when their thatched huts were set on fire. The ­bullet-riddled body of a 4th Muslim man was found in a field in the village. Hindu fishermen blamed Muslims for killing the boy who was friendly with a Muslim girl. Police arrested 8 Hindu villagers for burning nearly 2 dozen huts. At least 14 people were arrested as of January 19 on charges of arson and murder, according to Ranjit K. Mishra, a local superintendent of police.

January 18—Nigeria—Channels Television reported that at 10 a.m., a suicide bomber killed 4 people and injured 35 others near a gas station in Potiskum.

January 18—Cameroon—Reuters reported that Boko Haram was suspected when terrorists from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed 3 others in an early morning ­cross-border attack on the village of Mabass and several other northern Cameroon villages. A senior army officer said, “According to our initial information, around 30 adults, most of them herders, and 50 young girls and boys aged between 10 and 15 years were abducted.” Soldiers exchanged gunfire with the attackers for 2 hours, during which 80 homes were destroyed. The next day, 30 hostages were released. Some escaped, some were freed in a gun battle between Boko Haram and the military. Boko Haram used some hostages as human shields. 15011801

January 18—Argentina—The ­bullet-riddled body of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found in the bathroom of his Buenos Aires apartment late in the night. Federal prosecutor Viviana Fein told Telam, Argentina’s official news agency, “We can confirm that it was a gunshot wound, .22 caliber.” Nisman was scheduled to testify the next day in a Congressional hearing about the 1994 bombing of the ­Argentine-Israeli Mutual Association that killed 85 people and injured more than 200. He had accused Argentine President Cristina Fernandez and other senior Argentine officials of quietly agreeing not to try at least 2 former Iranian officials in the bombing. Nisman said, “The president and her foreign minister took the criminal decision to fabricate Iran’s innocence to sate Argentina’s commercial, political and geopolitical interests.” Some observers suggested Iranian involvement in the killing. Officials later said an autopsy indicated that no one else was involved in his death and that a handgun and a shell casing were found next to his body. On January 22, the Argentine president suggested that it was not a suicide, and that it was an attempt by an intelligence service to damage the government’s reputation. On January 27, UPI reported that President Cristina Kirchner announced plans to dissolve Argentina’s Intelligence Secretar-iat and replace it with a new Federal Intelligence Agency.

January 19—Yemen—Starting at 6 a.m., Houthis conducted a gun battle with government troops near the presidential palace in Sana’a, shelling a nearby military camp and seizing control of the ­state-run media, including state television and the official SABA news agency. One official called it “a step toward a coup.” Gunmen fired at the convoys of Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah and a senior presidential adviser affiliated with the Houthis; Bahah was unharmed but went into hiding. Later in the day, a ceasefire was announced, and fitfully respected. At least 3 people died in the fighting.

January 19—Afghanistan—At 10 a.m., the Taliban attacked Afghan troops in Alishing district in eastern Laghman Province, killing 2 soldiers and wounding a third. A roadside mine might have caused the casualties.

January 19—Central African Republic—A 67-year-old French woman and a local employee working for a Catholic nongovernmental humanitarian medical group were kidnapped in Bangui. The French Foreign Ministry said the archbishop’s office in Bangui was in “permanent contact” with the kidnappers. 15011901

January 19—Bangladesh—Reuters reported that ­police in Dhaka arrested 4 suspected Islamic State members, including Mohammad Shakhawatul Ka-bir, an IS regional coordinator who said the 4 had been trained in Pakistan. Deputy Police Commissioner Shaikh Nazmul Alam of Dhaka’s detective and criminal intelligence division said, “We arrested them in the city early on Monday, carrying a huge number of leaflets related to militancy for training, a laptop and other materials.” Alam said the group planned to collect funds and weapons for attacks on Bangladesh government targets and that “The aim of the attacks was to establish a caliphate state in Bangladesh.” Police arrested 8 IS suspects in the past year.

January 20—Guinea—Police said a grenade was thrown into a crowd of people watching a televised soccer match between Guinea’s national team and Ivory Coast, killing one person and seriously wounding 3 others. The African Cup of Nations tournament was hosted by Equatorial Guinea. The bomb exploded around the time Ivory Coast scored an equalizing goal in the game that ended 1–1. The person who launched the grenade also was seriously wounded, he said. Local residents said 3 people died.

January 20—U.S.—UPI reported that prosecutors in a Brooklyn federal court charged 2 Yemeni men, Saddiq ­al-Abbadi, 36, and Ali Alvi, 30, with conspiring to kill United States nationals abroad and providing material support to ­al-Qaeda. They were arrested in Saudi Arabia. Prosecutors said the duo traveled from Pakistan to Afghanistan to attack American forces between 2003 and 2007. The Department of Justice said ­al-Abbadi led a mid–2008 attack on U.S. forces in Paktya that killed a U.S. Army Ranger and wounded several others. Court records indicated the duo befriended Bryant Neil Vinas, a recruit from New York, and helped him join ­al-Qaeda. They were involved in a plot against the Long Island Rail Road commuter train. Vinas was captured in 2008 and pleaded guilty on charges that included conspiracy to murder. He turned state’s evidence.

January 20—Germany—Some 200 police officers raided 13 homes in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany, following the previous week’s arrests of 2 suspected jihadis, Ismet D. and Emin F. Most were members of the same mosque in Berlin’s Moabit neighborhood as the detained duo.

January 20—Syria—NPR reported that IS threatened to kill 2 Japanese hostages if a $200 million ransom was not paid within 72 hours. The Washington Post identified the hostages as Kenji Goto and Haruna Yukawa, 42. In August 2014, a Japanese citizen believed to be Yukawa, a private military company operator, was kidnapped after going to Syria to train with militants, according to his blog. Goto is a Japanese freelance journalist who went to report on Syria’s civil war in 2014 and was reported missing in October 2014. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, on travel in the Middle East, said, “Their lives are the top priority.” The threat was made on a video released by the Islamic State’s ­al-Furqan media arm. An individual believed to be the British citizen Jihadi John said, “To the prime minister of Japan: Although you are more than 8,000 and 500 kilometers (5,280 miles) from the Islamic State, you willingly have volunteered to take part in this crusade. You have proudly donated $100 million to kill our women and children, to destroy the homes of the Muslims … and in an attempt to stop the expansion of the Islamic State, you have also donated another $100 million to train the (apostates).” Speaking to the Japanese people, the terrorist said, “Just as how your government has made the foolish decision to pay $200 million to fight the Islamic State [ISIS], you now have 72 hours to pressure your government in making a wise decision, by paying that $200 million to save the lives of your citizens.” Abe said he would send Yasuhide Nakayama, a deputy foreign minister, to Jordan to resolve the hostage crisis. On January 24, Fox News reported that an IS video claimed it had killed Yukawa and demanded a prison exchange for the other. ­On-camera reporter Catherine Herridge said IS tweets said both hostages were killed.

On January 24, 2015, Newsweek reported that the Islamic State released a video in which Japanese hostage Kenji Goto Jogo said it would free him in exchange for Jordanian prisoner Sajida ­al-Rishawi. The group had earlier asked for $100 million each for Goto and Haruna Yukawa, who was beheaded earlier that day. Goto said “They no longer want money. So you don’t need to worry about funding terrorists. They are just demanding the release of their imprisoned sister Sajida ­al-Rishawi. It is simple. You give them Sajida and I will be released…. You bring them their sister from the Jordanian regime and I will be released immediately. Me for her.”

Newsweek reported that in 2005, ­al-Rishawi and her husband attacked a Radisson hotel in Jordan, but only his explosives detonated. She was arrested after fleeing. During a televised confession, she said her husband was the mastermind of the double suicide bombing plan. She was sentenced to death. She was believed linked to al-Qaeda, but some relatives might have Islamic State connections. The Jordanian government believes Abu Musab ­al-Zarqawi, a leader of ­al-Qaeda in Iraq whose group later became IS (after ­al-Zarqawi’s death), planned the 2005 hotel attack. His deputy was ­al-Rishawi’s brother. ­Al-Zarqawi in turn was linked to IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

January 20—Nigeria—AFP reported that hundreds of people from Kekenu, Budur, Yoyo and Mile 90 villages near Baga fled their homes after a warning visit from Boko Haram.

January 20—Yemen—Gunmen fired into the air, and then at a vehicle carrying U.S. diplomatic staff stopped at a nearby checkpoint. No one was injured. 15012001

January 20—Iraq—A bomb exploded at a New Baghdad district clinic, killing 5 and wounding 11 in Baghdad.

A bomb attached to a minibus went off in the Sadr City neighborhood, killing 3 passengers and wounding 7.

January 20—Australia—The Australian Security Intelligence Organization raised the terrorist threat level against police from “medium” to “high,” second highest on a 4-point scale.

January 20—Central African Republic—The anti–Balaka Christian militia kidnapped a Kurdish woman working for the UN in Bangui. A Ugandan colleague escaped the morning attack. The UN staffer was released the same day. 15012002

January 20—Yemen—Houthis took over the presidential palace in Sana’a and shelled the president’s residence at 3 p.m. in fighting that killed 9 and wounded 67. Yemen’s president resigned on Janu-ary 22.

January 20—France—Police arrested 5 Russian Chechens, including one carrying explosives, in ­Saint-Jean-de-Vedas, near Montpellier, and in the town of Béziers, on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack. Authorities found a cache of explosives near the Sauclières stadium.

January 20—Norway—The Oslo Police District ordered house arrest for Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, alias Mullah Krekar, 58, who was to be released during the weekend after completing his sentence for making death threats against politicians and fellow immigrants in 2005. He was to be held at an asylum center more than 370 miles from his Oslo home. Krekar was released from Kongsvinger prison near Oslo on January 25, 2015.

January 20—UK—British jihadi Imran Khawaja, 27, pleaded guilty in December 2014 in the Old Bailey courthouse to preparation of terrorist acts, attending a terrorism training camp, receiving weapons training and possessing a firearm for terrorism use. Reporting restrictions on his plea were lifted on January 20, 2015. He was arrested in 2014 when he tried to enter the country after attending a terrorist training camp in Syria and being photographed holding a man’s severed head. His battlefield death was falsely announced by friends in Syria. Meanwhile, the jihadi from Southall, west London, arranged with his ­taxi-driver cousin Tahir Bhatti, 44, to pick him up in Bulgaria and bring him back to the UK by car. He was arrested in June 2014 entering the UK at Dover. Bhatti pleaded guilty on January 20, 2015, to assisting an offender and was granted bail. Sentencing was scheduled for February 2015.

January 20—Canada—Police found dangerous chemicals in the Halifax area of Nova Scotia while responding to a suspicious package in the Cole Harbour neighborhood. Authorities evacuated 2 Halifax neighborhoods and Ottawa’s Chimo hotel. Police evacuated 5 homes in Halifax’s Grand Desert community after finding hazardous and volatile materials. The next morning, authorities arrested a 42-year-old man 870 miles away at an Ottawa hotel. The suspect was a chemist who had no known criminal record but was in possession of highly toxic chemicals. The man’s wife notified police because of her concern about his irregular behavior. Nick Furris, the business manager of former U.S. Olympic gymnast Shannon Miller, said police called her to let her know that the suspect was her ­ex-husband, Christopher Burton Phillips, whom she divorced in 2006 after 7 years of marriage. On January 22, Phillips, an ophthalmologist and U.S. Navy veteran, was charged with uttering threats against police and possessing a dangerous chemical, osmium tetroxide, for a dangerous purpose. In 2008, he filed for bankruptcy in Seattle months after closing his laser eye surgery business. He listed assets of $962,000 against liabilities of nearly $4.7 million. Phillips said he was a disabled veteran who was addicted to painkillers. Phillips was remanded into custody on January 23 and scheduled to return to court on January 29.

January 20—Belgium—Authorities in Brussels arrested a 5th suspect linked to an alleged terror cell plotting a major attack on police. Three others had been remanded in custody.

January 20—Nigeria—In a video posted on You­Tube, Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, speaking Hausa, claimed responsibility for the attack on Baga that killed 2,000 civilians and destroyed 3,700 homes and businesses earlier in January and threatened more violence. “We are the ones who fought the people of Baga, and we have killed them with such a killing as He (Allah) commanded us in his book. This is just the beginning of the killings. What you’ve just witnessed is a tip of the iceberg. More deaths are coming. This will mark the end of politics and democracy in Nigeria.”

January 21—Mali—Tuareg separatist protesters chased MINUSMA UN peacekeepers from an airfield in Kidal, burning 2 generators and tearing down tents. The protests began after a Dutch attack helicopter with MINUSMA fired upon a car near Gao, killing 4 rebels on January 20. That violence took place near Tabancort north of Gao. Alhousseini Ag Goumeye, a military official with the Tuareg separatist rebel group NMLA, said 6 missiles were fired on the car, killing 4 militants.

January 21—Israel—Good Morning America and other news media reported that Hamza Mohammed Matroukh, 23, a Palestinian man from the West Bank, stabbed and wounded 12 people, 5 moderately or seriously, in an attack on a bus in central Tel Aviv. Hamas leader Izzat Risheq tweeted from Qatar that the attack was “brave and heroic,” deeming it a “natural response to the occupation and its terrorist crimes against our people.” Authorities said Matroukh had entered Israel illegally. He was riding the bus when he began stabbing the other passengers and the driver. Officers from a prison service saw the bus swerving out of control and a man running away. They shot the man in the leg and arrested him. Matroukh told police he was retaliating for the 2014 Gaza war and tensions surrounding a Jerusalem site holy to Jews and Muslims. Bus driver Herzl Biton was stabbed in the upper body and liver and was in surgery.

January 21—U.S.—The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had properly considered Osama bin Laden’s former personal secretary Wadih ­el-Hage’s responsibility in imposing a life sentence for conspiring to bomb U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which killed 224 people and injured thousands. The court threw out his appeal that a life sentence was out of proportion to his relative lack of culpability in the attacks. ­El-Hage was represented by attorney Julia Heit.

January 21—Syria—A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in the ­pro-government neighborhood of Akrama in Homs, killing 5 people and wounding 30. It was the third car bomb to go off on the same street in a year, according to Homs Governor Talal Barrazi. Lebanese Hizballah’s al-Manar satellite television channel said the blast killed at least 7 people.

January 21—U.S.—AFP reported that U.S. Judge Kimba Wood in a Manhattan court sentenced Wesam ­el-Hanafi, 39, to 15 years in jail after he pleaded guilty (in 2012) to 2 counts of supporting al-Qaeda from 2007 to late 2009. He had sent the group $67,000 and surveilled the New York Stock Exchange for an attack. ­Co-defendant U.S.-Australian Sabirhan Hasa­noff was sentenced to 18 years in 2013 after also pleading guilty to supporting ­al-Qaeda. Hanafi was arrested in the UAE in April 2010. Wood also sentenced him to 3 years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $200 special assessment fee and forfeit $70,000.

January 22—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into the gate of a military base in Taji, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 21. Dozens of soldiers were departing for weekend leave.

A bomb went off in a ­booby-trapped house in Um ­al-Talayib, a village taken back from the Islamic State, killing 4 soldiers and 2 Shi’ite militiamen and wounding 14 troops.

January 22—Germany—In morning raids, police arrested German citizens Mustafa C., 26, and Sebastian B., 27, in the western state of ­North-Rhine Westphalia on suspicion of membership in the Islamic State. They were accused of traveling to Syria through Turkey in March and August 2013 where they joined a group known as the Muhajireen Bri­gade. By the end of 2013, they were suspected of joining IS, undergoing training and providing logistical support during battles. Sebastian B. returned to Germany in November 2013, while Mustafa C. returned in September 2014.

Police also seized evidence at 3 apartments in Kassel in an investigation of 3 Germans, aged between 19 and 23, suspected of providing logistical support for the war in Syria or planning to travel to Syria to participate in fighting there.

January 22—Somalia—UPI reported that an ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber hit the gate of the SYL Hotel, host to a delegation of 70 Turkish officials in Mogadishu, killing 6 Somalis, including 5 security officers and a hotel employee, and shattering windows. No Turkish guests were harmed. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was scheduled to arrive the next day in Mogadishu. ­Al-Shabaab said it was targeting Turkish officials. Fox News reported on January 27 that the Swiss Federal Intelligence Service (NDB) said that the bomber had come to Switzerland in 2008 and obtained temporary residency and Swiss travel documents. He told Swiss authorities that he was moving in January 2013. 15012201

January 22—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that former Taliban commander Mullah Rauf Khadem had recruited about 100 men and declared the Helmand branch of the Islamic State.

January 22—Iraq—The Times of Israel reported that Islamic State terrorists retreating from Kurdish areas left behind at least 410 ­booby-trapped bombs, including some hidden in PlayStation controllers, massage belts and rings.

January 23—India—A bomb exploded in a courthouse in Arrah in eastern India, killing 2 and injuring 12, 4 seriously, according to senior police officer Gupteshwar Pandey. He said one of the dead was a woman who allegedly carried the bomb in a bag into the court. Magistrate Anil Kumar said a policeman died later in a hospital. The explosion went off near a cell where prisoners were kept while awaiting their court appearance. Parliamentarian R.K. Singh said 2 prisoners escaped.

January 23—Philippines—A bomb went off at a bar across the street from a bus terminal in Zamboanga, killing a motorcycle taxi driver and another person and wounding 54, including a police officer. Several stores were damaged. Police suspected the Abu Sayyaf group and were looking for 3 men seen in the vicinity before the explosion.

January 23—Central African Republic—Earlier in the week, gunmen kidnapped French aid worker Claudia Priest, 67, and a ­co-worker, and seized their vehicle, which was carrying medicine and medical kits. They were freed on January 23. Priest worked for the Catholic medical organization CODIS. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius thanked CAR authorities and the archbishop. 15019901

January 23—France—The Constitutional Court upheld the government’s 2014 decision to revoke the citizenship of ­Franco-Moroccan Ahmed Sahnouni ­el-Yaacoubi, 45, who was sentenced to 7 years of prison in 2013 for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise to recruit jihadis. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco, and obtained French citizenship in 2003.

January 23—U.S.—CNN reported that Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, who adopted the name Amatullah (“female servant of Allah,” she explained), after pleading guilty in September 2014 to conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist group, was sentenced to 4 years in prison. She originally took the name Halima when she converted to Islam.

January 24—Lebanon—Eight Lebanese soldiers died in a ­day-long gun battle with suspected Islamic State gunmen. Troops found the bodies of 3 missing soldiers near Ras Balbek.

January 24—Iraq—A bomb exploded near a small restaurant in Baghdad’s Zafaraniyah district, killing 4 and wounding 13.

A bomb targeting a police patrol instead killed 3 civilians, wounded 8, and damaged several cars in western Baghdad.

A bomb went off during the night in the ­al-Ameen district of Baghdad, killing 3 and injuring 8.

A bomb exploded near a bus stop and a line of vegetable and fruit shops in Baghdad’s Mashtal neighborhood, killing 3 and injuring 7.

January 24—Ceuta—In the morning, Spanish National Police raided 2 houses and arrested 4 suspected jihadis—all Spanish citizens with Moroccan roots—who allegedly formed a cell in Ceuta. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said, “These are 2 pairs of very radicalized brothers who are highly trained militarily, physically and mentally and are prepared to carry out an attack, and ready, according to the police, to blow themselves up in the act.” Police confiscated a pistol, ammunition, military fatigues, ­face-concealing hoods, machetes, knives and Spanish license plates. On January 26, ABC News reported that Judge Pablo Ruz ordered 3 suspects to be kept in custody as they posed a potential threat to the country’s security. A 4th man was ordered to surrender his passport, remain in Spain, and check in with authorities each week.

January 24—Iraq—Al-Arabiya on January 30, 2015, quoted a U.S. Central Command statement that Abu Malik, alias Salih Jasim Muhammed Falah ­al-Sabawi, a chemical weapons engineer at the Muthana chemical weapons production facility during Saddam Hussein’s rule who was believed to have joined al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2005, was killed earlier in the week in a coalition airstrike near Mosul. Central Command said his training “provided the terrorist group with expertise to pursue a chemical weapons capability…. His death is expected to temporarily degrade and disrupt the terrorist network and diminish ISIL’s ability to potentially produce and use chemical weapons against innocent people.” The Daily Beast said he died on January 24. The Daily Beast reported that he was “gathering equipment” for unknown purposes.

January 24—Libya—Ansar ­al-Shariah said on Twitter that its leader, Mohammed ­al-Zahawi, has been killed. Jihadi websites had indicated during previous months that he was injured or killed in an attack in 2014. The group has been blamed for the Septem-ber 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. The U.S. designated it a terrorist organization in January 2014, saying it was involved in “terrorist attacks against civilian targets, frequent assassinations, and attempted assassinations of security officials and political actors in eastern Libya.” The UN designated Ansar ­al-Shariah as a terrorist organization in November 2014.

January 25—Afghanistan—At 6 a.m., a Taliban truck bomb exploded at a gas station near Kabul’s military airport, wounding 2 civilians.

January 25—Iraq—A bomb exploded outside a small restaurant in Baghdad’s Bab ­al-Sharji neighborhood, killing 7 civilians and wounding 22.

A bomb exploded in Baghdad’s central Sibaa area, killing 3 civilians and wounding 11.

A nighttime bomb hit a patrol of Sahwa militia in Baghdad’s Arab Jabour suburb, killing 3 and wounding 2.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Abu Dashir district, killing 2 people and wounding 12.

January 25—Central African Republic—Gunmen suspected of affiliation with the Christian anti–Balaka militia kidnapped Sports Minister Armel ­Mingatoloum Sayo as he was driving back home from church. He was stopped by gunmen in an ­unmarked taxi in Bangui’s Galabadja neighborhood, according to his wife, Nicaise Danielle Sayo, who was in the car with him. She told the media, “They instructed us to stop…. They pulled him from his vehicle to put him in their car to head to ­Boy-Rabe, their stronghold.” The next day, authorities said a ransom was demanded, but they were unable to ­recontact the kidnappers. On February 11, 2015, AP reported that the kidnappers released Sayo, who was brought to a negotiator’s home before midnight.

January 25—Nigeria—The BBC reported that Boko Haram had attacked Maiduguri and nearby Mon­guno, killing or wounding dozens. An unnamed journalist told the BBC that he had counted bodies of 38 soldiers killed while fighting in Njimtilo, on the edge of Maiduguri. AP later reported that at least 200 combatants were killed in the clash.

Boko Haram also attacked villages in Adamawa State, slitting throats, looting, burning homes, and kidnapping dozens of women and children, ac­cording to survivors. Adamawa State legislator Ad­amu Kamale said 6 villages were under attack in Michika.

Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was visiting Lagos, the commercial capital, to encourage peaceful elections on February 14. He met with President Goodluck Jonathan and his chief rival ­candidate, Muhammadu Buhari. Kerry observed, “This will be the largest democratic election on the continent. Given the stakes, it’s absolutely criti-cal that these elections be conducted peacefully—that they are credible, transparent and accounta-ble.”

January 25—Pakistan—SkyNews reported that more than 140 Pakistanis lost electricity after an attack on a transmission tower that caused a mas-sive power surge. At least 80 percent of the population was affected by one of the country’s worst blackouts.

January 25—Philippines—CBS News Denver tweeted that a Philippine town mayor said that more than 30 police commandos were killed in a dawn clash with Muslim rebels in Tukanalipao in Maguinda-nao Province. The troops were searching for Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, a Malaysian terrorism sus-pect who might have been killed in the operation. They had a “misencounter” with members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and other insurgents, according to Mayor Tahirudin Benzar Ampatuan of Mamasapano. On January 26, police said at least 44 commandos, including 7 officers, died in the ­battle, a Special Action Force member was miss-ing, and 11 police were wounded. Authorities believed suspected Filipino ­bomb-maker Abdul Basit Usman escaped. The United States had offered up to $5 million for Marwan’s capture and $1 mil-lion for Usman. The Philippine armed forces announced in 2012 that Marwan had been killed in a Philippine air strike in southern Sulu Province along with Singaporean Mauwiyah. On January 30, President Benigno Aquino III said Abdul Basit Usman had escaped and Zulkifli Bin Hir apparently was killed.

On April 3, 2015, CNN reported that the FBI confirmed that a DNA sample from a severed finger established that Malaysian Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist bomb maker Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, was killed in an otherwise disastrous police’s elite Special Action Force armed forces raid against Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) at Mamapasono, in southern Maguindanao Province, Philippines in January. The FBI had earlier offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture following his 2007 indictment on terrorism charges in a California court, which said he was a supplier of IEDs to terrorist organizations, and had conducted bomb making training for terror groups, including the ­Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf. The Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) said that the BIFF faction sheltering Marwan had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.

January 25—Mali—AP and ABC News quoted Colonel Souleymane Maiga as indicating that 2 Malian soldiers were killed and 3 injured in an ambush near Douekire. The soldiers were to provide security for a weekly market.

January 25—Central African Republic—Former Seleka fighters were suspected in the kidnapping of 8 CAR officials. On January 26, AP and ABC News reported that the hostages were handed over to UN peacekeepers, a day after being grabbed by former Seleka fighters. Among the hostages was Gaston Yendemon, prefect of ­Nana-Grebizi, a mayor and a deputy prefect.

January 26—U.S.—The Washington Post and NPR reported that a device was found on the White House grounds. It did not pose a threat to the public. The AP later reported it was a 2-foot-long quadcopter drone that crashed just after 3 a.m. It had been flown by a hobbyist.

January 26—Syria—Islamic State spokesman Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani released a 9-minute al-Furqan audio exhorting any Muslims living in Western ­countries to continue attacks. “We repeat our call to Muslims in Europe, the infidel West, and everywhere to target the Crusaders in their home countries and wherever they find them. We will be enemies, in front of God, to any Muslim who can shed a drop of blood of a Crusader and abstains from doing that with a bomb, bullet, knife, car, rock or even a kick or a punch.” He lauded attacks in Australia, Belgium, Canada and France, observing, “You all saw what one Muslim did in Canada and its infidel parliament.” Regarding the previous week’s death of Saudi King Abdullah, he believed that Muslims “are happy for the death of the tyrant of the peninsula.”

January 26—Iraq—A bomb exploded in the afternoon near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib suburb, killing 2 and wounding 7.

A bomb exploded near a market in Baghdad’s Husseiniyah suburb, killing 4 and wounding 13.

In the nighttime, a bomb went off near a car dealership in Baghdad’s Nahrwan suburb, killing 2 people, wounding 13, and damaging several cars.

During the night, gunmen fired at an Emirati passenger plane landing at Baghdad airport, slightly damaging the aircraft but causing no casualties. 15012601

January 26—France—The Paris prosecutor’s office announced that authorities found phones, USB flash drives and other equipment during searches of nearly 80 prison cells of Islamic radicals. RTL radio said authorities found a phone—which are banned in French prisons—in the cell of Djamel Beghal, convicted of plotting to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris, during the searches.

January 27—Somalia—AP and ABC News reported that Zakariya Ismail Hersi, who was ­al-Shabaab’s ­intelligence chief and had a $3 million bounty on his head, announced that he had quit the group and renounced its violence. He had surrendered to the Somali government in December. He told the news media, “I can confirm that as of today I am no longer a member of ­al-Shabaab and I have renounced violence as a means of resolving conflict and I will aim to achieve my goals towards peaceful means, and through reconciliation and understanding.”

January 27—Libya—AP reported that a hotel staffer said 5 masked gunmen wearing bulletproof vests attacked the ­Malta-owned luxury Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli, killing 5 foreigners, a security officer, and 4 guards before taking hostages. Reuters quoted Tripoli security spokesman Essam ­al-Naasa as indicating that a Frenchman and a U.S. citizen were killed; the other 3 foreign victims were from unspecified Asian/former Soviet Union countries (other reports said that they were Europeans). The American was later identified as David Berry, a contractor with Cricible LLC, a Fredericksburg, Virginia, security company. Ten people were wounded in the attack. Many guests and staff fled out the back door into the parking lot, where a car bomb exploded, setting 5 cars on fire. When a protection force entered the lobby, the gunmen killed 2 guards. The hotel had Italian, British and Turkish guests and is often the site of UN support mission meetings. The New York Times reported that the gunmen claimed on social media that they belonged to the Islamic State in Tripoli Province and that they were retaliating for U.S. actions in the region, including the detention and death in custody of al-Qaeda terrorist Nazih ­Abdul-Hamed ­al-Ruqai, alias Abu Anas ­al-Libi. After an ­hours-long siege, 2 gunmen killed themselves with a grenade. Government spokes­man Amr Bajou said the target of the attack was Prime Minister Omar ­al-Hassi, who was not at the hotel at the time. IS said the gunmen were Abu Ibrahim ­al-Tunsi and Abu Suleiman ­al-Sudani and observed on a jihadi website, “The operation is not the last one on the lands of Tripoli…. Let the enemies of God, the crusaders and their allies await what would harm them.” The group said the dead were from the U.S., France, South Korea, and the Philippines.

Berry’s online bio said he served with the Marines for 12 years and had “extensive experience in the Special Operations and Intelligence Communities,” often working in “hostile and austere locations throughout the world.” The New York Daily News said Crucible chief executive Cliff Taylor indicated Berry had worked as a security manager in Tripoli since July 2014. 15012701

January 27—Ukraine—AP reported that the Ukrain­ian parliament declared the ­Russian-backed separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk to be terrorist organizations, opening them to restrictions on their movements and blocking their bank accounts.

January 27—France—NPR reported that authorities in Lunel arrested 5 suspected jihadi recruiters who sent 20 fighters to Syria and Iraq, 6 of whom died on the battlefield. On January 31, AP reported that French authorities issued preliminary charges against the 5 men, aged 26 to 44. Spokeswoman Agnes ­Thibault-Lecuivre of the Paris prosecutor’s ­office said they face preliminary charges of criminal association involving a plot to carry out terrorist acts.

January 27—Belgium—Authorities said 3 men with possible links to terror networks had been detained. Police also found a cache of arms in western Kortijk, according to prosecutor spokeswoman Karlien Ver­verken.

January 27—Golan Heights—AP reported that the Israeli military said 2 rockets launched from Syria hit the ­Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.

January 27—Syria—The Islamic State was believed to have posted an online message warning that ­Japanese hostage Kenji Goto and Jordanian pilot 1st Lt. Mu’ath ­al-Kaseasbeh had less than “24 hours left to live.” The message demanded that Jordan ­release Sajida ­al-Rishawi within 24 hours. The message said Goto had “24 hours left to live and the pilot has even less.” ­Al-Kaseasbeh’s Jordanian F-16 plane went down near Raqqa, Syria, in Decem-ber. Goto was seized in late October 2014 appar-ently while trying to rescue Haruna Yukawa, who was captured in August 2014 and purportedly beheaded in January 2015. The mother of another Jordanian prisoner, Ziad ­al-Karboli, told the AP that her family was told that the Islamic State group also was seeking his release. AP reported that ­al-Karboli, an aide to a former ­al-Qaeda leader in Iraq, was sentenced to death in 2008 for killing a Jordanian citizen.

January 28—Lebanon—UN spokesman Andrea Tenenti said a Spanish UN peacekeeper was killed in Ghajar village in southern Lebanon. The local media said he was a Spanish citizen attached to UNIFIL. 15012801

January 28—Israel—Hizballah said its Heroic ­Martyrs of Quneitra had fired an ­anti-tank missile that hit an Israeli military convoy near the Lebanese border in the morning, apparently in retaliation for an airstrike in Syria on January 18 that killed 6 Hizballah fighters and an Iranian general. Six peo-ple were treated at the Ziv Hospital in Safed. The Israeli military said the group then fired mortars at Israeli military sites on Mount Dov and Mount Hermon, causing no injuries. Israel fired 50 artillery shells back into Lebanon against Hizballah targets; Lebanese officials said the shells hit the border ­villages of Majidiyeh, Abbasiyeh and Kfar Chouba near the Shebaa Farms area. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting; another 7 soldiers were wounded.

January 28—Sudan—UN World Food Program spokeswoman Amor Almagro said a 6-person Bulgarian helicopter crew was missing after their aircraft made an unexpected landing in South Kordofan. The 6 were on a contract with WFP’s offices in South Sudan. On February 1, AP reported that Almagro said the crew was “released,” but no further information about who held them or how their release was secured.

January 28—France—UPI reported that police in Nice detained for questioning an 8-year-old boy who allegedly made sympathetic statements about the Charlie Hebdo gunmen. Fabienne Lewandowski, deputy director of security in the ­Alpes-Maritimes department, said “The boy told his schoolteacher: We must kill the French. I am with the terrorists. Muslims have done well. The journalists deserved to die.” The school principal filed a complaint and the child and his father were called to the police sta-tion.

January 28—Canada—UPI and the Toronto Sun ­reported that the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) was being accused of funneling money to designated terrorist organization ­IRFAN-Canada. The Sun reported that a Canadian police raid found that MAC gave $296,514 to ­IRFAN-Canada between 2001 and 2010. The Canadian government in 2014 designated ­IRFAN-Canada as a terrorist entity. Police said it had sent $14 million in resources to ­Hamas-affiliated organizations. ­IRFAN-Canada is fighting the terrorist designation in court. MAC released a statement in 2014 saying, “ISIS is not a true expression of Islam…. Violence against civil-ians is unacceptable and a corruption of our be-liefs.”

January 28—Paraguay—The Paraguayan People’s Army guerrilla group was suspected in the kidnap/murder of German couple Roberto Natto, 60, and Erika Reiser, 53. The Germans and 4 workers were taken from their Luisa Ganadera farm outside Yby Yau, 245 miles north of Asuncion. The couple’s bodies were found dead on a cattle farm on January 29. The workers escaped and told investigators that “the captors wore camouflage uniforms and were apparently directed by Esteban Marin, a member of the criminal Paraguayan People’s Army,” according to investigator Sandra Quinonez. The Germans were shot in the back with a handgun. Authorities found the bodies after a ­shoot-out with guerrillas in the area. 15012802

The group had burned 2 tractors and a building that housed workers at the adjoining La Gringa farm. The group demanded that Osvaldo Dominguez Dibb, owner of the La Gringa farm, pay a $300,000 “fine” and give free beef to the poor as punishment for alleged deforestation by February 6.

January 28—Afghanistan—National Directorate of Security spokesman Hasib Sediqi said 2 militants affiliated with the ­Feday-e-Mahaz, a Taliban splinter group, were arrested in Kabul the previous week. Police found a bomb, 2 pistols, and a silencer during the raid and said that the group had planned to conduct an attack in Kabul. The group had claimed credit for killing Swedish Radio correspondent Nils Horner while he was reporting on Afghanistan’s election on a street in Kabul in 2014. 14999901

A bomb went off at a police checkpoint in western Herat Province, killing a female police officer and wounding a policeman, according to provincial police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi.

January 28—Nigeria—AP quoted Emmanuel Kwache and state legislator Adamu Kamale as saying that during the week, Boko Haram attacked 7 villages in Adamawa State, killing more than 40 people, burning homes and mosques and looting homes and businesses. Kwache said, “They don’t spare anything: they slaughtered people like rams and they burned down our houses after looting food…. There’s no presence of troops, some residents are hiding on top of hills, while those that could not run were abducted, particularly youths and women.”

January 29—Afghanistan—In a morning attack, a roadside bomb went off in Mihtarlam in Laghman Province, killing 4 people, including a police commander.

Later that day, a suicide bomber mingled with mourners at a funeral in Mihtariam for the vic-tims, killing 16, including police investigations chief Khlil Nyazi and 3 other police officers, and wounding 39, including 3 policemen. The Taliban was suspected.

Later that day, the Taliban attacked a checkpoint in Andar District in Ghazni Province, killing 11 members of a ­pro-government militia at the post and wounding 6. During the ensuing gun battle, 6 Taliban were killed and 7 wounded, according to Mohammad Ali Ahmadi, deputy governor in Ghazni.

The Taliban dragged 2 villagers from their home in Sayed Abad district in Wardak Province and killed them, according to spokesman Attaullha Khu­gyani.

The Washington Post reported that at 6:40 p.m., an Afghan soldier opened fire on Americans at the North Kabul International Airport complex in the military base in Kabul, killing 3 U.S. civilian contractors and an Afghan citizen and wounding a 4th American. The Taliban claimed credit, saying the killer had infiltrated the security forces. Spokesman Zabihullah Muhajid said on Twitter the killer was Ihsanullah, from Laghman Province, and that the attacker “opened fire on invaders” before he was “martyred by return fire.” The American aircraft mechanics worked for Praetorian Standard Inc. (PSI), which is based in Fayetteville, North Carolina, with offices in Maryland and Virginia. Its website indicated that it “specializes in providing innovative strategic planning, logistics, operational and security management support services in challenging environments around the world.” A spokesman identified the victims as Walter D. Fisher of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; Jason D. Landphair of Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Mathew E. Fineran of Summerville, South Carolina. Bradley A. James of Atlanta was wounded. 15012901

January 29—Sudan—Reuters reported on Febru-ary 3, 2015, that gunmen in Darfur region had kidnapped 2 Russians working for UTair, an airline contracted by the international peacekeeping mission, in Zalingei on January 29. Gunmen in 6 cars blocked a United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) minibus en route from a market to their mission base in Zalingei. The company told reporters, “The passengers were forced to get off the minibus at gunpoint and led off in an unknown direction.” As of February 3, no demands had been made. The Russian Foreign Ministry said the 2 UTair ground service workers were not harmed. Russia’s federal Investigative Committee said the 2 were a manager and a technician with UTair. Sudan’s foreign ministry claimed the kidnapping was not political. Minister of State Kamal ­al-Din Ismail said, “We condemn this kidnapping and we assure you that we will not succumb to the blackmail by paying a ransom. We have a consistent policy on this.” On June 6, Governor Shartay Jaafar Abdul Hakam said that they had been freed without a ransom payment. The ­semi-official Sudan Media Center quoted Hakam as saying that the abductors had demanded a monetary ransom. 14012902

January 29—Mali—The BBC reported that suicide bombers and gunmen killed about a dozen people in an assault on rebel positions in northern Mali. The attack was blamed on the ­pro-government Gatia militia fighting Tuareg rebels. Observers said the militia might have been infiltrated by jihadis. AFP quoted a UN source who indicated that 2 bombers blew themselves up in the attack near Tabankort while a third was killed before he could detonate himself. AFP quoted a Western military source as ­saying, “Gatia fighters, accompanied by suicide bombers, attacked a rebel Tuareg and ­anti-government Arab position in the night from Tuesday to Wed­nesday near the town of Tabankort. There were a dozen deaths in total.” Gatia is the French acro-nym for Imghad and Allies Tuareg ­Self-Defence Group.

January 29—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen fired on soldiers at an Abu Ghraib checkpoint, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 8.

A bomb went off at an outdoor market in Youssifiyah, killing 4 and wounding 12.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Mahmoudiya, killing 2 and wounding 10.

Two suicide bombers set off their explosive belts inside a Shi’ite militia headquarters in Mishada, killing 7 Shi’ite militiamen and wounding 20 others.

A suicide car bomber crashed into an army checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 3 soldiers and wound-ing 9.

January 29—Qatar—CNN reported that one of the “Taliban Five” released in a swap for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was believed to have returned to “militant activity.”

January 29—Netherlands—A ­self-proclaimed 19-year-old member of a “hackers’ collective” armed with a ­noise-suppressed pistol walked into the Hilversum headquarters of Dutch national broadcaster NOS demanding airtime during the night. He threatened to set off bombs at several locations around the country. A guard escorted him into an empty studio, then kept him talking. NOS went off the air for an hour, then showed taped footage of the individual wearing a black suit, white shirt and black tie. He told someone ­off-camera, “The things that are going to be said … those are very large world affairs. We are hired by intelligence agencies (another translation said “the security service).” Five police officers arrested the individual, who hailed from Pijnacker, a small town near The Hague. He was held on suspicion of making a threat, weapons possession and ­taking a hostage. NOS said on its website that the man threatened a security guard, forcing him to take him upstairs to the editorial offices. RTL news channel reported that a letter he brought with him said, “Realise that I am not on my own…. Fur-thermore, 8 high explosives have been planted that contain radioactive material. If you don’t take me to studio 8 to make my broadcast, we will be forced to step into action.” NOS TV said he appeared to be a student who had recently lost both par-ents. He later told investigators that he acted alone, had not placed explosives anywhere, and that no major cyber attack was brewing. Dutch media identified him as Tarik Z., a student at Delft Technical University. He claimed he did not have terrorist affiliations.

January 29—U.S.—In an arrest warrant unsealed on January 29, Liban Haji Mohamed, a naturalized citizen born in Somalia who had lived and worked as a taxi driver in Northern Virginia, was charged with providing material support to al-Qaeda and ­al-Shabaab. The FBI added him to its list of 31 ­most-wanted terrorists. The Bureau said he left the U.S. in July 2012 for East Africa.

January 29—U.S.—The Detroit Free Press/Deadline Detroit reported that Mahmoud Bazzi, 72, a Dearborn ice cream vendor suspected of killing 2 Irish peacekeepers more than 3 decades earlier, was deported to Lebanon, where he was arrested. He had a wife and 3 daughters. He was sent to Lebanon 5 months after an immigration judge ordered him deported for entering the U.S. with a fake pass-port more than 20 years earlier. Irish Minister Simon Coveney was quoted by TheJournal.ie, an Inter-net news publication in Ireland, as observing, “I ­believe that this is a significant step in the pursuit of justice for Privates Thomas Barrett and Derek Smallhorne who lost their lives while on United ­Nations peacekeeping duty in Lebanon almost 35 years ago…. It is an important day for the fami-lies and I wish to commend them for their con-tinued commitment to securing justice for their loved ones.”

January 29—Egypt—During the evening, AP and Reuters reported that gunmen attacked more than a dozen army and police targets in the northern Si-nai provincial capital ­el-Arish, the nearby town of Sheik Zuwayid and the town of Rafah bordering Gaza, killing at least 32 people, among them at least 25 soldiers, 2 civilians and a policeman, and wounding at least 60, including 9 civilians. Islamic State affiliate Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (which renamed itself Sinai Province (Waliyat Sinai) in November 2014) claimed credit. UPI reported on January 30 that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah ­el-Sissi blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for playing a role in the attacks.

The government newspaper al-Ahram said its office in ­al-Arish was “completely destroyed.”

At least one car bomb went off at a military base; mortars were also fired at the base, burying several soldiers under collapsed buildings. The suicide bomber disguised himself as a ­tanker-truck driver delivering water. Two other suicide bombers in pickup trucks exploded their vehicles at the rear gate of the base and at an adjacent security headquarters, destroying the gates and wall.

Gunmen killed an Army major and wounded 6 others at a checkpoint in Rafah.

A roadside bomb in Suez city killed a police officer.

Gunmen attacked an army unit south of ­al-Arish, wounding 4 soldiers.

Mortars were fired at a hotel, a police club and more than a dozen checkpoints.

January 30—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu news agency reported that a woman fired an automatic weapon at a police vehicle in Istanbul’s main Taksim square before dropping her weapon and a bag and running away. No one was injured.

January 30—Iraq—In a gun battle against the Islamic State, Kurdish Brigadier General Shirko Fatih and 8 of his fighters died outside Kirkuk when the terrorists attacked peshmerga positions. In the evening in Kirkuk, a sniper killed Kurdish Brigadier General Hussein Mansour, who had replaced General Fatih earlier that day.

A car bomb hit the empty, closed Qassir Hotel near central Kirkuk’s police headquarters, wounding 2 people. Three gunmen then ran inside the hotel, setting off a gun battle with Kurds and the police, who killed the trio.

Two bombs hit a crowded market in Baghdad. One bomb exploded near carts selling used clothes in the central Bab ­al-Sharqi area. Another bomb went off against first responders. At least 19 people were killed and 28 were wounded.

A suicide car bomber hit Sahwa militia at a checkpoint near Samarra, killing 4 and wounding 10.

Mortar shells hit a residential area in Baghdad’s Shula neighborhood, killing 4 people and wounding 7.

January 30—Belgium—Authorities arrested 4 suspects in raids on 22 homes, mostly in the northeast, in an investigation aimed at “uncovering the organization behind the recruitment and sending” of individuals to Syria.

January 30—Ethiopia—UPI reported that African Union Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma announced after the AU Summit meetings had decided to create a regional force to conduct “military operations to prevent the expansion of Boko Haram and other terrorist groups’ activities and eliminate their presence.” The plan, which called for 7,500 troops, would next go to the UN Security Council.

January 30—Pakistan—Fox News reported that a Jundallah bomb exploded in a Shi’ite mosque in Shikarpur in Sindh Province, killing 56, including 4 children, and wounding 31. Jundallah spokesman Fahad Mahsud claimed credit in a call to AP. The press linked Jundallah to ­Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and announced allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014.

January 30—India—The Washington Post reported that Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha, a small Hindu fringe group, planned to erect a bust in honor of Nathuram Godse, the man who assassinated Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi in 1948.

January 30—Saudi Arabia—AFP reported that shots were fired at 2 p.m. from a car at 2 U.S. citizens driving on a road in Eastern Province’s ­al-Ihsaa governorate; one was wounded but “in stable condition,” according to police. Fox News said he was believed to have sustained wounds in the leg and hands. On February 1, U.S. defense contractor Vinnell Arabia said its employees were shot at. 15013001

January 30—France—AFP reported that AQAP ideologue Ibrahim ­al-Rubaish claimed in an audio posted by AQAP’s media arm that France has replaced the U.S. in the “war on Islam.” He called for attacks on the West, particularly France, and attack, “without consulting anyone,” those who mock Muhammad.

January 30—Nigeria—Ya Libnan reported that Nigeria’s Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Talal Ahmad Roda, a Lebanese resident in Kano who was convicted and sentenced to life for importing arms allegedly belonging to Hizballah. He was arrested in his Kano home, where the ammunition was found. A federal high court in Abuja found him guilty of conspiracy and sentenced him to life. The trial court had freed Mustapha Fawaz, owner of ­Abuja-based Amigo Supermarket and Wonderland Amusement Park, and Abdallah Thahini. The government on July 29, 2013, had arraigned the trio on terrorism charges.

January 30—Nigeria—A Chadian fighter jet and ground troops drove Boko Haram fighters from Malumfatori, a Nigerian border village in Borno State, according to the AP.

January 30—Canada—The government declared it illegal to call for a terrorist attack, even if a specific threat is not made. Anyone suspected of involvement in a terrorist plot could be detained without charge for up to 7 days.

January 31—Iraq—A bomb went off in the morning near a sheep market in Madain, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A bomb exploded near car repair shops in central Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 10.

A bomb hit an army patrol in Taji, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4.

Reuters reported that the Islamic State took over a small crude oil station in Khabbaz near Kirkuk. Fifteen oil workers were reported missing by the ­state-run North Oil Company.

That night, a bomb went off near a café in the Ameen district of Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 9.

A bomb attached to a minibus exploded in the Zafaraniya district of Baghdad, killing 3 passengers and wounding 6 others.

January 31—China—The ­state-run Xinhua News Agency said that Chinese authorities were offering up to 300,000 yuan ($50,000) for information on terrorist activities in Tibet.

January 31—Syria—The Washington Post reported that the CIA and Mossad killed Imad Mughniyah, Hizballah’s international operations chief, in a car bombing on February 12, 2008, in Damascus. Many observers feared that the claim would lead to attacks against U.S. interests in the Middle East.

January 31—Mali—The French Defense Ministry and a Malian official said that French troops put a dozen extremists “out of action” in the Adrar des Ifoghas area. The French ministry said no French troops were killed.

January 31—Yemen—On February 5, 2015, AP reported that AQAP posted on Twitter that senior AQAP cleric Sheik Harith ­al-Nadhari was one of 4 people killed in a January 31 drone strike in Shabwa Province.

February—Syria—The Islamic State kidnapped 200 members of the Syrian Christian minority. Some 45 were released by October thanks to negotiations. On October 8, 2015, AP reported that the Islamic State shot 3 of the hostages to death. The Assyrian Human Rights Network claimed that the 3 were killed in September on the first day of the Muslim Eid ­al-Adha holiday. IS released a video showing them shooting 3 men in orange jumpsuits in the back of their heads. Three other hostages then introduced themselves; one asked that “appropriate measures” be taken for their release.

On December 10, 2015, Newsweek reported that the Islamic State released 25 male Assyrian Christian hostages, including 2 children, in Tel Tamer, Syria on December 9, thanks to the assistance of the Assyrian Church of the East in Syria. The 2 children were aged between 9 and 12 years old and were the first children to be released by the IS. AP reported on December 25, 2015, that IS freed 25 more Assyrian Christian hostages, including 16 children and their mothers.

February—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped 5 Afghan men who worked for the Save the Children charity in Uruzgan Province in mid–February. On April 11, 2015, their ­bullet-riddled bodies were found in the Chinarto District. Family members said the Taliban had demanded a prisoner exchange. 15029901

Gunmen kidnapped 30 Hazaras. On May 11, 2015, AP reported that a provincial official in Afghanistan said the kidnappers released 19 Hazara hostages for 22 Uzbeks in the Jaghori district of Ghazni Province around 9:30 a.m. Some of the 22 included women and children and might have included family members of the kidnappers. The kidnappers asked for another 6 people in exchange for the remaining 11 Hazara hostages. Authorities initially blamed an affiliate of the Islamic State group for their kidnapping.

February 1—Syria—AP and UPI reported that a bomb exploded on a bus near the Damascus citadel and the ­centuries-old Hamidiyeh bazaar, killing between 6 and 9 people, including 6 Lebanese Shi’ite pilgrims, and wounding 24. The bus had Lebanese license plates and identified the passengers as Leba­nese Shi’ite pilgrims. Syrian ­state-run media had earlier said 5 people were killed but did not identify the victims’ nationalities. The Nusra Front claimed credit. Police defused another 5-­kilogram bomb in the rear of the bus. 15020101

February 1—Nigeria—Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri from the 4 roads leading into the city, but were beaten back by soldiers, who said up to 500 gun-men died in the 5-hour gun battle. Several civilians died.

February 1—Thailand—Two pipe bombs went off at 8 p.m. between the upscale Paragon shopping mall and a mass transit elevated train line in Bangkok, slightly injuring a Thai man’s left hand. Police said the small bombs were not designed to be lethal. Police Colonel Kamthorn Auicharoen, chief of the ­explosive ordnance disposal team, said, “The explosions were caused by 2 pipe bombs that were controlled by digital clocks. Inside the pipes were flash powder and some nails.” Police were looking for 2 men seen on CCTV footage.

February 1—Lesotho—AFP reported that a gunman outside the gates of the Royal Palace of Lesotho King Letsie III shot to death a bystander and injured 2 bodyguards of Prime Minister Tom Thabane.

February 1—Nigeria—Two suicide bombings in Gombe killed only the bombers and injured a few people. Two people on a bicycle blew up their explosives at a central traffic circle. A man set off his explosives at a timber market.

February 2—Afghanistan—Taliban gunmen, some believed to have worn police uniforms, attacked 2 checkpoints, killing at least 9 officers. In the first attack, gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Maiwand District in Kandahar Province, killing 5 officers. Another 4 officers died in an attack in Chashti Sharif District in Herat Province. A police officer disappeared; some observers suggested he aided the Taliban.

February 2—Nigeria—A woman set off a car bomb a mile away from a stadium where President Goodluck Jonathan had finished addressing an election rally, killing only herself.

February 2—Belgium—Belgian police evacuated 500 people from 4 European Parliament administrative buildings and its visitors center in central Brussels to search a parked car for explosives, then arrested the male owner, who was wearing camouflage and was acting suspiciously, according to police. Police found a gun and a chainsaw but no explosives. The suspect was a Slovak born in 1982. He was charged with “threatening an attack, possession of an illegal weapon and unauthorized possession of a firearm requiring a license.” The prosecutor’s office said the detainee “said that he wanted to meet the president of the parliament.”

February 2—Internet—Fox News reported that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and spokesman Mohammad ­al-Adnani announced that only 4 social media accounts were authorized to speak for the group. Fox reported that the message said “The Caliph Abu Baker ­al-Baghdadi and Shaykh Abu Mohammad ­al-Adnani ­al-Shami do not have accounts on social media…. No one has the right to speak on behalf of the Islamic State or its Emir or its spokesperson.”

February 3—Egypt—A remotely-detonated roadside bomb went off near Alexandria, killing a civilian bystander and injuring a street peddler and his son. Officials said the bomb was aimed at a police patrol driving in the nearby beachfront town of Agamy.

Authorities found and defused 2 bombs at Cairo International Airport, one at the EgyptAir arrival hall and one near a police patrol in the parking lot. Police believed the bombs were controlled remotely by mobile phone.

A ­flash-bang grenade exploded inside an electrical box in an ­open-air commercial arcade in Cairo, but caused no injuries.

February 3—Pakistan—A Pakistani Taliban roadside bomb exploded in Mansehra District, killing 2 policemen.

Another Pakistani Taliban roadside bomb hit a vehicle carrying police officers from the Bomb Disposal Unit in Kurram, killing 4.

Terrorists threw grenades at 2 Karachi schools, causing no casualties or damage. Senior police officer Ghulam Qadir said the terrorists escaped.

February 3—Bangladesh—Before dawn, attackers threw Molotov cocktails at a passenger bus on a highway in eastern Comilla District, killing 7 and wounding 16, most of whom were asleep on a trip en route to Dhaka from the coastal city of Cox’s Bazar. The bus had no security escort. On February 4, 2015, police accused Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and an opposition alliance leader of instigating the firebombing. Local police chief Uttam Chakrabarty said 2 cases accused 56 named suspects and another 20 unnamed suspects. Zia, her aides and opposition activists earlier denied involvement in the attack.

February 3—France—CNN and AP reported that counter terrorism police in Lyon and the Paris suburbs arrested 7 men and a woman suspected of involvement in a network to send fighters to join jihadis in Syria. Three suspects had visited Syria and returned in December 2014. An official said the network began sending French recruits to Syria in May 2013. At least one died there.

February 3—UK—Judge Peter Rook sentenced David Souaan, 20, a Muslim student who had been planning to join Islamic extremists in Syria, to 31/2 years in prison. Souann visited Syria in 2013. He tried to return to Syria in May 2014, but was arrested at Heathrow Airport. In December 2014, he was found guilty of preparing for terrorist acts. The Judge said the defendant was “vulnerable to extremist views” because of his youth and immaturity. Souaan came to the UK in 2013 on a student visa to study international relations at Birkbeck College in London.

February 3—France—Around lunchtime, a man with an 8-inch knife hidden in his bag attacked 3 soldiers on an ­anti-terror patrol in front of a Jewish community center near the Galeries Lafayette department store in Nice. One soldier was injured in the chin, another in the cheek, another in the forearm. The man was detained by riot police stationed nearby; a possible accomplice was also detained. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said the attacker had an identity card with the name Moussa Coulibaly, a common Malian name. An official said the individual, about 30, had a record of theft and violence. A French security official later said that the alleged attacker had been sent home after flying to Turkey on a ­one-way ticket the previous week. He said that border police had alerted the Turks regarding Coulibaly on January 28.

February 3—Iraq—Three bombs exploded in Baghdad’s Karradah area’s Wathiq Square commercial area, killing 5 and wounding 15 amongst the shops and restaurants.

A bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad’s ­al-Talbiyah neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 8.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s Bahbah section, killing 3 and wounding 10.

A bomb exploded in a commercial area in south Baghdad’s Nahrawan neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 7.

February 3—Canada—Police charged 3 men believed involved in an Islamic State recruiting cell in Ottawa that was involved with Canadian citizen John Maguire, who appeared in an IS propaganda video overseas in December 2014 and who might have been killed recently. Police arrested Awso Peshdary, 25, for participation in the activity of a terrorist group and with facilitating an activity for a terrorist group. Police said he had been the subject of an earlier ­investigation. The Royal Canadian Mounted Po-lice charged in absentia Khadar Khalib, 23, and Maguire, 24. Both were believed to have fled to Syria or Iraq.

February 3—Congo—Reuters reported that during a nighttime attack, ­machete-wielding assailants killed at least 21 people in Mayangose. Omar Kavota, a spokesman for the Civil Society of North Kivu, said, “They surprised the peasants who were sleeping in their houses. They killed 14 men and 7 women, but this time they spared the young children.”

February 3–4—Nigeria—Nigerian and Chadian jets bombed Boko Haram positions in northeastern towns and villages. Bombing began in the Sambisa Forest.

Chad’s army said that its troops were attacked on February 3 in Cameroon by Boko Haram. “Our valiant forces responded vigorously, a chase was ­immediately instituted all the way to their base at Gamboru and Ngala (in Nigeria), where they were completely wiped out.” Chad said 9 of its troops and more than 200 terrorists died in the battle.

February 4—Cameroon—The Voice of America cited L’oeil du Sahel, a newspaper in Cameroon’s Far North region, which reported that Boko Haram killed dozens of people in a ­cross-border raid into Fotocol, Cameroon. UPI later put the figure at 70; Cameroonian officials later said 100 died and 500 were wounded. The terrorists entered mosques and slit the throats of early-morning worshippers. Boko Haram then went ­house-to-house before Came­roonian and Chadian soldiers arrived to repel the attack.

February 4—Yemen—A suicide car bomber crashed into the gates of a military base in Bayda Province, killing 5 troops.

February 4—Germany—Munich prosecutors filed ­terrorism-related charges against a 30-year-old Bavarian woman who converted to Islam and in 2014 took her 2 daughters, aged 3 and 7, to Syria, where she married a jihadi. She was charged with preparing an act of violence in Syria. Police said she was not planning attacks inside Germany. Police said she was talked into the trip by a German woman she met online who was married to a jihadi. The mother was arrested in May 2014 upon returning to Germany.

February 5—Libya—Mashallah ­al-Zewi, a minister in the ­militia-backed government in Tripoli, said that earlier in the week, gunmen in 30 pickup trucks attacked the ­al-Mabrouk oil field, killing 9 guards and an employee from Niger before kidnapping 7 foreigners. The Philippine government said 3 Filipino workers affiliated with Sogepi S.r.l. were kidnapped. 15020501

February 6—Niger—Boko Haram attacked the border town of Bosso. Soldiers repulsed the terrorists after an ­hour-long gun battle, killing 109 Boko Haram fighters. Niger’s Defense Minister, Karidjo Mahamadou, said 4 soldiers and a civilian were killed and 17 soldiers were wounded in Bosso and Diffa. He said 2 soldiers were missing. 15020601

February 6—Libya—Reuters reported that a suicide car bomber killed a man and child and wounded 20 in Benghazi’s Lithi neighborhood. The car was speed­ing towards an army tank base and ammunitions store.

February 6—U.S.—In a federal indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, 6 Bosnians were charged with conspiring to provide and providing material support to foreign terrorist groups, including the Islamic State and the Nusra Front, by sending money and military equipment to extremists in Syria. They allegedly used Facebook and PayPal to communicate and send money, wired money via Western Union, and shopped boxes of military equipment through the U.S. Postal Service.

February 7—Iraq—A female suicide bomber attacked a New Baghdad street filled with hardware stores and a restaurant, killing 24 and wounding 45 outside a restaurant and pickle shop. The Islamic State said their bomber targeted Shi’ites.

Two bombs exploded 25 yards from each other in central Baghdad’s popular Shorja market, killing at least 11 people and wounding 26.

A bomb exploded outside an outdoor food market at the Abu Cheer market on a Shi’ite block of southwestern Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 15.

A bomb exploded in Tarmiya, killing 3 soldiers in a passing convoy.

February 7—Bahrain—Bahraini authorities announced that 3 policemen were wounded, one seriously, in a Molotov cocktail attack while securing roads and extinguishing burning tires in the capi-tal.

February 7—Kenya—A masked gunman shot to death Kenyan lawmaker George Muchai, his 2 bodyguards, and a driver after they stopped to buy a newspaper from a vendor on Nairobi’s main street, according to Nairobi Central Police Chief Paul Wanjama. The gunman stole a briefcase Muchai was carrying and the bodyguards’ 2 pistols, then entered a getaway car that was being driven by another man. Muchai was a trade unionist and member of Kenya’s ruling coalition.

February 7—Bangladesh—Late in the night, attackers threw fire bombs at a packed bus and a moving truck in 2 separate incidents, killing at least 9 people and injuring 30 others. The bus was attacked in northern Gaibandha district en route to Dhaka, killing 6 people and injuring 30. The attackers fled. The poultry truck was attacked before dawn in southern Barisal district, killing the driver and 2 other ­people, according to local police official Sajjad Hossain.

February 7—Tunisia—Interior Ministry spokes­man Mohamed Ali Aroui announced the arrest of 32 extremists plotting to attack civilian and military sites around the country, including the Interior Ministry, 2 National Guard posts, and “strategic” sites in 2 southern towns. He said some of the detainees had traveled to war zones overseas, including Syria. Aroui told TV and radio reporters that the detainees belonged to the Oqba Ibn Nafaa Brigade, thought to be linked to AQIM.

February 7—Africa—Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Benin and Niger announced that they would deploy 8,750 troops by March to battle Boko Haram. Chad and Nigeria would each contribute 3,500 troops; Cameroon and Niger would send 750; and Benin would offer 250. The force would include police and humanitarian officials.

February 7–8—Niger—During the night, Boko Haram assaulted Diffa, starting a gun battle that lasted until 5 a.m. at the town’s southern entrance. A few hours later, a suicide bomber hit a pepper market in Diffa. Witnesses said the attacker might have been a female. Resident Kader Lawan said, “This young girl who was wearing the bomb made it explode right in the middle of the market. At the moment the market is surrounded by soldiers, and the rest of the town also.”

February 8—France—In a morning raid, authorities detained 6 people around the southern cities of Toulouse and Albi suspected of involvement in a network to send jihadi fighters to Syria. On February 13, AP reported that 6 Chechen men, aged 32–38, were handed preliminary charges of preparation of terrorist acts and for terror financing. Four were political refugees, one had dual French and Russian nationalities, and another received French citizenship in 2009. The 6 were denied bail.

February 8—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected of attacking 3 northern towns and kidnapping more than 30 people, including 20 on a bus in Koza. The gunmen drove the bus toward the border with Nigeria, 11 miles away. AP reported on February 10 that the group had kidnapped 8 Cameroonian girls, aged 11–14, and killed 7 hostages, including the bus driver, in the bus attack. 15020801–03

February 9—Somalia—Drive-by ­al-Shabaab gunmen killed Somali lawmaker Abdullahi Qayad Barre near the presidential palace in Mogadishu as he was driving to parliament.

February 9—Afghanistan—AP quoted the deputy governor of the southern Helmand Province who said that Abdul Rauf, the Islamic State’s senior recruiter in Afghanistan, was killed by a drone strike with at least 4 other terrorists in a car. Afghanistan’s intelligence service said Afghan forces fired the missile. Abdul Rauf was a former Taliban commander who had defected to the Islamic State.

February 9—Cameroon—In the morning, Boko Haram was suspected of attacking Kolofata, looting food and livestock. 15020901

February 9—Niger—Boko Haram set off a car bomb near a customs office in Duffa at 3 p.m., causing an undetermined number of casualties. 15020902

February 9—Nigeria—Boko Haram leader Abuba­kar Shekau said in a video, “You are sending 7,000 of your soldiers. Why don’t you send 7 million? The 7,000 is little and we can kill them step by step…. Your soldiers are infidels and God’s soldiers are victorious.” He called on the people of Chad and Came­roon to renounce democracy to be true Muslims. He ridiculed the force planned by “you tyrants of Africa” and told Chad’s President Idriss Deby that he will “burn in hellfire.” The video included footage of IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

February 9—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosive vest during rush hour in Baghdad’s Adan Square, killing 18 commuters and wounding 42.

Hours later, a bomb exploded in a commercial area in Baghdad’s northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah, killing 4 civilians and wounding 9.

February 9—UK—Prosecutor Annabel Darlow told the Old Bailey court that British citizen Brusthom Ziamani, 19, told his girlfriend he planned to “kill soldiers” shortly before he was arrested in August 2014 while carrying a 12-inch knife and a hammer in his backpack. Darlow said Islamic convert Ziamani idolized Michael Adebolajo, who hacked a British soldier to death on a crowded London street. Prosecutors said Ziamani used an alias in Facebook posts that called for the implementation of Sharia law in Britain and said he was willing to die for Islam. Ziamani denied charges of preparing an act of terrorism. London’s Central Criminal Court on February 19 convicted him of preparing an act of terrorism.

February 9—U.S.—The Huffington Post reported that the U.S. Department of State announced that former rapper Denis Cuspert, alias Abu Talha ­al-Almani, 39, is a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The Department said he appeared to be a recruiter of German speakers for the Islamic State, appearing in videos, including a November posting in which he held the severed head of a man who supposedly opposed the organization. The Post reported that he had pledged an oath of loyalty to IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. The German government wanted him on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities in his home country. He was born in 1975 to Ghanaian and German parents. He rapped under the name “Deso Dogg” in Berlin in 2002 and began associating with extremists in 2010, leaving in 2012 to join the Islamic State in Syria. Yahoo! reported that he had toured with rapper DMX. He said in a video, “I was a sinner. I lived in sin before I turned to Islam. Surrounded by music, drugs, alcohol and women.”

February 10—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Mahmoudiya, killing 4 civilians and wounding 11.

A bomb exploded in Madain, killing 2 civilians and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded in Tarmiyah, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 5.

February 10—Albania—Two bombs exploded before dawn in Tirana, destroying a pharmacy owned by the father of Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri and damaged the apartment of a senior police officer. The drug store was near the headquarters of the national intelligence police. No injuries were reported. Socialist Prime Minister Edi Rama deemed the incidents a coordinated “act of terrorism.” Police acting on a telephone tip destroyed a third device near the apartment of the Prime Minister’s mother in Tirana. The bombs went off 25 minutes apart.

February 10—Afghanistan—Taliban suicide bomb­ers attacked an Afghan police station in northern Kunduz Province, killing one police officer. A suicide car bomber set off his explosives, followed by a pedestrian suicide bomber. Three other gunmen fired on police, who killed the trio.

A roadside bomb near a school in Jalalabad exploded as Angeza Shinwari, a Nangarhar Province councilwoman, drove past. The blast killed her driver and severely wounded Shinwari and another person.

February 10—Australia—Police arrested 2 men in counterterrorism raids in the Sydney suburb of Fairfield. Omar ­al-Kutobi, 24, and Mohammad Kiad, 25, were charged on February 11 with undertaking acts in preparation or planning for a terrorist act in planning to launch an imminent terrorist attack. Police confiscated a homemade Islamic State flag, a machete and a hunting knife. Police also found a video that showed one of the duo making threats. They were denied bail. They faced life sentences. Prime Minister Tony Abbott told Parliament of a video in which one of the men knelt before the flag with a knife in his hand and a machete in front of him, saying, “I swear to almighty Allah, we will carry out the first operation for the soldiers of the caliphate in Australia. … I swear to almighty Allah, blond people, there is no room for blame between you and us. We only owe you stabbing the kidneys and striking necks.” Immigration Minister Peter Dutton said one of them may have entered Australia with “some false documentation.”

February 10—France—French Minister of Justice Christiane Taubira told the UN Security Council’s ­Counter-Terrorism Committee that the government had dismantled about 15 terrorist networks.

February 11—Iraq—During clashes between the Islamic State and government forces, 3 suicide truck bombers conducted attacks. At least 12 security forces, Shi’ite militiamen and civilians were killed and 37 were wounded. Terrorists claimed the attackers were French, Syrian and Qatari fighters.

Mortar shells hit 2 Shi’ite neighborhoods in Baghdad, killing at least 10 civilians. One mortar hit a commercial area, killing 7 civilians, including 2 women, and wounding 19 others. Hours later, mortar shells hit a second neighborhood, killing 3 civilians and wounding 6.

A bomb went off in Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 8.

A car bomb exploded in a town southwest of Baghdad, killing 7 and wounding 17.

February 11—Germany—Federal prosecutors charged Nezet S., 22, with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations that he trained and fought with the Islamic State in Syria. Authorities said he traveled via Turkey to Syria in July 2014, then received weapons and “took part multiple times in fighting” through August 2014. He returned to Germany. Dusseldorf prosecutors initially investigated him and then federal prosecutors took over after evidence emerged that he had joined the Islamic State.

February 11—Belgium—A court in Antwerp ruled that the Sharia4Belgium group was a terrorist organization that recruited youngsters to fight in Syria and wanted to violently overthrow democracy and replace it with strict sharia law. The court sentenced Fouad Belkacem, 32, the group’s “charismatic leader,” to 12 years’ imprisonment. At least 46 Muslims were originally indicted; 45 were found guilty and either given suspended sentences or sentenced to 3–15 years. Jejoen Bontinck, 20, received a 40-month suspended sentence after he agreed to testify against the group. The trial began in September 2014. Only 7 were in court.

February 12—Nigeria—A bomb hit a crowded market in Biu, killing and injuring many. Boko Haram was suspected.

February 12—United Nations—The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a ­Russian-sponsored resolution on the financing of terrorist groups and calling for sanctions on individuals and companies trading oil produced by the Islamic State and other ­al-Qaeda–linked groups. The 193 UN member states were to take “appropriate steps” to prevent the trade in antiquities and other items of historical, cultural, rare scientific and religious importance illegally removed from Syria. The legislation stated that it is illegal to pay ransom to individuals and groups that are already subject to UN sanctions, and deemed that all countries are required to freeze such funds.

February 12—Afghanistan—Gunmen assassinated Sheirin Agha, a member of the High Peace Council, during evening prayers in a Kandahar mosque.

February 13—Egypt—MENA reported that a bomb went off next to a police patrol in eastern Cairo’s Ein Shams district, injuring 10 people, including a civilian. Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) claimed credit on Twitter, saying the policemen were heading to disperse Islamists’ demonstrations.

February 13—Turkey—A bomb exploded near a police checkpoint in Suruc, near the Syrian border, slightly injuring a policeman and a ­passer-by. Turkish Labor Minister Faruk Celik told ­state-run TRT Television that the bomb was inside a garbage container next to a parked car 15 yards from the checkpoint, observing, “The nature of the bomb indicates that it was a terror attack.”

February 13—Pakistan—The Pakistani Taliban attacked a Shi’ite mosque in Peshawar, killing 20 people and wounding 67, according to Mian Mohammad Saeed, the chief of operations for the Peshawar police. The Taliban released a video showing 3 attackers while provincial police chief Nasir Durrani said 4–5 terrorists were involved. The gunmen entered via a neighboring building that was under construction, jumping over an outer wall into the mosque courtyard. A suicide bomber set off his explosives while the others entered the mosques, throwing hand grenades and shooting at the crowd. Two of them blew themselves up, a third was killed by worshippers. Durrani said, “People here showed great courage. They grabbed one of the attackers from his neck, and he couldn’t detonate [his explosives], and he was shot and killed.” Some survivors said some terrorists wore security uniforms. Among the wounded was Syed Javed Hasan, who said, “The prayer was about to end when a big bang happened, followed by dust and smoke. I have seen amid the smoke that one guy dressed in a police uniform was firing shots and then there was another blast.” Pakistani Taliban spokes­man Mohamad Khurasani said the group was avenging the execution of one of their members by the ­Pakistani government. UPI quoted authorities as indicating that the attack’s planner, Kalifa Omar Mansoor, also masterminded the December 16, 2014, attack on the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar. Pakistani Taliban spokesman Muhammad Khurasan told CNN in an ­e-mail that it was avenging the government’s December 19 execution of Mohammed Aqeel, a man condemned in part for his role in an attack on an army headquarters in 2009.

February 13—Chad—Boko Haram was suspected in the morning attack on Ngouboua, a village used as a transit camp for Nigerian refugees, on the shore of Lake Chad. UPI added that at least 4 civilians and a soldier were killed. Azem Bermandoua Agouna of the Chadian army told BBC that residents put the death toll closer to 30. Several homes were set on fire. The army gave pursuit, killing 2 and injuring 5 and destroying the terrorists’ 4 motorboats and canoes. The air force also conducted air strikes. 15021301

February 13—Yemen—A suicide car bomber hit a police headquarters in Bayda that was recently captured by Shi’ite Houthi rebels who had seized power in the country.

During the week, the U.S., UK, France, Saudi Arabia, Italy and Germany shut down their embassies.

AQAP raided a prison in Shabwa Province, freeing 6 prisoners. Three of the detainees had been sentenced to death.

February 13—Libya—The Guardian reported that the Islamic State released pictures in Dabiq, an IS online magazine, showing 21 handcuffed Egyptian Coptic Christians in orange jumpsuits. The Christian guest workers were kidnapped in Sirte in 2 operations in December and January in retaliation for the alleged killing of 2 women in Egypt. The magazine said, “This month, the soldiers of the Khilāfah in Wilāyat Tarābulus (Caliphate State Tripolitania) captured 21 Coptic crusaders, almost 5 years after the blessed operation against the Baghdad church executed in revenge for Kamilia Shehata, Wafa Constantine, and other sisters who were tortured and murdered by the Coptic Church of Egypt.” On February 15, AP reported that IS released a video showing the beheadings of the 21 hostages. 14129901, 15019901

February 14—Egypt—Police foiled 2 Islamic militant suicide car bomb attacks on a police station in Sheikh Zuweyid. The attack wounded 2 police of­ficers. Guards in the police station’s towers fired at the cars, which exploded before reaching the building.

February 14—Pakistan—Gunmen in the Khyber tribal region killed a driver and wounded a polio worker. Another vaccination team, consisting of 2 male ­anti-polio volunteers, 2 guards and a driver, went missing and were believed kidnapped in southwestern Baluchistan Province after carrying out a vaccination campaign in a remote area of the province’s Zhob district.

February 14—UK—East London police arrested a 32-­year-old man on suspicion of being a member or supporter of the Islamic State who was allegedly collecting information useful to someone preparing acts of terror and encouraging terrorism.

February 14—Nigeria—Scores of Boko Haram terrorists in a convoy of vans attacked Gombe in the morning. The military repulsed them with ground troops and 2 air force jets.

February 14—Denmark—CNN reported that a gunman attacked a Copenhagen theater building where Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, 68, and 30 of his supporters, including French Ambassador Francois Zimeray, were meeting at a free speech presentation entitled “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression.” At 3:33 p.m., the terrorist fired through the windows of the Krudttoended cultural center, killing Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard, 55, and wounding 3 police officers, 2 of them from the domestic Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET), before driving away in a carjacked dark Volkswagen Polo. Vilks was a target for his 2007 cartoon of Mohammed with the body of a dog.

The car was found abandoned a few miles away. Surveillance video showed the terrorist getting into a taxi, which dropped him off at 4:15 p.m. near the Noerrebro train station outside the city center. He stayed in the building for 20 minutes.

At 12:55 a.m. the next morning, the gunman struck again, walking up to police guarding a Copenhagen synagogue and opening fire. Three police were wounded, including 2 police officers who were hit in the arms and legs. Jewish security guard Dan Uzan, 37, who was protecting a nearby bat mitzvah, was hit in the head and later died from his wounds. The suspect ran away.

On February 15, at 4:50 a.m., the gunman returned to the Noerrebro district, where a SWAT team awaited. He fired handguns at them. Police returned fire, killing the 22-year-old ­Danish-born gunman, who had a history of violence and gang connections. He had been released from jail 2 weeks earlier.

Police spokesman Joergen Skov said the gunman had visited an Internet cafe late Saturday, about 61/2 hours after the first attack. Police led away in handcuffs 2 people at the café.

On February 16, Danish police arrested 2 men suspected of helping the shooter. They were jailed for 10 days, accused of helping the gunman evade authorities and get rid of a weapon. Attorney Michael Juul Eriksen represented one of the suspects. On February 26, a Danish court extended their detention for 4 weeks.

The AP said the gunman was Omar Abdel Hamid ­el-Hussein, 22, who was born on September 11, 1992, in Denmark. His Palestinian parents, since divorced, raised him and a younger brother in the Copenhagen area. He spent 3 years in Jordan. He attended VUC vocational school in Hvidovre, a suburb of Copenhagen, but was expelled after being charged with stabbing a 19-year-old male train passenger in the left thigh with a large knife in November 2013. In December 2014, he was convicted of aggravated assault for the stabbing, receiving time served. He had earlier convictions for violence and weapons infractions. He participated in martial arts at Copenhagen’s Muay Thai boxing club. The 6-foot, 2-inch ­el-Hussein was nicknamed “Little Hussein from the Square,” a reference to Blaagaardsplads in Noerrebro district, a Blood and Brothers criminal gang area.

On February 27, Danish police arrested a 3rd man believed to have assisted ­el-Hussein. On February 28, AP reported that an 18-year-old younger brother of ­el-Hussein was jailed for 26 days on suspicion of providing a ­bullet-proof jacket to the gunman.

AP reported on March 19, 2015, that Danish police arrested a fourth man, aged 30, suspected of assisting Omar ­el-Hussein. On March 20, Danish police arrested a fifth man, aged 25. The 2 were jailed until a hearing scheduled for March 26. The 30-year-old man was suspected of helping ­el-Hussein get rid of the M95 assault rifle. Denmark’s TV2 said the 30-year-old had “clear relations” to an ­inner-city immigrant gang in Copenhagen that ­el-Hussein had ties with. Police said the 25-year-old helped ­el-Hussein get rid of undisclosed objects that ­el-Hussein used 9 hours later when he attacked Copenhagen’s main synagogue and fatally shot a Jewish guard.

On November 4, 2015, AP reported that PET determined that Omar Abdel Hamid ­el-Hussein obtained a new Danish passport 9 days before the killings. AP obtained a February 16 PET report that suggested that the passport “could indicate that he planned to travel, for instance to Syria, after the attack.” 15021401

February 15—Pakistan—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Maulana Mazhar Siddiqui, a leader of the Sunni hardline Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) group. He was traveling in a car in Rawalpindi. Two of his associates were wounded.

February 15—Nigeria—At 1 p.m., a teen female suicide bomber blew herself up at the entrance to the bus station in Damaturu, killing at least 16 and wounding 30. Most of the victims were children who had either been selling peanuts or begging for money. One observer suggested she was 16. A French news agency said an angry mob prevented rescue workers from evacuating the bomber’s remains and set her body parts on fire.

February 15—Germany—Police in Braunschweig cancelled a Carnival street parade because of fears of an imminent jihadi terrorist attack. On May 20, 2015, Hannover prosecutor Joerg Froehlich said that authorities found “neither evidence of an imminent attack nor of a criminal group.” Froehlich said that information had come from a longtime informant for the state intelligence agency, who reported that he overheard a conversation and concluded an attack was imminent.

February 15—Egypt—MENA reported that gunmen on a flyover fired on a traffic police patrol in the Nile Delta town of Benha, killing one policeman and wounding 3 others. A police car was damaged.

February 16—Niger—Boko Haram threatened suicide bombings after Niger pledged to send troops to combat the jihadis.

February 16—UK—Greater Manchester Police announced the arrest of Mohammed Ammer Ali, 31, from Liverpool, who was charged with trying to obtain a chemical weapon, later identified as 500 grams of ricin, between January 10 and February 12. On February 17, London’s Westminster Magistrates’ Court ordered him detained until his next appearance. Police said they had not uncovered a terrorist plot.

On February 18, Greater Manchester Police said they had arrested a 16-year-old boy on February 16 on charges of “attempting to acquire a biological toxin or agent.” A 16-year-old girl arrested with him in the Manchester area was released without charge on February 18. He was scheduled to appear in a youth court on February 19.

February 16—Iraq—The Christian Post reported that the Islamic State cut off the hands of 3 women for unannounced reasons and whipped 5 men who were using cellphones in Mosul to talk to their families. IS had earlier banned all Apple devices and GPS.

February 16—Cameroon—Suspected Boko Haram gunmen attacked a Cameroonian military base near the border with Nigeria, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 8. Hundreds of gunmen returned to Ni­geria after looting and torched scores of homes. 15021601

February 16—Algeria—Soldiers killed a terrorist carrying explosives near Tebessa, across the border from Kasserine.

February 17—Pakistan—A ­Jamaat-ul-Ahr (Pakistani Taliban splinter group) suicide bomber was prevented from entering a police complex in Lahore. He ran toward the main gate and blew himself up, killing 5 people and wounding 7. Nearby buildings caught fire. Spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan said the group was avenging the recent executions of some of their members by the Pakistani government, observing, “This was a suicide attack and such attacks will go on.”

February 17—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that a magnetic bomb attached to a 4-wheel-drive vehicle exploded in eastern Kabul in the morning, wounding one person.

Taliban suicide bombers wearing police uniforms attacked a police station in ­Pul-i-Alam in Logar Province, killing 20 people, including 2 civilians, and wounding 8 people. The first bomber set his explosives off at the gate. A second set his off at a security checkpoint inside the compound. The others ran into a dining hall at lunchtime, killing many more officers. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid ­e-mailed the AP to claim credit.

February 17—United Nations—Iraqi Ambassador to the UN Mohamed Alhakim asked the UN Security Council to investigate allegations that the Islamic State was harvesting organs to finance itself. He said that in the past few weeks, bodies with surgical incisions and missing kidneys or other body parts were found in shallow mass graves. “We have bodies. Come and examine them. It is clear they are missing certain parts.” He said 12 doctors were “executed” in Mosul for refusing to harvest organs.

February 17—Madagascar—Police in Toliara said 4 men abducted French boy Houssein Anvaraly, 12, from outside his school. The boy had South Asian roots and might have a second citizenship. He was released in good health on February 21.

February 18—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a checkpoint run by Shi’ite militia and the Iraqi army near Samarra, killing 4 militiamen and 2 soldiers and wounding 16 people.

February 18—Tunisia—Around midnight, Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said 20 Oqba Ibn Nafaa gunmen ambushed a patrol, killing 4 National Guard members near Mount Chaambi in the Kasserine region near the Algerian border. The Oqba bin Nafaa group claims to be the military wing of Ansar ­al-Sharia, whose leaders fled to Libya in 2013.

February 18—Nigeria—Boko Haram’s Abubakar Shekau released a video threatening to use violence to disrupt the March 28 elections.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen riding motorbikes and Hilux vans attacked the ­Tamsu-Shehuri village during the night, killing at least 12 people and stole food from homes.

February 18—Pakistan—A gunman opened fire and threw a grenade (or his explosives jacket partially exploded) into an Islamabad Shi’ite mosque, killing 3 and injuring 2.

February 18—Iraq—Anbar provincial council chairman Sabah Karkhout told CNN that the Islamic State had burned alive up to 40 police officers and tribesmen near the town of ­al-Baghdadi in Anbar Province.

February 18—Colombia—Authorities detained U.S. missionary Russell Martin Stendal, 59, a Minnesota native, on charges of supporting terrorism and collaborating with FARC rebels, according to Police Colonel Flavio Meza. He surrendered after officials issued a warrant. Police said he traveled to Cuba and Panama to deliver FARC messages. He lived in Co­lombia. Stendal said in an online video that “Somebody set a trap for me, and I walked into it. They are accusing me of rebellion for the missionary trips and visits we have made to conflict zones distributing Bibles and radios.” On February 19, a Colombian court rejected the prosecution’s request to jail Stendal, saying the evidence was lacking. He was funded by the ­Arizona-based Spirit of Martyrdom ministries. Stendal claimed to have been kidnapped by rebels 5 times and ­right-wing paramilitaries 3 times. The government had earlier jailed him. Rebels held him for 5 months in 1983.

February 19—UK—CNN tweeted that police at Heathrow Airport arrested a woman, who was traveling with a ­one-year-old, on terrorism charges.

February 19—Morocco—Moroccan authorities announced the arrest of 3 men in Casablanca and Oujda suspected of planning to join the Islamic State in Libya. The trio were from Sidi Benour. The government added that they were linked to another 3 from Sidi Benour who were arrested on December 31, 2014, who were planning to join jihad in Libya.

February 19—Iraq—A bomb exploded during the night near a café south of Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 11.

A bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 8.

A bomb hit an army patrol in Abu Ghraib, killing 2 soldiers and one civilian.

Two mortar shells hit a farmhouse south of Baghdad, killing a farmer and his wife.

February 19—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when gunmen riding 4 motorcycles attacked the village of ­Ladi-Shehuri, killing and burning a man in his car. Soldiers from Konduga responded and killed 12 attackers. Boko Haram members riding motorcycles attacked Gatamarwa, Lehu and Makalawa villages near Chibok.

February 20—Libya—NPR and AP reported that an ambulance bomb exploded next to a gas station in Qubba, 19 miles from Darna, killing 45, including 6 Egyptians working at a nearby café, and wounding 70. A security official told the media that another bomb hit the home of Parliament Speaker Ageila Saleh, while a third bomb targeted the security headquarters building. The Islamic State credited 2 of the “Caliphate’s knights” for an attack on what it said was one of Army General Khalifa Hifter’s operations rooms. It said it was retaliating for the killing of Muslims in Darna. Egyptian airstrikes had recently bombed Darna after the IS beheaded 21 Egyptian Christian hostages. 15022001

February 20—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab suicide car bomber crashed into the gate of the Central Hotel near the presidential palace in Mogadishu. Another suicide bomber ran into the hotel and set off his explosives. NPR reported that 25 were killed, including Somali legislator Omar Ali Nor, another legislator, the deputy governor of Banadir, members of the prime minister’s staff, and Mogadishu deputy mayor Mohamed Aden. Deputy Prime Minister Mohamed Omar Arte and other government officials meeting at the hotel were among the 40 wounded.

February 20—Thailand—After the lunch break, a bomb hidden in a parked pickup truck exploded in front of a karaoke bar in a commercial district in Narathiwat Province, wounding 2 soldiers and 11 civilians, one of them seriously. Muslim terrorists were suspected. An official told the media that the truck was reported to have been stolen on Thailand’s southern border with Malaysia and had been used in a previous rebel attack.

Police defused 2 other bombs in the predominantly Buddhist neighborhood. Terrorists threw a pipe bomb at a restaurant 50 yards from the first explosion, but the improvised device did not go off and was defused. An explosive ordnance disposal unit used water cannon to destroy another explosive device hidden in a motorcycle in front of a grocery store.

February 20—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that the Ankara State Prosecutor’s office launched an investigation following reports in ­pro-government newspapers Aksam, Gunes and Star that claimed that U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen had ordered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s daugh­ter Sumeyye Erdogan’s assassination and that Turkey’s opposition party supported the plot. The papers cited alleged intercepted Twitter messages between a journalist who is close to Gulen and opposition legislator Umut Oran.

February 20—Morocco—A Moroccan court convicted 18 men, including a former member of the Spanish military, for being part of a criminal band aiming to carry out terror attacks. The group was arrested in January in 6 cities. They were sentenced to 3–10 years. One was a ­Moroccan-Spanish citizen who served in the Spanish army before resigning and joining ­al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He was sentenced to 8 years.

February 20—UK—London Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command officers asked the pub­lic to help find Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, reported missing from their homes, who were believed to be traveling to Islamic ­State-controlled areas of Syria. They were students at London’s Bethnal Green Academy. They flew from London’s Gatwick Airport to Istanbul on February 17. A fourth girl, Aqsa Mahmood, a friend of the 3, left London for Syria in December 2014 (or in 2013, reports differed) to become a “jihadi bride.” On February 24, AP reported that investigating police believed the teens had entered Syria. On March 12, 2015, CNN reported that Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Anatolia news agency and A Haber television that Turkey had arrested a non–Turk working for an undisclosed nation’s intelligence service on suspicion of helping girls join IS. He added that the unnamed country is part of an international anti–ISIS coalition. SkyNews added that Cavusoglu said the individual was not an American nor from an EU country. Another Turkish official said the individual was not a citizen of the country for which he was working. AP reported that the suspect had been arrested more than a week earlier.

February 20—Niger—The Voice of America reported that Boko Haram attacked Karamga island on Niger’s side of Lake Chad at 8 p.m.; the army quickly arrived in response. Fourteen Boko Haram and 7 soldiers died in the gun battle. 15022002

February 20—Nigeria—The Voice of America reported that Boko Haram killed at least 21 people in attacks near Chibok.

February 21—South Sudan—Gunmen kidnapped at least 89 boys, some as young as 13, near Malakal, the capital of the northern Upper Nile State, according to UNICEF. The students were completing exams in the Wau Shilluk area. The affiliation of the gunmen was unclear.

February 21—Somalia/U.S.—CNN reported that ­al-Shabaab released a 76-minute video in which it threatened attacks against shoppers at malls in the U.S., UK, and Canada. They named the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, the West Edmonton Mall in Canada, and the Westfield Mall in Stratford, England as among the targets. The narrator wore a kaffiyeh and camouflage jacket. He spoke with a British accent and appeared to be of Somali descent, asking, “What if such an attack were to occur in the Mall of America in Minnesota? Or the West Edmonton Mall in Canada? Or in London’s Oxford Street?”

February 22—Libya—A bomb hidden in garbage bags exploded outside the empty Tripoli home of the Iranian ambassador, causing minimal damage and no injuries. 15022201

February 22—Iraq—In the afternoon, a suicide truck bomber crashed into a checkpoint manned by Sahwa militias in Tikrit, killing 8 militiamen and wounding 15.

Baghdad police found 4 bodies with gunshots wounds.

A bomb went off near an outdoor market in Youssfiyah, killing 2 people and wounding 10.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s southeastern Zafaraniyah district, killing 2 and wounding 6.

A car bomb exploded during the night near car repair shops in Baghdad’s Baiyaa district, killing 7 people and wounding 14 others.

February 22—Nigeria—A 10-year-old girl suicide bomber got out of a tricycle taxi and set off her explosives in front of the cell phone market in Potiskum, killing 4 and seriously injuring 46. Anazumi Saleh suffered head injuries. Boko Haram was suspected.

February 23—France—The government announced it had barred 6 people from leaving France because they wanted to join extremists in Syria. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 40 others would face travel bans in the coming weeks. An Interior Ministry official said the passports and ID cards of the 6 were declared invalid for 6 months, a measure that can be extended for up to 2 years.

February 23—Nigeria—A woman walked into Damagum Central Primary School in Fune in Yobe State and tried to give pupils a parcel to deliver to the headmistress. When they refused, she fled. Authorities speculated that she may have been carrying a bomb.

February 23—U.S./Israel—A jury in Manhattan awarded $218.5 million in damages from the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority for 6 terrorist attacks in Israel in 2002–2004 that killed 30 and wounded hundreds, including several Americans. Lawyers said the judgment would probably triple to $655 million under the provisions of the U.S. ­Anti-Terrorism Act. On February 24, the Washington Post reported that Palestinian leaders said they would appeal the decision. Among the plaintiffs was Alan Bauer, who was injured in 2002 when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up as Bauer was walking down a Jerusalem boulevard with his son. The families’ attorneys included Kent Yalowitz and Nitsana Darshan Leitner. The defense team included Mark Rocho. PLO executive committee member Hanan Ashrawi added, “There is no money. Maybe they can get some furniture from our offices in Washington.”

February 23–24—Syria—The Islamic State kidnapped between 70 and 100 Assyrian Christians, including women and children, among the 300 people they seized after overrunning 33 Assyrian villages along the banks of Khabur River near the town of Tal Tamr in Hassakeh Province in northeastern Syria. Nuri Kino, head of A Demand for Action, which focuses on religious minorities in the Middle East, said 3,000 people fled and sought refuge in Hassakeh and Qamishli. A man who refused to leave his house was set alight inside it. Most of the captives were from the village of Tal Shamiram. The Islamic State group’s online radio station ­al-Bayan said it held “tens of crusaders” and seized 10 villages around Tal Tamr after clashes with Kurdish militiamen. The patriarch of the Greek Catholic church, Gregory III Laham, said IS destroyed the historic church in Tal Hurmiz, one of the oldest in Syria. IS burned another historic church in Qaber Shamiyeh. By February 26, the group had kidnapped 220 Christians and moved them to their stronghold at Shaddadeh, south of Hassakeh. CNN reported on February 28 that IS planned to release 29 hostages, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing an Assyrian commander, and noting that an IS court ordered the release. The Observatory said the hostages were held in the Mount Abdelaziz area, southwest of Tal Tamer. On March 1, AP reported that IS released 19 Christians—16 men and 3 women from Tal Ghoran. All were 50 years of age or older. The Assyrian Human Rights Network said they were freed after payment of a tax on non–Muslims. On March 3, AP reported the release of a married couple, a woman and a 6-year-old girl. On May 26, 2015, Syrian activists said IS freed 2 of the women, aged 70 and 75, probably because of poor health. IS demanded $100,000 for each of the remaining 210 Assyrian Christian hostages. On November 7, 2015, AP reported that IS released 37 Syrian Christians, including 27 women. On November 24, 2015, AFP reported that IS released another 10 Assyrian Christians, including 5 women.

February 24—Yemen—Gunmen in Sana’a kidnapped Isabelle Prime, a 30-year-old French woman who had worked for the World Bank in Yemen for a year. She was grabbed in front of a ministry building in a morning attack, during which gunmen forced her and her translator into a car. In early 2015, the kidnappers released a video of Prime, asking the leader of France and Yemen for help in obtaining her release. On August 7, 2015, AP reported that Prime was free. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius thanked Oman for its assistance in coordination with “some Yemeni parties” following a request for help from the French government. Fabius said France paid no ransom, observing, “France does not pay but we are at the same time very attentive to the human reality. What counts at the end of the chain is that we end up recovering our own. You can imagine these are complicated negotiations.” 15022401

February 24—Spain—The Foreign Ministry announced the dismantling of a ring recruiting young women to join the Islamic State. Police arrested 2 suspected recruiters in the north African enclave of Melilla and 2 suspected online IS propagandists in Barcelona and Girona. The Ministry said the duo in Melilla “were dedicated to the recruitment of women who, after a process of indoctrination, would end up integrated into this terror group.” One of the detainees had a Facebook page with more than 1,000 followers.

February 24—Libya—The al-Wasat news website reported that female activist Intissar ­al-Hasaari, founder of the Enlightenment Group, which led protests against militias, and her aunt were found shot to death in ­al-Hasaari’s car in Tripoli.

February 24—Nigeria—NBC News reported that at 10:30 a.m., 5 gunmen kidnapped the Reverend Phyllis Sortor, an American missionary with the Free Methodist Church in Seattle, and demanded 60 million naira (roughly $300,000) ransom. The group, 3 of whom were masked, took her from the Hope Academy compound in Emiworo, Kogi State, after they jumped over the compound’s walls and fired into the air. The government suspected a criminal gang. Sortor, a grandmother, was a graduate of the ­Christian-oriented Seattle Pacific University. She was a financial administrator for the Hope Academy and an extension school in Ikot Ntuk. Her group was building a new school for Fulani children. Sortor, a daughter of missionaries, was also helping to build wells and bring clean water to the community. By February 26, Fox News reported that the ransom demand was halved. On March 7, 2015, France 24 reported that the Reverend Phyllis Sortor was safely released to authorities and church leaders. 15022402

February 24—Afghanistan—In the afternoon, gunmen wearing black clothing and black masks kidnapped 30 male Hazaras from 2 buses traveling from Kandahar to Kabul on a major road in Zabul Province. Women, children and non–Hazaras were left behind.

February 24—Iraq—Shortly before sunset, a bomb exploded in Baghdad’s southeastern Jisr Diyala suburb. A car bomb exploded as first responders were arriving. At least 25 people were killed and 50 were wounded. Casualties included several students who had exited a nearby school.

A parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in Mishada, killing 4 civilians and wounding 12.

A bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad’s northwestern Shula neighborhood, killing 3 civilians and wounding 8.

A bomb exploded in a commercial area in Youssifiyah, killing 3 civilians and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Latifiyah, killing 2 civilians and wounding 7.

A bomb hit a police patrol in Madain, killing a ­police officer and a civilian and wounding 5 peo-ple.

A bomb exploded in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood, killing a civilian and wounding 5.

February 24—UK—The second prosecution began of British citizen Erol Incedal, 27, who denied charges of planning indiscriminate ­Mumbai-style shootings or to attack a “significant” individual. The address of former Prime Minister Tony Blair was found in his car. In 2014, a jury failed to reach a verdict on that charge, but deemed him guilty of possessing information for use in terrorism.

February 24—Nigeria—Two suspected Boko Haram teen suicide bombers killed 24 people in separate blasts at bus stations in 2 cities 185 miles apart. In Potiskum, a young man jumped into a bus and set off his bomb, killing 12 and injuring 20. Bus driver Adamu Isa said a security guard stopped a man who set off a metal detector as passengers were boarding his bus in Potiskum. “He was told to stand to one side but instead forced himself onto the bus and blew himself up.”

Hours later, 2 bombers, believed to be 17 or 18 years old, set off bombs that hit a bus station in Kano, killing 12 and injuring many more. Ensuing fires destroyed 2 buses and a car.

February 25—U.S.—WOKV and Jacksonville’s Florida ­Times-Union reported that the FBI had arrested 3 individuals on charges of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State by sending recruits. Among them was Abror Habibov, 30, an Uzbek who lived in Brooklyn, New York and ran a cellphone repair kiosk in a Jacksonville mall. He was arrested by the FBI and accused of running a “domestic support network” to fund recruitment efforts. He was appointed a public defender and due to return to a Jacksonville federal court on March 3. FBI Assistant Director Diego Rodriguez said Habibov “was here legally and overstayed.” A 23-page FBI warrant said he owned “kiosks that sell kitchenware and repair mobile phones” in malls in Jacksonville, Savannah, Philadelphia, and 2 locations in Virginia. He reportedly employed fellow suspect Akhror Sai­dakh­metov in Savannah.

Authorities at John F. Kennedy International Airport arrested Kazakhstan citizen Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, a Brooklyn resident, as he attempted to board a flight to Istanbul and go on to Syria, according to an arrest warrant unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn. The warrant said that in a taped conversation, he said that if he could not get travel documents to go to Syria, “I will just go out and buy a machine gun, AK-47, go out and shoot all police.” He also allegedly told an informant “We will go and purchase one handgun … then go and shoot one police officer…. Boom… Then, we will take his gun, bullets and a bulletproof vest … then, we will do the same with a couple of others…. Then we will go to the FBI headquarters, kill the FBI people.”

Authorities in Brooklyn arrested Uzbek citizen Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, alias Abdulloh Ibn Hassan, 24, who was scheduled to fly to Syria in late March. The FBI visited his Brooklyn home on August 15, 2014, where they found that he often used his cell phone to visit an ­IS-affiliated website. A warrant said he also would plant a bomb on Coney Island if directed to do so by IS. He had a plane ticket for March 29 to fly from New York to Istanbul.

FBI Assistant Director Rodriguez said Juraboev and Saidakhmetov were legal permanent residents.

Authorities discovered the group in the summer of 2014, when they posted supportive statements for IS online, according to a federal arrest warrant filed in the U.S. District Court in New York. The warrant indicated that in August 2014, Juraboev posted on an ­Uzbek-language, ­now-defunct ­IS-affiliated website that “I am in USA now but we don’t have any arms. But is it possible to commit ourselves as dedicated martyrs anyway while here? What I’m saying is, to shoot Obama and then get shot ourselves, will it do? That will strike fear in the hearts of infidels.”

A federal complaint said one of the defendants discussed hijacking a commercial flight to Turkey and diverting it “to the Islamic State, so that the Islamic State would gain a plane.” They also considered joining the U.S. armed forces in order to attack soldiers.

The trio faced 15 years in prison.

The Florida ­Times-Union reported on March 4 that Habibov was to be moved to another jail.

February 25—West Bank—At dawn, suspected Israeli arsonists set fire to a Palestinian mosque in Jabaa village near Bethlehem in the West Bank and left Hebrew graffiti at the site. The mosque’s walls and carpeted floor were damaged. The graffiti read “we want the redemption of Zion” and “revenge” alongside a Jewish Star of David.

February 25—Jordan—The U.S. embassy warned citizens that “high-end malls” in Amman could be attacked as Jordan takes part in airstrikes against the Islamic State.

February 25—Philippines—Troops, artillery, and assault helicopters attacked some 300 Abu Sayyaf rebels. Two soldiers and 5 terrorists were killed and 16 soldiers and 16 AS members were wounded in a jungle near Patikul in Sulu Province. The Abu Sayyaf gunmen were led by Hatib Sawadjaan.

February 25—Australia—Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced that the government had imposed financial sanctions on the ­Egypt-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis in line with a UN Security Council resolution on preventing and suppressing terrorist acts. Breaching the sanctions carries a potential maximum 10 years in prison.

February 25—Northern Ireland—A ­booby-trapped bomb exploded as a man removed a sign with an IRA faction’s threats in Crossmaglen. The Sinn Fein party said he could lose an eye. The sign was on a pole outside his home. Sinn Fein lawmaker Conor Murphy said the IRA splinter threatened the man’s family.

February 25—Nigeria—A suicide bomber possibly en route to a market in Biu set off his explosives at a security checkpoint, killing 19 and injuring 17.

February 26—Nigeria—Two bombs exploded at a bus station near a university and a motor park in Jos, killing 15 people after evening prayers ended.

February 26—Philippines—A New People’s Army ambush of a police convoy accompanying soldiers killed 5 Philippine Army soldiers and wounded 6 others during the evening in Quirino township in Ilocos Sur Province, according to Captain Mark Anthony Ruelos of the 7th Infantry Division. Armed forces spokesman Colonel Restituto Padilla said the NPA used civilians as human shields and fired at first responder medical personnel.

February 26—Somalia—Al-Shabaab claimed credit for firing 3 mortar shells that landed inside the presidential compound in Mogadishu. Two other mortar shells hit a residential area near the state house which houses the Somali president, prime minister and speaker of the parliament.

February 26—Nigeria—Army chief Lieutenant General Kenneth Minima said troops had seized Baga away from Boko Haram, which denied the claim.

February 26—Iraq—The Islamic State released a 5-minute video showing bearded men using sledgehammers and electric drills to destroy ancient statues in a museum in Mosul. One depicted a ­winged-bull Assyrian protective deity that dates back to the 9th century bc. IS was also believed to have sold ancient artifacts on the black market.

February 26—Egypt—One person was killed and 7 wounded in a series of bombings. Four bombs went off in the Cairo residential districts of Imbabah and Mohandiseen. Later, a blast outside a police station in Cairo’s nearby Warraq district wounded 4 people, including a police conscript. The Imbabah bomb went off near a fast food restaurant, causing injuries and damaging a car. The police bomb squad and sniffer dogs checked 2 suspicious objects found out-side Cairo’s Quba presidential palace; nothing was amiss.

February 26—Israel—Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said “anti–Christian” slogans were written in Hebrew on the wall of a Greek Orthodox seminary in Jerusalem that was damaged by a fire that might have been a hate crime. No one was injured, but bathrooms were damaged.

February 26—Afghanistan—During Kabul’s 8 a.m. rush hour, a suicide bomber crashed his white Toyota Corolla into a Turkish Embassy vehicle outside the Iranian Embassy, which is adjacent to the Turkish Embassy, killing a Turkish soldier and wounding another. The vehicle was transporting a team that protects Ambassador Ismail Aramaz, the NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan. The Taliban texted that “a suicide bomber blew himself up targeting a foreign convoy in central Kabul, a number of foreigners were killed in the attack.” Gulf News reported that 2 people were killed. 15022601

February 26—Syria—The Washington Post reported that the Islamic ­British-accented Islamic State’s beheading spokesman “Jihadi John” was ­UK-educated ­Kuwait-born Mohammed Emwazi, in his mid–20s. He came from a ­middle-class family, grew up in West London, prayed at a Greenwich mosque, and graduated with a computer programming degree from the University of Westminster in 2009. Friends said he might have radicalized after a failed May 2009 safari to Tanzania, which deported him and German Islamic convert Omar and friend Abu Talib. A friend said that British and Dutch investigators questioned him in Amsterdam about trying to join ­al-Shabaab. He possibly traveled to Syria in 2012 and joined the Islamic State. He appeared in the videos of the beheadings of U.S. journalist Steven Sotloff, Britons David Haines and Alan Hemming and U.S. aid worker ­Abdul-Rahman Kassig. The Post said the British newspaper The Independent had identified Emwazi as Muhammad ibn Muazzam. London advocacy group CAGE said he was born in Kuwait in 1988 and moved to the UK at age 6.

February 26—Bangladesh—At 8:45 p.m., unidentified attackers armed with cleavers hacked to death prominent ­Bangladesh-born U.S. citizen blogger Avijit Roy, who wrote against religious fundamentalism, while walking with his wife on a sidewalk toward a roadside tea stall, on his way home from a book fair at Dhaka University. His wife, Rafida Ahmed, was seriously injured. The attackers ran away. Two bloody cleavers were found. Assistant Police Commissioner S.M. Shibly Noman told the Prothom Alo newspaper that the previously unknown Ansar Bangla 7 claimed credit on Twitter, saying he “was the target because of his crime against Islam.” Engineer and atheist Roy had founded the ­Bengali-language blog ­Mukto-Mona (Free Mind), which covered scientific reasoning and religion. On March 2, AP reported that Bangladeshi security officials arrested a Muslim blogger who denounced atheism, Farabi Shafiur Rahman, who had threatened Roy on Facebook. He earlier had been arrested for threatening an imam who performed funeral prayers for an atheist Bangladeshi blogger killed in 2013. He was released on bail after 6 months in jail.

On May 4, 2015, the Washington Post reported that police were investigating whether the Ansarullah Bangla Team, a small terrorist group suspected in the hacking death of the American blogger, had links to ­al-Qaeda. During the weekend, Asim Umar, the purported leader of ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), posted a video on a jihadist forum claiming credit for the deaths of secularist blogger Avijit Roy and other “blasphemers” from Bangladesh and Pakistan. Umar said, “These assassinations are part of a series of operations initiated on the orders of our ­respected leader,” ­al-Qaeda’s Ayman ­al-Zawahiri. 15022602

February 26—South Africa—During the night, small business owners petrol bombed a shop owned by a foreign small business owner, seriously injuring him. Police arrested 9 South Africans who had demanded that he close his Soweto, Johannesburg store and leave the area. 15022603

In a separate incident, police arrested 4 foreign immigrant business owners for possessing illegal firearms. The group fired shots into the area after ­another group of local merchants demanded that they close their stores, also in Soweto. In January, ­immigrant-owned shops were looted for several days after a Somali shop owner shot to death a 14-year-old boy.

February 27—Turkey—The Dogan news agency reported that police detained outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul a “mentally unstable” man who claimed to have explosives attached on his body and had his hand placed inside his coat.

February 27—Iraq—Mortar shells hit Baghdad’s southern Dora district, killing 2 people in their homes and wounding 4 others in the early morn-ing.

Police in a northern Baghdad suburb discovered 6 bodies with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

A bomb went off near a wholesale vegetable market in Baghdad’s western Sadiyah neighborhood, killing 3 people.

A bomb exploded an outdoor market in Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 3 people and wounding 8.

After sunset, a bomb exploded at a commercial street in Baghdad’s southeastern district of New Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 5.

February 28—Russia—After midnight, gunmen got out of their white car and fired 7 shots at opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, 55, on the Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge outside the Kremlin in central Moscow, killing him. He was one of the leaders of an opposition rally planned for the next day. Since 2012, he ­co-chaired a registered political party, the Republican Party of Russia–People’s Freedom Party (RPR–PARNAS). He was deputy prime minister in 1997. The New York Times and Russian ­state-run television reported on March 8, 2015, that Alexander Bornikov, director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), announced the arrest of Anzor Kubashev and Zaur Dadayev, 2 residents of the North Caucasus, in the case. On December 29, 2015, AP reported that the Russian Investigative Committee indicted 4 men for involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Five Chechen men were earlier arrested on charges of involvement in the killing. A fifth indictment was expected. Among those charged was suspected gunman Zaur Dadayev, a former officer in the security forces of Chechnya regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov. A separate investigation was expected for fugitive suspected organizer Ruslan Mukhudinov, who had worked as a personal driver of senior Chechen police officer Ruslan Geremeyev.

February 28—Germany—Bremen police warned that they had received tips about activities of jihadis from a German federal authority and increased security measures. Reuters reported on March 1 that Bremen police released a duo who had been held in connection with the possible threat. One person was detained on February 27, the other during the night.

February 28—Turkey—Imprisoned Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his followers to lay down arms and hold an extraordinary congress to take the “historic decision” to end its armed struggle.

February 28—Iraq—In the morning, a car bomb exploded near a busy market in Balad Ruz. A second car bomb went off minutes later, aiming at first responders. The bombs killed 11 and wounded 50.

Two suicide car bombers crashed into Sahwa militia checkpoints near Samarra, killing 16 Shi’ite militiamen and wounding 31.

During the night, a bomb exploded in western Baghdad, killing 4 people.

A bomb exploded during the night in Baghdad’s Abu Dashir neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 8.

Four mortar shells hit homes in Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 3 people and wounding 6.

February 28—Greece—Police arrested 2 men, aged 39 and 28, allegedly belonging to the armed anarchist Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire. Police chief Dimitrios Tsaknakis said the older man’s DNA was found in 2 letter bombs, and in remains of a bomb that went off in 2014 outside a tax office. The younger man was accused of providing electronics and rifle laser scopes to fugitive Conspiracy Nuclei member Angeliki Sotiropoulou. She, along with Christodoulos Xiros, had planned an attack on a maximum security Athens prison to free imprisoned members of the group.

February 28—Egypt—MENA reported that Judge Mohamed ­el-Sayed of the Court for Urgent Matters declared Hamas a “terrorist organization,” observing that “It has been proven without any doubt that the movement has committed acts of sabotage, assassinations and the killing of innocent civilians and members of the armed forces and police in Egypt…. It has been also ascertained with documents that (Hamas) has carried out bombings that have taken lives and destroyed institutions and targeted civilians and the armed forces personnel…. This movement works for the interests of the terrorist Brotherhood organization.” In January 2014, an Egyptian court banned Hamas’ military wing, the Izz-al-Din ­al-Qassam Brigades, deeming it a terrorist organization. A 2014 ruling banned all Hamas activities in Egypt and ordered any Hamas offices closed.

February 28—Russia—On March 7, AP reported that Federal Security Service Director Alexander Bortnikov announced the arrests of suspects Anzor Gubashev and Zaur Dadaev, both residents of the Caucasus. Moscow ­Basmanny-district court judge Natalia Mushnikova ordered Dadayev and Gubashev into custody until April 28. Investigators said it was an extortionist conspiracy and contract killing. Tass and RIA Novosti said they were detained in Ingushetia. Ingush Security Council chief Albert Bara­khoev said Dadaev served in a battalion of Interior Ministry troops in Chechnya, Gubashev had worked in a private security company in Moscow. On March 8, AP quoted Judge Nataliya Mushnikova as saying that Zaur Dadaev confirmed his involvement. Shagid Gubashev (Anzor’s younger brother), Ramzan Bakha­yev and Tamerlan Eskerkhanov were ordered detained until early May. Russian media said the 5 detainees were ethnic Chechens. NPR and Interfax said a 6th suspect killed himself with a grenade in a standoff with police in Grozny during the night of March 7 after he threw a grenade at arresting officers.

February 28—Nigeria—Two female suicide bomb­ers in their late 20s blew themselves up at a bus stop when a bus driver refused to drive them 22 miles from Ngamdu village to Damaturu, Yobe State, killing 4 people.

Late February—Pakistan—On March 4, AP quoted Iran’s ­semi-official Fars news agency as indicating that Iran had requested the extradition of suspected Iranian militant Abdulsattar Rigi, who was arrested over the weekend in southwestern Baluchistan Province. Fars said Iranian General Masoud Rezvani said Iran gave Interpol the request for Abdulsattar, a cousin of Abdulmalik Rigi, leader of Jundullah, who was executed by Iran in 2011.

March—Philippines—Six Abu Sayyaf gunmen kidnapped store cashier Ledejie Tomarong, 18, and her 2 children but failed to kidnap her boss, a wealthy bakery owner in Zamboanga del Sur Province. The gunmen used the 3 as human shields. On July 20, 2015, AP reported that Tomarong escaped when government troops discovered the terrorists’ jungle hideout in the southern Philippines. Officials said the kidnappers killed a crying hostage child to avoid being detected by authorities.

March—Netherlands—On May 20, 2015, Hasna A., 24, took her 4-year-old son Noureddine from Hengelo, Netherlands, to Syria to join the Islamic State, according to the International Business Times. The Times said the child was later seen wearing an IS hat and camouflage in Islamic State propaganda pictures that sported daggers and pistols. The mother shared the photos with her former classmates, saying that she had relocated to an ­IS-controlled area. Hasna’s father Said claimed that his grandson had severe behavioral disorders and could not speak. The Dutch paper Telegraaf reported that the child used flash cards to communicate.

March 1—Nigeria—Two girls refused to be searched when they arrived at the gate to the vegetable market at Muda Lawal, Bauchi’s biggest market. People overpowered one girl and discovered she had 2 bottles strapped to her body and said she was a suicide bomber. A crowd clubbed her to death, put a tire doused in fuel over her head, and set it on fire. The second teen girl was arrested. Police Deputy Superintendent Mohammad Haruna doubted that the girl was a bomber, because she did not set off any explosives when attacked. In his view, she was a victim of “mob action carried out by an irate crowd.”

March 1—Egypt—A bomb went off near an electrical transformer near a police station and mosque in Aswan, killing 2 civilians and wounding a soldier and 4 others, including a conscript soldier whose foot was severed.

March 2—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit a vehicle in Nangarhar Province, killing 6 civilians, including 2 women and 2 children, and wounding another 2 children. Another bomb in the province killed 2 students and wounded another person.

March 2—Egypt—Local television reported that a bomb exploded at ­mid-day under a car parked near downtown Cairo’s High Court in the Ramses neighborhood, killing one person and wounding 10, including 7 police officers. The ­little-known Revolutionary Punishment group claimed credit on Twitter, saying they were targeting a police checkpoint.

March 2—Turkey—The Dogan news agency and the ­pro-government Sabah newspaper said police had detained 10 suspected Islamic State terrorists in several early morning raids at homes in northwestern Sakarya Province. The suspects are believed to be Turkish citizens.

March 2—Nigeria—Boko Haram released a video entitled “Harvest of Spies” that purported to show the bodies of 2 men beheaded for spying. The group apparently created a video wing, whose productions were as slick as those of the Islamic State, includ-ing the sound of a beating heart and heavy breathing immediately before the execution. Some Boko Haram social media postings suggested that the group might swear allegiance to IS. The victims were identified as Dawoud Muhammad of Baga and Mu­hammad Awlu.

March 3—Afghanistan—A remotely-detonated vehicle went off in Sangin District in Helmand Province, killing 5 civilians, 2 soldiers and a policeman and wounding 4 civilians, 4 soldiers, and a policeman.

March 3—Somalia—CNN reported that authorities had captured Liban Haji Mohamed, 29, a ­Somali-American on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, as he traveled from an ­al-Shabaab–controlled area in southern Somalia. He had been a taxi driver in northern Virginia. He was born in Somali and became a naturalized U.S. citizen. WTKR-TV reported that the FBI said he left the U.S. in July 2012 to join ­al-Qaeda in Somalia. He was wanted for providing material support to terrorists.

March 3—U.S.—CNN reported that a 17-year-old Virginia student was charged with helping a slightly older adult travel to Syria, where he was believed to have joined the Islamic State. The student was accused of distributing IS messages. He lived in a Washington, D.C., suburb.

March 3—Mozambique—Drive-by gunmen fired on a car in a central Maputo thoroughfare, killing Gilles Cistac, a Mozambican of French origin who was a prominent academic and expert in constitutional law. He advised several Cabinet ministers and the Administrative Tribunal, which oversees the legality of public spending. The previous week, he had told the weekly Savana that he would take legal action against an anonymous critic on Facebook who described him as a French spy, saying he saw “signs of political and academic intolerance and even racism. I ignored them but now they are accusing me of criminal acts. I think this has gone far enough. I have to act. I cannot allow this group of criminals to carry on staining my name.” On March 7, thousands of protestors clogged the streets of Maputo and Beira to call for justice in his case.

March 3—Nigeria—CNN reported that at 5 a.m., dozens of Boko Haram terrorists burned down the village of Njaba in Borno State after shooting dead and slitting the throats of 68 people, including children.

AP reported that troops from Chad took back Dikwa, a Nigerian town, from Boko Haram, who left hundreds of civilians dead before fleeing. A suicide car bomber killed a soldier and wounded 34 people.

Meanwhile, Nigerian troops stopped a Boko Haram attack on Konduga, killing more than 70 gunmen. The gunmen invaded the town between herds of cattle while a suicide bomber drove an ­explosives-laden car.

March 3—Iraq—CNN reported on March 5 that the Islamic State claimed that an American, Abu Daood ­al-Amriki, conducted a suicide car bombing against a military convoy in Samarra 2 days earlier. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed. 15030301

March 4—Libya—Islamic State gunmen from Sirte attacked the ­al-Dhahra oil field near Libya’s central coast, starting a firefight with guards and bombing residential and administrative buildings. Libya’s ­state-run National Oil Corporation owns the ­al-Waha oil company, which runs the field, which began production in 1962. The ­Islamist-backed government in Tripoli responded with air strikes.

March 4—Germany—Federal prosecutors announced the arrest at Dusseldorf Airport of Kerim Marc B., 22, a German suspected of being a member of the Islamic State after traveling to Syria via Turkey in 2013, then undergoing weapons training with and fighting for them. He returned to Germany in early 2014, but went back to Syria in July 2014, according to prosecutors.

March 5—U.S.—CNN reported that California resident Adam Dandach, 21, who was arrested in 2014, was indicted on charges of attempting to join the Islamic State. Arraignment was scheduled for April.

March 5—Iraq—A bomb exploded in an outdoor market in the Nahrawan suburb of Baghdad, killing 13 civilians and wounding 39.

A bomb hit a military patrol in Baghdad’s northeastern Rashdiya district, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7.

Mortar shells hit the residential area in Dora district, killing 2 civilians and wounding 6.

A bomb went off in a market in Mahmoudiyah, killing 3 civilians and wounding 7.

The Islamic State torched oil wells outside Tikrit.

Iraq’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced that the Islamic State used heavy military vehicles to “bulldoze” the 13th-century BC Assyrian Nimrud archaeological site on the Tigris River near Mosul. They destroyed statues of winged bulls, bearded horsemen and other winged figures. They reportedly stole some of the statues 2 days earlier before crushing the rest.

March 5—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State released photographs from Raqqa showing 3 men in black balaclavas throwing a gay man off the top of a building. The group said he was then stoned to death.

Abu Anas ­al-Shami, spokesman for the Nusra Front, announced on March 6 that a Syrian Army airstrike the previous day on a meeting of the group’s senior leadership in Habeet, Idlib Province killed Abu Hommam ­al-Shami, the group’s military commander, and 3 others, including 2 of his bodyguards. Some reports said that the group’s leader, Abu Mohammad ­al-Golani, was also in the area.

March 5—Canada—Authorities found envelopes containing a suspicious white powder in the district offices of at least 2 Canadian cabinet ministers. Infrastructure Minister Denis Lebel’s office in Roberval was evacuated and 2 employees were quarantined. A second suspicious envelope was found in International Development Minister Christian Paradis’ office in Thetford Mines. An employee was tested at a hospital. Another suspicious envelope was found in the ­Saint-Georges office of cabinet minister Maxime Bernier.

March 5—South Korea—In the morning, an assailant attacked U.S. Ambassador Mark Lippert, 42, at a seminar at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Seoul, slashing him in the face and left wrist with a 10-inch knife. Lippert was going to give a presentation about prospects for peace on the peninsula. YTN TV said the attacker was Kim ­Ki-jong, 55, who yelled “No War! South and North Korea should be reunified.” The seminar was hosted by the Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation; Kim is a member. A police official said Kim in 2010 threw a piece of concrete at the Japanese Ambassador in Seoul, hitting the Ambassador’s secretary, in protest of Japan’s claim to disputed islands occupied by South Korea; he was later sentenced to 2 years in jail, suspended for 3 years, according to Yonhap. AP reported that Kim tried to set himself on fire with gasoline in an October 2007 incident in front of the Blue House, demanding an investigation into an alleged 1988 rape in Kim’s office. Lippert earlier served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian Affairs. Lippert sustained deep gashes and damaged tendons and nerves. AP reported that Kim told police that he was protesting U.S.-South Korean military drills. North Korean media said the “knife slashes of justice” were “a deserved punishment on war maniac U.S.” Kim leads the Woorimadang activist group. The ­Unification Ministry said Kim visited North Korea with a civic group 8 times in 2006 and 2007. On April 1, CNN reported that a Seoul Central District Court official said Kim was charged with attempted murder, assaulting a foreign envoy and business obstruction. South Korean law requires his trial to begin within 14 days of receipt of the indictment. On June 17, 2015, UPI reported that the trial began of Kim ­Ki-jong. By then, Lippert had undergone 2 surgeries and had 80 stitches in his face, according to the Korea Herald. On September 11, 2015, CNN reported that a Seoul court sentenced Kim ­Ki-jong, 55, to 12 years for attempted murder, assaulting a foreign envoy and obstruction.

March 5—West Bank—AFP reported that suspected Jewish extremists torched 2 cars and scrawled “death to Arabs” graffiti on the wall of a nearby home in ­al-Mughayer, a village east of Ramallah, around 4 a.m.

March 5—Nigeria—Local villagers said Boko Haram was separating and killing members of the ­Shuwa-Arab community, while sparing Kanuris, in several villages, including Kala Balge. They were of the same tribe as Chadian forces that were fighting the terrorists.

March 5—UK—Judge Michael Topolski sentenced science teacher Jamshed Javeed, 30, to 6 years in prison. His family helped foil his plans to travel to Syria to fight for the Islamic State. Police arrested him in late 2013 after he applied for a second passport; his family had hidden his travel documents. Judge Topolski observed that Javeed did not reconsider after learning that his wife was pregnant, saying, “Even the prospect of becoming a father did not deter you…. I find that you were not planning to return to this country … but rather to die, if you could, as a martyr.”

March 5—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency said Umarali Kuvvatov, a businessman and Tajikistan Group-24 opposition figure, was killed by a friend as they got into an argument on a street in Istanbul’s Fatih district after dining together. The private Dogan news agency countered that the single shot to the head was fired by an unknown individual. His wife and children were hospitalized for shock. Kuvvatov had been a senior advisor to President Emomali Rakhmon, but fled in 2012. In January 2015, Tajikistan had requested his extradition on charges of fraud and seeking to provoke political unrest.

March 6—France—The terrorism trial began of Riad Ben Cheikh, a Frenchman accused of arranging the travel of Amelia, a 14-year-old runaway girl who wanted to join the Islamic State. A recruiter told her via Facebook that they would marry in Syria, where he would teach her to fight. Cheikh has a 14-year-old daughter. The Associated Press said he booked a hotel and paid her fare to the airport, where she was detained in February 2014 while awaiting a flight to Istanbul. On March 10, AP reported that the father of 3 was sentenced to 3 years in prison, with one year suspended. He has already been jailed 10 months since his arrest in Lyon. Ben Cheikh claimed he had never met recruiter Tony Toxiko but was doing a favor for someone who shared his religion and outlook. Police believed Amelia ultimately arrived in Syria and joined another jihadi.

March 6—Israel—A Palestinian in his 20s from east Jerusalem drove his car into a group of Israeli pedestrians near an Israeli paramilitary border police station near a tram stop in east Jerusalem, injuring 3 Border Patrol policewomen. He then attacked security guards with a knife, injuring a 4th policewoman and a male civilian before being shot and wounded. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said it was a “terror attack.” The attack was at the same intersection where a Palestinian drove into a train platform in November 2014 and then attacked people with an iron bar, killing one person and injuring 13. On March 16, UPI reported that in a joint statement, the Israeli Police and Shin Bet said the attacker had plotted his actions a week in advance. Mohammad Salima, variant Mohammad Salaima, of East Jerusalem’s Palestinian ­Ras-al-Amud neighborhood, confessed that he carried an ax in his car. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said, “What we know is that the suspect went to the Old City (of Jerusalem) during the early hours of the morning of the incident to buy an ax, and made the final decision to carry out the attack at the precise location, to kill as many security personnel as possible.” A judge ordered him kept in custody until a formal indictment.

March 6—Belgium—Geert Schoorens, spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, said authorities arrested 2 male Brussels residents, aged 25 and 45, the previous week in Brussels of trying to recruit people to fight with jihadis in Syria. The younger suspect was granted conditional release.

March 6—China—The official Xinhua News Agency reported that at least 2 assailants armed with knives slashed people in a square outside a train station in Guangzhou, injuring 9. Police shot to death one attacker and arrested the second. One of the offi-cers who fired shots was injured in the thumb. One of the attackers chased a woman and a child, who fell.

March 6—Germany—The Dusseldorf state court convicted Turkish national Abdullah S., 49, and sentenced him to 6 years in prison for running the finances in Europe of the banned Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) and for membership in a terrorist organization. The court said he was a PKK leader in Germany over a decade ago before leaving for northern Iraq. From 2007 until his arrest in Belgium in 2010, he led the finance office of the PKK’s European branch in Antwerp.

March 6—Libya—Gunmen believed affiliated with the Islamic State attacked the ­al-Ghani oil field near Zalla, beheading 8 guards and torching it. On March 8, AP reported that Austria’s Foreign Ministry said it was unable to contact the 9 foreigners—an Austrian, a Czech, and 7 non–EU citizens—working for Austrian oil services company VAOS who were kidnapped by the Islamic State during the attack. Ministry spokesman Michael Linhart said “there is currently no sign of life nor proof of death” from the workers, whom CNN and NPR said included 4 Filipinos, an Austrian, a Czech, a Ghanaian, and a Bangladeshi. Security forces took the field back from the attackers. An employee of the ­al-Ghani oil field died of a heart attack on March 9. 15030601

March 6—Australia—During the afternoon, customs officials at Sydney Airport detained 2 Australian brothers, aged 16 and 17, on suspicion that they were en route to join the Islamic State. Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said they had been radicalized over the Internet. Prime Minister Tony Abbott said, “These were 2 misguided young Australians, ­Australian-born and bred, who went to school here, grew up here, imbibed our values, and yet it seems they had succumbed to the lure of the death cult and they were on the verge of doing something terrible and dangerous…. I’m pleased that they’ve been stopped and my message to anyone who is listening to the death cult is block your ears. Don’t even begin to think you can leave.”

March 7—Mali—At least one masked gunman fired into La Terrasse restaurant in a Bamako Hippodrome expatriate district, killing 5 people, including 3 Malians, a 31-year-old Frenchman and a Belgian security officer for the European Union who was getting into his car, and wounding 9 people, including 2 Swiss soldiers from the UN mission who were ­anti-mining experts. Two gunmen fled from the nightclub and into a car driven by a third terrorist. A block away, they fired on a police patrol, killing a driver, a civilian in the street, and a private security guard outside a home. The New York Times reported that a senior security official said that 2 people were arrested. The ­al-Qaeda–linked ­al-Mourabitoun (The Sentinels) claimed credit, according to the Mauritanian news website ­al-Akhbar. The New York Times and Reuters reported that the group said it was avenging the killing of Ahmed ­al-Tilemsi, one of the group’s senior commanders, by French troops in December 2014. On March 13, AP reported that the suspected getaway car driver, Mohamed Tanirou Cisse, was killed while resisting arrest by special forces. Authorities said 4 officers were injured by grenade fragments. Conflicting reports said 2–3 security forces died. They seized an AK-47 and 700 rounds of ammunition from Cisse’s room. On March 15, AP reported that the restaurant reopened. 15030701

March 7—Nigeria—Boko Haram posted on Twitter an ­Arabic-language audio message with English subtitles from Abubakar Shekau, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. “We announce our allegiance to the Caliph of the Muslims … and will hear and obey in times of difficulty and prosperity, in hardship and ease, and to endure being discriminated against, and not to dispute about rule with those in power, except in case of evident infidelity regarding that which there is a proof from Allah.” On March 12, 2015, Islamic State media arm ­al-Furqan released an audio in which spokesman Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani accepted the recent pledge of allegiance by Boko Haram.

Earlier in the day, Boko Haram was blamed when over a period of 4 hours, 4 suicide bombers killed 54 people and wounded 143 in Maiduguri, Borno State. One bomb killed 18 people when a tricycle taxi driver set it off at the entrance to the Baga fish market. A second bomb went off at the Post Office shopping area, near the fish market. Another target was a crowded bus station.

Another car bomb hit a military checkpoint 50 miles outside Maiduguri, wounding a soldier and 2 members of a civilian ­self-defense unit. Police said the terrorist planned to go to Maiduguri.

March 7—Afghanistan—During the evening, 2 gunmen fired ­silencer-equipped pistols into the backs of the heads of worshippers praying in a Sufi religious center in Kabul, killing senior Afghan Sufi religious leader Pir Saheb Mohammed Bahadur Jan and 10 other people before escaping. The lone survivor was Ahmad Zia, who hid under the bodies of the victims. The Interior Ministry initially said 5 suspects were arrested, but there were no suspects as of March 12, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi.

March 7—Iraq—Black-clad gunmen kidnapped 31 Shi’ite men from their homes in eastern Baghdad’s Sadr City during the morning. Police suspected that the abductees were involved in prostitution and criminal activities.

Three mortar shells hit houses in Baghdad’s southern Arab Jabour suburb, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded near an outdoor market in northern Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 7.

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Adel Shirshab said the government was investigating reports that the Islamic State was destroying the ancient archaeological site of Hatra, a UNESCO world heritage site.

March 7—Egypt—A bomb went off in front of a branch of a major Emirati bank in Mahalla, a Nile Delta town north of Cairo, killing a 25-year-old police conscript and a civilian and wounding 16 others, including 2 bank employees.

March 7—Spain—Authorities at Barcelona International Airport arrested Samira Yerou, a Moroccan woman arriving from Turkey, on an international arrest warrant issued by Spain’s National Court for suspicion of involvement in recruiting women for the Islamic State. Authorities said she left Rubi, Spain, in December 2014, along with her Spanish citizen 3-year-old son. His father, a resident of Spain, reported his disappearance. Turkish authorities stopped her from illegally entering Syria.

March 7—Thailand—During the night, a grenade was thrown at the Criminal Court building in Bangkok. Soldiers arrested 2 suspects on a motor­cycle. One of the suspects was shot and wounded during a gun battle with arresting officers. National police chief General Somyot Pumpanmuang said the duo were linked to the plotters of the bombing of the upscale Siam Paragon shopping mall in Bangkok 5 weeks earlier. On March 19, junta spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree denied accusations of regime torture of the detainees. Defense lawyers said their clients were punched and subjected to electrical shocks.

March 8—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in a parking lot in Mahmoudiya, killing 3 and wounding 15.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Husseiniyah suburb, killing 3.

A bomb exploded in a town south of Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 9.

A roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad missed a police patrol but killed 3 civilians.

Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Adel Shirshab said the government was investigating reports that the Islamic State was stealing statues and about to destroy the ancient archaeological site of Khorsabad in northern Iraq. King Sargon II built Khorsabad as a new capital of Assyria shortly after he came to power in 721 bc. It was abandoned after his death in 705 bc.

March 8—Syria—Newsweek reported that the leadership of Syria’s Nusra Front was considering ending its relationship with ­al-Qaeda.

March 8—Mali—More than 30 rockets and shells hit the UN base in Kidal at 5:40 a.m., killing 3 people, including a UN soldier from Chad and 2 children, and wounding 14, including 11 peacekeepers. ­Al-Mourabitoune leader Moktar Belmoktar said the attack was a reprisal “against the heathen West which has offended our prophet” and was avenging the killing of a leader of the group in a ­French-Malian military operation. 15030801

March 8—Afghanistan—During a prison riot that began during a search for cellphones, knives, and other contraband in the Shebirghan prison, inmates took hostages and killed 2 police officers. They set a criminal investigator on fire, thinking he was a prosecutor. He was in critical condition. One inmate was shot to death and 5 officers and 10 inmates were wounded.

March 8—Egypt—Two bombs exploded in Alexandria. The first bomb went off outside a Carrefour supermarket branch in the Seyouf district, killing one person and injuring 6. A second bomb went off outside the Muharram Bek police station, injuring 3 people. A flash bang caused no injuries at the Babb Sharq police station.

March 8—Syria—UPI reported that the Islamic State released a video entitled “From Who Excused to Those Not Excused,” that shows 2 armed IS members directing traffic and issuing threats to the West with sign language, aimed at recruiting the deaf and mute.

March 8—Syria—Supporters of the Islamic State launched social network 5elafabook.com, a “caliph­ate book.” Reuters reported it was offline the next day. It included a message that it was temporarily suspended to “protect the information and details of its members and their safety … 5elafabook is an independent site and not sponsored by the Islamic State. We reiterate that the purpose of launching the site was to clarify to the whole world that we do not only carry guns and live in caves as they imagine … we advance with our world and we want advancement to become Islamic.”

March 9—Philippines—Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Harold Cabunoc said armed forces killed 73 Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement members and a suspected foreign terrorist in a campaign that began on February 25 in the provinces of Maguindanao and North Cotabato. Six soldiers died and 29 were wounded in the offensive that began after the rebels attacked civilian villages. AFP added that the “foreign-looking” individual could be a jihadi sought by the U.S.

March 9—Egypt—In the morning, a roadside bomb went off under a military patrol vehicle near a checkpoint close to ­el-Kharouba village northeast of the Sinai Peninsula, killing 3 soldiers and seriously wounding another.

March 9—Canada—On March 11, Canadian immigration officials announced the detention of Pakistani citizen Jhanzab Malik, 33, ­self-proclaimed supporter of the Islamic State and ­al-Qaeda who received weapons training in Libya, who authorities said told an undercover police officer that he planned to attack the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in Toronto’s financial district using remotely-controlled explosives. Malik came to the country in 2004 as a student and obtained permanent residency in 2009. The government did not announce charges. It sought his deportation. Prosecutors told the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada that he tried to radicalize an undercover officer by showing him videos of Islamic State beheadings. Malik claimed to be a friend of Anwar ­al-Aulaqi. On June 5, Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board ordered him deported for being a security threat.

March 10—Nigeria—A teen female suicide bomber hit a market near the Old Elkanemi Cinema in Maiduguri during the afternoon, killing 34 people.

March 10—Afghanistan—A bomb exploded at a checkpoint outside Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province, killing 8, including 6 civilians and 2 police officers, and wounding 23.

A roadside bombing in the area killed 4 people and wounded 5.

A bomb targeting a police vehicle went off near a hospital in Puli Khumri, capital of Baghlan Province, killing a civilian and wounding 16. No police officers were harmed.

March 10—New Zealand—Reuters reported that New Zealand police said that anonymous threatening letters were sent to a national farmers group, attached to contaminated packages of infant formula. The ­letter-writer threatened to contaminate infant formula unless the use of the agricultural pesticide 1080 was stopped by the end of March. Trading was suspended on shares in Fonterra, the world’s largest dairy exporter, and in smaller dairy firms A2 Milk and Synlait Milk. Police said they were treating the case as blackmail.

March 10—U.S.—The Homeland Security Newswire reported that a New York court sentenced Dino Bouterse, 42, son of the president of Suriname, to more than 16 years in prison for supporting Hizballah. Prosecutors said in 2013 he agreed to aid Hizballah members—actually undercover federal agents—who intended to use Suriname as a base to conduct attacks on U.S. interests in exchange for $2 million, which he never received. He discussed heavy weapons he could quietly transfer from the military to the operatives. Bouterse had worked in Suriname’s counterterrorist unit. He was arrested in August 2013 in Panama as part of a sting and extradited to the U.S. He also pleaded guilty to conspiring to smuggle 5 kilograms of cocaine into the U.S. and to a firearms offense. He complained that the jail sentence would hurt his 11 children, aged 2 to 19.

March 10—Ceuta—Police arrested 2 Spaniards of Moroccan descent who were part of a group planning attacks on Spain and elsewhere in Europe. The Interior Ministry said they were linked to 4 members of the cell arrested on January 24, when a Glock handgun had been confiscated. The Ministry said the cell was directed by the Islamic State via social media networks and jihadi websites.

March 10—China—Zhang Chunxian, Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang, said, “There are Uighurs that have fled overseas and joined the Islamic State…. The organization has a huge international influence and Xinjiang can’t keep aloof from it and we have already been affected. We have also found that some who fought returned to Xinjiang to participate in terrorist plots.”

March 10—Egypt—A suicide bomber crashed a stolen water tanker filled with explosives into the police compound in ­el-Arish. When he refused to slow down at the gate, police fired, detonating the explosives, killing 2 people, including a civilian driver for a nearby electricity company, and wounding 46 people. Interior Ministry spokesman Hani ­Abdel-Latif said the terrorist was targeting a nearby hotel where a large number of police officers lived. The former Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, now calling itself the Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate, claimed credit the next day.

Two terrorists on a motorbike died in Fayoum when their explosives went off prematurely. One of them was wanted for an earlier attack on a Fayoum police station.

Terrorists set off roadside explosives under an army armored vehicle near ­el-Arish, killing an army officer and wounding 3 soldiers.

March 10—Nigeria—Reuters reported that Boko Haram was suspected in a 9:30 a.m. attack on Ngamdu in Borno State that killed a dozen people, including 6 bus and truck drivers, and injured 3 drivers and some passengers.

March 10—Syria—Reuters reported that the Islamic State’s Furqan media outlet posted on Twitter a video that showed a child (a “cub of the caliphate”) twice shooting in the head Muhammad Musallam, an Israeli Arab accused by the group of being a Mossad spy. The video showed Musallam, in an orange jumpsuit, discussing his recruitment and training. On March 11, AP reported that a man and the boy on the video could be French citizens. Authorities were looking into whether the man was Sabri Essid, the ­step-brother of Mohammed Merah who attacked a Jewish school in southern France on March 11, 2012. The man in the video spoke with a southern French accent. On March 14, UPI reported that students at the Vauquelin secondary school in Toulouse, France recognized the 12-year-old boy, who was not named by the media, as being a former student at the school.

March 10—Colombia—Al-Jazeera reported that President Juan Manuel Santos announced a ­one-month moratorium on bombing raids against the FARC. He said in a televised speech, “In regards to the indefinite, unilateral ceasefire declared by the FARC on December 18, we must recognize that they have fulfilled it. For this reason, and to propel the ­de-escalation of the conflict, I have decided to order the defense ministry and the leaders of the armed forces to cease bombardments over FARC camps for one month.” The ceasefire did not include raids on the other rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN).

March 11—Philippines—Soldiers killed 23 Bang­samoro Islamic Freedom Fighters gunmen along the boundary between Datu Salibo and Datu Piang towns in Maguindanao Province.

March 11—Egypt—Jihadi gunmen fired on the checkpoint in ­el-Baraham near Rafah, starting a ­shoot-out that killed 26-year-old Captain Ayman Hassan.

March 11—India—A bomb exploded in a crowded market in Imphal, capital of Manipur State, killing 3, including 2 tea sellers and the owner of a shop selling chicken, and injuring 15.

March 11—Iraq—UPI and AP reported that 13 Islamic State suicide car bombers killed 10, including 2 soldiers, and injured 30, including 8 soldiers, in the ­government-held section of central Ramadi. AP reported that the Islamic State said the bombers came from Australia, Belgium, Syria and Uzbekistan. IS said Australian Jake Bilardi, 18, was the driver of a white van bomb. The UK press had called him the White Jihadi in December 2014 when his photos appeared on social media sites. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that Bilardi had left homemade bombs in his Melbourne home before leaving for the Middle East in August 2014. Victoria state police said they found bombmaking chemicals in his home, but no devices. 15031101

March 11—Afghanistan—In a nighttime raid, gunmen attacked a security post in Parwan Province’s Syagurd District, killing 4 policemen.

March 12—Afghanistan—Some 30 Taliban gunmen ambushed policemen in Dashti Archi District, Kunduz Province, killing 7 policemen who were traveling to a neighboring province to collect their salaries.

March 12—Libya—The Egyptian affiliate of the Islamic State claimed credit for setting off explosives under police vehicles at a police station in central Tripoli’s Zaqyat ­al-Dahmani neighborhood in the morning. No casualties were reported, although the front of the police station and some nearby buildings were damaged.

March 12—Somalia—Al-Shabaab was suspected of a morning attack on the headquarters of the South Western State government in Baidoa, killing at least 4 government soldiers and 2 civilians. Two bombs went off at the gate; gunmen then shot their way onto the premises. Three terrorists also died. Local administration official Ahmed Mohammed said 2 civilians believed to have been trying to steal the at­tackers’ car died after it was detonated by remote control.

March 12—Somalia—AP reported that a Kenyan official claimed that a drone strike killed Adan Garar, variant Garaar, alias Adan Ahmed Issaq, a senior member of ­al-Shabaab who helped plan the September 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, and 2 others when their car was hit near Bardhere. The same officials said Garar was also suspected of planning failed attacks on Kenya’s coast and in Kampala, Uganda, in 2014. On March 19, AP quoted a Kenyan intelligence report as indicating that Garar had acquired and smuggled into Kenya the weapons used in the Westgate attack. Garar was spotted in CCTV footage at a bank, where he and suspect Abdikadir Haret met a man who sold them the car used to bring the gunmen to the mall. The report said Garar was assisted in Kenya by an alleged ­al-Shabaab member in Garissa—Abdqadir Ahmed Buul—who was linked to a 2012 bus bombing that killed 7 people.

March 12—Brazil—Federal police arrested former Italian communist militant Cesare Battisti on a judge’s deportation order. In 2010, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned down Italy’s extradition request for Battisti, granting him asylum. The Supreme Court approved that decision in 2013. Battisti was wanted for Italian murder convictions. In 2013, the top federal appeals court rejected Battisti’s request to overturn a Brazilian conviction for using fake immigration stamps in his passport when he entered Brazil in 2004. He was represented by attorney Igor Sant’Anna Tamasauskas. Battisti escaped from an Italian prison in 1981 while awaiting trial on 4 counts of murder committed when he was a member of the Armed Proletarians for Communism. He was convicted in absentia in 1990 and sentenced to life in prison. He moved to Mexico, then to France in 1990, then to Brazil in 2004 when France changed its policy on giving asylum to former Italian militants who had renounced their convictions. Battisti was arrested in Rio de Janeiro in 2007 at the request of Interpol.

March 13—Kenya—Some 20 gunmen attacked the convoy of Mandera Governor Ali Roba, killing 4 people, including 2 policemen and a politician, and critically injuring 5 other people 27 kilometers from the town. Roba survived. The gunmen burned 2 vehicles and fled in a third, driving toward the Somali border. ­Al-Shabaab claimed credit. Roba’s convoy hit a roadside bomb in October 2014. 15031301

March 13—Bosnia-Herzegovina—AP reported that border police arrested 5 men, including a Swede and 4 Bosnians, suspected of building a bomb intended for a terrorist attack in an unspecified Scandinavian country. Police found the bomb in the trunk of the car of 3 suspects. Two others were arrested in Sarajevo. Authorities cited the assistance of officials from the Netherlands and Sweden.

March 13—Nigeria—AP reported that the South African media claimed that a South African security contractor was killed earlier in the week in a fight against Boko Haram in Maiduguri.

March 13—Turkey—Authorities at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport arrested and deported to London 3 British male teens believed to be en route to join jihadis in Syria. The British arrested them on suspicion of planning terrorist acts. Two 17-year-olds were held per intelligence provided by the British; a 19-year-old was held after questioning by police based on profiling at the airport. The 3 had flown from Barcelona, Spain. On March 15, British police released the trio on bail.

March 13—Afghanistan—In the morning, Taliban gunmen fired machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at a police checkpoint in the Dih Yak district of Ghazni Province, killing 7 policemen and wounding 5 volunteer police officers. In the gun battle, 3 Taliban died and 4 were wounded.

March 13—Spain—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 8 suspected Spanish members of a jihadi terror cell in the northeastern provinces of Barcelona and Girona and in the central areas of Avila and Ciudad Real. On March 15, 7 of the detainees were denied bail for allegedly urging at-tacks to be carried out in the country and recruiting people to be sent to fight for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. National Court judge Javier Gomez Bermudez released the other suspect. Five of the suspects are of Moroccan descent. Police had been investigating the cell since June 2014 and believed it had 10 members. The judge said the unnamed leader of the cell ran a website that called for jihadi terrorism and had been in possession of a video entitled “Islamic State Training in Spain” at the time of his arrest.

March 14—Nigeria—CNN reported that soldiers announced the discovery of a Boko Haram bomb factory inside a fertilizer company in Buni Yadi town in Yobe State. Troops found explosive vests and improvised explosive devices.

March 14—Egypt—A bomb exploded during the evening in Cairo’s ­el-Matariya district, killing a garbage collector and his donkey pulling a cart.

March 14—Iraq—Kurdish officials charged that the Islamic State had used chemical weapons, claiming that an independent laboratory determined that IS used chlorine gas against Kurdish peshmerga forces in a January 23, 2015, truck suicide attack between Mosul and the Syrian border. Kurds said their forces found about 20 gas canisters on the truck.

March 15—Libya—Late in the day, a car bomb exploded at a base in Misrata of the166th Battalion, a militia fighting a local affiliate of the Islamic State, killing one person and wounding another.

March 15—Pakistan—Two Pakistani Taliban suicide bombers attacked 2 churches only 650 yards apart in Lahore’s Youhanabad neighborhood, killing 15, including 2 police officers and Abhishak, the 10-year-old son of Shabeen Bibi, and injuring 70. The attackers hit a crowded gate where worshippers were entering a church. A Christian mob blocked a major highway, ransacked a bus terminal and burned 2 people to death whom they suspected of being responsible.

March 15—Kenya—Al-Shabaab gunmen were suspected in an attack in Mandera that killed one and injured 3.

March 15—Nigeria—Gunmen shot to death at least 45 people in a clash believed to involve Muslim herders and Christian farmers in Egba village in Benue State. Survivors said the death toll was 100; farmer Orji Dooga counted 95 bodies. Police suspected Fulani herdsmen had killed the children, women and elderly people.

March 15—Philippines—In the evening, government soldiers and police captured Mohammad Ali Tambako, the leader of the 70-member armed Justice for Islamic Movement, who has been linked to bombings and a beheading and accused of protecting 2 terror suspects wanted by the U.S. He was detained shortly upon arrival at Villamor Air Base at suburban Pasay city. Tambako and 5 of his men were arrested while they were traveling in a motorcycle sidecar taxi to a seaport in General Santos city. Authorities seized 3 grenades and 2 guns. One of the detainees was freed after investigators determined that he was only a driver. Military chief of staff Gregorio Pio Catapang said Tambako had traveled to Libya, Pakistan and Egypt and “had established a network of contacts among the notorious Islamic fundamentalists around the world.” The military believed he had sheltered Malaysian terror suspect Zulkifli bin Hir, alias Marwan, and Filipino bombing suspect Abdul Basit Usman. The latter was believed to have died in a January 25, 2015, raid by Filipino ­anti-terrorist commandos. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement expelled Tambako in 2014 after his group beheaded a farmer in an attack on a Christian community in the south. He then founded his own rebel group, which has been linked to several deadly bombings and attacks, including a clash that killed 44 police commandos.

March 15—Iraq—AFP reported that the Iraqi National Intelligence Service announced the arrest of 31 Islamic State terrorists who planned and conducted 52 bombings in Baghdad’s Sadr City and Karrada in 2014 and 2015. The detainees included the group’s leader, who was riding a bicycle in an affluent neighborhood. INIS confiscated 10 vehicles.

March 16—Iraq—Kurdish authorities announced that they were looking into reports of 2 other chemical weapons attacks by the Islamic State on December 26 and January 28.

March 16—Libya—A member of the 166 Battalion militia said the local Islamic State affiliate kidnapped 4 Filipina nurses from a Sirte’s Ibn Sina Hospital during the afternoon. Several other foreign medical crew members were evacuated. CNN said the 30 gunmen kidnapped 20 medical workers, including those from the Philippines, Ukraine, India, and Serbia, who were on a bus destined for Tripoli. On March 17, AP quoted the Philippine government as saying that the 4 Filipina nurses were safe, and had been hidden by a friend, not kidnapped. 15031601

March 16—Libya—The Islamic State posted a eulogy for field commander Ahmed ­al-Ruwaysi, variant Ahmed ­al-Rouissi, alias Abu Zakariya ­al-Tunisi, 48, who recently died in a gun battle in Sirte. The eulogy said he planned and participated in the 2013 assassinations of ­left-wing Tunisian politicians Mohammed Brahmi and Chokri Belaid. Authorities said ­al-Rouissi was linked to Ansar ­al-Shariah.

March 16—Turkey—Turkish officials detained J.N.H., a 21-year-old British woman suspected of trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. She was halted at a bus terminal in Ankara. Turkey planned to deport her.

March 16—UK—CNN reported that counterterrorism officers arrested an 18-year-old British man at his home in Hodge Hill in Birmingham on suspicion of preparing to join the Islamic State in Syria.

March 16—Afghanistan—The Ministry of Defense said it had killed Hafiz Wahidi, a jihadi commander who had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, and 9 of his followers in Sangin district, Helmand Province. The military said he was the nephew and a successor to Abdul Rauf Khadim, a former Taliban commander who had pledged fealty to the Islamic State. Khadim was killed in a drone strike in February 2015.

March 16—Bahrain—Police at a border post arrested a minor who arrived from Iraq via bus at a causeway linking Bahrain with Saudi Arabia. Police said he was trying to smuggle ­bomb-making materials that were found on the bus.

March 16—U.S.—WJAX-TV reported on March 17 that the Secret Service revealed that the White House ­mail-handling service found a letter containing cyanide addressed to the White House. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary said, “On Monday 3/16/15, an envelope was received at the White House Mail Screening Facility. Initial Biological testing was negative; however, on 03/17/15, the chemical testing returned a presumptive positive for cyanide. The sample was transported to another facility to confirm the results.” The Intercept reported that a ­government-issued alert identified the man listed on the return address on the envelope as having a history with the Secret Service dating back to 1995, including an incident in which the man sent a package covered in urine and feces.

March 17—Netherlands—The Guardian quoted Bart den Hartigh, a spokesman for the public prosecutor’s office, who said that a 33-year-old Chechen mother who came to the Netherlands as a refugee in 1999, took her son, Luca, 8, and daughter, Aysha, 7, to Syria against their estranged Dutch father’s wishes and apparently joined the Islamic State. She apparently left Maastricht in late October 2014. He noted, “She first tried to leave unsuccessfully from Germany, then some time later traveled from Belgium to Greece and onward to Syria. We have an international alert out, but now they’re there there’s not much we can do.”

March 17—Albania—The trial began of 9 Albanian Muslims, including 2 preachers, on charges of recruiting and sending more than 70 men to fight with jihadis in Syria. The 9 were arrested a year earlier on charges of promoting and funding terrorist activities. They faced a minimum 10-year prison sentence. Prosecutors said they recruited Muslims from 2 Tirana mosques.

March 17—U.S.—CNN reported that a passenger ran toward the cockpit of United Airlines flight 1074, screaming, “Jihad, jihad,” before passengers subdued him. No weapons were found. Initial reports said he had no connection to terrorists. The B-737 left Dulles International Airport at 10:15 p.m. with 33 passengers and 6 crew en route to Denver, but returned to Dulles at 10:40 p.m. because the passenger “failed to comply with crew instructions,” according to United Airlines spokesman Luke Punzenberger.

March 17—UK—High Court judge Anthony Hayden, to “keep this lad alive,” issued a travel ban on a 16-year-old ­Libyan-British boy living in Brighton to stop him from following his 3 brothers, who fought for the ­al-Qaeda–linked ­al-Nusra Front in Syria. Two of them died there. Hayden said he should be a ward of the court. Martin Downs, attorney for the local council, said the boy’s uncle had been held at Guantanamo Bay.

March 17—Pakistan—Reuters reported that gunmen killed attorney Samiullah Afridi, lawyer for Dr. Shakil Afridi, who ran a vaccination program that helped locate Osama bin Laden. Fahad Marwat, spokesman for Jundullah, claimed credit for the attack on Afridi, who was returning to his Peshawar home.

March 17—U.S.—CNN reported that federal authorities issued a ­2-count indictment against Tai-rod Nathan Webster Pugh, 47, a U.S. Air Force veteran and former airplane mechanic who allegedly planned to join the Islamic State in Syria but was detained by Turkish authorities on January 10, 2015. The Turks found 180 jihadi propaganda videos, including one showing an IS beheading of a hostage, on his laptop, which also contained ­Turkey-Syria border crossing points. U.S. authorities arrested him when he returned to the U.S. via Egypt on Janu-ary 15, 2015. He claimed he was vacationing and job hunting in Turkey and did not intend to go to Syria. Earlier in the week, a grand jury indicted the former avionics instrument system specialist on charges of obstruction of justice and trying to give material support to a terror group. The native of Neptune, New Jersey, pleaded not guilty before Judge Nicholas Garaufis in a federal court in New York on March 18, 2015. He was represented by defense attorney Michael K. Schneider. Court papers said that in a letter addressed to his Egyptian wife, Pugh wrote: “I will use the talents and skills given to me by Allah to establish and defend the Islamic States…. There is only 2 possible outcomes for me. Victory or martyr.” The judge scheduled a May 8 status conference.

Pugh served in the Air Force from 1986 to 1990, specializing in installing and maintaining aircraft engines and navigation and weapons systems. As an airman first class, he was assigned in July 1987 to the Woodbridge Air Base in England and then to the ­Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona in July 1989. After leaving the air force, he worked as an avionics specialist and mechanic for companies in the Middle East and U.S. Court papers indicated that a tipster told the FBI in 2001 that he told an American Airlines ­co-worker that he supported Osama bin Laden. Pugh worked for a few months at American, but left in early 2000. In 2002, an associate of Pugh told the FBI that Pugh wanted to go to wage jihad in Chechnya.

March 17—Iraq—Three suicide bombers attacked a military headquarters in Tarmiyah, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 14.

A bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood, killing 3 civilians and wounding 11.

A bomb hit a police patrol in Youssifiyah, killing 2 policemen and injuring 5.

March 17—Kenya—Al-Shabaab claimed credit for a nighttime attack in Wajir. Gunmen shot to death 4 people in a shop and burned their bodies. Another 3 were injured. ­Al-Shabaab said on its ­Somalia-based Andulus radio station that “The attack is part of a series of attacks targeting the Northern Frontier District region under Kenya’s occupation. The Mujahideen forces who carried out the attack safely returned to base.” 15031701

March 18—Nigeria—Boko Haram killed 11 in ­Gamboru-Ngala after the army said it had retaken the border town on February 4. Boko Haram took over Gamboru in November 2014.

March 18—Kenya—A Nairobi court charged 4 men, including a Kenyan and 3 Somalis, with killing quarry workers.

March 18—Libya—The local Islamic State affiliate attacked a checkpoint manned by ­Misrata-based militia loyal to the government based in Tripoli, killing 12 fighters near Nofailya, close to the country’s mail oil terminal and near Sirte.

March 18—Tunisia—Gunmen wearing military uniforms fired on tour buses, then seized the Bardo National Museum in Tunis, taking hostages. The museum, housed in a 19th-century palace, is next to the national parliament building. Some 200 tourists were in the museum at the time. Security forces raided the site, killing 2 suspected gunmen. A security officer also died. At least 22 foreign tourists—including citizens of Japan, Italy, Spain, Colombia, Germany, Poland, and the UK—and a Tunisian cleaning woman were killed and 50 people were wounded. Prime Minister Habib Essid said 3 suspected attackers might have escaped.

Twitter accounts linked to the Islamic State praised the attack. The group later claimed credit in an audio recording, saying its 2 Tunisian fighters attacked a “malicious group from the citizens of the Crusader countries” and died after they “ran out of ammunition.” IS deemed the “blessed” attack that entailed “killing and wounding dozens of Crusaders and apostates” to be “the first drop of the rain.”

Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said some of the Polish victims were on a tour bus that the terrorists attacked. The Polish Foreign Ministry initially said 3 Poles were injured; unofficial reports said 4 Poles died. Twenty Polish tourists were unharmed.

Italy’s Foreign Ministry said 2 Italians were injured. Later reports said that 4 Italians were killed. The other 100 Italians inside the museum were taken to a secure location. Some of the Italians were believed to have been passengers on the Costa Fascinosa cruise liner.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said 3 Japanese were killed and 3 injured.

Tunisian Health Minister Said Aidi said 5 Tunisians, including 2 attackers, were killed.

Moncef Hamdoun, speaking for the Charles Nicolle hospital where many victims were taken, said the dead included 3 Japanese women, a Spanish man and a Spanish woman, a Colombian woman, an Australian man, a British woman, a Belgian woman, a Frenchman and a Polish man.

AP’s March 19 compilation of the victims included:

• Sally Jane Adey, 57, a British passenger of the cruise ship MSC Splendida. She was a lawyer with children studying at universities.

• Francesco Caldara, 64, was from Novara in northern the attack, according to RAI.

• Javier Camelo, 28, an Australian who worked for American Express in Sydney. The ­Colombia-born Camelo had finished an MBA degree in Madrid and traveled to Tunisia with his parents and a brother to celebrate his graduation. His mother, Colombian citizen Miriam Martinez, was also killed in the attack. The family arrived on the cruise ship MSC Splendida.

• Orazio Conte, a resident of Turin, Italy, was killed and his wife Carolina Bottari was hospitalized.

• Chiemi Miyazaki, 49, and Haruka Miyazaki, 22, a mother and daughter from Saitama near Tokyo, Japan had come to Tunisia on a cruise.

• Machiyo Narusawa, 66, from Tokyo, Japan, had come to Tunisia on a cruise with a companion.

• Antonio Cirera Perez, 75, and Dolors Sanchez Rami, 73, a husband and wife from Barcelona who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary with a cruise offered to them by their family.

• Jean-Claude Tissier, 72, a retired former local council member in Aussillon, France. His companion Nadine Flament was among those unaccounted for.

• Also injured was Belgian tourist Gabriel Verfaillie, 61, who was hit in the leg.

AP reported on March 19 that the Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid told France’s RTL radio that one of the gunmen—Laabidi—was known to the Tunisian intelligence service, which had not established any formal link to a terrorist group. He identified the terrorists as Yassine Laabidi and Hatem Khachnaoui.

Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel ­Garcia-Margallo said Spanish citizens Juan Carlos Sanchez and Cristina Rubio, who is 4 months pregnant, hid in the building all night. He added that the Spanish couple killed in the attack were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary; it was the first time they had been outside Spain.

The Office of President Beji Caid Essebsi said that 9 members of a “cell” were picked up by authorities—5 directly connected to the attack were arrested and another 4 suspects linked to the attackers but based outside Tunis were detained.

President Essebsi said, “I want the Tunisian people to understand that we are in a merciless war against terrorism and that these savage minorities do not frighten us. We will fight them without mercy to our last breath.”

On March 20, AP reported that Rafik Chelli, the Interior Ministry’s top security official, said the 2 gunmen left Tunisia in December to train in Libya.

Tunisian Health Minister Samar Samoud said on March 20 that the victims included 4 Italians, 3 Japanese, 3 French, 2 Spanish citizens, 2 Colombians and one citizen each from the UK, Poland and Belgium. The nationalities of 3 victims were not released. ­Polish citizen Jadwiga Olszewska was among the wounded, hit in the stomach and right elbow; her husband, Janusz, was hit in the leg. Three Poles were killed and 12 injured.

Tunisian’s president told the French iTele network on March 22 that police were searching for an ­at-large third attacker, who was seen on a security video entering the museum.

On March 26, AP reported that Interior Minister Najem Gharsalli announced the arrests of 23 people, including a woman, suspected of being behind the attack, but 2 Moroccan and one Algerian suspects were still at large. He said the group was connected to the ­al-Qaeda–linked Oqba Ibn Nafaa brigade, which had claimed allegiance both to the Islamic State and ­al-Qaeda.

On March 28, AP quoted the French president’s office announcement that a fourth French citizen, Madame Dupeu, had died of her injuries.

On March 29, NPR reported that Tunisian officials claimed that overnight raids in Sidi Aich near the Algerian border had killed 9 terrorists, including one involved in the museum attack. State news agency TAP quoted Prime Minister Habib Essid as saying that Khaled Chaieb, alias Abou Sakhr Lokman, believed to be an AQIM leader, died near Gafsa. Interior Ministry spokesman Ali Aroui said several jihadis were wounded in Kef.

On May 20, 2015, Milan, Italy, police said they had arrested Moroccan citizen Abdelmajid Touil, 22, on an international arrest warrant issued by Tunisia in connection with the attack. He had arrived in Porto Empedocle, Sicily on a migrant boat on February 17 and was ordered expelled for lying about his identity. Police arrested him during the evening at the home of his mother in Gaggiano, near Milan, and accused him of helping to organize and conduct the Bardo attack. Authorities seized 2 pen drives, a cell phone, and some personal items during a search of Touil’s mother’s home. The mayor of Trezzano sul Naviglio, Fabio Bottero, said that Touil was present at his ­twice-weekly Italian lessons on March 16 and March 19. Tunisia said he provided indirect support. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano told Parliament that there were no ­terrorism-related concerns about Touil when he arrived in Sicily. Touil’s attorney was Silvia Fioren­tino.

Italian police found that Touil was in Italy in the days before and following the attack, and that his cell phone and passport had been handed over to the smugglers who had brought him to Italy on Febru-ary 17, 2015. Touil had denied involvement in the attack. ANSA reported that Italian prosecutors had by November 2015 shelved the investigation for lack of evidence. In early November 2015, an Italian court denied Tunisia’s extradition request because Tunisia has the death penalty. A judge refused to confirm his detention at a repatriation center and Touil left with his mother. 15031801

March 18—Congo—AP reported on March 20 that rebels from the Allied Defense ­Forces–NALU used machetes to attack field workers in 3 villages in region around Beni, killing 4 civilians as they fled a Congolese army operation, according to Omar Kavota, spokesman for the Civil Society of North Kivu. Another 5 people were missing and others were wounded.

March 18—Yemen—In a morning attack, 2 gunmen on a motorbike assassinated ­Abdel-Karim ­al-Khewani, respected writer, prominent Yemeni politician and supporter of the country’s Shi’ite rebels, in front of the family’s home in Sana’a.

March 18—France—Finance Minister Michel Sapin announced a limitation of cash payments to 1,000 euros ($1,063) and requiring reporting for bank deposits of more than 10,000 euros ($10,635) to combat terrorism financing. ­Non-residents may spend up to 10,000 euros ($10,635) in cash.

March 18—Iraq—On April 21, 2015, the Guardian reported that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi was seriously wounded in an air strike on a 3-car convoy between the village of Umm ­al-Rous and ­al-Qaraan in the ­al-Baaj district of Nineveh, close to the Syrian border, in western Iraq on March 18. The Guardian reported on May 1, 2015, that ­al-Baghdadi was incapacitated with suspected spinal damage from a U.S. airstrike in ­al-Baaj in northwestern Iraq that killed his 3 travel companions. AP quoted unidentified sources who said that a female radiologist from a main Mosul hospital and a male surgeon were treating him in his hideout. IS was temporarily led by his deputy, Abu Alaa ­al-Afri, a physics professor.

March 18—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber attacked the back wall of Helmand Governor Mohammad Nahim Balouch’s compound and the adjacent residence of the head of the provincial council in Lashkar Gah, killing 7 and wounding 43, including Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman; the district governor of Nad Ali; and the provincial agriculture and media directors. Balouch was not at the compound. No one immediately claimed credit.

A Taliban suicide bomber killed Uruzgan provincial police chief Mattiullah Khan in Kabul.

March 19—Japan—Police arrested Mitsuyoshi Ka­miya, an Okinawa resident accused of making bomb threats from a pay phone against the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. The media said he was a possible suspect in recent death threats against U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy and the U.S. Consul General on Okinawa. A police spokesman said the suspect also threatened to bomb Camp Schwab, a U.S. military base on Okinawa. Police said Kamiya admitted making the bomb threats.

March 19—UK—Police at Luton airport arrested a 21-year-old woman arriving from Istanbul on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.

March 19—Iraq—Authorities in Salahuddin Province unearthed 13 bodies in the ­al-Boajeel district, east of Tikrit. The Islamic State was suspected. A UN Human Rights Office report said the IS might have committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by its involvement in killings, torture, rape and sexual slavery, forced religious conversions and the conscription of children.

March 19—Canada—Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrest in Beaumont, Alberta, an Edmonton suburb, of a 17-year-old who was charged with ­terror-related offenses of trying to leave the country to fight in Iraq and Syria with the Islamic State. The specific charges were attempting to leave Canada to commit an act of terror and attempting to leave the country to join a terrorist group. He was scheduled to appear in youth court on April 9.

March 19—Cameroon—During the night, 30 gunmen from the Central African Republic kidnapped 16 people, including local politicians and clergy, from a bus in Babio, a border town. The people were returning from a funeral. The gunmen drove the bus into the Central African Republic. The Democratic Front of the Central African People was suspected. The group kidnapped several Cameroonians and a Polish priest in 2014, demanding the release of their jailed leader. 15031901

March 19—Bahrain—A bomb exploded in Karrana, west of Manama, wounding 2 policemen.

March 19—U.S.—A St. Louis judge ordered Jasminka Maric, 42, of Rockford, Illinois, to remain in custody on federal charges of helping 5 other Bosnian immigrants move money and military supplies to terrorists in Iraq and Syria. She was earlier arrested in Germany. Arraignment and a detention hearing was scheduled for March 23. She and the 5 ­co-defendants were indicted in February on charges of conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists, and supplying support to terrorists. One ­co-defendant lives in Illinois, 3 in Missouri and one in New York. The court appointed J. Christian Goeke to serve as her defense counsel. Defendant Ramiz Hodzic, 40, of St. Louis County, was accused of using Facebook, PayPal, Western Union and the U.S. Postal Service to ship money and supplies through an overseas intermediary. Hodzic and his wife, Sedina, were charged with making 10 wire transfers totaling $8,850, and arranging 2 shipments of military supplies valued at $2,451. Sedina Hodzic was accused of aiding one of those transfers and shipping 6 boxes of military supplies. The couple pleaded not guilty. The indictment alleges that they were helped by Abdullah Ramo Pazara, another Bosnian immigrant who left St. Louis in May 2013 to fight in Syria and whom authorities say died there. The Hodzics had lived in the U.S. as refugees for nearly 2 decades.

March 20—Syria—A bomb exploded in a main square in Hassakeh, followed by an explosion set off by an Islamic State suicide car bomber nearby. The 2 bombs killed 49 Kurds celebrating Nowruz, the Kurdish New Year, and wounded 177, some critically, according to Egid Ibrahim, leader of the Kurdish Red Crescent.

March 20—UK—High Court judge Anthony Hayden made 5 15- and 16-year-old girls wards of the court, preventing them from leaving the UK to go to Syria. He also ordered their passports removed.

March 20—Pakistan—A time bomb hidden on a motorcycle parked near the main gate of the mosque of the minority Shi’ite Bohra community in a Karachi business district killed 2 and wounded 6. The bomb went off minutes before Friday midday prayers were to end.

Later that day, a suicide bomber crashed his motorcycle into a paramilitary ranger patrol vehicle, killing 2 paramilitary troops and injuring 3 paramilitary troops and a man and a woman driving past on a motorcycle.

Gunmen ambushed a convoy of government officials in Baluchistan Province, killing 2 police officers and injuring 5 others. Deputy commissioner Abdur Raziq, the apparent target, was unharmed.

March 20—India—At least 2 gunmen wearing army uniforms hijacked a car and drove it to an Indian police station in Kathua in Kashmir’s Jammu region, forcing several civilians to enter to gain access to the building. They then killed a police sentry and a civilian. In the ensuing 4-hour gun battle, 2 paramilitary soldiers, 2 gunmen, and a civilian died, and 7 paramilitary officers, 2 policemen and a civilian were wounded. Indian forces rescued 2 dozen paramilitary and police officers who had been trapped inside the station.

March 20—UK—Judge Timothy Pontius sentenced Brusthom Ziamani, 19, to 22 years in prison for plotting to behead a British soldier. Ziamani was raised by Jehovah’s Witness parents of Congolese extraction, and converted to Islam early in 2014. His parents kicked him out of their south London home after his conversion. He soon became influenced by the radical group ­al-Muhajiroun.

March 20—Germany—The federal prosecutor’s office charged 6 German men, aged 24–31, for ­al-Shabaab links, charging 5 with membership in a terrorist organization, and a sixth for attempting to join the group. One of them had Tunisian nationality. Five were accused of undergoing weapons training at a camp run by ­al-Shabaab in Somalia starting in 2012. Prosecutors say 2 of them later planned to join the Islamic State in Syria.

March 20—Yemen—A ­self-described Islamic State affiliate claimed credit when suicide bombers hit the Badr and ­al-Hashoosh mosques in Sana’a—mosques frequented by Shi’ite Houthi rebels—during midday prayers, killing 137, including 13 children, and wounding 357, according to the ­state-run SABA news agency. ­Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula denied involvement. Prominent Shi’ite cleric ­al-Murtada ­al-Mansouri and 2 senior Houthi leaders were also killed, according to the ­rebel-owned Al-Masirah TV channel, which said a suicide bomb attack on another mosque was foiled in Saada. Guards at the Badr mosque stopped the first bomber, who set off his device. A second bomber entered the mosque and blew himself up amid the crowd. The alleged Islamic State affiliate calling itself “Sanaa Province” warned of an “upcoming flood” of attacks targeting the Houthi rebels. “The soldiers of the Islamic State … will not rest until we have uprooted” the Houthis.

March 21—Pakistan—A military official announced that soldiers killed 80 terrorists and wounded 100 in a 2-day operation in the Tirah Valley in the Khyber tribal region. Seven soldiers died during the gun battles.

March 21—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb exploded under a vehicle in Kunduz Province’s Imam Sahib district, killing 3 civilians and injuring the target, a district police chief. The dead included the police chief’s brother and driver. The chief’s son was wounded.

March 21—Russia—Authorities announced the death of 6 suspected terrorists in a raid at an apartment building in Makhachkala, Dagestan. Another 4 were killed in searches of nearby apartments.

March 21—Nigeria—UPI reported that soldiers found a mass grave with 90 bodies outside Damasak as Boko Haram was being expelled from the region. Some were beheaded; others had their throats slit. Troops from Chad and Niger had recaptured Dama­sak on March 16. On March 25, AP reported that Boko Haram kidnapped up to 500 civilians, including many children, and used them as human shields during their escape from Damasak. A local official said BH went to Damasak’s primary schools and kidnapped students and teachers.

March 22—UK—Opposition parliamentarian Meh­met Ali Ediboglu said he was helping the families of 9 British medical students and doctors believed to have traveled from Sudan to Turkey and then crossed into ­IS-controlled Syrian territory. A 19-year-old student phoned her family to say that she wanted to help wounded Syrians in hospitals.

March 22—Syria—Reuters reported that a ­self-described Islamic State Hacking Division posted online what it said are the names, U.S. addresses and photos of 100 American military service members, and called upon its “brothers residing in America” to kill them. The group claimed to have broken into several military servers, databases and emails and made public the information so that “lone wolf” attackers could kill them. The New York Times reported that an unnamed Defense Department official said that most of the information could be found in public records, residential address search sites and social media. The Florida Times Union and CBS News reported on March 27 that the list included addresses in St. Augustine, Middleburg, and Palm Coast, Flor­ida. One person had moved out of the area, but the service member’s parents resided in Palm Coast.

March 23—Indonesia—Two separate trials began at the North Jakarta District Court of 4 Chinese Uighurs who were arrested in September 2014 while trying to meet with most wanted extremist Abu Wardah Santoso in Central Sulawesi Province. Ahmet Mahmud, Abdullah alias Altinci Bayyram, Abdulbasit Tuzer, and Ahmet Bozoglan were charged with ­involvement in terrorism activities and using fake passports. Also on trial in the same court were 4 Indo­nesian associates of Santoso, leader of Mujahidin Indonesia Timur and a fugitive alleged to be behind the murders of police.

March 23—Iraq—A bomb exploded on a commercial street in the Habibiya section of Sadr City in Baghdad, killing 9 and wounding 22.

In the morning, a bomb went off near an intelligence branch of the Interior Ministry in northwestern Baghdad, killing a couple and their 2 children.

A bomb went off at a vegetable market in Baghdad’s Tarabya section, killing 6 and wounding 14.

March 23—Mali—A bomb went off prematurely when 2 men were manipulating it in their house in Gao, killing them.

March 23—Germany—A gasoline bomb was thrown in the early morning at the facade of the ­Paul-Loebe-Haus, a modern office building opposite the chancellery in Berlin, but failed to ignite. Notes left near the building suggested a possible ­far-right connection.

March 24—Afghanistan—At midnight, gunmen fired on 3 vehicles on a highway in Wardak Province’s Sayad Abad district, killing at least 13 people and wounding 2 civilians. One of the vehicles was a bus traveling from Kabul to Ghazni Province.

March 24—Libya—Two suicide bombers attacked an army checkpoint in Benghazi, killing 5 people and wounding 20. On March 25, 2015, the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Libya has claimed credit online, showing a photo of who they claimed was a Tunisian suicide bomber involved in the attack.

March 24—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit a passing armored vehicle during a search for jihadis in ­al-Kharouba village, near the border with the Gaza Strip, killing 2 Egyptian soldiers and seriously injuring 6 soldiers.

Drive-by gunmen shot to death a young conscript in ­el-Arish.

March 24—France—On March 26, 2015, AP reported that investigators suspected that German ­co-pilot Andreas Lubitz, 28, barricaded himself in the cockpit and intentionally crashed Germanwings Flight 9525, an Airbus A320, into the side of a mountain in the French Alps, killing all 150 people, including 144 passengers and 6 crew, on the flight from Barcelona, Spain to Dusseldorf, Germany. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin said Lubitz’s “intention (was) to destroy this plane.” The pilot, who presumably went to the lavatory then could not ­re-enter the cockpit, banged on the door several times. Prosecutor Robin said, “The most plausible, the most probable, is that the ­co-pilot voluntarily refused to open the door of the cockpit for the captain and pressed the button for the descent.” The black box cockpit voice recorder indicated that Lubitz said nothing after the pilot left. Prosecutors said Lubitz had never been identified as a terrorist. CNN’s list of victims included citizens of 18 countries. Germanwings said there were 72 Germans, 49 Spaniards, 2 Australians, 2 Argentines, 2 Americans, 2 Iranians, and 2 Vene­zu­elans. Other individuals were from Belgium, Co­lombia, Chile, Denmark, Israel, Mexico, Japan, the Netherlands, and the UK. Victims included

• Yvonne Selke and her daughter, Emily, who lived in Nokesville, Virginia. Yvonne worked for Booz Allen Hamilton. Emily graduated with honors with a major in the music industry at Drexel University, serving as membership vice president for Gamma Sigma Sigma’s Zeta chapter before working for Carr Workplaces.

• 16 high school exchange students and 2 teachers from ­Joseph-Koenig Gymnasium school heading home to Haltern, Germany, after a week in Llinars del Valles, Spain.

• German opera singers Oleg Bryjak and Maria Radner, who had performed Wagner’s “Siegfried” at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu. Radner’s ­husband and child were with her on the flight. Bass baritone Bryjak had been part of Dussel-dorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein ensemble since 1996.

• Luis Eduardo Medrano, 36, a Colombian architect who worked in Equatorial Guinea for the Atland Global engineering company and had studied at the Fundacion Universitaria de Popaya. The Colombian Foreign Ministry said a second Colombian passenger was María del Pilar Tejada, 33, an economist who lived in Germany and was working on a PhD at the University of Cologne. She had visited her husband in Barcelona.

• IRNA said Iranian sports reporters Hojjatoleslami and Hossein Javadi had covered a soccer match between Real Madrid and Barcelona.

• Australian nurse/midwife Carol Friday, 68, and her son, Greig, 29, were on vacation.

• Paul Andrew Bramley, 28, from Hull, UK, studied hospitality and management at Cesar Ritz Colleges in Switzerland, and was about to start an internship.

• Martyn Matthews, 50, a senior quality manager from Wolverhampton, UK.

• British citizen Marina Bandres ­Lopez-Belio, 37, and her 7-month-old son, Julian ­Pracz-Bandres, who had been visiting her family in Spain for her uncle’s funeral. She worked as an editor and colorist in ­post-production for film and video in Manchester, UK.

On March 27, CNN reported that ­co-pilot Andreas Lubitz was hiding an illness from his employers and had been declared unfit to work by a doctor. Investigators found a “slashed” letter in his apartment’s wastebasket declaring him unfit. On March 29, the New York Times reported that he had sought treatment for vision problems. AP reported on March 31 that he had undergone psychotherapy and was diagnosed with suicidal tendencies before he received his pilot’s license.

March 25—U.S.—Authorities at Chicago’s Midway International Airport arrested Illinois Army National Guard soldier Hasan R. Edmonds, 22, while he was trying to board a plane for the first leg of a trip to Egypt. Federal prosecutors announced the arrest the next day, saying that he planned to bring “the flames of war to the Heat” of the U.S. if he could not get to the Middle East to join the Islamic State. Prosecutors said his cousin, Jonas M. Edmonds, 29, arrested at his home on March 25, claimed he could kill 150 people in a terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Both men were U.S. citizens residing in Aurora, a Chicago suburb. The federal complaint said Jonas planned to conduct an attack in the U.S. after Hasan left the country. The target might have been a U.S. military facility in north­ern Illinois where Hasan had trained. Hasan sent an ­e-mail to an undercover FBI agent in January 2015 in which he said he would “cause as much damage and mayhem as possible,” according to prosecutors.

March 25—Italy/Albania—In Operation Balkan Connection, Italian police broke up a jihadi ring in Italy and Albania who recruited fighters for the Islamic State, arresting 3 people and issuing a warrant for a fourth who is already in Syria.

One suspect, a 20-year-old Italian of Moroccan ori­gin, allegedly wrote a 64-page online ­Italian-language IS propaganda booklet entitled “The Islamic State, a reality that wants to be communicated.” The 2 others were Albanians—a man was arrested in Albania and his nephew in Turin. Albanian police said the uncle was Alban Elezi, 38, who was held on an Interpol warrant from Italy. Italian police said the 2 Albanians had targeted a young Italian of Tunisian origin, and that Elezi had traveled to Italy to recruit him.

Police said the 3 suspects communicated via Facebook and telephone with Anas ­el-Abboubi, an Italian of Moroccan origin who is among the 65 “foreign fighters” that Italy has traced to Syria. Italian authorities had arrested him on ­terrorism-related charges in 2013.

The Albanians were accused of recruitment with the aim of terrorism, while the propaganda writer was accused of aggravated terrorist sympathies.

March 25—Libya—Three suicide car bombings targeting Libya’s elected government and allied fighters in Benghazi killed 12 and injured 25. Two of the bombings were carried by the Shura Council of Ben­ghazi Revolutionaries. The attacks were retaliation for the killing of Mohammed ­al-Aribi, a top commander for Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries who fought alongside Islamic State and ­al-Qaeda–linked terrorists. ­Al-Aribi died on March 23. The Islamic State claimed credit for the other bombing.

The Islamic State attacked a rival ­Misrata-based militia in Sirte, leaving 5 dead.

March 25—Turkey—During the night, a bomb exploded outside the 3rd-floor door of the monthly pro–Islamic State Adimlar magazine, killing Unsal Zor, 45, a writer for the magazine, injuring 3 others, including his brother, ­editor-in-chief Ali Osman Zor, a member of the Great Eastern Islamic Raiders’ Front, and ripping out the office’s exterior wall. The bomb exploded when the door opened. The office building is in Istanbul’s ­low-income Kagithane district. CNN added that Adimlar published anti–U.S. articles, including a tribute to convicted Venezuelan terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, alias “Carlos the Jackal.” Ali Osman Zor had served in prison on terrorism charges.

March 26—Pakistan—Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurassani claimed credit when gunmen fired a rocket at a vehicle carrying 5 police officers in the Loralai district of southwestern Baluchistan Province, killing all of them. Another Taliban attack on a police bus in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi left 10 people wounded.

March 27—Pakistan—Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurassani claimed credit when a ­remotely-detonated roadside bomb attached to a motorcycle hit a bus carrying police officers in Karachi’s residential area of ­Quaid-e-Abad, wounding 10 people, some critically.

March 27—Nigeria—The Nigerian Defense Headquarters tweeted “FLASH: Troops this morning captured Gwoza destroying the Headquarters of the Terrorists ­self-styled Caliphate.” and “Several terrorists died while many are captured. Mopping up of entire #Gwoza and her suburbs is ongoing.”

March 27—Congo—The UN High Commissioner for Refugees condemned the kidnapping of 16 Congolese refugees the previous weekend by members of the Lord’s Resistance Army. By March 27, the LRA had released 13 hostages. 15039901

March 27—Yemen—On September 20, 2015, Hou­thi rebels released 6 foreign hostages who then flew out of Sana’a airport to Oman, which negotiated their freedom. The hostages—initially identified as 3 Americans, 2 Saudis and a Briton—were kidnapped earlier in the year. One of them was a journalist whom the Houthis said “entered the country illegally” and “worked without notifying the authorities.” CNN and the Washington Post later reported that 2 Americans had been freed and a 35-year-old American Muslim convert who was teaching English was still being held for unannounced reasons. Among the freed Americans was Scott Darden, 45, who worked for the New ­Orleans-based Transoceanic Development logistics company. The other American was Sam Farran, 54, a security consultant from Michigan. The Houthis’ internal security branch detained Farran and Darden on March 27. Darden had contacted Farran, a former Marine, for help in finding safety during Saudi bombing of Sana’a. 15032702

March 27—Somalia—CNN reported that ­al-Shabaab claimed credit when a suicide bomber set off his explosives and gunmen fired into Mogadishu’s Makka ­al-Mukarama hotel at 4 p.m., starting a gun battle with police in which at least 24 people, including 6 terrorists and one soldier, died and 28 were wounded. The terrorists had taken several hostages. ­Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab said the gunmen were attacking spies and government officials. Somalia’s ambassador to Switzerland and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva, Yusuf ­Bari-Bari, was among the dead, according to Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud.

March 28—Egypt—Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) claimed credit for setting off a bomb in front of Cairo University, wounding 8, including 4 police officers. The group said it was targeting police officers and private security guards at the entrances of the university.

March 28—Nigeria—AP reported that Boko Haram killed 41 people in an attack to derail the presidential election. BH forced voters away from polling stations in 3 villages in Gombe State. Attacks in Biri and Dukku killed 14 people, including Gombve State legislator Umaru Ali.

Two car bombs went off in Enugu State, but caused no casualties. Police set off 2 other car bombs at a polling station set up at a primary school. BH was not suspected.

March 28—Cameroon—Local official Samuel Dieudonne Ivaha Diboua said during the night, residents near the border town of ­Garoua-Boulai killed “several” suspected fighters from the Central African Republic who were trying to kidnap 8 people. He said 15 gunmen had grabbed the people. The residents also detained 2 gunmen. Diboua blamed the rebel Democratic Front of the Central African People. 15032801

March 29—Syria—The Islamic State released a video showing its members beheading 8 Shi’ite males in Hama Province. Teen boys brought the victims to a field, then handed IS men knives to kill the “impure infidels.”

March 30—Israel—A Jerusalem district court indicted Khalil Khalil, a Palestinian from east Jeru­salem, on charges of traveling to Syria to join and fight with the Islamic State. Shin Bet said he was born in 1990 and had joined a Hebrew University gym to get in shape for the mission. Shin Bet claimed he told his family he was going on hajj to Mecca, but he and a friend flew to Istanbul in January 2014 and then traveled to a safe house in southern Turkey. From there, smugglers brought them to Syria. Shin Bet arrested Khalil when he returned a few weeks later.

March 30—Bangladesh—Three men hacked to death blogger Washiqur Rahman Babu, 26, in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area. Police caught 2 attackers, both students at Islamic schools, near the scene. Police seized 3 meat cleavers. Jikrullah, 20, a student at Hathajari Madrassah in the southeastern district of Chittagong, told reporters, “I stabbed him because he humiliated my prophet.” Jikrullah said he traveled from Chittagong and stayed overnight at a mosque. The other detained suspect was identified as Ariful Islam, 20, a student at an Islamic school in Dhaka’s Mirpur area. Local media reported that Babu’s Facebook page included the line “Iamavijit,” meaning he was a follower of Avijit Roy, the ­Bangladeshi-American blogger who was hacked to death the previous month. The next day, UPI reported that 4 men were charged with the killing. Two of the attackers, both students at a Chittagong madrassa with links to the conservative ­Hefazat-e-Islam group, had been held by passersby until the police arrived. The planner of the attack remained at large. Police Commissioner Biplob Kumar Sarkar said 2 captured men claimed they were acting on orders from another person, and had not read Babu’s work, which included a weekly column satirizing religion on the website Dhormockery.com, according to the ­London-based International Humanist and Ethical Union.

March 30—Spain—Police in Madrid, Barcelona, Palencia and Granada arrested 12 people suspected of belonging to the Coordinated Anarchists Groups for sabotage offenses and planting explosive devices. Another 14 were arrested for resisting police carrying out the operation.

March 30—Iraq—Before noon, 2 car bombs exploded in a commercial area of northeastern Baghdad’s Husseiniyah district, killing 11, including 2 policemen, and injuring 26 people. United Nations Secretary General Ban ­Ki-moon had arrived hours earlier.

March 30—U.S.—The Washington Post, CNN, and AP reported that shortly before 9 a.m., 2 men dressed as women crashed a stolen dark Ford Escape into a security SUV at the front gate of the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland. Police opened fire after they refused to stop, killing Ricky Shawatza Hall, 27, and injuring another. An NSA police officer was hospitalized. The duo had robbed a 60-year-old Baltimore man of his SUV from a motel on Route 1 in Howard County, Maryland. The trio met in Baltimore on March 29, spending the night at the Jessup, Howard County Terrace Motel in Elk­ridge. The owner reported the vehicle stolen the morning of March 30 at around 7:30 a.m. FBI spokes­woman Amy J. Threson said that authorities “do not believe [the incident] is related to terrorism.” Police speculated that the duo made a wrong turn toward the campus, and did not stop because they had hidden drugs inside the vehicle.

March 30—Mali—Gunmen attacked a truck marked with an International Committee of the Red Cross emblem, setting it on fire, killing the ICRC driver, and injuring a Malian Red Cross employee. The vehicle was en route to Niger to pick up medical supplies when it was attacked 25 miles outside Gao.

March 30—Azerbaijan—A court began the trial of 6 Azerbaijani men accused of fighting alongside the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Elmar Suleymanov, attorney for one of the suspects, said the judge rejected defense appeals. The defendants were among the 26 Azerbaijani citizens arrested in September 2014 on charges of joining IS.

March 30—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb exploded under a minivan during the afternoon in Ghazni Province’s Andar District, killing 7 family members, including a man, 3 women, and 3 children. Ghazni deputy police chief Asadullah Ensafi I blamed the Taliban.

March 30—Uganda—Gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death Joan Kagezi, a prosecutor in the trial of a dozen men facing terrorism charges for the July 2010 bombings that killed more than 70 people watching soccer’s World Cup final on TV. Police were investigating possible ­al-Shabaab involvement. The gunmen fired twice at Kagezi, who had left her car to buy groceries in a Kampala suburb, hitting her in the head and neck. She was traveling with 2 of her children on the way home from work. On April 7, police arrested 3 people for the killing. The suspects once lived in Kagezi’s suburb. Ugandan police chief Kale Kayihura said that the trio had changed their physical address thrice. Police also searched a suburban Kampala apartment where the suspects lived. On April 8, AP reported that Ugandan authorities arrested Muslim convert Jamal Kiyemba, a Ugandan who once was detained at Guantanamo Bay, and 3 others on suspicion of playing a role in the killing. Kiyemba had lived in the UK before traveling to Pakistan, where he was arrested as a terror suspect. 15033001

March 31—Iraq—A suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Iranian Shi’ite pilgrims in Taji, killing 10 people, including 7 Iranians, and wounding 14 Iranian pilgrims returning from Samarra, as the pilgrims were getting off the bus at a gas station. The dead included 2 Iranian women and the Iraqi bus driver.

March 31—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency and state TRT television reported that the leftist ­DHKP-C took hostage chief prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz in his office inside an Istanbul court house. The terrorists had dressed as lawyers to enter the courthouse. The private Dogan news agency said some shots were fired inside. Kiraz was investigating the death of a teenager who was hit by a police gas canister fired during nationwide ­anti-government protests in 2013. The group’s website said it gave ­authorities 3 hours to carry out its 5 demands, including forcing policemen held responsible for the teenager’s killing to confess to the death, that the police­men be tried by “peoples’ courts,” and for court officials to drop prosecutions or investigations against people who took part in protests denouncing the boy’s death. The website showed a picture of someone holding a gun to a man’s head. Following 6 hours of negotiations, a ­shoot-out between the terrorists and police led to the deaths of 2 gunmen. Kiraz later died in the hospital of a gunshot wound to the head.

March 31—Spain—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 4 members of a family, including 16-year-old twin boys who were allegedly about to travel to Syria to become jihadi fighters. The parents and their sons, all Moroccan citizens, were arrested in Badalona, near Barcelona. Authorities said the twins were suspected of planning to travel to Morocco before going to Syria via Turkey. The Ministry said authorities believe an older brother joined the Islamic State in Syria and died in 2014. The twins had left school in Spain to study the Quran in Morocco.

April—Indonesia—On May 25, AP reported that Daeng Koro, a leader of the East Indonesia Mujahideen group, was believed to have been killed in April in a ­shoot-out with an Indonesian ­anti-terror squad near Poso.

April—Israel—On April 15, AP reported that Shin Bet announced that Khaled Kutina, 37, a Palestinian man residing in east Jerusalem, confessed to intentionally ramming his car into a group of Israeli Jews the previous week. Shin bet said that Kutina said he was driving along a main highway looking for Jews to harm when he saw people standing along the side of the road. One man was killed and a woman seriously injured. Kutina tried to claim mental illness before confessing. He was represented by attorney Nasser Massis.

April—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped a German working with the German aid organization GIZ as he drove through the Ali Abad area of Kunduz Province. He escaped in May after being held for 6 weeks. 15049901

April 1—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the dismantling by the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigation of a cell in Fez that recruited young Moroccans to fight with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

April 1—Jamaica—A man threw a “suspicious package” over the U.S. Embassy’s wall in the morning. Jamaican authorities detained a suspect.

April 1—Turkey—The armed forces detained 9 Britons, including 3 men, 2 women, and 4 children aged 1 to 11, trying to cross into Syria from Hatay Province. Turkish authorities began deporting them back to the UK on April 13. One of them was identified as Waheed Ahmed, 21, who was arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of a terrorist offense. His father was Shakil Ahmed, a Labour Party councilor in Rochdale, northwest England. The other 8 Britons were expected to fly from Antalya to Manchester.

Police killed a woman, believed to be a ­DHKP-C terrorist, who was carrying a bomb near Istanbul’s main police headquarters. A policeman was slightly injured. A second suspect escaped.

Police detained some 30 ­DHKP-C suspects in Antalya, Izmir and Eskisehir. At least 19 people, many of them students, were held in Antalya.

Police overpowered a gunman who stormed the ruling party’s office in Istanbul, forced employees out and shouted slogans against the party. No one was hurt.

April 2—Israel—A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier during an arrest of Palestinians who had sneaked past the West Bank separation barrier on their way into Israel. The soldier suffered light injuries.

April 2—Iran—Iran’s ­state-run Press TV said that in the morning, gunmen killed 3 police officers in Hamidiyeh, near the Iraqi border.

April 2—Egypt—Jihadis attacked an army checkpoint at Sheikh Zuweid in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 16 soldiers, wounding 19, and seizing 2 armored vehicles, possibly with hostages inside. A helicopter gunship fired a rocket at one of the vehicles, destroying it and killing its occupants. The second vehicle got away. Four simultaneous attacks on other army checkpoints killed 3 civilians and wounded 13 others. The Islamic State’s “Sinai Province” branch in Egypt claimed credit for the attacks, saying it hit 7 checkpoints.

On April 6, security officials said the kidnappers killed a conscript they were holding after the attack by shooting him in the head.

April 2—Iraq—A car bomb exploded near a bus stop and outdoor market in Baghdad’s Bab ­al-Muadam area during the evening, killing 8 people, including 2 women, and injuring 18.

A bomb exploded near a restaurant in Baghdad’s Husseiniyah Shi’ite suburb, killing 3 and wounding 8.

April 2—U.S.—The Washington Post reported that U.S.-Jordanian dual citizen Muhanad Mahmoud ­al-Farekh, alias Abdullah ­al-Shami, 29, once thought to be a top ­al-Qaeda operative, was detained in Pakistan and secretly flown to New York to face federal terrorism charges. Arraignment was scheduled a Brooklyn federal court on charges of supporting ­al-Qaeda. Pakistan had detained him several weeks earlier.

Farekh was believed to have been born in Texas but to have moved with his family at a young age to Jordan. Around 2007, he traveled to Pakistan to join gunmen fighting American troops in Afghanistan.

April 2—India—Government forces intercepted 2 suspected Kashmiri rebels hiding in 2 homes in Hardshoora village in the ­Indian-controlled section of Kashmir. Gunmen fired on the patrol, killing one soldier and one policeman and wounding 2 soldiers and a civilian during a gun battle that raged for several hours.

Suspected rebels attacked Indian forces in Aruna­chal Pradesh State, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 4 others. They escaped after the attack in Tirap district. Gunmen in another area ambushed an army convoy, killing 2 and wounding 3. Police blamed a faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland for the killings.

April 2—Pakistan—Military courts sentenced 6 Islamic militants to death on charges including terrorism, murder, suicide bombing and kidnapping for ransom. A 7th suspect was sentenced to life.

April 2—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber hit an ­anti-corruption demonstration in Khost, killing 16 people and wounding nearly 60, including a local member of parliament, Hamayun Hamayoon.

In the morning, a roadside bomb set by the Taliban hit the vehicle of police chief Hikmatullah Akmal, who was driving to investigate a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Gereshk District, according to Helmand provincial police chief Nabi Jan Malakhail.

April 2—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that in the morning, police in an Istanbul neighborhood detained more than 10 people with suspected links to the banned ­left-wing ­DHKP-C.

April 2—U.S.—The Washington Post reported that the Justice Department charged 2 American women, Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, with conspiring to build and plant bombs in the United States as part of a terror attack and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. DOJ said the duo discussed how to build a bomb with an undercover officer but hadn’t specified targets. A federal complaint said the duo were roommates in Queens until recently and allegedly had been planning to build an explosive device since at least August 2014. The complaint said the New Yorkers spouted “violent jihadist beliefs.” The complaint said Velentzas praised the 9/11 attacks and referred to Osama bin Laden and his mentor as her heroes, and once stated that she and Siddiqui were “citizens of the Islamic State.” Siddiqui, a graduate of York College, allegedly had multiple propane gas tanks and instructions on how to turn them into bombs, and that had repeated contact with AQAP members. The complaint said they “researched and acquired some of the components of a car bomb, like the one used in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; a fertilizer bomb, like the one used in the 1995 bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City; and a pressure cooker bomb, like the one used in the 2013 Boston Mara­thon bombing.” They faced life in prison.

The investigation began in 2013 when an undercover officer met with Velentzas, who showed him her phone, which had a photo of bin Laden holding an AK-47, the criminal complaint said. During frequent meetings with the undercover officer, the duo talked about how to avoid getting caught.

April 2—Yemen—AQAP members captured the port city of Mukalla, capital of Hadramawt, the country’s largest province, seizing the city’s presidential palace, government agencies and the local Central Bank branch, and freeing some 300 inmates from the main prison, including ­Saudi-born Khaled Batrafi, suspected mastermind of previous attacks, and 90 death row inmates convicted for a host of criminal offences. AQAP tried to break open the bank’s vault with hand grenades but failed.

April 2—UK/Australia—On April 23, CNN reported the arrest in Blackburn, Lancashire, 3 weeks earlier of a 14-year-old boy on 2 counts of inciting another person to commit an act of terrorism overseas after encouraging an attack on the Australian ANZAC parade honoring the war dead and urging the beheading of “someone in Australia,” according to Deborah Walsh, deputy head of counter terrorism at the Crown Prosecution Service. The Greater Manchester police examined electronic devices and discovered communications between the teen and a man in Australia. Police in Victoria, Australia, said he was communicating with suspects in Operation Rising, an Australian law enforcement operation that apprehended 5 teens suspected of planning Islamic ­State-inspired terrorist actions against ANZAC Day (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps Day), the centennial of the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I. Walsh told the news media, “The first allegation is that, between 15 and 26 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to commit an act of terrorism, namely to carry out an attack at an ANZAC parade in Australia with the aim of killing and/or causing serious injury to people. The second allegation is that on 18 March 2015, the defendant incited another person to behead someone in Australia.” In mid–April, Australian law enforcement officers arrested 5 Australian teens in Operation Rising and later charged Sevdet Ramdan Besim with conspiracy to commit acts done in preparation for, or planning, terrorist acts.

On July 23, 2015, CNN reported that the now-15-year-old British boy pleaded guilty in London’s Old Bailey court to inciting terrorism by encouraging ­another teenager to kill police officers during the ANZAC war memorial ceremony in Australia. Prosecutor Paul Greaney said the 15-year-old sent thousands of instant messages to 18-year-old Australian suspect Sevdet Besim in March, encouraging him “to commit an act of terrorism abroad, namely the murder of police officers during an attack upon a parade to commemorate ANZAC Day in Melbourne.” One message said “suggest you break into someone’s house and get your first taste of beheading.” Prosecutors dropped the charge relating to inciting beheading. Sentencing was set for September 3, 2015, later moved to October 2, 2015. AP reported on October 2, 2015, that Judge John Saunders sentenced the now-15-year-old British boy to life. He was to serve at least 5 years in custody and would be released only when he was no longer a danger to the public.

April 2—Kenya—Masked ­al-Shabaab terrorists carrying explosives and firing AK-47s attacked Garissa University College at 5:30 a.m., killing 148 people and injuring 104. Most of the dead were students, but also included 2 security guards, a policeman and a soldier. Following a ­day-long siege, security forces killed 4 terrorists and detained another trying to escape. The campus is 90 miles from the Somali border.

The terrorists separated the non–Muslim students, lectured to them for an hour, then killed them. The gunmen took dozens of students hostage in a dormitory, conducting a 13-hour gun battle with authorities. Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage told AFP by telephone that the hostages were Christians. “When our men arrived, they released some of the people, the Muslims, and it is they that alerted the government. We are holding the others hostage.” The terrorists set off their explosives, wounding some soldiers. During the rescue operation, soldiers saved more than 500 students.

Authorities suggested the mastermind was Mohammed Mohamud, alias Dulyadin, alias Gamadhere, a teacher at a madrassa and alleged leader of ­cross-border raids into Kenya. He had claimed credit for a bus attack in Makka, Kenya in November 2014 that killed 28 people. The government offered a $220,000 bounty for him.

The next day, the Associated Press reported that the terrorists had surveilled the college, including a site where Christians prayed. They avoided shoot-ing at Muslims in a mosque conducting morning prayers.

Among the injured was Helen Titus, 21, an English literature student who was hit in the wrist. Others were hit while running away from snipers.

During the attack, Elizabeth Namarome Musinai, 20, phoned her parents to say, “There are gunshots everywhere! Tell Mum to pray for me—I don’t know if I will survive.” At 1 p.m., a gunman grabbed her phone and demanded that President Uhuru Kenyatta be contacted within 2 minutes and told to remove Kenyan troops from Somalia. When told the president had not been contacted, he said, “I am going to kill your daughter.” Three gunshots followed, and he hung up. Her father, Fred Kaskon Musinai, called the man back, and was told: “She is now with her God.”

Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said the dead included 142 students, 3 policemen and 3 soldiers.

CNN reported on April 3 that Kenyan police arrested 5 suspects.

On April 5, Interior Ministry spokesman Mwenda Njoka announced that Abdirahim Mohammed Abdullahi, son of a government chief in Mandera County, was one of the gunmen. The chief had reported his son missing in 2014 and said he feared that he had gone to Somalia. Abdullahi graduated from the University of Nairobi with a law degree in 2013.

Al-Shabaab warned, “No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloodbath.”

On April 22, AP reported that 9 security chiefs in Garissa were suspended.

On June 4, 2015, AP reported that Kenyan police charged 5 men—4 Somalis and a Tanzanian—with participating in the university attack. The men pleaded not guilty to 152 counts of committing acts of terrorism in a Magistrates Court. The prosecution said they colluded to carry out the attack and urged the court to deny the suspects bail. Magistrate Daniel Ochenja directed that they be detained until June 11.

April 2–3—UK—Greater Manchester Police announced the separate arrests, a day apart, of a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl suspected of preparing terrorist acts. The teens were freed on bail pending a May 28 court hearing.

In a separate evening arrest in Dover on April 3, police questioned 5 men and a woman in their 20s detained in a departure lounge for the ferry service linking the UK to France.

April 3—U.S.—NPR and WPVI reported that in the morning the FBI arrested Keonna Thomas, alias Fatayat ­al-Khalifah, alias YoungLioness, 30, for planning to join the Islamic State and knowingly attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. The Bureau picked her up at her home on North 10th Street in Spring Garden, Philadelphia. A federal criminal complaint said she tweeted, “If we truly knew the realities, we all would be rushing to join our brothers in the front lines pray ALLAH accept us as shuhada [martyrs].” The complaint said she then applied for a passport, disabled her Twitter account, and contacted an IS member in Syria, who asked her if she wanted to participate in a suicide attack. The complaint said her response was “that would be amazing … a girl can only wish.” After she purchased airline tickets to Spain, the FBI arrested her. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Philadelphia Police Department had monitored her online for 2 years. She faced 15 years in prison. She was appointed a public defender.

April 3—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb exploded in the morning in Logar Province’s Baraki Barak District when a van carrying 2 families rolled over it, killing 4 women, 2 children, and a man. Din Mohammad Darwish, spokesman for the Logar provincial governor, blamed the Taliban.

April 3—Mali—An explosive apparently went off by accident as it was being handled by a man in a house in Bamako near a mosque, killing the man and a woman. Malian and UN troops surrounded the house, which had burn marks on its walls.

April 3—Nigeria—At 7:30 p.m., gunmen attacked the Obrikom and Obor communities in Rivers State, killing 9, injuring 2, and setting on fire the home of parliamentary opposition candidate Vincent Ogbagu of the All Progressives Congress.

Urhobo ethnic minority gunmen blew up a gas pipeline in the Delta State in the morning to draw attention to their exclusion from pipeline protection contracts with the state oil company.

April 3–4—Germany—Authorities suspected arson in an overnight fire that destroyed attic rooms in a Troeglitz building that was to house 40 refugees in May.

April 4—Italy—Interior Minister Angelino Alfano announced the expulsion of Moroccan citizen Khalid Smina, 41, who was living in Italy legally but had a “vocation to terrorism.” The Minister said he was involved with a group headed by a Tunisian who served prison time in Italy for ­terrorism-related crimes and was recently sent back home.

April 4—Burkina Faso—Five gunmen attacked a convoy and kidnapped Iulian Gherghut, a ­Romanian-French security officer working at a manganese mine run by Pan African Minerals in Tambao in the northeast. A gendarmerie officer and a driver were wounded in the attack. On August 30, the Romanian Foreign Ministry said it received a video of a man claiming to be Gherghut who said the ­French-language video was made on August 18. Gherghut said he was kidnapped by the ­al-Mourabitoun group. Gherghut called on the Romanian and Burkina Faso governments, his family and the head of the Pan African security company to negotiate for his freedom. 15040401

April 4—Egypt—Two bombs exploded in Giza, causing no injuries.

April 5—Mali—Gunmen fired 3 rockets into Gao, killing a woman and injuring 3 at 6 a.m.

April 5—Egypt—A bomb exploded on a Nile River bridge leading to an upscale central Cairo neighborhood on the island of Zamalek, killing a policeman and wounding 2 ­passers-by. Ajnad Misr (Soldiers of Egypt) claimed credit. Major General Ihab Roushdy, deputy police chief in Cairo’s western district, said a pickup truck stopped at a policeman’s post to ask directions. The bomb exploded, killing the policeman and wounding a man in the passenger seat and a woman who was climbing stairs up to the bridge.

Hours earlier, Egyptian security forces had killed Ajnad Misr leader and founder Hammam Mohamed Attia, 33, in a dawn shootout at a Cairo residential ­high-rise apartment building. Authorities found explosives and firearms in the Giza apartment.

April 5—South Africa—Authorities took a 15-year-old South African girl from an airline flight at the Cape Town International Airport on suspicion of leaving her Cape Town home to join the Islamic State. State Security spokesman Brian Dube said authorities believed that she was planning to travel to Saudi Arabia.

April 6—Malaysia—Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said police detained 17 suspected terrorists, aged between 14 and 44, who planned to attack police stations and army camps to acquire weapons and conduct terrorist acts in Kuala Lumpur. The suspects included 2 army personnel and 2 students. Khalid tweeted that 2 of them had recently returned from Syria. Some had received terrorist training in Afghanistan and Indonesia’s Sulawesi Province. Home Minister Zahid Hamidi said that the suspects planned to kidnap unnamed ­high-profile individuals. Authorities believed they were trying to make bombs. Police found notes on ­bomb-making written by Imam Samudra, an Indonesian who was convicted and executed for his role in carrying out the 2002 Bali bombings.

April 6—Iran—Fars reported that during the night, Jaish ­al-Adl (Army of Justice) gunmen killed 8 Iranian border guards, including 4 conscripts, in Negur in ­Sistan-Baluchistan Province near the Pakistani border. Authorities killed 3 of the terrorists.

April 7—Philippines—In the evening, 5 gunmen kidnapped Mayor Gemma Adana of Naga, a coastal town in Zamboanga Sibugay Province, from her house while she was with friends, fleeing with her on a motorboat driven by a 6th man. The kidnappers headed toward mountainous Kaliantana Island.

April 7—India—Authorities killed 5 prisoners, including one accused of terrorism, when they tried to escape from a police van as they were being taken from Warangal city to a court in Hyderabad. Police said alleged jihadi Syed Viqaruddin asked that the vehicle stop in a deserted area for a bathroom break. Anurag Sharma, the head of Telangana State police, said that when the van stopped, another prisoner “tried to snatch a rifle from a policeman and tried to escape. The police first warned them to stop and surrender, and when they did not listen, police opened fire.” One officer was injured. Police said Viqaruddin was a member of the banned terrorist organization ­Lashkar-e-Tayyiba. He was arrested in July 2010 for allegedly carrying out a series of attacks against policemen. He was accused of killing 2 policemen in Hyderabad, and setting off 2 bombs there.

April 7—Lebanon—The Lebanese Army raided the hills of Mkhairmeh, following a tip that terrorists were preparing logistics for combat operations. The soldiers killed 3 terrorists and wounded 4 others near the border with Syria.

April 7—Iraq/Syria—The Islamic State began broadcasting ­English-language news bulletins on its al-Bayan radio network.

April 7—U.S.—On April 9, AFP reported that Joshua Ray Van Haften, 34, of Madison, Wisconsin, was arrested at Chicago’s ­O’Hare airport on April 7 as he returned from Turkey and was charged with attempting to provide material support and resources, namely himself as personnel, to a foreign terrorist organization,” the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, where he allegedly planned to join the group. The Justice Department said he left the United States on Au-gust 26, 2014, for Istanbul. Van Haften faced 15 years in prison if convicted.

April 7—UK—West Yorkshire Assistant Chief Constable Mark Milsom said that 2 British boys were believed to have taken a flight from Manchester airport to Turkey on March 31 and were now in Syria, probably with the Islamic State.

April 7—Tunisia—Army Brigadier General Belhassen Oueslati said gunmen ambushed troops near the mountain of Mghilla near the Algerian border, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 3. The ­al-Qaeda–linked Oqba ibn Nafaa brigade is based in the Kasserine region. By April 8, the tally had risen to 5 dead soldiers and 8 wounded. At least 13 suspects were arrested.

April 7—UK—Syria-born Muslim cleric Shaykh Abdulhadi Arwani, 48, was found shot dead in a car in London’s Wembley area. He had gunshot wounds to the chest. He was a former imam at the ­An-noor mosque in west London. On April 14, AP reported that the Crown Prosecution Service charged Leslie Cooper, 36, with the killing. On April 16, AP reported that Scotland Yard’s ­Counter-Terrorism Command detectives arrested a 61-year-old man and a 53-year-old woman. He was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder Arwani and on suspicion of commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism. She was arrested on a terror charge. 15040701

April 7—Afghanistan—Gunmen ambushed police in Kunar Province’s Narang District, killing 2 Af­ghans—a man and woman from the same family—and wounding 3 in an attack on a police vehicle.

April 7—Switzerland—Authorities arrested a Zurich man, 24, at Zurich airport as he attempted to board a flight to Istanbul, en route to join ­al-Qaeda or the Islamic State in Syria or Iraq.

April 8—Spain—The Catalan regional police announced that some 360 Mossos d’Esquadra regional police officers conducted raids in 5 northeastern towns, including Barcelona, and arrested 11 people on suspicion of links to jihadi terrorism, planning attacks in Catalonia, and recruiting for the Islamic State. The detainees were from Spain, Paraguay and Morocco. In ­follow-up searches, police seized a grenade, knives, shotguns, ammunition and chemicals that could be used for ­bomb-making. On April 10, investigative judge Santiago Pedraz jailed 7 of the suspected jihadis, most of them from Terrassa. One of the men was allegedly planning to attack a Jewish bookstore in Barcelona with the assistance of a neo–Nazi. Police found on his cell phone images of a central Barcelona hotel, a police station, and a shopping center. The group allegedly formed the Islamic Brotherhood for Jihad Predication, which was linked ideologically to the Islamic State. Pedraz released 3 other detainees and sent a 17-year-old Paraguayan living in Spain for 8 years to a juvenile detention center. Six detainees were men with Spanish citizenship; the seventh was a Moroccan woman. Catalona regional police had been monitoring the group for more than a year.

April 8—Iraq—A bomb went off near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s southeastern Nahrwan suburb, killing 4 people and wounding 10.

April 8—Iraq—London’s Daily Mail reported that the Islamic State in a public square in Salah ­al-Din Province beheaded a man accused of sorcery.

April 8—Afghanistan—Afghan soldier Abdul Azim, a resident of Langhman Province, shot to death an American soldier and wounded 7 others before American troops killed him and injured another Afghan soldier. A U.S. Embassy official had just finished meeting with Afghan provincial leaders at the compound of the Nangarhar provincial governor in Jalalabad when the shooting began. 15040801

April 8—West Bank—A Palestinian from Sinjil village stabbed 2 Israeli soldiers outside Shilo, a West Bank settlement, before one of the victims shot him to death. One soldier was critically wounded in the neck.

April 8—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Press Agency reported that ­drive-by gunmen fired from a car at a police patrol east of Riyadh, killing 2 policemen in a morning attack. On April 24, AP reported that 2 Saudi men—one under arrest, one at large—working for the Islamic State were suspected of masterminding the attack. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said the detainee sent pictures of the attack to the IS in Syria and coordinated the attack with them. ­Al-Turki said the IS in Syria recruited him through the Internet. Police offered a 1 million Saudi riyal ($267,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of Nawaf ­al-Enezi.

April 8—Yemen—CNN reported that AQAP issued an online wanted poster offering 20 kilograms of gold (circa $774,000) for the death or capture of Houthi leader Abdelmalik Bedrudin ­al-Houthi and former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, whom the group said were the “2 heads of evil.”

April 8—Egypt—A mortar round landed in a residential area south of Sheik Zweid in northern Sinai, hitting a house and killing 9 of its residents.

A missile landed on a house in another village, killing 2 civilians.

A bomb exploded as a military vehicle drove past in ­el-Arish, killing 2 police officers. The IS affiliate Sinai Province claimed responsibility on Twitter, saying that the attack was a “prompt retaliation for the random shelling by the renegade army of Muslims.”

April 9—Afghanistan—In the morning, 4 Taliban, wearing military uniforms and explosive vests, attacked an Afghan government compound in ­Mazar-i-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh Province, killing 10 people, including 4 prosecutors and 5 police, and wounding 66, including several security forces and government workers. One attacker threw a grenade, destroying the compound’s entranceway. The compound houses the regional chief prosecutor’s office. All 4 terrorists were killed.

Meanwhile, a roadside bomb went off in eastern Afghanistan, injuring 12 civilians.

April 9—Philippines—Troops battled 250 Abu Sayyaf gunmen. Two soldiers and 6 terrorists died and 15 soldiers, including 2 Army captains, and 10 terrorists were wounded in the gun battle in Sulu Province’s Patikul township. The AS gunmen were led by commander Radulan Sahiron and ­sub-leaders Hairula Asbang and Hatib Sawadjaan in Patikul’s Gata village.

April 9—France—Hackers claiming allegiance to the Islamic State seized control of a global French TV5 Monde television network, blacking out 11 ­channels and taking over the network’s website and social media accounts. A message the TV5 Monde website read in part “I am IS” with a banner by a group that called itself Cybercaliphate. The Wall Street Journal reported on June 11, 2015, that French investigators believed that Russian APT28 Pawn Storm hackers had posed as IS members, citing use of Russian IP addresses used in previous APT28 attacks.

April 9—Egypt—Ajnad Misr (Egypt’s Soldiers) announced on Twitter a new leader, Izzeddin ­al-Masri, to replace Hammam Mohamed Attia, killed in a police ­shoot-out on April 5.

April 9—Lebanon—Police shot to death jihadi Osama Mansour and an accomplice in Tripoli during the night. Mansour was wanted on ­terrorism-related charges in a ­shoot-out in the north. Police were conducting an operation to arrest radical cleric Sheikh Khaled Hoblos when Mansour fired on them, wounding 2 policemen. Mansour was wearing an explosive belt. He was an associate of Lebanon’s top fugitive, Shadi Mawlawi.

April 10—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber hit a convoy of U.S. troops outside the gates of the U.S. military base not far from the airport in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, killing 3 Afghan civilians and wounding 4. No Americans were harmed. 15041001

A minivan hit a roadside bomb in Ghazni Province, killing 10 people.

Circa 250 Taliban gunmen attacked Afghan army posts in Badakhshan’s Jurm district in the country’s northeast, killing at least 18 soldiers and beheading 8. Another 12 soldiers were wounded or missing. Ahmad Nawid Froutan, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said Afghan troops killed 19 Taliban fighters, 8 of them foreigners.

April 10—Thailand—A car bomb hidden in a stolen pickup truck in a basement level exploded late at night at the Samui Island Central Festival shopping mall after a fashion show, injuring 12 people. The island attracts foreign tourists. The car was stolen in Yala Province.

April 10—France—A man with a knife injured a sergeant in France’s ­anti-terror Vigipirate mission who was patrolling Paris’s Orly Airport in the afternoon, then fled.

April 10—U.S.—Fox News reported that the FBI arrested John T. Booker, alias Mohammed Abdullah Hassan, 20, of Kansas, who plotted to kill U.S. soldiers with a vehicle bomb at Fort Riley in Manhattan, Kansas, on behalf of the Islamic State. Prosecutors said he often claimed he wanted to engage in jihad for the IS, and joined the Army in February 2014 to commit an insider attack. Booker was charged with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives), one count of attempting to damage property by means of an explosive, and one count of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Booker allegedly plotted to construct a bomb with 2 FBI informants, whom he told the Quran “says to kill your enemies wherever they are.” He was arrested in a van he believed was packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives, which had been inerted. Later that day, the U.S. Attorney’s office charged Alexander Blair of Topeka with failing to report a felony. A criminal complaint said Blair had loaned Booker money to rent a storage unit for bomb components. Authorities said Booker had posted to a Facebook account on March 19, 2014: “Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous. NOT because I’m scared to die but I am EAGER to meet my lord.” He was to report for basic training on April 7, 2014, but the Army mustered him out after the FBI alerted them.

April 11—Nigeria—During voting for state governors and assemblies in Rivers State, gunmen killed a police officer and 8 supporters of opposition gubernatorial candidate Dakuku Peterside.

April 11—Saudi Arabia/Yemen—The Saudi Defense Ministry said Houthi rebels killed 3 Saudi border guards in a mortar attack in the Saudi border province of Najran. 15041101

April 11—Turkey—The armed forces said Kurdish rebels fired on troops near the village of Yukari Tutek in Agri Province, wounding 4 soldiers. Troops were policing a spring festival held by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Troops fired back, killing 5 PKK rebels. A Kurdish news agency reported that a civilian died in the gun battle. The pro–Kurdish DIHA news agency said a Kurdish activist was killed while trying to stop the violence.

April 11—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 20 workers at a dam construction site in the Gobdan area of the Turbat district in southwestern Baluchistan Province. The gunmen attacked a labor camp, overpowered 8 security guards from Baluchistan, and killed sleeping laborers before fleeing, according to government commissioner Pasand Khan Buledi of the Makran division. He added that 3 people were wounded and that 16 of the dead were from Punjab Province and 4 from Sindh Province. None of the guards were injured. The Baluch Liberation Front claimed credit. On April 13, AP reported that Pakistani Frontier Corps soldiers killed 13 suspected members of a group involved in the attack. Among the dead was a senior BLF commander; another wanted commander was arrested. Baluchistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti said the 8 security guards were arrested for negligence.

April 11—India—Maoist rebels attacked a police patrol in a central Indian forest in Sukma district, killing 7 and wounding 10.

April 11—Suriname—During the evening, airport authorities arrested a 16-year-old Jamaican believed trying to fly to the Netherlands en route to Turkey to join Islamic State terrorists in Syria. He was sent back to Jamaica.

April 12—Libya—Gunmen fired 40 machine gun rounds at local guards of the South Korean Embassy, killing one of them and a civilian, and injuring another guard. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said no embassy officials were harmed in the ­post-midnight attack. The local Islamic State affiliate claimed credit on Twitter. 15041201

April 12—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit an armored vehicle in Kharouba village in the Sinai, killing 6 soldiers, including an officer. Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, alias the Sinai Province of the Islamic State, claimed credit on Twitter.

A Sinai Province of the Islamic State truck bomber hit the entrance of a large ­el-Arish police station, killing 8 people, including 5 policemen, and injuring 45, many of them civilians.

Gunmen attacked soldiers at a mobile checkpoint in Rafah, wounding a police officer and 2 soldiers.

April 12—Iraq—A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad, killing 4 and wounding 9.

Two bombs went off near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s western suburbs, killing 5 and wounding 10.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Amil district, killing 3 and wounding 11.

April 12—Germany—DPA reported that a bomb threat was ­e-mailed against Germanwings flight 826, an Airbus A320 scheduled to fly to Milan’s Malpensa airport. The plane was held at ­Cologne-Bonn Airport, where it was evacuated. No bomb was founded.

April 12—Mali—A military vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Segou region, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 3 others.

April 12—Thailand—Police suspected Muslim separatists when gunmen in a pickup truck and 2 motorcycles fired assault rifles and killed 4 people in 2 neighboring houses in a nighttime attack in Narathiwat Province’s Sukhirin District.

April 12—Yemen—On April 14, AP reported that AQAP announced that a drone strike killed Saudi national Ibrahim ­al-Rubaish, AQAP’s senior cleric and sharia official who had been involved in planning terrorist attacks. The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program had offered a $5 million reward. CNN quoted AQAP’s ­al-Malahem Media wing as claiming that 5 members of the group were killed in the evening “crusader strike.” ­Al-Rubaish, born in 1979, was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2006 to the Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program, then joined AQAP, becoming its chief ideologue and theological adviser. In 2014, he applauded the Islamic State’s grabbing of land in Iraq and Syria, saying in a video, “I ask God that efforts are united to target the enemies of the religion.”

April 13—Thailand—Police suspected Muslim separatists when 2 rubber farmers—a 54-year-old man and his 52-year-old wife—were shot dead on their plantation in Yala Province’s Yaha District.

April 13—Libya—A bomb exploded in a garbage can next to the Moroccan Embassy in Tripoli in the morning, causing no injuries. The local Islamic State affiliate claimed credit. 15041301

April 13—Iraq—A parked pickup truck loaded with fruits and vegetables exploded near an outdoor market in a commercial area in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Amil neighborhood, killing 10 civilians, wounding 25 civilians, and damaging 20 cars.

A bomb exploded in a parking lot in Baghdad’s southeastern Jisr Diyala suburb, killing 3 civilians and wounding 9.

A bomb exploded in a market in Taji, killing 2 civilians and wounding 7.

April 13—Egypt—A sniper using a silenced weapon killed a soldier in Abu Shinnar village in the Sinai Peninsula.

April 13—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 6 men in Salwane who had ties to Moroccans in the Netherlands who were suspected of planning to kill those “with religious convictions contrary to this terrorist organization.” The men were Islamic State supporters who trained in the woods in the surrounding hills. Investigators tipped Dutch authorities to a Moroccan living in the Netherlands in close contact with the cell and planning his own attacks.

April 13—U.S.—Newsweek reported that the Islamic State released an 11-minute video entitled “We Will Burn America” which predicted another 9/11 attack. The video showed the murders of U.S. journalist James Foley and Jordanian pilot Moaz ­al-Kasasbeh. It lauded attacks on the Canadian parliament in October 2014, the shootings at a Kosher grocery in Paris by IS supporter Amedy Coulibaly in January 2015 and the recent cyber hacks of U.S. Central Command by IS supporters in January 2015, and French television station TVMONDE5, by hackers claiming affiliation with IS in April. A speaker said, “America thinks it’s safe because of the geographical location. Thus you see it invades the Muslim lands, and it thinks that the army of the Jihad won’t reach in their lands. But the dream of the American to have safety became a mirage. Today there is no safety for any American on the globe. By Allah’s willing, the fear will spread among them again soon. Here it is America now losing billions still to make sure their country is safe. But today, it’s time for payback. By the grace of Allah, today the mujahideen are much more stronger and they have more resources [than) before. Thus they are able to burn [the] United States again.”

April 13—Mexico—On April 16, authorities issued a 5-state alert after the theft of a container of Iridium 192, a hazardous radioactive material used for industrial inspection, from a truck in Tabasco State on April 13. On April 22, AP reported that Mexican authorities recovered the stolen material, still sealed in its container, on a pedestrian walkway in Cardenas, the same town where it was stolen.

April 14—Afghanistan—The Taliban was suspected of kidnapping 4 ethnic Hazara men traveling to purchase liverstock in Ghazni Province. On April 18, President Ashraf Ghani’s office said the terrorists beheaded the hostages.

April 14—Somalia—A suicide car bomber set off his vehicle at the gate of a Ministry of Higher Education office complex in Mogadishu. Gunmen then ran into the complex, which houses other government ministries. At least 10 people—8 civilians and 2 soldiers—and 7 terrorists were killed in the ensuing gun battle. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected.

April 14—Egypt—The MENA state news agency reported that in the morning, gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a policeman and wounded 2 other policemen manning a checkpoint in Shibeen ­al-Qanatar, north of Cairo.

Bombs hit electrical pylons outside Cairo, cutting power to a complex housing most of Egypt’s private TV stations and briefly taking them off the air.

April 14—Iraq—Iraqi security forces repelled an attack by Islamic State suicide bombers on Beiji, the country’s largest oil refinery. Ammar Hikmat, deputy governor of Salahuddin Province, said more than 20 terrorists were killed, and that several security forces were killed or wounded.

A car bomb exploded during the night on a commercial street in eastern Baghdad, killing 8 people, including 2 women, and wounding 21.

A car bomb exploded near a bakery in Mahmoudiyah, killing 7 and wounding 13 people lined up to buy bread.

Two car bombs went off in the afternoon in the ­al-Wihda suburb of Baghdad, killing 6 and wounding 13. One of the cars was parked in a commercial area; the other in a nearby parking lot.

A car bomb exploded in the morning in a parking lot outside Baghdad’s Yarmouk hospital, killing 4 civilians and wounding 10.

A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s northern Sabi ­al-Bor area, killing 3 civilians and wounding 8.

April 14—Philippines—The military and insurgents reported the death via natural causes of Ameril Umbra Kato, who had supported the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement. He was replaced by his deputy, Esmail Abubakar, who was in his 40s and trained in the Middle East. Some of Kato’s forces had expressed support for the Islamic State.

April 14—U.S./Cuba—The Obama Administration announced that it would remove Cuba from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism, where it had resided since 1982. President Obama sent a message to Congress observing that Havana “has not provided any support for international terrorism” over the last 6 months and gave “assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future.” Cuba would be deleted from the list 45 days after the message was sent. In 1982, Cuba was accused of promoting “armed revolution by organizations that used terrorism,” such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Basque separatist movement ETA in Spain; providing refuge to black and Puerto Rican militants who carried out attacks in the United States, including Joanne Chesimard and various hijackers. The remaining regimes on the state sponsors list were Iran, Syria, and Sudan.

April 14–15—Colombia—FARC was believed responsible for a midnight ambush in Cauca Department that killed a corporal and 10 soldiers and injured 19 members of an army unit on a routine patrol.

April 15—Iraq—During the night, a bomb exploded inside a cafe in Baghdad’s southeastern Jisr Diyala suburb, killing 6 people and wounding 11.

A bomb went off near a small restaurant in Baghdad’s northern Husseiniyah suburb, killing 3 and wounding 4.

A roadside bomb went off near a Sahwa patrol in Baghdad’s western suburbs, killing 2 militia members.

April 15—U.S./Cuba—State Department spokes­man Jeff Rathke told the press that Spain and Cuba were discussing potential extradition of 2 ETA ­members wanted by Spain since 2010. A Spanish court claimed Jose Angel Urtiaga and Jose Ignacio Etxarte sought permission for grenade- and ­mortar-launching tests in Venezuela in cooperation with the FARC. They had lived in Cuba since the 1980s.

April 15—Mali—At 11:30 a.m., a suicide bomber attacked the UN’s MINUSMA peacekeeping mission’s base in Ansongo town in northern Gao region, killing 3 people and wounding 16, including 9 peacekeepers and 7 civilians. Algerian terrorist leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar claimed credit. 15041501

April 15—Turkey—Two Spanish residents in Tur­key were arrested on suspicion of having links to jihadi terrorists and membership in the Islamic State. Ahmed Debza, a Moroccan man, and Nadia Ataich Fernandez, a Spanish woman, who both resided in Melilla, were alleged to have traveled with their 14-month-old daughter to Turkey in October 2014. Turkish officials arrested them after they returned from Syria, awaiting “logistical and financial support” from IS, according to the Spanish Interior Ministry. Debza had first attempted to travel to Syria alone in July 2014, allegedly leaving behind a will in which he bequeathed to relatives his goods including a successful carpentry business.

April 16—Egypt—An armored military vehicle hit a roadside bomb during a raid on jihadi hideouts in Sheik Zweid in the northern Sinai Peninsula, killing one officer and wounding another.

April 16—Pakistan—NPR and AP reported that 4 gunmen on motorcycles shot and injured American physician Debra Lobo, 55, as she drove to work at Karachi’s Jinnah Medical and Dental College, where she is vice principal. She was hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Agha Khan University Hospital with 2 bullet wounds in the cheek and shoulder. She is married to a Pakistani, had 2 children, and lived in the city for more than 30 years. The Islamic State left a pamphlet in her car. 15041601

April 16—Italy—Palermo, Sicily police announced that Muslim migrants had thrown 12 Christians (from Nigeria and Ghana) overboard during a recent crossing from Libya. Police detained 15 people from the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau for multiple homicide aggravated by religious hatred.

April 16—U.S.—NPR reported that authorities arrested Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, a naturalized American, for plotting to conduct a terrorist attack for the ­al-Nusra front. The Globe and Mail reported that the U.S. Justice Department said the Columbus, Ohio, man who trained with jihadis in Syria, was charged with supporting terrorism and making false statements. The federal indictment said he had been told by a Muslim cleric to return to the United States and carry out an act of terrorism. The indictment said Mohamud told a friend that he wanted to go to a military base in Texas and “kill 3 or 4 American soldiers ­execution-style.” The indictment said his backup plan was to attack a prison. His brother, Aden, was killed fighting with the Nusra Front. He had earlier posted Islamic State symbols on social media. The indictment said Mohamud obtained a U.S. passport and bought a ­one-way ticket to Greece. He left the U.S. in April 2014 but went to Istanbul, Turkey, and on to Syria. Mohamud initially was arrested in February in Columbus and held by local law enforcement authorities.

April 16—France—A Paris court convicted 4 people of providing logistical support to Chechen jihadis in Syria. Khamzat Ilyasov, 20, was sentenced to 5 years in prison; he was the only one who had traveled to Syria. ­Bai-Ali Mahaouri, 46, was sentenced to 4 years in prison for providing logistical, financial and other support to the Chechen fighters in Syria. Two 27-year-old cousins were sentenced to 2 years for belonging to the group, which was active from September 2012 to November 2013. The court announced that the 4 sent military clothes, a ­4-wheel drive vehicle and money to the Chechens.

April 16—Syria—CNN reported that Australian citizen Sharky Jama, 25, a former male model and DJ from Melbourne, Australia, was killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria. Jama and a fellow ­Somali-Australian, named by the Australian media as former business student Yusuf Yusuf, went missing in August 2014. Jama’s parents reportedly had been in contact with him in Falluja, held by the IS, where he apparently was living. Melbourne’s FRM Model Management had represented Jama for 2½ years.

April 16—Yemen—AFP reported that a nighttime drone strike hit a vehicle in Habban, southeast of Ataq, in Shabwa Province, killing 2 AQAP members, including Khaled Atef, a cousin of the province’s AQAP chief.

April 16—Cameroon—Boko Haram attacked 2 villages—Bia and Diana—on the Nigerian border, killing 10 men and 2 women. 15041602-03

April 16—Israel—On April 19, AP reported that Israeli police were investigating the killing of Polish female tourist Daaria Magdalena Rojmiark, whose body bore signs of violence. Her body was found in a forest in Nazareth. She was reported missing on April 16. Police said criminals or terrorists could be responsible. On May 28, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said authorities charged a Palestinian man from Jericho with murdering Rojmiark after trying to sexually abuse her while she was walking near a construction site close to her hotel in Nazareth. Rosenfeld said she tried to escape, but he was afraid she would report him so he ran after her and strangled her with her scarf.

April 17—Iraq—The Islamic State claimed credit when a car bomb exploded outside the U.S. Consulate in Irbil, killing 3 civilians and injuring 5. Turkish nationals were among the casualties, according to the Turkish Foreign Ministry. All U.S. Consulate personnel were safe. A small bomb exploded in the area, then a car bomber drove toward the Consulate. Security personnel fried at the car, which exploded before it could reach the facility. The bomb went off across the street from bars, cafes, and shops popular with foreigners and Consulate employees. On April 20, the Kurdish Regional Security Council said a suspect was arrested. On April 28, Kurdish authorities said they had arrested a 5-member Islamic State cell responsible for the attack. The Kurds said the group planned the attack for several months. Four of the suspects lived in Irbil; the 5th was an Arab resident of Kirkuk. Another suspect was at large. 15041701

The BBC reported that Izzat Ibrahim ­al-Douri, 72, leader of the Naqshbandi Order insurgents, died in fighting with government troops in Salahuddin Province. He was deputy to Saddam Hussein as vice chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, and was the King of Clubs in the pack of cards the U.S. issued of wanted members of Saddam Hussein’s regime. The press suggested he was affiliated with the rise of the Islamic State.

Meanwhile, bombs killed 40 people in Baghdad.

A car bomb went off near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s southwestern Amil neighborhood, killing 13 and wounding 24.

Thirty minutes later, a car bomb exploded inside a car dealership in Baghdad’s eastern Habibya neighborhood, killing 15, wounding 26, and destroying 11 cars.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in the New Baghdad district, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb went off near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Dora district, killing 3 shoppers.

A bomb near a café in southeastern suburban Baghdad killed 3 people.

A roadside bomb hit a Sahwa militia patrol in southern Baghdad, killing 2.

April 17—Mali—During the night, 2 gunmen attacked a UN MINUSMA convoy of civilian work-ers near Gao, killing 2 drivers and wounding a team member, who escaped with the others. ­Al-Mourabitoun (the Sentinels) led by Mokhtar Bel­mokhtar, claimed credit. 15041702

April 17—Gaza Strip—Newsweek reported that a homemade explosive went off near the former home of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, now used as offices for Hamas, the militant group which control the strip.

April 18—Kenya—The Voice of America reported that ­al-Shabaab was suspected when an attack on a Kenyan convoy killed 3 soldiers and wounded 8 others while they were on a patrol in the Delbio area of Lower Jubba region. 15041801

April 18—Somalia—Al-Shabaab gunned down Aden Haji Hussein, a legislator from the semiautonomous Puntland region, outside a hospital where he had taken his wife. Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, ­al-Shabaab’s spokesman for military affairs, said “we shall continue killing the enemies.”

April 18—Gaza Strip—Newsweek reported that a series of unexplained explosions hit the Gaza Strip during the previous week. Two simultaneous explosions hit the outer wall of the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and a police headquarters in the blockaded enclave April 18. UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said there were no casualties or damage from the blast, which was 10 feet from the door.

April 18—Afghanistan—The Islamic State’s Wila-yat Khorasan branch claimed its first attack in Afghanistan with an 8:30 a.m. suicide bombing in Jalalabad that killed 35 people and injured 125. The suicide bomber set off his explosive vest outside the New Kabul Bank, where government workers, including police officers and soldiers, were cashing their paychecks. The claimants said the suicide bomber was Abu Mohammad Khorasani and included the photograph of a man with scarf covering his face and a Kalashnikov rifle by his side, with the IS flag in the background. In January, IS said it would expand to Afghanistan and Pakistan, calling the region “Khorasan.” Two other bombs in Jalalabad did not kill ­anyone; IS was silent regarding them. One bomb exploded outside a shrine; police detonated an ­unexploded bomb found outside the National Bank of Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah ­Mujahid denied responsibility for any of the explosions. In a tweet, he said “we condemn/deny in­volvement.” A small magnetic bomb went off in the Behshood district, killing one and wounding 2. In 2001, Taliban suicide bombers attacked the same branch of Kabul Bank in Jalalabad, killing 38 customers.

April 18—Australia—Melbourne authorities arrested 5 Australian teens suspected of planning an ­IS-inspired attack at an ANZAC Day ceremony in Melbourne that included attacking police officers. Two 18-year-olds allegedly were preparing the April 25 attack involving edged weapons on the commemoration of the 1915 Gallipoli landings. Another 18-year-old was held on weapons charges. Two others, aged 18 and 19, were “assisting police.” Federal Police Deputy Commissioner Michael Phelan said that the group had links to Abdul Numan Haider, 18, who stabbed 2 Melbourne police officers and was shot dead in September 2014.

Sevdet Besim appeared briefly in Melbourne Magistrates Court on April 18 on a charge of preparing for, or planning, a terrorist act.

On April 20, AP reported that Greater Manchester Police arrested a 14-year-old boy on April 18 in Blackburn, northwestern England on suspicion of involvement in the commission, preparation, or instigation of acts of terrorism in connection with the plot. Detective Chief Superintendent Tony Mole said police found “communication between an individual in the northwest and a man in Australia to what we believe is a credible terrorist threat.”

April 19—U.S.—Florida-based postal carrier Doug Hughes, 61, landed a gyrocopter on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol to protest the influence of large campaign donations by delivering a letter to every one of the 535 members of Congress. He was arrested by Capitol Police and charged with violating national airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft. He was put under house arrest and made to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet until a May 8 court appearance in Washington. Authorities called for a review of security procedures.

April 19—France—CNN reported on April 22 that French authorities had arrested Sid Ahmed Ghlam, 24, a computer science student from Algeria who phoned an ambulance to come to his home in Paris’ 13th district on the morning of April 19, claiming had accidentally shot himself in the leg. They soon found that he was plotting to attack a church in Villejuif south of Paris after getting a directive from someone in Syria. Authorities found traces of blood and bags in his car. They later found a loaded Kalashnikov gun, a 9-mm revolver, 3 cell phones, a laptop, a USB key, a satellite navigation system “and handwritten documents that contained information on possible targets,” according to the police. Police found in his residence 3 Kalashnikovs, 3 bulletproof vests, police armbands, a camera, some 2,000 euros in cash and “documents in Arabic mentioning al-Qaeda and ISIS,” according to the prosecutor. Authorities said the detainee had planned to go to Syria. The Interior Minister said, “Documentation was also discovered establishing unambiguously that the individual planned an imminent … attack, probably against one or 2 churches.” Authorities later said the detainee was suspected in the murder of Aurelie Chatelain, 32, who was found dead of several gunshots in a parked car in the Paris suburb of Villejuif the morning of April 19. She was the mother of a 5-year-old girl and had come to the region one day earlier for a training class. Ballistics, DNA, satellite navigation and other evidence linked the suspect to Chatelain’s murder. Prosecutors issued preliminary charges, including killing in relation to a terrorist enterprise, suggesting that prosecutors believed he did not act alone.

On April 26, AP reported that French officials detained a second man in ­Saint-Ouen, north of Paris. His DNA was found on a hairbrush in Ghlam’s house. A third male detainee’s DNA was found in Ghlam’s bedroom. A fourth detainee was believed to have provided logistical support for the alleged plot.

On June 6, 2015, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve announced the dawn arrests in Paris’s western suburbs of 2 men, aged 35 and 39, suspected of assisting 24-year-old Algerian student Sid Ahmed Ghlam’s terrorist plot to attack a church in Villejuif, south of Paris.

On October 14, 2015, French police detained 2 more people in the ­Seine-Saint-Denis region who might have provided logistical help to Sid Ahmed Ghlam in his plan to attack the church in Villejuif. 15041901

April 19—U.S.—CNN reported that the FBI arrested 6 ­Somali-American men in Minnesota and California on a criminal complaint unsealed on April 20 on terrorism charges after a ­year-long investigation into an Islamic ­State–inspired terrorist plot involving a terror recruitment network focused on the Somali community in the Minneapolis area. The Daily Mail on April 21 identified the 6 Minnesotans as

• Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19, arrested in Minnesota

• Zacharia Yusuf Abduraham, 19, arrested in Minnesota

• Hanad Musafe Musse, 19, arrested in Minnesota

• Guled Ali Omar, 20, arrested in Minnesota. His older brother, Ahmed Ali Omar, joined ­al-Shabaab, leaving Minnesota in December 2007, according to the complaint. Ahmed Omar remains a fugitive. The complaint said when agents went to Guled’s house after he was held in San Diego in November, another brother, Mohamed Ali Omar, threatened them.

• Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 19, arrested in San Diego, California, after driving from Minnesota

• Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21, arrested in San Diego, California, after driving from Minnesota

Mohamed Farah, Abdurahman and Musse were detained in New York City in November 2014 while trying to board a flight out of the country, but were charged in April 2015 with conspiracy to provide material support and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization—the Islamic State. The complaint said they friends planned to get to Syria from nearby countries after flying from Minneapolis, San Diego, or New York City. The complaint also said they lied to federal investigators when they were detained. The complaint said the group were in contact with Abdi Nur, a Minnesota man charged previously with conspiracy to provide support to a terror organization. The complaint said Nur, “from his locale in Syria, recruits individuals and provides assistance to those who want to leave Minnesota to fight abroad.”

The New York City trio were stopped with Hamza Ahmed, 19, who was indicted on charges of lying to the FBI during a terrorism investigation, conspiring to provide material support to IS, and attempting to provide material support. He pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors credited a confidential informant who initially had planned to join IS, but later went to ­authorities, who recorded some of his conversations with the 6 detainees.

April 19—Somalia—The Voice of America reported that ­al-Shabaab killed 3 African Union peacekeepers from Burundi and wounded several other soldiers in the southern town of Lego. 15041902

April 19—Afghanistan—Reuters reported that the Taliban kidnapped 19 people working for a land mine clearance project outside Gardez, capital of Paktia Province. The ­de-miners worked for Sterling Demining Afghanistan. The hostages were taken to Zurmat district. The government asked the assistance of local elders in mediating their release.

April 19—Libya—The Islamic State released a 29-minute al-Furqan video purporting to show it murdering 2 groups of 35 captured Ethiopian Christians in Libya. It said one group held in the east was beheaded on a beach by the IS Barka Province affiliate, and one in the south was shot dead by the Fazzan Province IS affiliate. A terrorist seen on the video said “Muslim blood that was shed under the hands of your religion is not cheap.” On April 20, AP reported that Ethiopia’s government declared 3 days of mourning. Ethiopian government spokesman Redwan Hussein said that he believed the victims were Ethiopian migrants trying to reach Europe.

April 19—Iraq—A car bomb exploded during the night on a commercial street in downtown Baghdad, killing 6 and wounding 13.

A bomb went off near a market in ­al-Taji, killing 3 and wounding 8.

A bomb exploded in Baghdad’s northeastern suburbs, killing 2 and wounding 5.

A mortar shell hit a house in the village of Sabaa ­al-Bour, killing 3 people.

April 19—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked a police station in Lashkar Gar, capital of Helmand Province, killing 3 people and wounding 11 people, including 2 officers and a civilian. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the station, allowing 2 gunmen to get inside the police station, setting off a gun battle.

April 19—Saudi Arabia—Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry said that gunfire and mortar shells fired during the night from Yemen killed a border guard and wounded 2 others in Najran Province. Saudi Arabia had conducted airstrikes against Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen for the previous 3 weeks.

April 20—Somalia—Al-Shabaab claimed credit when a remotely-detonated bomb exploded under a seat on a bus carrying UNICEF employees in Ga­rowe, Puntland, killing 10, including at least 4 UNICEF employees, and wounding many others, including 4 UNICEF employees who were seriously injured. The Voice of America quoted local police as saying that 2 Kenyans, a Ugandan, an Afghan, 2 Somalis, and the bomber were killed. The bus was ­passing near the offices of the U.N.’s food agency. 15042001

April 20—Iran/Australia—The BBC reported that Australia and Iran agreed to share intelligence about Australians fighting with Islamic State jihadis in Iraq.

April 20—Turkey—Turkish police in Ankara arrested a British couple, Asif Malik and his partner, Sara Kiran, with 4 children, aged between 1 and 7 years old, missing since early April and believed to have left the UK for Syria to join the Islamic State. British authorities said it was unclear whether they supported the Islamic State or Syrian President Bashar ­al-Assad; the Turkish government suggested that the family wanted to go to ­IS-controlled territory. They had crossed into Turkey via bus from the Greek border on April 16.

April 20—Greece—U.S. Ambassador David Pearce protested proposed legislation that would allow Savvas Xiros, 53, to leave prison because of his blindness. The November 17 member had been convicted of murdering Americans. The legislation would permit him to serve the remainder of his 5 life sentences under home confinement. He lost his sight when a bomb exploded in his hands in 2002.

April 20—Egypt—Sputnik International reported that a roadside bomb went off in Rafah, killing 3 Egyptian servicemen, including an army captain and 2 soldiers. The Egyptian Islamic State affiliate claimed credit.

April 20—Israel—A Jewish man shouted “death to Arabs” and stabbed an Arab in the shoulder, telling police he did so because of the victim’s ethnicity. Police said the 27-year-old victim was a municipality worker in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv. The attacker lived in Herzliya.

April 20—Russia—Radio Free Europe reported that the National Antiterrorism Committee (NAK) announced that Aliaskhab Kebekov, alias Amir Ali ­Abu-Muhammad, 43, Dagestani theologian and leader of the Caucasus Emirate insurgent group, was one of 3 militants found dead after a gun battle with secur-ity forces and gunmen on the outskirts of Bui-­naksk, southwest of Makhachkala, Dagestan’s capital. Two Caucasus rebel websites—kavkazcenter.com and jamaatshariat.com—said the trio “became ­martyrs” in the town of ­Gerei-Avlak. In 2014, Kebekov succeeded Doku Umarov as leader of the ­Caucasus Emirate. He was the first non–Chechen leader of Islamic insurgents in the post–Soviet North Caucasus. The U.S. Department of State designated Kebekov as a terrorist in March 2015. Canada, Russia, the UN, the U.S., the UK, and the UAE had designated the Caucasus Emirate as a terrorist organization.

April 20—Mauritania—A criminal court sentenced suspected senior ­al-Qaeda leader Younis ­al-Mauritani to 20 years in prison for “terrorist” activities. AP reported Pakistan arrested him on September 5, 2011, saying he was responsible for ­al-Qaeda’s international operations and was tasked by bin Laden with hitting targets of economic importance in the U.S., Europe and Australia. It said he was planning attacks on gas and oil pipelines, ­power-generating dams and oil tankers that would be hit by ­explosive-laden speed boats in international waters. He was also wanted in Mauritania for his alleged involvement in an Islamic extremist attack in June 2005 in which 17 Mauritanian soldiers died.

April 21—Lebanon—Former Information Minister Michel Samaha told a military tribunal that he transported explosives into Lebanon in collaboration with Syrian intelligence and a Lebanese agent. His attorney, Sakhr ­al-Hashem, claimed that his client was the victim of entrapment and denied any role in selecting targets for the planned attacks, including a Sunni lawmaker and Muslim holiday banquets, which were prevented by Lebanese authorities. Samaha said that he suggested planting explosives at illegal crossings between Syria and Lebanon “for Lebanon’s sake, not Syria’s.” The attorney expected a 3–7 year sentence. Samaha was arrested in 2012 and indicted in 2013. Also indicted in the case were the head of Syria’s National Security Council, Brigadier General Ali Mamlouk, and a Syrian aide.

April 21—Netherlands—Dutch police arrested a Dutch employee, 32, of the British embassy after fire broke out in the morning at the facility. No injuries were reported. Arson was suspected.

April 21—Macedonia—Police said circa 40 people wearing uniforms of the disbanded Kosovo Liberation Army (UCK) attacked a police watchtower in Gosince on the border with Kosovo. Police spokes­man Ivo Kotevski said the group apparently entered from Kosovo, briefly captured 4 Macedonian police officers and took control of the watchtower. Kotevski said Macedonia was the “target of a terrorist attack.” No injuries were reported and the police were released after 30 minutes. 15042101

April 21—U.S.—The AL.com (Alabama) website reported that Hoda Muthana, 20, a female 2013 graduate from Hoover High School, had fled to Syria in November 2014 to join the Islamic State. She had studied business at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Buzzfeed reported that she fled to Turkey en route to Syria, where within a month she married an Australian jihadist who died only a few months later in a Jordanian air strike. Under another name, she posted on Twitter, “Terrorize the kuffar at home.” “Americans wake up!” “Men and women altogether. You have much to do while you live under our greatest enemy, enough of your sleeping! Go on ­drive-bys and spill all of their blood, or rent a big truck and drive all over them. Veterans, Patriot, Memorial etc. Day parades … go on drive bys + spill all of their blood or rent a big truck n drive all over them. Kill them.”

April 21—Afghanistan—An explosion during the morning near a police station in Kandahar killed 3 people, including 2 police officers and a woman, and injured 17. Police initially thought it was a car bomb, but later were not sure of the cause. No group claimed credit.

April 21—Somalia—Al-Shabaab was suspected when a car bomb exploded outside Mogadishu’s Banoda restaurant near the presidential palace and the Hotel Central, killing 9 people, including 2 women, and injuring 8.

April 22—Kenya—AP reported that a Kenyan court granted police 15 days to hold and interrogate Said Mire Siyad, who Prosecutor Daniel Karuri said was suspected of carrying out surveillance on President Uhuru Kenyatta’s rural home in preparation for an attack.

April 22—Japan—A small quadcopter drone carrying traces of cesium radiation was found on the roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s office. No injuries or damages were reported. Abe was attending an ­Asian-African conference in Indonesia. The 1.7 foot drone carried a small camera and a plastic bottle with un­identified content inside, according to Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department. NHK reported that the quadcopter sported a warning of radioactive material.

April 23—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Bala Murghab district in Badghis Province during the morning, killing 9 border guards. The fleeing gunmen put mines around the checkpoint. In the ensuing gun battle, 4 Taliban terrorists died and 8 were wounded.

A roadside bomb hit a rickshaw in Khashrod district in Nimroz Province during the night, killing 4 children, a woman and a man who were all relatives, and wounding another civilian.

April 23—France—Prime Minister Manuel Valls told Inter Radio that the government had thwarted 5 terrorist attacks since January.

April 23—Democratic Republic of Congo—AFP reported that 3 members of MONUSCO (the UN’s peacekeeping force) were kidnapped at 5:30 p.m. in Kibumba in North Kivu Province. Two hostages were Congolese members of a demining team and the other was part of the international UN team. The Congolese Army reported that a UN vehicle with the engine running was recovered near the presumptive scene of the abduction. 15042301

April 23—Lebanon—The Lebanese army arrested 8 wanted militants, including a soldier who deserted to join the Islamic State and 4 Syrians, in Akkar. The detainees were accused of terrorist attacks in Lebanon and attacks on the military. One of those arrested, Sergeant ­Abdul-Rahman Khaled, declared on video in 2014 that he was joining IS.

April 23—U.S.—President Barack Obama announced that a January 2015 counterterrorism operation (CNN called it a drone strike) against an ­al-Qaeda–associated compound in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan inadvertently killed hos­tages Warren Weinstein, an American held by ­al-Qaeda since August 2011, and Giovanni Lo Porto, an Italian aid worker held since 2012. The airstrike killed Ahmed Farouq, an American who the White House said was deputy emir of ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. U.S. officials also believed that Adam Gadahn, an American who had served as an ­al-Qaeda spokesman, was killed in a separate operation in January 2015.

April 24—U.S.—The Statue of Liberty was cleared in the morning after an anonymous 911 caller warned of a bomb threat. Some 2,700 people were evacuated from the island. No bomb was found.

April 24—Kenya—The BBC reported that al-Sha­baab was suspected in the kidnap/murder of Chief Muktar Otieno, a traditional leader in northern Kenya. He was abducted in the early morning on the road to Mandera, close to the Somali border. Assistant chief Abdinoor Dakane said local elders followed the gunmen to a town on the ­Kenyan-Somali border. Dakane said Otieno was tied to a tree and shot dead in front of the elders after they refused to pay a ransom of 4 million Kenyan shillings ($42,000). 15042401

April 24—Afghanistan—A mortar hit a home during the night in Laghman Province’s Aliangar District, killing 5 members of a family, including 4 women, and injuring another 11 family members, most of them children.

April 24—Italy—AP reported that jihadis suspected in an October 2009 bomb attack that killed more than 100 people in a Peshawar, Pakistan market had planned an attack in the Vatican in 2010 that was not carried out, according to Italian prosecutor Mauro Mura. Italian police arrested 9 people in a ­decade-long investigation of a terrorist network that aimed to foil Pakistani actions against the Taliban. Authorities were seeking another 9 people, including 2 who might still be in Italy and 7 in Pakistan. Mura said wiretaps included “signals of some preparation for a possible attack,” including arrival in Rome of a Pakistani suicide bomber. ANSA reported that there were 2 suicide bombers who were warned off by their associates in Italy. One of the suspects arrested had a construction business in Sardinia that participated in work for a G-8 summit planned for Sardinia. Mura said some suspects had very close ties to Osama bin Laden. Some 18 arrest warrants had been issued across 7 provinces for cell members.

April 24—Iraq—A bomb exploded in the morning near an outdoor market in Tarmiyiah, killing 4 and wounding 8.

A bomb went off near a courthouse in Mahmoudiyah, killing 3 and wounding 9.

The Islamic State ambushed an Iraqi army convoy with a bulldozer packed with explosives, killing Brigadier General Hassan Abbas Toufan, commander of the Iraqi 1st Division, and 3 of his staff officers—a colonel and 2 lieutenant colonels—in the Nadhem ­al-Taqseem region north of Fallujah. A suicide bomber hit the convoy of Humvees, followed by gunmen firing on the survivors.

On June 1, 2015, the International Business Times cited the Kurdish Hawar News Agency that reported that during a fight in Sehelil in the Iyaziye District near Mosul, the Peshmerga captured an IS fighter who was a Turkish MIT intelligence officer. Hawar said he joined IS after being arrested for murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was a native of Erzurum Province.

April 24—Nigeria—Suspected Boko Haram terrorists disguised as soldiers intercepted a group of ­people trying to return to their homes to collect abandoned food supplies in Bultaram village in northeastern Yobe State, killing 21 of them.

April 25—Niger—Niger’s Defense Ministry said Boko Haram was suspected when gunmen in 10 motorized canoes attacked a Niger army base on Karamga Island in Lake Chad at dawn, causing an undisclosed number of casualties. 15042501

April 25—Israel—Police officers shot dead 2 ­knife-wielding Palestinians following stabbing attacks against Israeli officers. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri told the press that Ali Mohammed Abu Ghannam, 17, of east Jerusalem, tried to attack officers at a roadblock with a butcher’s knife. He was shot after he refused to lay down his weapon.

In Hebron, a Palestinian stabbed a police officer several times in his head and chest. Other officers opened fire, killing the attacker.

April 25—Iraq—The Islamic State said on Twitter that it was responsible for 3 suicide car bombs driven by a Belgian, a Frenchman, and a Senegalese who crashed into a remote desert border crossing between Iraq and Jordan, killing at least 4 Iraqi soldiers. IS said it attacked a dining facility, an army patrol, and the border crossing. Sabah Karhout, head of the local council of the Trebill crossing area, said the dead included 3 soldiers and Captain Salah ­al-Dulaimi, the head of the border post’s protection force. Another dozen Iraqis were treated in Jordan for their wounds. 15042502

A bomb exploded near an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Jisr Diyala suburb, killing 4 people and wounding 11.

April 25—Afghanistan—A gunman shot to death acting police chief General Gulab Khan and his civilian aide outside the police headquarters in Tiran Kot, Uruzgan Province during the night. A police officer suspected in the shooting was arrested. Khan had led the criminal investigation department and was running the police after the former chief was killed in a suicide attack in Kabul in March.

April 25—Pakistan—Two gunmen riding a motorcycle shot to death women’s rights activist Sabeen Mahmud hours after she hosted a forum on Baluchistan. The terrorists shot her and wounded her mother, Mehnaz Mahmud, as they stopped at a traffic light during the night in an affluent Karachi neighborhood. Sabeen was driving; her driver escaped unharmed. Sabeen ran a small tech company, hosted poetry readings, computer workshops and other events at The Second Floor.

April 26—Iraq—A parked car bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque and a gathering of motorcycle vendors in Baghdad’s Khilani Square, killing 7 people and wounding 25.

A car bomb exploded in Mahmoudiya, killing at least 4 civilians.

A car bomb went off in Baghdad’s Amil neighborhood, killing 3 and injuring 13.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s Bayaa district, killing 2 people.

A bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Husseiniyah suburb, killing 2 civilians and wounding 6.

April 27—Iraq—Gunmen kidnapped a local male UN staffer in Baqouba, Diyala Province, near government headquarters. He was pulled from his car during the day. The family received a $100,000 ransom demand. 15042701

April 27—Germany—Federal prosecutors charged Soufiane K., 28, a ­German-Moroccan dual citizen, with membership in a terrorist organization. They alleged that he traveled from Ruesselsheim, near Frankfurt, to Syria via Turkey in July 2013 to join Jabhat ­al-Nusra that September. He allegedly participated in a combat operation against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government and performed guard duty. He returned to Germany in June 2014, and was arrested in Frankfurt in October 2014.

April 27—Bosnia—AP and Radio Free Europe reported that at 7 p.m., gunman Nerdin Ibric, 24, yelled “Allahu akbar,” ran into a police station in Zvornik, shot to death a Serb policeman and wounded 2 others with an automatic rifle. The gunman, who lived in nearby Kucic Kula, was killed in a ­shoot-out with police. The next day, police arrested A.S.H., a man with suspected links to Ibric. The detainee was earlier questioned about possible Syria ties and recruitment efforts for the Islamic State. On April 30, Bosnian authorities said they suspected Aydulah Hasanovic, 24, and Kasim Mehidic, 40, of involvement. Hasa­novic had been arrested in 2014 in an IS recruitment investigation, but released. His passport had been confiscated.

April 27—Nigeria—RT.com reported that Boko Haram announced that it had changed its name to Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP). The group also dropped its official title, Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati ­wal-Jihad, Arabic for “People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad.”

April 27—Libya—Reuters reported that Islamic State terrorists slit the throats of 5 journalists working for Barqa TV. Their bodies were found in the Green Mountain forests outside Bayda. The reporters—4 Libyans and an Egyptian—went missing in August 2014. 15042702

April 28—Iraq—During the night, a car bomb exploded on a commercial street in the western Mansour district of Baghdad, killing 10, wounding 25—including 4 children—burning 20 cars, and damaging shops and restaurants.

An hour later, a car bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Amil neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 12.

A car bomb exploded near a real estate office in Baghdad’s Bayaa district, killing 7 and wounding 16.

April 28—Japan—Forty minutes after midnight, a small rocket landed at the U.S. Army’s Camp Zama base near Tokyo, causing no injuries or damage. A Kanagawa prefecture police spokesman told the media that authorities found 2 launchers planted in the ground with electric cables. Projectiles possibly fired from the pipes were found later. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said “left-wing extremists” were suspected. 15042801

April 28—Mali—The CMA Tuareg separatist coalition was believed responsible for firing on UN peacekeeping vehicles near Timbuktu. 15042802

April 28—Iraq—Authorities found 8 bodies with gunshot wounds to their heads and chests in different parts of 2 ­Sunni-majority neighborhoods of Jihad and Ghazaliyah in western Baghdad. Officers found no IDs.

April 28—Saudi Arabia—NBC News reported that authorities arrested 93 people with Islamic State ties in recent months, foiling their plans to carry out multiple terrorist attacks, including a Syrian and a Saudi planning a suicide car bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh. Another Syrian plotting the Embassy attack remained at large. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said a cell of 65 people arrested in March planned to attack residential compounds, prisons and security forces. Those arrested included 77 Saudis. The ministry said it had arrested a second suspect in separate shootings in March and April which killed 2 Saudi policemen on instruction from Islamic State.

April 28—Syria—UPI reported that the ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that the Islamic State executed 2,154 people in Syria between June 28, 2014, and April 28, 2015, via stoning, beheading, shooting and immolation. Victims included 1,362 civilians, including 9 children and 19 women. Some 930 came from the ­al-Shaitaat tribe in Syria’s Deir Ezzor Province. Other victims included 529 Syrian government troops, 137 fighters with ­al-Qaeda’s Nusra Front and other Islamic battalions, and 126 IS members who tried returning to their home nations or were accused of “exceeding the limits in religion and spying for foreign countries.”

April 28—Yemen—In a gun battle between Saudi armed forces and Houthi rebels along the ­Saudi-Yemen border, a Saudi soldier was killed and another wounded. 15042803

April 28—Northern Ireland—In the nighttime, a small bomb exploded outside a probation office on a residential street at Crawford Square in Londonderry, causing no injuries, but damaging the unoccupied ­3-storey office building. City leaders blamed IRA ­die-hards. A caller claiming IRA member-ship telephoned a suicide hotline warning of the bomb.

April 28—Nigeria—CNN reported that Nigerian soldiers claimed they rescued 200 girls and 93 women in the Sambisa Forest. They soon said that the girls were not the 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok in April 2014. Troops also destroyed 3 Boko Haram terrorist camps.

April 28—Nigeria—AFP reported that hundreds of decomposing bodies, including women and children, were found dead in Damasak, apparently victims of Boko Haram. One local put the toll at more than 400.

April 28—Pakistan—A local private guard shot and killed himself with his own gun during business hours in front of the U.S. Consulate in Lahore. Police said he told hospital officers that he committed suicide due to “uneasy relations with his family.” He had worked for the consulate for 4 years.

April 28—Algeria—The Defense Ministry announced that following a tipoff, an army patrol killed 6 armed Katibat Ennour jihadi gunmen in the Hendu area. The government said that the group was behind several terrorist attacks in the Kabylia region. Soldiers seized 4 Kalashnikov rifles and an automatic pistol.

April 28—Bahrain—Gulf News and the Bahrain News Agency reported that Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said that it had arrested 28 people, including individuals earlier convicted in absentia on terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison. The Ministry added, “Some of those arrested have had their nationality revoked…. Some of them were charged in more than one case that involved planning and carrying out terrorist acts with the aim to undermine the security of the country. The investigation foiled a number of terrorist operations planned in various villages…. The operation was a coordinated effort by various investigation units in the country. The General Directorate of Criminal Investigation and Forensic Science has initiated legal proceedings to refer those arrested to the Public Prosecution.” Charges included involvement in bombings, forming a terrorist cell, making bombs equipped with cell phone detonators, planting of explosives in several areas, planting fake bombs and suspicious objects, attacking police with Molotov cocktails, arson and blockading roads.

April 29—Afghanistan—A ­booby-trapped car exploded 5 miles south of a military base in Kandahar, hitting a NATO patrol and injuring 4 Romanian soldiers during the morning. 15042901

April 29—Iraq—A bomb went off in a commercial area in Baghdad’s Amiriyah neighborhood, killing 3 civilians and wounding 12.

A bomb hit a Shi’ite militia convoy in Baghdad’s Shula neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 4.

Other bombs in markets in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood and eastern Husseiniyah suburb killed 3 civilians and wounded 20.

During the night, a sticky bomb attached to a minibus went off in central Baghdad, killing 4 passengers and wounding 7.

April 29—Mali—Coordination of Azawad Movements gunmen in 3 cars attacked Goundam, a northern town, killing 3 people, including the head of the national guard, his deputy, and a girl. Hours later, armed men from another coalition group took over the northern town of Lere.

April 29—Colombia—UPI reported that the National Prosecution Directorate Against Terrorism with the support of the ­Anti-Extortion Group of the National Police arrested 6 sergeants, a professional soldier, and 3 retired military personnel accused of trafficking weapons to criminals, drug organizations and 9 FARC members. The weapons were stolen from different military garrisons since 2012 and reportedly included 100,000 cartridges of different ammunition calibers, 1,000 grenades and different weapons, including 30 5.56×45 mm rifles and 10 M-60 machine guns. The investigation began when a FARC member carrying 8,000 rounds of military ammunition was captured in September 2013.

April 29—Nigeria—The Army said it freed several more abducted women and children during firefights at 9 Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa Forest during which 8 women sustained gunshot wounds and 4 soldiers were seriously injured. Some of the women opened fire on the troops and were scheduled for psychological counseling.

April 30—Tanzania—Ugandan police spokesman Fred Enanga said Tanzania security officials arrested Jamil Mukulu, leader of the Uganda jihadi Allied Democratic Forces rebel group, which operated in eastern Congo. He had been at large since the 1990s. He was under U.S. sanctions and was the subject of an Interpol arrest warrant. On May 10, 2015, Congo’s Justice and Human Rights Minister Alexis Thambwe Mwamba called for extradition to the Congo, since Mukulu had committed more killings in Congo than in Uganda. On May 22, he challenged extradition to Uganda in a magistrates court in Dar es Salaam. The Muslim convert was accused of ordering a 1998 attack in which scores of Ugandan students were burned to death in their dormitories in a town near the Congo border.

April 30—Germany—DPA reported that in an overnight raid in Oberursel, outside Frankfurt, German police arrested a married Turkish couple linked to Salafi extremists and seized a pipe bomb, parts of an assault rifle, 100 rounds of ammunition, a training rocket for an ­anti-tank weapon, and chemicals that could be used to make explosives. DPA reported that a state interior minister said authorities foiled a ­possible Boston ­Marathon–style terrorist attack on the ­one-day professional cycling race from Esch-born to Frankfurt, which draws 200 riders and ­thousands of spectators on May Day. Frankfurt’s deputy chief prosecutor Stefan Rojczyk said authorities had discovered that someone using a false name had purchased 3 liters of hydrogen peroxide at a hardware store name. Rojczyk said the ­Turkish-German male detainee, 35, was a chemistry stu-dent. His Turkish wife was 34 years old. Frankfurt’s chief prosecutor, Albrecht Schreiber, said police became suspicious when they spotted the male suspect apparently surveiling the race route. Schreiber said the man was linked to 15 previous offenses. Police later found violent jihadi videos on the couple’s computer.

On October 28, 2015, German prosecutors indicted the man with preparing an act of violence, forging documents and violating weapons and explosives laws for planning to carry out a bomb attack. He faced up to 10 years in prison. His wife was released earlier.

April 30—Mali—Ongoing clashes between Malian soldiers and Tuareg separatists killed 9 soldiers and 10 rebels.

April 30—Iraq—In a nighttime attack, a bomb exploded in Baghdad’s Mansour district, killing 5 and wounding 12.

A car bomb exploded near an ice cream shop in Baghdad’s Hurriya neighborhood, killing 4 and wounding 14.

Two separate car bombs went off in 2 Shi’ite neighborhoods in eastern Baghdad, killing 7 and wounding 18.

A car bomb went off near restaurants and shops in Baghdad’s Talibiyah district, killing 2 and wounding 10.

A bomb went off near a Madain café, killing 3 and injuring 11.

April 30—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Defense Ministry announced that Yemeni Houthi rebels attacked border posts in the Saudi province of Najran during the night, leading to the deaths of 3 Saudi soldiers and dozens of Yemeni rebels. 15043001

May—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Interior Ministry announced on May 24 that 5 members of an Islamic State cell shot to death police Private Majed Ayedh ­al-Ghamdi in Riyadh and burned his body earlier in the month.

May—Libya—On May 26, the Washington Post reported that during the previous week, the Islamic State kidnapped a 60-year-old North Korean doctor and his wife in Sirte as they were en route to Tripoli. 15059901

May—Syria—The Islamic State kidnapped the Reverend Jacques Mourad, a Syriac Cath­olic priest, and a volunteer from the Mar Moussa monastery, situated between Damascus and Homs. Mourad had lived at the St. Elian Monastery near Qaryatain in central Syria. The terrorists bulldozed the site on August 21, 2015.

The hostages were thrown into a car and driven for 4 days. The duo were taken to Raqqa and held in a bathroom. In August 2015, the kidnappers drove the duo to another location, where Mourad, “saw a young boy from my [Al-Qaryatayn] parish; it was a very touching moment. As soon as I turned I suddenly saw all the 250 kidnapped Christians—the children, old people, disabled, women—it was a very hard moment for me.” Mourad escaped after 84 days. On December 10, 2015, he told AP and other members of Rome’s Foreign Press Association that he believed his life was saved due to his interfaith work. The group often threatened him with beheading if he did not renounce Christianity. Mourad was smuggled out of ­al-Qaryatayn on October 10 with the help of a Muslim friend; 8 parishioners have been killed.

May—Malaysia/Philippines—Abu Sayyaf kidnapped Malaysian citizens Bernard Then Ted Fen and Thien Nyuk Fun, in the Malaysian state of Sabah and took them by boat across the sea border to Sulu. Thien was freed in early November after a ransom was paid. The group beheaded Bernard Then Ted Fen in a ­jungle in Sulu Province on November 17. 15059902

May 2—UK—The BBC reported on May 5 that Metropolitan Police arrested 4 British men at Gat­wick Airport under the Civil Aviation Act of 1982. They had flown to Turkey on April 29 but were refused entry at Antalya Airport. They were aged 32, 36, 37 and 38.

May 2—Pakistan—During the night, 40 dacoits (bandits) attacked a police checkpoint and kidnapped 7 policemen in the Much area of Sadiqabad in Punjab Province.

May 2—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed his Humvee into a military headquarters in Garma, killing 3 soldiers and 3 militia members and wounding 9 other troops.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a surprise visit to Baghdad and the Kurdish region.

A roadside bomb killed 5 women and 2 children traveling in a minibus in Diyala Province.

A suicide car bombing and a second car bombing 10 minutes later in Baghdad’s Karrada neighborhood killed 19 people, including 2 traffic policemen, in restaurants and coffee shops. The Islamic State claimed credit, saying it was targeting a Shi’ite militia in the nighttime attack on people celebrating the birth of Imam Ali.

A Yazidi lawmaker claimed that the Islamic State shot to death 25 captive Yazidis at a prison camp near Tal Afar. The dead included men, women, and the elderly.

May 2—Nigeria—The Nigerian Defence Headquarters said on Twitter it had rescued another 234 more girls and women from a Boko Haram Sambisa Forest redoubt, bringing the week’s total to 677. AP reported that some of the women shot at the troops and were killed. Boko Haram was using them as armed human shields. On May 3, surviving hostages told the AP that during their rescue, Boko Haram fighters stoned captives to death, some girls and women were crushed by an armored car and 3 died when a land mine exploded as they escaped.

May 2—Burundi—A grenade attack on a police station in Bujumbura’s central market killed 2 police officers.

A grenade attack killed a civilian in Bujumbura’s Kamenge area. Another 17 people were wounded in the nighttime grenade attacks. Police arrested 2 suspects. The motives for the attacks were not known.

May 3—Iraq—Authorities found the bodies of 5 men dumped in different areas. The victims were believed to be in their 30s. They had sustained gunshot wounds to the head and chest. Their hands and legs were tied. Their IDs were missing.

A bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Ma­dain, killing 2 civilians and wounding 8.

May 3—Egypt—Bilal Abu Khadra, a prosecutor in the Nile Delta’s Sharqiya Province, referred 40 people to trial on charges of belonging to the Islamic State and planning to carry out terrorist attacks.

Terrorists remotely detonated a bomb south of ­el-Arish, killing an army conscript and wounding 2 soldiers.

May 3—India—Naga rebels were suspected in an ambush that killed 8 Indian paramilitary soldiers in Nagaland State near the border with Myanmar. Gunmen fired automatic weapons at 2 trucks carrying the soldiers. Police blamed the Khaplang faction of the Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagaland.

Gunmen fired on soldiers in the Mon district, injuring 6 Indian soldiers; another 4 went missing. Indian soldiers killed an attacker.

May 3—U.S.—At 7 p.m., 2 gunmen wearing body armor drove up in a car and fired assault rifles outside the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, a Dallas, Texas, suburb. Unarmed security guard Bruce Joiner was shot in the ankle. The 2 terrorists were killed by a policeman working ­off-hours security who returned fire within 15 seconds with his service pistol. Garland Mayor Douglas Athas told CNN, “The first suspect was shot immediately. The second suspect was wounded and reached for his backpack. He was shot again.”

The New ­York–based American Freedom Defense Initiative was hosting the “Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest” that would award $10,000 for the best cartoon among 350 submissions depicting Muhammad. The keynote speaker was ­right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders, who was on an al-Qaeda hit list. Pam Geller, president of the AFDI, told CNN. “The Islamic jihadis are determined to suppress our freedom of speech violently. They struck in Paris and Copenhagen recently, and now in Texas.”

The next day, the Washington Post said court rec­ords indicated that ­Illinois-born gunman and Islamic convert Elton Simpson, 30, of Phoenix, was earlier suspected of trying to fly overseas to join jihad. The FBI began investigating him in 2006. In May 2009, he told an FBI informant, “It’s time to go to Somalia, brother. “It’s time. I’m tellin’ you, man. We gonna make it to the battlefield … it’s time to roll.” The FBI arrested him in January 2010 on charges of lying to agents in connection with terrorism. A judge at a bench trial dropped the terrorism enhancement. Judge Maria H. Murguia said in March 2011 that the prosecution failed to prove that Simpson intended to wage jihad in Somalia. The judge reduced the charge to making a false statement to federal officials and sentenced him to 3 years of probation. Authorities also returned his passport. He was represented by attorney Kristina Sitton, who believed her client was on the ­no-fly list. CNN reported that before the attack, he tweeted, “May Allah accept us as mujahideen” and pledged loyalty to “Amirul Mu’mineen” (the leader of the faithful), which CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said probably meant IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. Simpson was also linked by the FBI in 2006 to Hassan Abu Jihaad, the former U.S. Navy sailor arrested in Phoenix and convicted of terrorism charges for leaking details about his ship’s movements to sysadmins of a London jihadi website.

The second shooter was Simpson’s roommate, Nadir Soofi, 34, a ­pre-med student at the University of Utah from 1998 to 2003. He left in the summer of 2003 without a degree.

After the shooting, an IS propagandist identified by jihadi monitoring groups as Junaid Hussain, a British ISIS fighter in Syria who goes by the name Abu Hussein ­al-Britani, whom Simpson had earlier asked his readers to follow, tweeted, “Allahu Akbar!!!! 2 of our brothers just opened fire…. If there is no check on the freedom of your speech, then let your hearts be open to the freedom of our actions.” On May 5, IS al-Bayan Radio said “2 soldiers of the caliphate” carried out the attack and added, “We tell…. America that what is coming will be more grievous and more bitter and you will see from the soldiers of the Caliphate what will harm you, God willing.” Pundits said the group might have been opportunistically jumping on the bandwagon and did not direct the attack.

On June 16, 2015, UPI reported that an FBI agent testified in a court hearing that Decarus Thomas, alias Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, 43, who was indicted on federal conspiracy and weapons charges, plus lying to federal investigators, provided weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition to Simpson and Soofi. The agent said Thomas wanted to stage an attack at the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona in February 2015. FBI agent Dina McCarthy, a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, testified that witnesses told the FBI that 3 weapons used in the Garland ­shoot-out were used by Kareem, Elton Simpson and Madir Soofi for training. The indictment said Kareem wanted to join the Islamic State.

On December 23, 2015, Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem, nee Decarus Thomas, 44, of Phoenix, was indicted on charges of providing material support to a terrorist group by accessing with the aid of a cohort an IS list that recorded the names and home addresses of U.S. service members. The indictment did not say that he communicated directly with IS. He was earlier accused of training and arming the 2 gunmen by traveling to a desert outside Phoenix from February 2014 to May 2015. CNN added on December 26 that he also was charged with planning to use pipe bombs against the 2015 Super Bowl XLIX in Glendale, Arizona. The indictment said Kareem faked having been hit by a car to raise insurance money to fund the attacks. The indictment reported that the trio and other men for months watched videos “depicting jihadist violence and apparent wartime footage in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East” and “torture and executions” by IS… “While watching the videos, Kareem exhorted and encouraged Simpson and Soofi to engage in violent activity in the United States to support [ISIS] and impose retribution for United States military actions in the Middle East.” The formal charge list included conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, interstate transportation of firearms with intent to commit a felony, making false statements and other crimes. An indictment earlier in 2015 charged him with conspiracy and weapons charges in connection with the attack in Garland. Kareem was detained in Phoenix in June 2015.

May 3—Philippines—UPI reported that the Armed Forces of the Philippines killed ­Philippines-born bomb maker Abdul Basit Usman. The U.S. Rewards for Justice program had offered a $1 million bounty for his arrest. The Office of the President of the Philippines said, “Terror suspect Basit Usman was killed in a firefight in Guindulungan, Maguindanao, at around noon today.” Usman was involved in bombings since 2002, including one at a mall that killed 15 and wounded 44. Rewards for Justice said, “Abdul Basit Usman, a Filipino citizen, is a ­bomb-making expert with links to the ­Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf Group and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist organizations operating in the southern Philippines. Due to these associations, U.S. authorities consider Basit to be a threat to U.S. and Filipino citizens and interests. Basit is believed to have orchestrated several bombings that have killed, injured, and maimed many innocent civilians.” AFP said he was killed in a remote mountainous area while being escorted by members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). Some observers suggested MILF killed him for the reward money, or that he was ­double-crossed by some of his followers. On May 6, 2015, armed forces spokesman Brigadier General Joselito Kakilala said the MILF killed Usman after he strayed into their territory in Maguindanao Province.

May 3—Afghanistan—In nighttime attacks on police checkpoints in Badakhshan Province, the Taliban killed 16 policemen. Parliamentarian Nilofer Ibra­himi said that 13 of the policemen were members of border police units; the 3 others were public protection officers. Another 7 policemen were missing.

May 3—Italy—Various individuals claiming links to the Islamic State tweeted threats against Italy. Omar Moktar said, “We are among you, waiting time X.” Someone posted photos of sites in Rome and Milan, including the Colosseum, the Duomo Milanese, Termini Station, and Expo logos in Milan. Some cited the Lion of the Desert, Omar ­al-Mukhtar, a Libyan who led the ­anti-colonial resistance against the Italian army in the 1920s.

May 3—Mali—During the night, Movement for the Liberation of Macina jihadis dynamited the mausoleum in Hamdallahi village of marabout leader Cheick Amadou Barry that had been submitted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In the 19th century, he spread Islam among the animists of central Mali. A descendant, Bologo Amadou Barry, said the jihadis left a warning that they would attack all those who did not follow the teachings of Islam’s prophet. “They also threatened France and the U.N. peacekeepers and all those who work with them.”

May 4—Afghanistan—In the morning, a Taliban suicide bomber hit a bus carrying government workers in Kabul, killing one person and wounding 13.

May 4—Golan Heights—Mortar fire launched from Syria hit a UN base in the ­Israeli-controlled part of the Golan Heights, injuring 2 UN peacekeepers. 15050401

May 4—Syria—The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the ­state-owned Syrian al-Ikhbariya TV station said a suicide bomber blew himself up after authorities stopped an armed group in the Rokn ­al-Deen neighborhood of Damascus. Authorities said the bombing appeared to target a general who ran army logistics and supplies. The gen-eral and 2 of his guards were injured and one guard died.

May 4—Congo—Gunmen fired on a UN helicopter carrying the commander of the UN peacekeeping mission. The ­Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces were suspected. 15050402

May 5—Northern Ireland—Former Irish Republican Army commander Gerard “Jock” Davison, 47, was shot dead at close range in the morning on a street near his home in Belfast’s Markets neighborhood. In 2005, he allegedly ordered the IRA to fatally stab Catholic civilian Robert McCartney, 33, at a pub near the Markets following an exchange of insults. Davison was arrested but was not charged. Two others, including his uncle Terence Davison, were charged but later acquitted in 2008. On May 6, the Idaho Statesman reported that Northern Ireland police arrested a 41-year-old man on suspicion of involvement.

May 5—Congo—Gunmen ambushed a Tanzanian unit of UN peacekeepers in the Beni region, killing 2 and injuring 13. Four missing peacekeepers were found later that day. The ­Uganda-based Allied Democratic Forces were suspected. 15050501

May 5—Mali—Moussa Ag Attaher of the separatist Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) said his group had attacked the town of Tenenkou in the central Mopti region, killing 11 people. He said the group was retaliating for the attack against Menaka the previous week by groups allied with the government. “The attack in Tenenkou is a consequence of the violation of the ­cease-fire in Menaka. We want to show the Malian parties that we can also launch hostilities and we will mark our presence on all territories where we can.” State television reported that 10 of the 11 who died were attackers, and several others were wounded.

May 5—Saudi Arabia—Yemeni Houthis fired rockets and mortars into Saudi Arabia, killing 2 civilians. They also captured 5 soldiers. 15050501

May 6—Nigeria—Soldiers rescued 25 more kidnapped women and children from Boko Haram and destroyed 7 more BH camps in the Sambisa Forest. One soldier died and 5 were injured.

May 6—Czech Republic—Authorities detained 3 suspects for allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a train. They faced up to life in prison if convicted of terrorism. Three other people were investigated as suspects, one for illegal weapons and 2 others for knowing about the attack plan and failing to intervene. Police seized a weapon during raids.

May 6—UK—Counterterrorism officers raided 6 locations in the London area and arrested 7 men as part of an investigation into an alleged fraud linked to extremists in Syria. The men, aged 21 to 38, were held for conspiracy to commit fraud and ­money-laundering. Police said suspects posing as police officers called vulnerable and elderly people at home to obtain their bank account details. Police arrested 2 other men in March in a similar case.

May 6—Germany—Some 250 investigators raided homes in Saxony and 4 other states, seizing explosives and arresting 3 men and a woman accused of founding the “Oldschool Society,” a ­right-wing extremist group, to attack mosques, housing for asylum seekers, and prominent Salafists. Prosecutors identified the 4 as Andreas H., 56, Markus W., 39, Denise Vanessa G., 22, and Olaf O., 47. They were held on charges of terrorism and of having procured explosives. Prosecutors identified Andreas H. and Markus W. as the group’s president and vice president. The North ­Rhine–Westphalia state interior ministry said Olaf O. was from Bochum and had been under observation since November as “a leading member of the OSS.”

May 7—Canada—Former Guantanamo inmate Omar Khadr, 28, was freed on bail while he appealed his U.S. war crimes conviction. The government had sought an emergency stay, which was rejected by Court of Appeal Justice Myra Bielby. He was represented by attorney Dennis Edney.

May 7—Yemen—CNN quoted an AQAP video saying that a U.S. drone strike had killed AQAP senior leader Nasr Ibn Ali ­al-Ansi on an unspecified date. AQAP said that his eldest son, Mohammed, and several other AQAP members also died.

May 8—Iraq—Al-Jazeera reported that a suicide car bomber hit the ­al-Zahraa mosque in Balad Ruz as worshippers were leaving after the Friday ­mid-day prayers. A second suicide bomber on foot then attacked the first responders. The 2 bombs killed 18 and injured 41. Among the dead were the leader of the town’s police commandos, Adnan Mohammed ­al-Timimi, and 2 policemen. The Interior Ministry blamed the Islamic State.

A suicide car bomber crashed into worshippers leaving the Imam Hussein Shia mosque in Kanaan, killing 4 and injuring 18.

May 8—Egypt—Suspected ­drive-by jihadi gunmen fired on policemen in ­el-Arish, killing 2 and wounding one.

May 8—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when gunmen set off 2 bombs at the College of Admin­istrative and Business Studies in Potiskum at 8 a.m. A suicide bomber prematurely set off his explosives in the parking lot. Another bomb went off in the college dormitory; all the students apparently were in classrooms. Security guards armed only with clubs ran away. Police and soldiers soon arrived and beat back the terrorists. A hospital worker told the Associated Press that 5 students sustained gunshot wounds and 45 were injured when they jumped out of windows and over walls, trying to escape. Victims included schoolchildren from the nearby Government Science Secondary School. A man arrested at the scene was later found to be innocent and released. On May 11, student Musa Umar Gamari died of gunshot wounds to the chest. He left behind a wife and child.

May 8—India—Maoist rebels took 250 villagers hostage and held them in forests to protest the construction of a bridge in Chhattisgarh State’s Sukma district. The Maoists killed a villager accused of being a police informer and released the others late the next day.

May 8—Australia—In the afternoon, police in the affluent suburb of Greenvale arrested a 17-year-old accused of plotting to set off 3 homemade bombs in Melbourne. Police defused the bombs found in his ­2-storey home. News media suggested that the individual planned to bomb a charity run in Melbourne to mark Mothers’ Day in Australia. He was scheduled to appear on May 11 in the Melbourne Children’s Court on terrorism charges. The boy’s father was reportedly a doctor of Syrian background.

May 8—U.S.—AP reported that the U.S. Northern Command increased the threat level from A to B at most military installations, including the Pentagon, across the country due to a generally heightened threat environment.

May 9—Iraq—During a riot in Khalis Prison in Diyala Province, 51 inmates and 12 policemen were killed and between 40 and 200 inmates, including several convicted of terrorism charges, escaped. The Islamic State claimed that they had set off explosives outside the prison, and had freed 30 IS members.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s central Karrada area, killing 8 civilians and wounding 28. The dead included Shi’ite pilgrims preparing for the next week’s commemoration of the anniversary of the 8th century death of Imam Mousa ­al-Kazim.

May 9—Macedonia—The ­state-run news agency MIA reported that police clashed with an “armed terrorist group” that came from an unspecified foreign country and arrived in Kumanovo. Parts of the town were sealed off. Four police officers were injured by gunfire; 3 were taken to a Skopje hospital. The Interior Ministry said the “well-trained terrorist group” had entered Macedonia from an unspecified neighboring country with a plan to “perform attacks on state institutions.” The group was “sheltered in the houses of supporters” in the Kumanovo neighborhood of Diva Naselba. Interior Minister Gordana Jankulovska announced later that day that the gunmen continued the gun battle with special forces police during a sweep operation and that 5 police officers were killed and more than 30 were injured. She said more than 20 gunmen surrendered and others were killed. On May 10, a 6th police officer died in the 2nd day of fighting. By the end of the day, 22 people, including 8 police and 14 attackers, were reported killed and 37 police were wounded. President George Ivanov said on national television that the group had planned several terrorist attacks to destabilize the country. “Police have prevented coordinated terrorist attacks at different locations in the country that would cause serious destabilization, chaos and fear. The members of the group are extremists and criminals with remarkable military training and skills. That’s why we have paid such a high price with the loss of lives.” Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said some 40 gunmen had planned to attack state institutions, sport events and shopping malls and said they had combat experience both in the region and in the Middle East. He said the group was not supported by Macedonia’s ethnic Albanian minority. Five leaders of the armed group were citizens of Kosovo. Police filed ­terrorism-related charges against more than 30 members of the group who surrendered. Authorities said some of the dead attackers wore uniforms with the insignia of the disbanded ethnic Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army but had no identification documents on them. Authorities jailed 30 people on May 11 on ­terrorism-related charges. Most were from ­ethnic–Albanian-dominated Kosovo. A Skopje court said the suspects included 18 Kosovo residents, 11 Macedonians—2 of them living in Kosovo—and one Albanian. They were ordered detained for 30 days. On May 13, police named 3 leaders as Kosovo Albanians. Mirsad Ndrecaj, 35, and Beg Rizaj, 36, were among 14 dead fighters. The third was identified as Sami Ukshini, 46, who surrendered with 29 others. Police believed the trio belonged to the ­now-disbanded ethnic Albanian rebel groups that fought Macedonian and Serbian forces in the area in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

On October 15, 2015, Macedonian police raided 3 villages near Kumanovo and arrested 7 people suspected of providing logistical support to an armed group that clashed with police on May 9, 2015, leaving 8 police and 10 gunmen dead and 37 police wounded. Another 30 gunmen surrendered. The detainees were suspected of terrorism and aiding a terrorist group.

May 10—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber walked up to a bus in Kabul in the afternoon and set off his explosives, killing 3 and wounding 18, among them Justice Ministry employees and civilians.

A Taliban suicide truck bomber set off his explosives near the entrance to the Kandahar compound of the National Directorate for Security intelligence agency, wounding 4 employees.

May 10—Iraq—A suicide car bomber hit a police and army checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 5 security members and wounding 10.

A car bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Taji, killing 3 civilians and wounding 8.

A bomb targeted Shi’ite pilgrims in Baghdad’s Abu Disher neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 7.

A bomb exploded in an outdoor market in Baghdad’s Shaab district, killing a civilian and wounding 5.

A suicide bomber drove an ­explosives-laden armored military vehicle into government forces during clashes outside the Islamic ­State-held city of Fallujah, killing 3 soldiers and wounding 7. The Islamic State claimed credit.

May 11—Pakistan—A remotely-detonated roadside bomb exploded in Mamound in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border under the car of elder Malik Mohammad Jan, killing him and his 5 aides. He led anti–Taliban efforts in the area, expelling Pakistani Taliban sympathizers and demolishing and burning their houses.

May 11—Mali—Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane, spokesman for the Coordination of Azawad Movements separatist rebels, said his group killed 30 soldiers in an attack on an army convoy on the road to Goundam, 25 miles southwest of Timbuktu. Defense Minister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly said 9 soldiers were killed and 14 were injured.

May 11—Norway—Signe Aalling of security service PST told reporters that Norwegian authorities in Fornebu arrested a 49-year-old man for “spreading information particularly geared toward committing acts of terrorism.” Norway’s TV2 said the man was an employee of engineering firm Aker Solutions.

May 11—Yemen—Jihadi websites said a U.S. drone strike killed 4 AQAP members in Mukalla. The Islamic ­State-affiliated Aamaq outlet said the 4 included Maamoun Hatem, reportedly an IS sympathizer. The other 3 were identified as Abu Anwar ­al-Kutheiri, Mohammed Saleh ­al-Ghorabi and Mab­khout Waqash ­al-Sayeri.

May 12—U.S.—The New York Daily News reported that 3 ­self-proclaimed ­al-Shabaab members pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal court to attempting to recruit members. They faced 15 years in prison. Ali Ahmed, Madhi Hashi, and Mohamed Yusuf also agreed to deportation upon completion of their sentences. They were captured in August 2012 after crossing the Somali border en route to Yemen. Ahmed’s attorney was Susan Kellman. Sentencing was set for September 25.

May 12—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 2 paramilitary troops and 2 workers for an ­army-owned company in the Kolachi area of Dera Ismail Khan district, where the army’s construction wing, the Frontier Work Organization, was building a canal. The gunmen fled.

May 12—Afghanistan—In the morning, a bomb went off in Arghistan in Kandahar Province, killing 5 civilians and wounding 2 women and a child. It was unclear whether it was an old mine or a roadside bomb.

May 12—Bangladesh—CNN reported that blogger Ananta Bijoy Das, 32, was killed by 4 masked men who hacked him to death with cleavers and machetes as he left home en route to his work at a bank in Sylhet. The terrorists ran away. Das, an atheist, wrote for the Mukto Mona (free thinkers) blog, edited the science magazine Jukti (Reason) and authored several books, including one on Darwin. On May 25, 2015, the Ministry of Home Affairs announced the banning of the jihadi Ansarullah Bangla Team, believed involved in threats against and the killings of atheist bloggers, writers, and other activists.

May 12—Spain—Police in Barcelona arrested 2 people for allegedly posting pro–Islamic State videos and propaganda on the Internet, using several Internet identities.

May 12—Iraq—A bomb went off outside Kirkuk near the car of Major General Salah Delmani, commander of the 118th brigade of the Kurdish peshmerga forces, killing him and 3 bodyguards.

Attacks on Shi’ite pilgrims killed at least 19 people and wounded more than 50 in Baghdad. The deadliest attack occurred when an Islamic State suicide bomber hit pilgrims buying food and drinks on their way back from the ­al-Kazim’s shrine in Baghdad’s Kazimiyah neighborhood, killing 10 and wounding 25. The Islamic State said on Twitter that it was targeting fighters with the Popular Mobilization Units.

A roadside bomb exploded on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, killing 2 pilgrims and wounding 9.

In suburban Bab ­al-Sham outside Baghdad, 3 mortars killed 4 pilgrims and wounded 12.

In Mashahidah, a bomb killed 3 pilgrims and injured 8.

AP, CNN and the BBC reported that Iraq’s Defense Ministry said a nighttime airstrike killed deputy Islamic State commander Abd ­al-Rahman Mustafa ­al-Qaduli, alias Abdul Rahman Mustafa Mohammed, alias Abu Alaa ­al-Afari, and dozens of others in a meeting in the ­al-Shuhada (Martyrs) mosque in ­al-Iyadhiya village near Tal Afar. However, the Interior Ministry later said it was not clear if he even was wounded. The U.S. Treasury Department said he joined ­al-Qaeda in Iraq in 2004 under the command of Abu Musab ­al-Zarqawi, and served as his deputy and the group’s senior leader in Mosul. Treasury said that in 2006, he traveled to Pakistan. Treasury listed him as a specially-designated global terrorist in 2014 “for acting for or on behalf of … the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.” The State Department offered up to $7 million for ­al-Qaduli. It said he was born in 1957 or 1959 in Mosul. He reportedly joined IS in Syria after being freed from an Iraqi prison in 2012.

May 13—Somalia—Al-Shabaab detained 14 Iranian fishermen and seized their fishing boat that had developed mechanical problems and drifted onto the Somali shore near ­el-Dher town in the coastal region of Galgadud. 15051301

May 13—Afghanistan—At 11 a.m., gunmen attacked a government compound in Lashkar Gar, Helmand Province, where Muslim clerics were discussing provincial security. The subsequent gun battle lasted 3 hours. At least 11 people, including 4 police and 2 terrorists, were killed and 12 wounded. The Taliban was suspected.

At 8:30 p.m., the Taliban fired on the restaurant of Kabul’s Park Palace Hotel, popular with foreigners and locals. The hotel was hosting a party honoring a Canadian; the UN said it was also the site of a cultural event. In an initial police foray, an ­Afghan-Canadian national was rescued from the hotel with 5 other people. In an ­hours-long siege, 14 people, including 9 foreigners, among them an American and a ­British-Afghan dual national, were killed and 7 Afghans were wounded, including an Afghan special forces member. Five hours later, 54 hostages were rescued. Indian Ambassador Amar Sinha suggested that 6 hostages were Indian citizens; 4 of the dead were Indians, including 3 men and a woman. The Italian news agency ANSA quoted the Italian Foreign Ministry as announcing that an Italian man, Sandro Abati, a consultant for an agency that promotes investment in Afghanistan, was killed. The dead included 7 men and 2 women, among them 4 Afghan men and one Afghan woman. Police officials said that Afghan special forces had killed 3 gunmen, but another police official said only one assailant’s body had been found. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid ­e-mailed the media to say that the hotel was targeted because of the presence of foreigners, including Americans. He said a lone attacker was involved, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, a suicide vest and a pistol.

The dead American was later identified as Paula Kantor, a scientist and gender and development specialist from North Carolina who was working in Kabul on a project on wheat production with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit. She had earlier worked at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico. 15051302

May 13—Egypt—Four Egyptian soldiers died when a bomb they were trying to defuse exploded near Rafah. An ­anti-tank mine exploded nearby, killing 4 Bedouin tribesmen. Authorities blamed the Islamic ­State–affiliated Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis group, saying it had targeted soldiers.

May 13—Lebanon—A military court convicted a former Lebanese Information Minister Michel Samaha of plotting a wave of bombings at Syria’s behest, stripped him of his civil rights, and sentenced him to 4½ years in prison. In April, he admitted to transporting explosives into Lebanon in collaboration with Syrian intelligence. He was arrested in 2012 and indicted in 2013.

May 13—Pakistan—Six gunmen on motorcycles fired 9mm pistols at a pink ­al-Azhar Garden commuter bus in Karachi’s eastern Malir district, killing 43 Shi’ite Ismailis—including 26 males and 17 females, among them a 16-year-old—and wounding 13. Some of the gunmen boarded the bus and shot passengers, including women and children, at ­point-blank range. A wounded woman told a TV channel, “As the gunmen climbed on to the bus, one of them shouted, ‘Kill them all!’ Then they started indiscriminately firing at everyone they saw.” ­English-language leaflets left on the bus titled “Advent of the Islamic State!” used a derogatory Arabic word for Shi’ites, and blamed them for “barbaric atrocities … in the Levant, Iraq and Yemen” and for a sectarian attack in Rawalpindi, and complained of extrajudicial killings by police. The ­al-Qaeda–linked Jundullah ­e-mailed a confessor letter to reporters. Jundullah spokesman Ahmed Marwat told Reuters, “These killed people were Ismaili and we consider them kafir (non–Muslim). We had 4 attackers. In the coming days we will attack Ismailis, Shi’ites and Christians…. Thanks be to Allah, 43 apostates were killed and around 30 were wounded in an attack carried out by Islamic State soldiers on a bus transporting Shi’ite Ismaili infidels in the city of Karachi.” A Pakistani Taliban splinter group and a Pakistani jihad group linked to the Islamic State claimed credit. Paramilitary Rangers raided Sohrab Goth and Safoora Goth neighborhoods and arrested 18 suspects. By the next day, 45 people had died. On May 20, Interior Minister Chau­dhry Nisar Ali Khan announced the arrest of the suspected mastermind and several gunmen, some of whom confessed. Sindh Province’s chief minister Qaim Ali Shah told the news media that the arrested men also in April killed Sabeen Mahmud, a women’s rights activist.

May 13—Sahara area—Adnan Abu Walid ­al-Sahrawi said in an audio sent to a Mauritanian media outlet that the Mourabitoune group, active in Algeria, Mali and Niger, had switched allegiance to the Islamic State group after years with ­al-Qaeda. “We call upon all the jihadi groups to pledge allegiance to the Caliph, to unify the word of the Muslims and align the ranks in front of the enemies of religion.” Observers noted that the statement was not given by Moktar Belmoktar, who founded the group in August 2013 in a merger with ­al-Sahrawi’s Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa and had recently renewed his allegiance to ­al-Qaeda. On May 15, Belmoktar repudiated the pledge to the IS, saying it “clearly violates the foundational statement that determined the method and behavior of the organization,” and that his group remained loyal to ­al-Qaeda.

May 13–14—Congo—Suspected rebels in North Kivu Province used machetes and axes to kill 23 people in overnight attacks on several small villages about 14 miles north of Beni. Amisi Kalonda, Beni territory official, blamed the Allied Democratic Forces.

May 13–14—Nigeria—Hundreds of Boko Haram gunmen attacked the army’s Giwa Barracks in Maiduguri, but were met with artillery.

May 14—UK—Mark Rowley, national police lead for ­counter-terrorism, said that more than 700 potential terror suspects had traveled to Syria from the U.K. to fight or support extremists, and about half were believed to have returned. He underscored that they were “not aid workers or visiting relatives—they are people of real concern.” He added that a record 338 people were detained on suspicion of terrorism offenses since 2014; more than half of those arrests were related to Syria. Some 89 people were convicted of ­terror-related offenses in that period.

May 14—Syria—The Islamic State released a 35-minute audio message on jihadi websites purportedly from its leader, Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, who had not been seen or heard from in months. He observed, “Islam was never a religion of peace. Islam is the religion of fighting. No one should believe that the war that we are waging is the war of the Islamic State. It is the war of all Muslims, but the Islamic State is spearheading it. It is the war of Muslims against infidels…. O Muslims go to war everywhere. It is the duty of every Muslim.” He mentions the ­Saudi-led air campaign against Shi’ite rebels in Yemen, which began on March 26, criticizes the Saudi royal family, and notes the thousands of people who fled Ramadi in April. “If some of your relatives are fighting against the religion of God and are loyal to Rawafid and Crusaders we will not hurt you.” Sunni members of the Iraqi police and army should repent because “when the hands of the mujahideen get you no repentance will be accepted.” He welcomed fighters from Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Algeria and Tunisia, and pledges of allegiance from IS supporters in Yemen, Afghanistan and West Africa. The 35-minute audio message was released with written English, Russian, Turkish, French and German translations.

The Washington Post and New York Times reported that ­Iraq-based U.S. Delta Force special operations forces flying Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Ospreys crossed into ­al-Amr in eastern Syria in a raid that killed senior IS leader Abu Sayyaf, who ran the group’s oil and gas operations and some military operations, and a dozen other terrorists near Deir ­al-Zour. His wife, Umm Sayyaf, was captured and put into detention in Iraq. On May 17, The Guardian reported that his true name was Nabil Saddiq Abu Saleh ­al-Jabouri. National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan said the operation also freed a young Iraqi Yazidi woman whom Abu Sayyaf and Umm Sayyaf kept as “a slave.” No U.S. forces nor civilians were injured. The raiders also seized laptops, cell phones, files, and archaeological artifacts and historic items, including an Assyrian Bible and antique coins.

May 14—Niger—On May 18, 2015, the French Defense Ministry announced that troops from France and Niger killed 3 gunmen and detained 3 others in 2 pickup tricks who fired on troops as they tried to force their way through a checkpoint in the Salvador pass region near Manama, Niger, near the Libyan border. Authorities seized 1.5 tons of drugs plus automatic weapons.

May 14—U.S.—CNN reported that the FBI in Texas arrested ­Iraqi-born U.S. citizen Bilal Abood on suspicion of going to Syria to fight with the IS and later return to the U.S. Prosecutors charged him with lying to the FBI. He was an interpreter for the U.S. Army in Iraq, then came to the U.S. in 2009. The FBI said they stopped him as he tried to travel in 2013, when he claimed he was going to visit family in Iraq. He later told the FBI in 2013 that he was going to Syria to join the Free Syrian Army. The FBI said he later went to Turkey via Mexico. The Bureau found on his computers in July 2014 that the previous month he tweeted, “I pledge obedience to the Caliphate Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. Here we renew our pledge to the Caliphate Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi,” and that he watched IS propaganda videos, including beheadings.

May 14—Libya—During the night, shells from the ­al-Sabri neighborhood in Benghazi landed in the ­al-Salam district, killing 8 people, including 7 children between 5 and 10 years old, from one family. AP quoted intelligence official Jibril Mustafa, who suggested that the shelling was linked to the May 11 death of Islamic State operative Ali ­al-Barghathi, 19, alias Farouk ­al-Barkawi, who returned from Syria where he had joined IS in 2013.

May 14—Philippines—Philippine troops attacked an Abu Sayyaf bomb factory on Basilan Island and conducted a gun battle with 25 rebels, including a Malaysian. During the 4-hour firefight, 3 rebels and one soldier died and 7 soldiers and 3 rebels were wounded. 15051401

May 14–15—Thailand—In the late night and early morning, bombs went off at 17 locations in Yala, including commercial districts and banks, injuring 15 people, including an 11-year-old boy. Two other unexploded bombs were found. Local Muslim insurgents were suspected. Witnesses saw 2 men on a motorcycle throw a grenade at a breakfast restaurant, injuring one person.

May 15—Kosovo—Police raided several households across the country, targeting the families of ethnic Albanians involved in gun battles with police in Macedonia.

May 15—U.S.—Reuters reported that U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan sentenced Khalid ­al-Fawwaz to life in prison. He had been convicted in February 2015 of 4 counts of conspiracy in a New York federal court in connection with the August 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

May 15—Iraq—Three suicide car bombs went off almost simultaneously at the Anbar Police Headquarters building in a government compound in Ramadi, killing 10 policemen and wounding 7. The Islamic State was suspected. Two Humvees stolen from the Iraqi army were used in the attack.

May 15—Nigeria—Boko Haram retook the border town of Marte in northeastern Nigeria and attacked outlying villages. Deputy Governor Zannah Umar Mustapha of Borno State said officials feared that hundreds of female suicide bombers had slipped into Maiduguri.

May 15—France—A Paris court convicted French citizen Gilles Le Guen, 60, a former Breton merchant marine officer who converted to Islam 30 years ago, sentenced him to 8 years in prison for criminal association in relation with a terrorist organization for belonging to ­al-Qaeda’s North African affiliate and taking part in armed actions in northern Mali. He was represented by attorney Alexandre Vermynck. Le Guen was featured in an October 2012 online video, sitting next to an assault rifle and warning the French and American presidents against intervening in Mali. He was also accused of joining a March 2013 attack on the city of Diabali. French troops arrested him north of Timbuktu in April 2013.

May 16—Afghanistan—General Zelmai Oryakhail, police chief of Paktia Province, said the Taliban blocked roads in an eastern province early in the morning, stopped several civilian vehicles in Sayad Karm district, and kidnapped 22 occupants at gunpoint. The Taliban freed 16 initially.

In the evening, an explosion at the Kabul University campus wounded 2 people.

May 16—Nigeria—A Boko Haram suicide bomber hit the exit gate at Damaturu Central Motor Park bus station, killing 4 hawkers selling smoked fish and packets of water and wounding 15 other people.

Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade said one soldier was killed by a land mine and 2 were wounded in operations. By May 18, the military said it had destroyed 10 Boko Haram camps, killed many terrorists and captured heavy weaponry in the Sambisa Forest.

May 16–17—Canada—On May 19, police announced the arrests of 10 youths at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport during the May 16–17 weekend on suspicion of wanting to go to Iraq and Syria to join the Islamic State. The BBC added that officials at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport confiscated all 10 passports.

May 16–17—Egypt—Following a Cairo court’s announcement the day before of a death sentence for ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi over his role in a mass prison break in 2011, bombs exploded at courthouses in 2 cities. In the evening of May 16, a bomb hit the main courthouse in Assiut, seri-ously injuring a policeman. The next morning, a bomb exploded near a court in Port Said, injuring a small girl.

Earlier on May 16, suspected jihadis shot to death 3 judges in the Sinai Peninsula.

On May 17, Egypt executed 6 men condemned by a military court for killing 2 military officers in an ­hour-long battle with police, military and special forces during a raid on a suspected bomb factory north of Cairo in March 2014. They were also convicted of belonging to the ­Sinai-based IS affiliate Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis.

May 17—Iraq—Four suicide car bombs exploded simultaneously in the Malaab District in Ramadi, killing 10 police officers, including Colonel Muthana ­al-Jabri, the chief of the Malaab police station, and wounding 15.

Three suicide car bombers crashed into the gate of the Anbar Operation Command, killing 5 soldiers and wounding 12.

May 17—Nigeria—CNN reported on May 25 that scores of Boko Haram terrorists killed 3 people and kidnapped 7 woman during an attack on Sabon Garin Hyembula village.

May 17—Afghanistan—CNN reported that a parked Taliban car bomb targeted a European Union Police Mission in Afghanistan vehicle near the office of the Afghan Civil Aviation Authority at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, killing a British citizen and injuring 18 people, including 3 EUPOL members in the car with the victim. Eight women and 3 children were among the injured. Taliban spokes­man Zabiullah Mujahid said, “The target of the suicide car bomb attack was a convoy of foreign invaders.” The Associated Press said a suicide car bomber killed 3 people. A spokeswoman for EUPOL, Sari ­Haukka-Konu, said the Briton was a non–Mission security contractor who was traveling in the EUPOL vehicle. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said 2 Afghan women passing by were killed. 15051701

A limpet bomb attached to a vehicle exploded in Kabul’s eastern suburbs, killing a person.

May 17–18—Mali—On May 20, AP reported that France claimed that a May 17–18 raid by its army special forces killed 4 AQIM members, including AQIM senior leader Hamada Ag Hama, alias “Abdelkrim the Tuareg,” and Ibrahim Ag Inawalen, known alias Bana, a junior leader of Ansar Dine.

May 18—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked the Khas Uruzgan District headquarters in southern Uruz­gan Province, killing 5 police officers, a former district chief, and a school principal in a ­pre-dawn raid.

May 18—Turkey—Ten minutes apart, 2 bombs went off at buildings housing the local branches of the pro–Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in Adana and Mersin, injuring 6 people. Six executives and workers of the party’s local offices were hurt in Adana. The Dogan news agency said a bomb was hidden in a package delivered to the Adana branch and a pot of flowers left outside the door of the Mersin branch.

May 19—South Sudan—Two mortars landed inside a UN compound in Melut in Upper Nile State, killing 4 civilians, among them a woman and a child, and injuring 8. 15051901

May 19—Algeria—Authorities said soldiers killed 21 members of ­al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb who were meeting in a forest to plan attacks on Algiers. Two others were captured in the Boukram forest in Boumerdes. Soldiers seized a dozen Kalashnikovs, 3 rocket launchers and dozens of homemade bombs.

May 19—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber set off his explosives in the parking lot of the Justice Ministry at 4 p.m., killing 4 people, including a woman, and wounding 38.

May 19—Spain—Police arrested 16 people suspected of using Internet social networks to praise and encourage terrorist attacks against police, politicians, and others by 3 radical Spanish groups, including the armed Basque separatist group Basque Nation and Liberty (ETA), Catalonia’s Terra Lliure (Free Land) and the October First ­Anti-fascist Resistance Group, GRAPO. None had conducted attacks in recent years. Ten arrests were made in the northern Basque region; the other 6 in 5 other regions.

May 19–20—Algeria—Following a ­2-day counterterrorism sweep, the Defense Ministry announced that the army had killed 25 terrorists at a meeting in the Boukram forest in Boumerdes Province. The group was planning to conduct operations in Algiers. Authorities seized more than a dozen Kalashnikov assault rifles, shotguns, a sniper rifle, a light machine gun, ammunition and grenades. They also captured 2 terrorists.

May 20—Burundi—NPR reported that shots were fired at the European Union offices in Bujumbura during unrest regarding the President deciding to run for a third term. 15052001

May 21—Ireland—Dublin High Court Justice Aileen Donnelly freed ­Algerian-born terror suspect Ali Charaf Damache, 50, who was wanted in the United States on 2 counts of conspiring to develop a European terror cell and to aid ­Pakistan-based ­al-Qaeda terrorists by providing a stolen U.S. passport. He had been held without bail in Ireland since March 2010. U.S. investigators said he was involved in the failed 2009 conspiracy to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks, whose cartoon showed the prophet Muhammad as a dog. Damache had Irish citizenship and lived in Ireland for 15 years. Donnelly ruled that prosecutors abdicated their responsibilities when in 2011 they ruled out trying him for the terror charges in Ireland. She also found “substantial grounds for believing that Mr. Damache will be at real risk of being subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment if extradited to the USA.” The FBI said he recruited white American women, including Colleen “Jihad Jane” LaRose, via chat rooms. He married online recruit Jamie ­Paulin-Ramirez on the first day she arrived in Ireland from her hometown of Leadville, Colorado, accompanied by her 6-year-old son. He served 3 years after pleading guilty to making a telephoned death threat to a ­Michigan-based Muslim critic of jihadis.

May 21—UK—Authorities charged British citizen Trevor Mulinda, 20, of south London with planning to travel to Somalia to join ­al-Shabaab. He was to appear the next day in Westminster Magistrates Court.

May 21—Kenya—The Interior Ministry announced that authorities had repulsed a nighttime armed attack by suspected ­al-Shabaab gunmen on Yumbis village in Ijara County. No casualties were reported. 15052101

May 21—U.S.—Fox News reported that the Orange County Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested 2 Anaheim, California men identified as “homegrown violent extremists” who were attempting to go overseas to join the Islamic State. Authorities arrested Muha­nad Badawi, 24, in Orange County; Nader Elhuzayel was grabbed at Los Angeles International Airport. They were charged with conspiring to provide material support to IS. Prosecutors said they discussed terrorist attacks on social media, wanting to become martyrs. Elhuzayel asked Badawi, “Can you image when ­al-Qaeda joins with Islamic State?” to which Badawi said “We will be huge.” Elhuzayel’s parents said they had dropped him off at the airport, from which he planned to fly to Israel to visits aunts and cousins in Palestine. The duo faced 15 years in prison.

May 21—Colombia—President Juan Manuel Santos announced that 27 leftist rebels were killed in a raid on a camp of the 29th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Cauca in western Colombia. Santos said that the army seized 37 assault rifles and a M60 machine gun. The next day, the FARC ended its 5-month-old unilateral ­cease-fire. A FARC envoy to the peace talks in Cuba, Pastor Alape, tweeted that the attack was a “treacherous and degrading act” carried out in the dead of night. On May 27, 2015, FARC claimed that among the dead was Pedro Nel Daza, alias Jairo Martinez, 63, a former envoy to peace talks with the government.

May 21—Germany—Prosecutors filed charges against Ayoub B., 27, and Ebrahim H.B., 26, purported Islamic State members who traveled to Syria via Turkey in May 2014. Prosecutors said that Ayoub B. received weapons training and took part in fighting near Syria’s Iraqi border. They said that Ebrahim H.B. offered to conduct a suicide bombing in Baghdad, but the plot was foiled when some IS members with whom he was traveling were arrested. The duo returned in Germany in late August and September 2014. They faced 10 years in prison.

May 22—Nigeria—CNN reported that in a dawn raid, Boko Haram terrorists hacked to death 10 people in ­Pambula-Kwamda village in Madagali District of Adamawa State.

May 22—Burundi—Grenades thrown into a Bujumbura market killed 2 people and wounded 10, including fruit seller Christine Kaneza.

May 22—UK—A London court sentenced British citizen Anis Abid Sardar, 38, to life in prison for assembling bombs in Syria. Sgt. 1st Class Randy Johnson of 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, from Washington, D.C., died when his armored vehicle hit a bomb on September 27, 2007. Four other soldiers were injured. Sardar was to serve a minimum of 38 years.

May 22—Saudi Arabia—A suicide bomber walked into the Shi’ite Imam Ali Mosque in ­al-Qudeeh village in Qatif Province as worshippers marked the birth of Imam Hussain, killing 21 people and wounding 90, according to the Christian Science Monitor. The Islamic State’s Najd Province affiliate claimed credit in a Twitter posting, saying bomber Abu ‘Ammar ­al-Najdi used an ­explosives-laden belt that killed or wounded 250 people. The Interior Ministry said the bomber was Saudi citizen Saleh bin Abdulrahman ­al-Qashaami, who was wanted for membership in an ­IS-linked terrorist cell. The Saudi press service said RDX was used in the bombing.

May 22—Yemen—The Islamic State claimed credit for setting off a bomb at a Houthi mosque in Sana’a, according to the Christian Science Monitor.

May 22—Colombia—A court freed from a maximum security jail near Medellin former United ­Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary commander Rodrigo Perez Alzate, alias Julian Bolivar, who was wanted in the U.S. on drug charges, after completing the maximum 8 years stipulated in the peace framework law for former militia members who confess their war crimes to prosecutors and compensate victims.

May 22—Afghanistan—Gunmen kidnapped Abdul Wodod, a local official in charge of religious affairs, in Sozma Qala Province. Authorities found his body on May 25 in northern Sari Pul Province.

May 23—Iraq—AFP reported that during the night, the Islamic State kidnapped and executed 16 Iraqi traders taking food, principally vegetables, from Baiji to the ­government-controlled western city of Haditha.

May 23—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb killed Mohammad Ismail Haqyar, district chief of Char­cheno, and his bodyguard as they were driving to their office in Uruzgan Province. A friend of Haqyar was wounded in the Charcheno District.

May 23—Burundi—The Iwacu news organization reported that during the night, Zedi Feruzi, leader of the ­UPD-Zigamibanga opposition party, was killed in a ­drive-by shooting that also killed one of his bodyguards outside his house in Bujumbura’s Ngangara District.

May 23—Nigeria—Boko Haram slit the throats of 20 villagers, chopping them to death in ­Kwamda-Kobla. Nigerian troops said they destroyed 4 BH camps, killed scores of terrorists and rescued 20 women and children. One government soldier was killed and 10 wounded by land mines.

May 23—Somalia—Drive-by gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying 2 Somali parliamentarians in Mogadishu, killing Yusuf Dirir. The terrorists drove their car in front of the victims’ vehicle on Maka Almukarramah Boulevard. Lawmaker Abdalla Boss, a former Somali defense minister, was unhurt. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected.

Dozens of jihadis attacked Awdhegle and Mubarak towns in southern Somalia; the gun battles killed 18 terrorists and soldiers.

May 24—Israel—A 19-year-old Palestinian man stabbed from behind 2 17-year-old Israelis who were walking to the Western Wall on the Jewish Shavuot holiday. The boys were hospitalized. The attacker was apprehended.

May 24—Turkey—Kurdish militants were suspected of firing 2 mortar rounds at a military base in Hakkari Province, causing no injuries.

May 24—Pakistan—Suleman Mamnoon Hussain, son of Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain, was unharmed when a roadside bomb planted on a motorcycle was remotely detonated during the night in the Hub industrial area in Baluchistan Province, killing 3 and wounding 15, including pedestrians and police officers guarding Hussain.

May 24–25—Indonesia—A National Police ­anti-terrorism squad killed 2 men and arrested 7 others in raids on May 24 in the Central Sulawesi district of Poso on a jihadist organization believed linked to the Islamic State. Two police officers were injured when the gunmen fired on them. Several suspects escaped. Police confiscated 2 M-16 rifles and 2 homemade bombs.

Police arrested 5 suspects in South Sulawesi’s capital, Makassar, based on information from a man who was caught on May 22 carrying a bag of ammunition. The 7th suspect was arrested on May 25 in the Central Sulawesi district of Luwuk.

Authorities said the gunmen were members of the East Indonesia Mujahideen, led by Abu Wardah Santoso, who had taken credit for the murders of several police officers and has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

May 25—Afghanistan—A suicide truck bomb exploded at the gate of the provincial council’s compound in Kalat (variant Qalat), Zabul Province, killing 5 and wounding 62, among them children and 3 council members, 2 of them women.

In a gun battle in Kandahar Province’s Maiwand District between police officers, 3 officers were killed. Four officers escaped from the area.

Fighting during the previous 3 days between the Taliban and a ­self-proclaimed Islamic State affiliate led to the deaths of 10 Taliban and 15 IS members in Farah Province’s Khaki Safed District.

Taliban gunmen surrounded a police compound in Helmand Province’s Naw Zad district after killing 19 policemen and 7 soldiers. At dawn, the gunmen overran several police checkpoints.

A roadside bomb in Kandahar Province killed 6 people.

May 25—Egypt—Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (it calls itself the Sinai Province of the Islamic State) gunmen killed a conscript and wounded an officer in a gun battle near Sheikh Zuweyid in the Sinai Peninsula.

May 25—Mali—During the night, gunmen ambushed a U.N. vehicle in Bamako, killing one peacekeeper and injuring another. 15052501

May 25—Somalia—The Kenyan armed forces announced it had killed 7 ­al-Shabaab members inside Somalia.

May 26—Kenya—Al-Shabaab attacked 3 police Land Cruiser ­pick-up trucks in northeastern Garissa County near the Somali border, injuring 5 officers, 2 critically, and burning 5 cars. Garissa police commander Shadrack Maithya said 13 police officers who had been missing following the attack had been accounted for. Two of the attackers were killed. Some 20 officers were en route to recovering a firearm lost by an officer whose car hit a land mine in an earlier incident. ­Al-Shabaab claimed 20 Kenyan police were killed. 15052601

Also that morning, ­al-Shabaab was suspected in an ambush of a vehicle carrying 4 passengers in Lafey in Mandera County, wounding at least one person before seizing the vehicle and driving it toward Somalia. 15052602

May 26—Austria—A court in St. Poelten, west of Vienna, found a 14-year-old boy guilty of planning to blow up Vienna’s main railway station after being radicalized by Islamic extremists and of planning to join extremist fighters in the Middle East. The court sentenced him to 2 years in juvenile detention, with 14 months of the term suspended. He had already spent 7 months in investigative custody. Police said they found attack plans on the boy’s computer. Defense lawyer Rudolf Mayer said his client admitted guilt.

May 26—Gaza Strip—Hamas said a rocket was fired during the night from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Israeli officials reported no damage or casualties.

May 26—Libya—The internationally-recognized Libyan government told the news media that gunmen tried to assassinate Prime Minister Abdullah ­al-Thinni in an attack on his motorcade en route to the airport in Tobruk. One of his guards was slightly wounded.

May 26—Afghanistan—At 11 p.m., police surrounded the Rabbani Guesthouse in Kabul’s Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, which was believed to be under siege after gunfire and explosions were heard. The guesthouse was once known as the Heetal Hotel. It was damaged in December 2009 when a suicide car bomber killed 8 and wounded nearly 40 at the nearby home of former Afghan vice president Ahmad Zia Massoud—brother of the deceased anti–Taliban fighter Ahmad Shah Massoud. The hotel is owned by the family of Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani; it had earlier been owned by Burhanuddin Rabbani, president of Afghanistan from 1992 until 1996. Police later killed the 4 Taliban gunmen, who were armed with an RPG, 3 AK-47s, another grenade launcher, and other weapons. No civilian or military casualties were reported. The fighting was close to the Tajik Embassy and Street 15 in the district.

Four gunmen attacked the court in Wardak Province’s capital. One suicide bomber blew himself up; the other 3 were killed in a gun battle with police.

May 26—Nigeria—Al-Jazeera reported that 50 Boko Haram gunmen attacked Gubio in Borno State for 5 hours in the afternoon and late evening, killing 37 people, including 2 young boys, and destroying more than 400 buildings, among them 8 mosques, 4 schools and a local government building, before fleeing at 9:30 p.m.

May 27—Iraq—Under cover of a sandstorm, IS suicide bombers attacked the Iraqi Army outside Fallujah in Anbar Province, killing 17 troops. The terrorists hit near a water control station and a lock system on a canal between Lake Tharthar and the Euphrates River.

May 27—U.S.—NPR reported that federal agents arrested Asher Abid Khan of Houston, Texas, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

May 27—U.S.—Leon Nathan Davis, alias Abdul Wakil Khalil, alias Abu Hurairah ­al-Amreekee, 37, a Georgia salesman, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Augusta to federal charges of supporting terrorists by purchasing a ­one-way ticket to Istanbul to join the Islamic State. He said “I was to be smuggled into Syria and at that point in time to join ISIS.” Judge J. Randall Hall scheduled sentencing for a later date. Davis was sentenced to 10 years in October 2005 for cocaine trafficking, but released in September 2008. He was jailed for more than a year beginning in February 2012. He married in 2013. He sold ­mail-order medical supplements. He was arrested on October 24, 2014, at the Delta Air Lines ­check-in counter at Atlanta’s ­Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. He faced 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. He had been held on a charge of illegal firearms possession by a convicted felon, but the judge said the prosecution planned to drop the charge. Davis owned 6 rifles, 4 handguns and 2 shotguns, according to prosecutors.

May 27—U.S.—CNN reported that Washington transit police arrested Jerez Nehemiah ­Stone-Coleman, alias Kidd Cole, and identified on the MTV show “Catfish” as Jereze Coleman, for making “terroristic threats” by calling in 11 false bomb threats and other hoaxes regarding hostage situations. He was picked up at his home on the 1600 block of Fort Davis Place in Washington. The criminal complaint said he made the threats between December 12, 2014, and May 12, 2015, to the Metro Transit Police Communications Division. Metro Transit Police told the media, “In each instance, the caller conveyed specific threat information concerning destructive devices and intended acts of violence.” MTP noted a January 22, 2015, threat in which Coleman threatened to take hostages on a metrobus and kill them unless he was paid a $15 million ransom. MTP also cited Coleman saying that an individual wearing “all black clothing” and glasses had threatened to blow up a bus and was carrying an AS-50 sniper rifle.

May 27—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency announced the imposition of financial sanctions against 2 Lebanese senior members of Hizballah for leading terrorist operations in the Middle East. Their assets under Saudi jurisdiction were frozen and Saudis were prohibited from dealing with them. The government said Khalil Yusif Harb ran Hizballah’s central military unit and oversaw military operations throughout the region. It was Muhammad Qabalan was a “terrorist cell leader” involved in overseeing Hizballah policy.

May 27—Somalia—CNN reported that an ­al-Shabaab–linked radio channel reported that ­al-Shabaab leader Sheikh Hassan Turki, alias Abdillahi Hersi Turki, believed to be in his 70s, died. Circumstances were not released. He had been a military leader, but became ill and moved to becoming a spiritual figurehead. He was wanted in the U.S. since 2004 for links to terrorist attacks and association with ­al-Qaeda. The UN said he was involved in the August 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

May 27—Cyprus—AP reported that following a tipoff, police seized 5 tons of ammonium nitrate that was stored in 67,000 packages in 420 boxes in a Larnaca home. The chemical compound can be turned into an explosive. Police detained a 26-year-old ­Lebanese-Canadian man who arrived in Cyprus on May 21 on charges of conspiracy to commit a criminal offense and possession and transportation of explosives. He was educated in Canada and earned a university degree in Lebanon. He was represented by attorney Andreas Mathikolonis. Intelnews.com cited the Kuwaiti daily Al-Jarida which reported that a Mossad team provided the tipoff. Police were investigating possible Hizballah involvement. On June 5, a Cypriot court extended his detention for 8 days. A security official told AP that authorities planned to issue an international arrest warrant for the ­Lebanese-French owner of the Larnaca home, who was abroad. On June 6, Cyprus police arrested a 62-year-old ­Lebanese-Cypriot, who had been living on the island for years, and was believed to have brought the 5 tons of the chemical compound to Cyprus from Lebanon as chemical ice contained in ­first-aid packs. On June 19, police spokesman Charalambos Zachariou said that the suspect would enter a plea June 29 to 16 changes including participation in and providing support to a terrorist organization and possession of explosives.

May 28—France—Dozens of French police and Spanish Civil Guards raided a villa in Biarritz in southwest France, detaining a French couple and seizing weapons and explosives in a crackdown against the Basque Nation and Liberty’s technical and logistic structure. Police found an “arsenal of arms and explosives” and material used to make fake license plates.

May 28—Iraq—A remotely-detonated car bomb exploded in the parking lot of Baghdad’s Babil Hotel during the night, killing 6 and wounding 14. A minute later, a car bomb was remotely detonated inside the parking lot of Baghdad’s Cristal Hotel, formerly the Sheraton, killing 4 and wounding 13. By the next day, the combined toll was 15 dead and 42 wounded.

May 28—Spain—The government opened a probe into Nigerian Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau on suspicion of terrorism and crimes against humanity. National Court judge Fernando Andreu cited a 2013 Boko Haram attack in Ganye, Nigeria, in which Spanish nun Maria Jesus Mayor was subjected to molestation and coercion. She escaped and was rescued by Nigerian intelligence officers.

May 28—Syria—Nusra Front leader Abu Muham­med ­al-Golani told al-Jazeera TV that the group did not plan to attack the West, but if coalition airstrikes continued “then the alternatives are open and it is the right of any human being to defend himself.” He said the group was focused on overthrowing President Bashar ­al-Assad. He denied the existence of the Khorasan group, alleged to be a wing of the Nusra Front planning attacks against Western interests. He said ­al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri had told Nusra that the group is “not to use Syria for attacks against the West and Europe…. The directions that we are received from Dr. Ayman, may God protect him, are that the Nusra Front aim is to bring down the regime and its allies, I mean Hizballah…. Directions we have received until now is not to target the west and America.”

May 28—UK/Syria—CNN reported on June 16, 2015, that 3 sisters, identified as Khadija Dawood, Sugra Dawood and Zohra Dawood, apparently left Bradford in northern England with their 9 children, aged 3 to 15, for a hajj to Saudi Arabia on May 28, disappeared in Turkey on June 9, and were feared to have gone to Syria. Their husbands in the UK asked for help in tracking them down and preventing them from joining a brother in Syria. Attorney Balaal Khan represented the Dawood family. Khadija Dawood’s children are Maryam Siddiqui, 7, and Muhammad Haseeb, 5; Sugra Dawood’s children are Junaid Ahmed Iqbal, Ibrahim Iqbal, Zaynab Iqbal, Mariya Iqbal and Ismaeel Iqbal, ages 3 to 15; and Zohra Dawood’s children are Haafiyah Binte Zubair, 8, and Nurah Binte Zubair, 5. Ten of the group, Savet Haafiyah and Nurah Zubair, boarded a flight from Medina, Saudi Arabia to Istanbul, Turkey on June 9.

May 29—Yemen—The Washington Post reported that 4 Americans were abducted by Houthi rebels in Sana’a. Three of them held private sector jobs. The fourth had dual U.S.-Yemeni citizenship. On June 1, the rebels freed American freelance journalist Casey Coombs, who was uninjured, and a Singaporean who had been reported missing, according to Oman’s ONA news agency. SFGATE reported that Coombs had been held by the Houthis for 2 weeks for traveling to “sensitive” areas. 15052901

May 29—Iraq—A roadside bomb hit a commuter bus in eastern Baghdad, killing 3 passengers and wounding 10.

May 29—Saudi Arabia—An Islamic State suicide bomber set off his explosives outside the Imam Hussein mosque in Dammam’s ­al-Anoud neighborhood, killing 3 Shi’ite worshippers shortly before noon. The individual was dressed in women’s clothing and was challenged by Shi’ites who were searching those going into the mosque, following the previous week’s Imam Ali Mosque bombing. IS said on Facebook that the “soldier of the Caliphate” was Abu Jandal ­al-Jazrawi, who attacked “an evil gathering of those filth in front of one of their shrines in Dammam…. In a blessed martyrdom operation, a Polytheistic monument was targeted, that (the Shi’ite community) established in Sunni areas to spread out their polytheism.” IS urged Sunnis to “purify the land of the 2 shrines from the atheist rafida,” a derogatory term for Shi’ites. CNN reported on May 31 that the dead included Abduljaleel (Jalil) Alarbash, 22, a Saudi honor roll student in electrical engineering at Wichita State University, who had returned to Saudi Arabia to get married; Jalil’s brother, Mohammed; and their cousin. The trio volunteered as security guards, and had stopped the bomber from getting inside the mosque. On June 3, the Saudi Interior Ministry said the bomber was Khalid Ayed Mohammed Wahabi Shammari, a 19-year-old Saudi citizen.

May 29—Pakistan—Twenty gunmen wearing security force uniforms hijacked 2 buses in the moun-tainous Mastung District of Baluchistan Province, released 50 passengers, but took another 25 into the mountains. They killed 19 Pashtun passengers and fought with security forces, who freed 6 passengers, one of whom was wounded. The next day, Mureed Baluch, spokesman of the United Baluch Army, claimed credit. The Frontier Corps mustered 200 troops to find the gunmen. Baluchistan Home Minister Sarfaraz Bugti claimed security forces killed 2 attackers.

A suicide bomber set off his explosives near a stadium in Lahore where a cricket match was underway between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, killing a police officer and wounding 6 others.

May 29—U.S.—The Department of State removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

May 29—Philippines—A grenade exploded near a mosque in a police compound in Jolo, Sulu Province. Minutes later, a homemade bomb went off. The explosions wounded 5 civilians, including 3 children, and 10 police officers. Abu Sayyaf was suspected.

May 29—Nigeria—Two bombs exploded during a wedding in a village, killing 7 people.

May 30—Nigeria—At 1 a.m., Boko Haram fired at least 40 ­rocket-propelled grenades into several homes in the ­Dala-Lawanti suburb of Maiduguri, killing 13 people. A suicide bomber later that afternoon attacked Maiduguri’s main market near a mosque, bringing the day’s death toll to 30. Trader Ali Bakomi said the bomber hid the bomb in a wheelbarrow and pretended to be an itinerant trader when he joined the worshippers.

May 30—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Press Agency reported that border guard Lance Corporal Ismail Mohammed Ibrahim Sindi was killed around 6:30 p.m. in shelling from Yemen that wounded 7 other people in the Jazan region. 15053001

May 31—Nigeria—A bomb concealed in bags of charcoal exploded at the Gamboru market in Maiduguri, wounding 4 people.

Gunmen attacked Fika in Yobe State, burning down several government offices and looting shops.

May 31—Libya—In the morning, the local Islamic State affiliate claimed credit when a suicide car bomber hit the western Dafniya gate entrance to Misrata, killing 5 and wounding 7. IS said the attacker was a Tunisian.

May 31—Egypt—The IS affiliate Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) was suspected of blowing up a natural gas pipeline outside ­el-Arish in North Sinai in the early morning.

May 31—Iraq—RT.com reported that during the previous week, IS had kidnapped 500 children in 2 Iraqi provinces and taken them to their bases in Iraq and Syria. RT quoted local officials as saying that 400 children were kidnapped in Anbar and another 100 in Diyala.

May 31—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that 3 gunmen fired on a street party celebrating the wedding of a couple from Turkey’s Roma community, killing 3 guests, including a child and the local leader of a Roma association, and injuring 6 other people near Bursa. Police arrested 2 gun-men.

May 31—Syria—Fox News reported that IS released a video of Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, who said that he had trained by the U.S. Special Forces and Blackwater while commander of Tajikistan’s special forces, but had now defected to IS. Khalimov was dressed in black and carried a sniper rifle. He said, “Listen, you Americans, you pigs, I went to America 3 times, and I have seen how you train fighters to kill Muslims. I have seen how you build and occupy cities of the Muslims. I have seen how you train fighters to destroy Islam and the Muslims. Allah willing, with this weapon, I will come to your cities, your homes, and we will kill you.”

June—Turkey—On June 5, police in Sanliurfa Province announced that earlier in the week they had detained French citizen Sonia Belayati, 22, after she entered the country from Syria where she had joined the Islamic State and married a fighter. French authorities had provided a tip. A Turkish official said she would be deported to France. She had gone to Syria via Turkey in March. After leaving her IS husband, the IS jailed her for several weeks.

June 1—Sweden—The Swedish security service SAPO arrested a man in Orebro suspected of recruiting jihadi fighters for militant groups in Syria and Iraq.

June 1—UK—Prosecutor Riel ­Karmy-Jones announced that there was no longer a “reasonable” chance of getting a conviction of Swedish man Bherlin Gildo, 37, who was accused of obtaining terrorist and weapons training in 2012 and 2013 and of possessing information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Attorneys were unable to get sensitive information from the British government. He was arrested in transit at London’s Heathrow Airport. His attorney was Henry Blaxland.

June 1—Iraq—The BBC reported that 45 Iraqi police officers, including several senior officers, were killed when 3 Islamic State suicide vehicle bombers crashed into the headquarters of the 3rd Battalion of the Iraqi Federal Police’s 21st Brigade in Anbar Province’s Tharthar area, on a road between Falluja and Samarra. The BBC quoted an Anbar Operations Command member as saying that the vehicles were armored Humvees captured earlier by the IS. The bombs in turn set off explosions at an ammo depot on the base. Among the 33 wounded was the commander of the 9th Brigade, Brigadier General Moussa Haider.

June 2—Afghanistan—At 2 a.m., gunmen attacked a guesthouse in the Zari District of Balkh Province, shooting to death 9 people, including a woman, who were working on reconstruction projects for the Czech charity People in Need. They had been developing infrastructure projects for the Afghan government’s National Solidarity Program, which oversees rural development projects. The dead, all Afghan citizens, included 5 project staff, 2 guards and 2 drivers, who were sleeping in their rooms. 15060201

June 2—U.S.—At 7 a.m., Boston police and a federal agent fatally shot Usaama Rahim, alias Abu Sufyaan, 26, a former security guard who was one of 3 people under 24-hour surveillance by the U.S. Joint Terrorism Task Force, after he brandished a large ­military-style knife at the police and FBI agents. CNN reported that he was part of a broader terror investigation involving a suspected ad hoc jihadi network. He was under investigation by the task force for possible social media threats against police officers and was believed to have been radicalized by the Islamic State. CNN reported the next day that Rahim had planned to behead conservative blogger Pamela Geller outside Massachusetts, and later decided to target police, whom he called “boys in blue.” Geller is president of the American Freedom Defense Initiative, which includes the Stop Islamization of America and Stop Islamization of Nations programs.

CNN reported on June 3 that authorities arrested Rahim’s nephew, David Wright, alias Dawud Sharif ­Abdul-Khaliq, 25, of Everett, Massachusetts, for attempting to destroy Rahim’s cell phone and conceal evidence regarding the trio’s jihadi activities. He appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston on conspiracy and ­terrorism-related charges. A detention hearing was scheduled for June 19. He faced 5 years in prison. He was represented by attorney Jessica Hedges.

The search for the 3rd suspect included raids in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

On June 12, 2015, prosecutors charged David Wright and Nicolas Rovinski, alias Nuh Amriki, 24, of Warwick, Rhode Island with conspiring with Rahim to behead Geller. Rovinski did not enter a plea in federal court in Boston and was ordered held until a June 19 bail and ­probable-cause hearing.

June 2—Iraq—A car bomb went off in the parking lot of the Qadouri restaurant in eastern Baghdad during the afternoon, killing 6 people, including a traffic policeman, wounding 13 people, and damaging several buildings and cars.

June 2—Congo—Four gunmen attacked the Goma airport in the morning, killing 2 Congolese soldiers before the gunmen were killed.

June 2—Nigeria—Boko Haram released a video showing a terrorist shooting wounded soldiers in the head. It also showed what it claimed were the remnants of a downed Nigerian jet fighter.

Boko Haram attacked Maiduguri with bombs and gunfire. Hours later, a suicide bomber at the Gamboru cattle market in the city center killed 20 people. The New York Daily News set the death toll at 50 and said that the bomb, hidden beneath a butcher’s table in the market, went off at 1 p.m.

June 2—Albania—News24 reported that Aurora Koromani of the Gazeta Shqiptare newspaper received a threat from a suspected Islamic militant wanted in the country on terrorism charges. She had covered Albanian Muslims recruiting people to fight alongside the Islamic State. Nine Albanian Muslims, including 2 preachers, were on trial on such charges. The threat said “you will pay.”

June 3—Egypt—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed 2 tourism policemen at the Giza Pyramids.

June 3—Nigeria—A bomb exploded during rush hour on Baga Road in Maiduguri, killing 11 people.

June 3—Guatemala—Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed attorney Francisco Palomo, 63, who was representing former dictator Efrain Rios Montt against genocide charges. Palomo, a former Constitutional Court judge, was hit 12 times in the chest and face in an attack in a residential and commercial neighborhood of Guatemala City around midday. Palomo tried to drive away, but crashed into a tree.

June 3—Turkey—Gunmen in Bingol Province fired on the hired minibus of the pro–Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP), killing its 35-year-old driver.

June 3—Libya—On June 9, Fox News reported that the Islamic State kidnapped 88 Eritrean Christians from a human smuggling caravan the previous week. The Libya Herald said the kidnapping occurred south of Tripoli before dawn on June 3. Meron Estafanos, ­co-founder of the ­Stockholm-based International Commission on Eritrean Refugees, said the hostages included 12 Eritrean Muslims, 12 Eritrean Christian women, and some Egyptians, who were put into trucks. London’s Daily Telegraph said 9 male hostages dove off the back of the truck; 3 of them safely escaped. 15060301

June 4—Nigeria—A suicide car bomb hit a checkpoint outside Brigadier Maimalari Barracks on Baga Road in Maiduguri, killing 8 soldiers during the evening rush hour.

On June 11, an explosives expert said 3 female suicide bombers wearing explosive vests attacked a checkpoint outside the same barracks.

At 8 p.m., robbers shot in the leg and hacked to death with machetes French tourist Denis Dagnan, 62, who was camping with his wife, Lavaud Liana Dagnan, 53, in their car in the bush 2 kilometers from the main road in Ebonyi State in southeast Nigeria. She was not hurt. The couple lived in ­Villedieu-sur-Indre in central France. The killers stole 1,150 euros ($1,300) and 13,000 Nigerian naira ($61). Police arrested 32 people.

June 4—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint at the entrance to Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province, killing 3 civilians and a policeman and wounding 4 policemen and 2 civilians in an afternoon attack.

June 4—India—Rebels firing ­rocket-propelled gre­nades and automatic weapons ambushed a military convoy en route to Imphal in Manipur State, killing 20 soldiers and wounding more than a dozen others.

June 4—Colombia—During the afternoon, gunmen in Cucuta, on the Venezuelan border, kidnaped the daughter of Diego Mora, director of the National Protection Unit, which handles personal security for ­high-profile public figures, including ministers and members of Congress. She was in a car with her driver. Authorities offered a $40,000 reward for help in finding her.

June 4—Israel—Rockets believed fired from Gaza landed in Israel. The air force responded with air­strikes against Hamas training sites in Gaza. Hamas said there were no casualties. A Jihadist Salafi group that supports the Islamic State took responsibility for the rocket attack, saying it was retaliating for the killing of one of its members at the hands of Hamas. A day before that killing the group gave Hamas a 48-hour ultimatum to end its crackdown on the Salafis.

June 5—Nigeria—Boko Haram was blamed when 2 suicide bombers hit the main market in Yola during the night as merchants were closing shop, killing 29 and injuring 38.

June 5—Turkey—Russian police announced that Turkish immigration authorities in Kilis had detained Varvara Karaulova, 19, a Moscow State University student who had disappeared in late May and was believed attempting to go to Syria to join the Islamic State. She could face a 10-year sentence in Russia for participating in an armed group. She had flown to Turkey and her cellphone was traced to the border area, according to the Associated Press.

June 5—Sudan—Gunmen in a pickup truck attacked a Sudanese Commissioner for Refugees convoy moving 49 Eritreans from a reception center to a refugee camp. The gunmen kidnapped 14 Eritrean asylum seekers, including 7 unaccompanied children—6 boys and a girl—along with 5 women and 2 men. Six refugees were slightly wounded. 15060501

June 5—Turkey—Two bombs went off 5 minutes apart at a pro–Kurdish People’s Democratic Party final election rally attended by thousands of people in Diyarbakir, killing 2 people and injuring 100, most of them hurt while running in panic. Party leader Selahattin Demirtas was about to address the crowd. The Dogan news agency reported that one of the explosions was caused by explosives placed in a gas cylinder and fortified with pieces of metal. Agriculture Minister Mehdi Eker said one of the bombs was made from TNT, and the bombs used “cellphone mechanisms.”

June 6—Iraq—Radio Free Europe reported that during the evening, a car bomb went off near a market in Balad Ruz, killing 14 people and injuring 37.

June 6—Russia—The National ­Anti-Terrorism Committee reported that the police killed Suleiman Zainalobinov after they stopped his car in Dagestan during the night and he opened fire. They said he had taken an oath to IS.

June 6—Pakistan—Gunmen in Quetta fired on a vehicle carrying police officers, killing 4 of them. Baluch nationalists and local jihadis were suspected.

June 6—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency said 2 missiles launched from a Patriot missile battery shot down a Scud missile fired by Yemen’s Shi’ite rebels at Khamis Mushait, site of King Khalid Air Base, around 2:45 a.m. The news service blamed Houthi rebels.

June 6—France—Interior Minister Bernard Caze­neuve announced the dawn arrests in Paris’s western suburbs of 2 men, aged 35 and 39, suspected of assisting 24-year-old Algerian student Sid Ahmed Ghlam’s terrorist plot to attack a church in Ville-juif, south of Paris, in April. Ghlam was arrested on April 26.

June 6–7—Pakistan—During a ­late-night battle in North Waziristan between the army and local gunmen, 19 jihadis, including 5 commanders, and 7 soldiers died. One terrorist set off his suicide vest while attempting to flee, killing the 7 soldiers.

June 8—Belgium—Police arrested 16 people (other reports said 2 people) in 2 Chechen terrorist investigations. The groups had links between them. One was based in western Flanders, and included individuals believed active in Syria who may have participated in combat. Authorities said one of them returned to Belgium for medical care after being wounded in Syria while fighting for jihadis. The second group, in Leuven, had been under surveillance since January 2015 on suspicion of planning an attack. Police also conducted searches in Ostende, Bredene, Antwerp, Jabekke, Leuven and Namur.

June 8—Egypt—Gunmen fired mortar shells at a military checkpoint near Sheikh Zuweyid, killing a conscript and wounding a soldier.

A remotely-detonated bomb exploded as an armored vehicle passed near Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip, wounding 4 soldiers.

The ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis (Champions of Jerusalem) IS affiliate released an online video showing a man they claimed was a spy for the Egyptian security agencies. After he dug a grave, a masked jihadi shot him in the back of the head.

June 8—Netherlands—Judges in Rotterdam convicted Mohamed A., 22, a Dutch citizen of Somali descent, of terrorism for plotting an armed robbery in The Hague with the intention of sending the proceeds to fund jihadis in Syria. The judges said he had fought in Syria. An undercover operation taped conversations in a car, bolstered by informants who reported his intentions. He was sentenced to 4 years in jail.

June 8—Sweden—Police in Goteborg airport arrested an 18-year-old Norwegian man on suspicion of going to Syria to join jihadis. Norway had requested the arrest, according to Fredrik Milder, a spokesman for Sweden’s SAPO security service. The next day, Martin Bernsen of Norway’s PST service said the suspect faced up to 6 years in jail in Norway.

June 8—France—French prosecutors began the trial of 15 members of the jihadi Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride), including leader Mohamed Achamlane, alleging that they planned terrorist attacks similar to the January attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store. Two did not appear in court; one was a minor to be tried in juvenile court. Mohamed Achamlane was arrested in Nantes. They were charged with criminal association with the aim of preparing terrorist acts. One of the group’s attorneys was Isabelle ­Coutant-Peyre.

June 9—Turkey—Gunmen in Diyarbakir killed the leader of an aid organization linked to a Kurdish Islamist party and wounded a policeman and 2 journalists covering the incident. Ensuing rioting killed 2 more people.

June 9—India—Police killed 12 Maoist rebels on their way to extort money from several mining contractors in Palamau district in Jharkhand State, according to police ­Inspector-General S.N. Pradhan. Police found 8 automatic weapons in the forest. No police were injured.

Major General Ranbir Singh said the Indian army attacked insurgent groups along its border with Myanmar, causing “significant casualties on the rebels.” Junior Information and Broadcasting Minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore told TimesNow ­television news “We crossed over to Myanmar territory…. We have good relations with them (Myan­mar), we carried out the strike.”

June 9—Iraq—During the night, a car bomb exploded near restaurants and shops on Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, killing 10 people, including 3 women, and wounding 24.

A roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Youssifiyah, killing 3 soldiers and a civilian and wounding 8 people.

Two bombs exploded near a vegetable market and on a commercial street in western Baghdad, kill-ing 6. Reuters reported that a bomb hit an army patrol in Baghdad’s northern Hussainiya district, killing 4 people, including 3 soldiers. A bomb in south-ern Baghdad’s Saydiya district killed 3 people. A bomb in Baghdad’s western Amriya area killed 3 people.

Reuters reported that 3 Islamic State terrorists wearing uniforms attacked a local government office in Amiriyat ­al-Falluja, killing 8 people and wounding 17, including Shakir ­al-Issawi, head of the council, who jumped from his office’s window. A suicide bomber set off his explosives inside the building; authorities shot to death the other 2 before they could set off their vests.

June 10—Egypt—CNN reported that in the late morning, police stopped 3 gunmen attempting to infiltrate the Karnak temple complex in Luxor, killing 2 of them and injuring the third. A suicide bomber died when he set off his explosives; the other was shot in the head. Five security personnel and Egyptian civilians suffered gunshot wounds and bruises. Jihadis were suspected.

June 10—Canada—The Royal Canadian Mounted Police charged Ahmad Waseem, 27, of Ontario, in absentia with facilitating a terrorist activity, participating in terrorist activity and leaving Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group. The RCMP said he traveled to Syria in November 2013 to fight for the Islamic State. Some reports said he died fighting in Syria, but an arrest warrant was issued anyway.

June 10—Mali—At 1 a.m., dozens of jihadis on motorcycles attacked soldiers in Misseni in southern Mali, near the Ivory Coast border, killing 2 people and planting a black jihadi flag before escaping.

June 10—Iraq—A suicide car bomber crashed into a checkpoint in Baghdad’s northern Shulla district during the afternoon, killing 3 police officers and 6 civilians and injuring 22 people.

A suicide car bomber hit a police base in Garma in Anbar Province, killing 9 police officers and wounding 10. He used an Iraqi army vehicle earlier stolen by the Islamic State.

June 10—Libya—Al-Qaeda–linked gunmen in the east declared jihad against the local Islamic State affiliate after masked gunmen killed one of their senior leaders, Nasr Akr, 55, and his aide. The ensuing gun battles killed 9 IS gunmen and 2 from the Shura Council of Darna’s Jihadists, including Salem Derbi, the commander of the Abu Salem Brigades. Akr had been jailed in the UK on terrorism charges and had fought in Afghanistan. He was a member of the Shura Council of Darna’s Jihadists, which accused the IS of “tyranny and criminality,” and vowed to wage “holy war against them until none of them are left.”

June 10—Colombia—President Juan Manuel Santos blamed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) for blowing up an energy pylon that left 300,000 residents without power in Caqueta. Earlier in the week, FARC forced several oil tanker drivers in Puerto Asis to dump their crude oil.

June 11—Afghanistan—A sticky bomb attached to his car killed Hamidullah Khan, a district prosecutor in Shirin Tagab District near the Turkmenistan border, as he was on his way to work. The Taliban was suspected.

A gunman shot to death Mohammad Zai, deputy director of the main provincial prison, as he was on his way to work in Tirin Kot, Uruzgan Province.

June 11—Morocco—AFP reported that the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations arrested a 7-person terrorist cell linked to the Islamic State that was planning to kidnap and murder tourists at seaside resorts.

June 11—Nigeria—AFP and the Wall Street Journal reported that Boko Haram was suspected of killing between 37 and 43 people when 20 motorcycles, each carrying 3 gunmen, were driven into Matangale, Buraltima, Dirmanti and 3 other villages in Borno State at 4 p.m. The gunmen torched the villages.

Three suspected Boko Haram female suicide bomb­ers died in a foiled attack near the highway leading to Maiduguri.

June 11—Gaza Strip—The Israeli Defense Forces said Gaza gunmen fired a rocket at Israel during the night. The rocket fell short, exploding inside ­Hamas-controlled territory in Gaza.

June 11—U.S.—USA Today reported that Ali Shukri Amin, 17, a Virginia high school honor student, pleaded guilty in federal court to supporting IS recruitment efforts in the U.S. by helping radicalize Reza Niknejad, 18, and aiding his travel in January 2015 to join IS in Syria. Amin set up a pro–IS Twitter account that aided jihadis to mask contributions to IS via Bitcoins. Amin was represented by attorney Joseph Flood. Amin faced 15 years in prison. Amin attended Osbourn Park High School in Manassas, Virginia. He also attended the Governor’s School at George Mason University and was ­co-founder and vice president of Best Buddies, where he assisted 3 developmentally-disabled students to participate in school and the community. He was also part of the First Robotics Challenge and Vex Robotics Challenge. He was arrested in February 2015. He was 3 credits short of a diploma and had submitted a deposit at a college. On August 28, 2015, NPR reported that he was sentenced to 136 months in prison. His Internet use would be monitored.

June 12—Yemen—CNN reported on June 15 that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir ­al-Wuhayshi was killed in a June 12 drone strike in the Hadramout region. AQAP later confirmed the report. ­Al-Wuhayshi was also deputy to overall ­al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri. AQAP tweeted that AQAP military commander Qasm ­al-Rimi, alias Abu Hureira ­al-Sanaani, would replace ­al-Wuhayshi.

June 12—Libya—An armed militia took 10 employees hostage at the Tunisian Consulate General in Tripoli. They were freed on June 16, the same day Libyan militia leader Walid Klib, who was detained in Tunisia in May on terrorism charges, was extradited to Libya. Tunisian Foreign Minister Taieb Baccouche denied a link. Klib was represented by attorney Wissem Saidi. 15061201

June 12–13—Afghanistan—The Taliban overran several checkpoints in Helmand Province’s Musa Qala district, killing at least 20 police officers and wounding another 10 in a ­2-day gun battle. (The New York Times said that the attack began after midnight and that 17 of the 19 police officers assigned to the Takhtapol police facility were killed; the other 2 were injured.) Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said 30 Taliban were killed, including group leader Abdul Hadi.

June 13—Guantanamo Bay—CNN reported that the U.S. transferred 6 Yemeni detainees, including alleged ­al-Qaeda members, from Guantanamo Bay to Oman. They were identified as Idris Ahmad ‘Abd-al-Qadir Idris, Sharaf Ahmad Muhammad Mas’ud, Jalal Salam Awad Awad, Saa’d Nasser Moqbil ­al-Azani, Emad Abdallah Hassan, and Muhammad Ali Salem ­al-Zarnuki. The New York Times reported that each of them were arrested in Pakistan in late 2001 or early 2002 had been held in Gitmo since early 2002.

June 14—Libya—CNN reported that a 2 a.m. U.S. airstrike in Ajdabiya killed 5 terrorists, including Algerian terrorist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, former head of AQIM. Federal prosecutors in New York had indicted him in 2013 on various conspiracy counts including ­hostage-taking, kidnapping, providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with the January 2013 attack on the Ain Amenas gas facility that killed 37 hostages, including 3 Americans. Belmokhtar founded the ­Signed-in-Blood Battalion (al-Mulathamun Battalion). Libyan officials said the strike was against Ansar ­al-Shariah affiliates. Other terrorists were injured, and started a gun battle with Libyan soldiers guarding a hospital in which 3 soldiers died. The U.S. had offered a $5 million reward for his capture. The next day, a Libyan military spokesman said 17 terrorists, including 2 foreign terrorist leaders and a Tunisian terrorist, were killed in the strike. White House spokesman Josh Earnest confirmed the U.S. airstrike.

June 14—Afghanistan—A Taliban roadside bomb exploded in Takhar Province, killing 4 police, including district chief Hamidullah Haqjo Ashkamesh, a police officer and 2 of his bodyguards.

A roadside bomb exploded in Kandahar Province’s Khakrez district, killing a woman and wounding 3 people.

June 14—Iraq—The International Business Times and the BBC reported that British citizen Talha Asmal, alias Abu Yusuf ­al-Britani, 17, who fled his home in West Yorkshire, UK in March 2015, to join the Islamic State, was believed to have become the UK’s youngest suicide bomber when he and 3 other suicide bombers set off their explosives in an attack on Iraqi security forces near the Baiji oil refinery, killing 16 Iraqi security forces and wounding 29 people. IS released photos of Asmal taking instructors from a commander next to a black Toyota SUV. IS said the other suicide bombers were a German, a Kuwaiti, and a Palestinian. Asmal was believed to have gone to Turkey with a friend, according to The Guardian. 15061401

In a second attack, Iraqi Security Forces told CNN that 3 car bombers attacked security forces in the area.

IS later said 7 suicide bombings over the weekend were conducted by 7 foreigners, including those earlier mentioned, plus 2 Dagestanis and a Turkmenistan citizen. 15061502–04

A parked car bomb exploded near a shopping center in Baghdad’s mainly Shi’a Shaab district, killing 2 and wounding 7.

June 14—Colombia—The BBC and UPI reported that the Colombian armed forces claimed that it had killed Jose Amin Hernandez Manrique, alias Marquitos, commander of the Dario Martinez Front of the National Liberation Army (ELN) in Antioquia. The military said Marquitos had commanded 13 ELN units in Antioquia and Bolivar Provinces.

June 14—Kenya—Al-Shabaab attacked an army camp in Baure in Lamu County, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 6. In the ensuing firefight, the Kenyan army killed 11 terrorists, including 2 Caucasian men believed to be foreigners. Soldiers and police seized 13 AK-47s, 5 ­rocket-propelled grenades, 8 hand grenades, 49 AK-47 magazines, 2,244 rounds of ammunition and ­al-Shabaab flags. The next day, the Kenyan military said it had killed Kenyan citizen Luqeman Osman Issa, an ­al-Shabaab commander behind the killing of 2 soldiers in an ambush on May 24, 2014, in the Baragoni area in Lamu County and the attacks on Mpeketoni and Poromoko areas on June 15–17, 2014 in which at least 60 people died. Authorities were attempting to determine whether one of the white ­al-Shabaab corpses was that of British citizen Thomas Evans, alias Abdul Akim.

June 15—Hong Kong—Police arrested 5 men and 4 women for conspiring to manufacture explosives at a suburban former TV studio, according to Chief Superintendent Au ­Chin-sau of the Organized Crime and Triad Bureau. He said some belonged to a local radical group. Police seized “several kilograms” of a solid substance and 5 liters of a liquid to be used to make explosives at the studio. They also found 2 liters of a raw material used to make triacetone triperoxide (TATP) at one of the suspect’s homes. Police also confiscated air rifles, a formula to make smoke grenades, Guy Fawkes masks, maps of the Wan Chai and Admiralty neighborhoods, the latter home to the city legislature, government headquarters complex, the People’s Liberation Army’s main base and numerous luxury hotels and office towers.

June 15—Chad—Boko Haram was suspected when 4 suicide bombers crashed their motorcycles into 2 buildings, including the national police academy in N’Djamena, killing 38 people and wounding more than 100. One suicide bomber set off his explosives at a building housing the office of the head of the national police academy after security officers were unable to shoot the terrorist. The second bomb went off at the headquarters of the national police academy. On June 18, Chad conducted airstrikes against Boko Haram locations. On June 28, Prosecutor Alghassim Khamis announced the arrests of 60 people, including suspects from Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Mali and the seizure of communication materials from a terrorist cell. 15061501

June 15—Tunisia—Security forces attempted to trap jihadis on a motorcycle in Sidi Bouzid around dawn. In the ensuing gun battle, 3 troops and a terrorist died.

June 15—Afghanistan—The Washington Post reported on June 27, 2015, that the U.S. military and Afghan government quietly flew Tunisian detainees Lutfi ­al-Arabi ­al-Gharisi and Ridha Ahmad ­al-Najjar from Afghanistan to Tunisia on June 15. Tina Foster, an attorney for the detainees, said they were freed by the Tunisian government. Najjar, suspected of being a bin Laden bodyguard, was captured in Karachi, Pakistan, in May 2002.

June 16—Tunisia—UPI reported that jihadis attacked Tunisian soldiers. In a 5:30 p.m. attack on a National Guard patrol near the Algerian border, terrorists killed one soldier and wounded 4. Jihadis killed a soldier on his way to work in Sidi Bouzid, and killed another 2 in an assault on a security checkpoint.

June 16—Philippines—Abu Sayyaf was suspected when a pipe bomb killed a soldier and wounded 8 others, sparking a brief gun battle in Tipo Tipo village on Basilan Island. Army infantry battalion commander Lt. Col. Cristobal Paolo Perez said the attackers may have been trained by Malaysian terror suspect Abu Anas, who has been hiding in the jungle. He told the press, “My troops returned fire and dismounted from the vehicle to repulse the attackers numbering about 7. The bandits fled after about 15 minutes of intense firefight.” Perez said the pipe bomb resembled those seized by the military in an Abu Sayyaf stronghold on Basilan, where Anas has made bombs and trained Abu Sayyaf in ­bomb-making.

Elsewhere, President Benigno Aquino III and ­al-Haj Murad Ebrahim, leader of the 11,000 members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, witnessed the handover of 75 MILF assault weapons, including mortar and rocket launchers, as part of a peace deal. Some 145 MILF members returned to civilian life.

June 16—Syria—On July 2, 2015, UPI reported that a coalition airstrike in Shaddadi, Syria, killed Tariq Bin ­al-Tahar Bin ­al-Falih ­al-Awni ­al-Harzi, 33, a senior Islamic State leader who was one of its first members. He was involved in fundraising, recruiting, and shipping weapons from Libya to Syria, according to Pentagon spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis. He was the subject of a $3 million reward offered by the U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice program. He died a day after the death of his brother, Ali Awni ­al-Harzi, a key suspect in the 2012 Benghazi U.S. Consulate attack and also a member of IS, in a drone strike in Mosul, Iraq, according to the Associated Press.

June 16—U.S.—CNN reported that federal agents arrested U.S. citizen Munther Omar Saleh, 20, a Queens, New York aeronautics student, for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State in an ­IS-inspired plot with others to build and detonate a bomb. The unsealed criminal complaint from the Eastern District of New York said Saleh planned to set off an explosive device in the New York metro area. The FBI said Saleh and another suspect ran toward an FBI surveillance vehicle.

The next day, CNN reported that New York resident Fareed Mumuni, 21, was arrested and charged in Brooklyn Federal Court with attempting to murder a federal employee after attacking an FBI officer with a large kitchen knife during a search of Mumuni’s Staten Island home in connection with the Saleh case. Authorities suggested that Mumuni and Saleh conspired to plan the IS terrorist attack. The federal complaint said Mumuni attempted to stab the knife “into the torso of an FBI special agent and reached out with his hand in the vicinity of a rifle used by another member of law enforcement.” The knife did not penetrate the body armor and the agent sustained minor injuries. CNN reported that Mumuni waived his Miranda rights and the FBI said he told investigators that he pledged allegiance to the IS and wanted to travel to ­IS-controlled areas. He admitted that he and Saleh talked about how to build a pressure cooker bomb. He faced 20 years in prison. Mumuni was represented by attorney Anthony Ricco.

June 16—Austria—A court convicted 9 people for trying to join Islamic extremists in Syria and a 10th of planning to drive them there. Judge Andreas Hautz sentenced them to prison terms of between one and 3 years. The 9 men and one woman were stopped in 2014 before leaving Austria. The judge said their plans to fight with extremists or at least support them made them guilty of “criminal association.” Defense lawyers had claimed the 10 were going to Bulgaria or Turkey for a holiday.

June 16—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that gunmen fired on the car of Ismet Akturk, who headed the Kandira Prison in Kocaeli Province, which houses those convicted of terrorism or have links to criminal gangs. He died in a hospital of his wounds. The car had stopped at a traffic light.

June 16—Afghanistan—The Taliban was suspected when roadside bombs hit 2 Land Cruisers operating as public transport, killing 3 and wounding 15, 6 critically, in Uruzgan Province. Three children were among the wounded.

June 16—Mauritania—Public Prosecutor Ahmed Ould Moustapha announced that a court convicted 3 male Islamic State members on charges of terrorism, terrorist activities and possessing terrorist propaganda. They were arrested in 2014 during a demonstration. Authorities confiscated IS flags and photos of the group’s leader. The group leader was sentenced to 10 years; a second to 5 years and the third to 7 years.

June 17—Nigeria—Local militia found a bag of metal objects at an abandoned Boko Haram camp and brought it to the nearby town of Monguno. When residents gathered to examine its contents, the bombs inside exploded, killing 63 people.

June 17—Yemen—AQAP gunmen in Mukalla read out charges against 2 Saudi men accused of spying for the U.S., shot them, and hung their corpses from a bridge. AQAP accused one victim of guiding a U.S. drone that killed commander Nasr ­al-Ansi and media specialist Muhannad Ghalab in April 2015.

In Sana’a, 2 suicide bombers and another explosion hit the headquarters of the Shi’ite Houthi rebels, killing 4 people and wounding 60 others. The suicide car bombers hit the gates of 2 buildings. The third bomb went off at a meeting of Houthis in the green Dome district. The Islamic State claimed credit, saying it set off 4 car bombs outside 2 Shi’ite mosques. IS said another bomb hit the Houthis’ main political office and the last hit the home of a Houthi politician on the same Sana’a street.

June 17—Iraq—A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint at the northern entrance to the Kazimiyah section of Baghdad, killing 3 police officers and 4 civilians and wounding 16 people.

June 17—U.S.—At 9 p.m., a gunman opened fire with a .45 caliber handgun during a prayer service at the historic African American Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, killing 9 people, including 6 women and 3 men, and injuring another person. The gunman watched an hour of the Bible study before yelling, “You are raping our women and taking over our country,” and firing. The next day at 11 a.m., police arrested Dylann Storm Roof, 21, of Eastover, South Carolina, after a motorist spotted him driving in Shelby, North Carolina, some 250 miles away. He said he had intended to kill blacks. The dead included the church’s minister, 3 other pastors, a regional library manager, a high school coach and speech therapist, a government administer, a college enrollment counselor and a recent college graduate. They were identified as

• Cynthia Hurd, 54, a library branch manager of the Charleston County library system. Her husband was a merchant sailor at sea near Saudi Arabia.

• Susie Jackson, 87, sang in the choir.

• Ethel Lance, 70, retired after 30 years on the housekeeping staff at the city’s Gaillard Auditorium. She was a sexton at the church for 5 years. She had 5 children, 7 grandchildren, and 4 ­great-grandchildren.

• DePayne ­Middleton-Doctor, 49, mother of 4, began working in December as an enrollment counselor at Southern Wesleyan University’s Charleston campus.

• The Reverend Clementa Pinckney, 41, the church’s pastor and a South Carolina state legislator for 19 years. A year after he graduated from Allen University in 1995, at age 23 he became the youngest African American elected to the South Carolina Legislature. In 2000, he was elected to the state Senate. He became the church pastor in 2010.

• Tywanza Sanders, 26, had graduated in 2014 from Allen University with a business degree. His mother, Felecia, survived by pretending to be dead.

• The Reverend Daniel Simmons, 74, who died at the hospital after the shooting.

• The Reverend Sharonda ­Coleman-Singleton, 45, a ­part-time pastor at the church and a speech pathologist at Goose Creek High School, where she also coached women’s track. She ran track as a student at South Carolina State University, which won the conference championship.

• Myra Thompson, 59 (or 39, reports differed).

Roof was arrested twice in 2015, once on a drug charge and later for trespassing at the Columbiana Center mall north of Columbia. He was found guilty of trespassing and fined $262.50. The drug charge was pending. He dropped out of the 9th grade from White Knoll High School in the Columbia suburbs in February 2010. He finished out the year at another Columbia high school, but did not return.

The “Mother Emanuel” church, established in 1816, is one of the oldest African American churches in the United States. The church is located between Henrietta and Calhoun streets near Marion Square in downtown Charleston.

Roof’s apparent Facebook profile photo showed him in the woods wearing a jacket with patches of flags of racist, ­white-minority regimes in southern Africa—the 1928 South African flag from the apar­theid era and the 1965 Republic of Rhodesia flag. He was believed to have run a racist website. He posed in a ­t-shirt with the number 88—white supremacist code for Heil Hitler. Authorities believed he posted on a racist website a 2,500-word manifesto on race.

A friend said Roof used his birthday money to buy a .45 caliber Glock pistol.

On July 22, 2015, federal prosecutors indicted Roof on hate crime charges. On September 3, 2015, prosecutors said they would seek the death penalty against Roof.

June 17—China—At 6 a.m., police shot to death a Uighur man who tried to attack travelers buying tickets at a Xi’an train station with a cement block.

June 17—Afghanistan—During the night, the Taliban attacked government buildings in Musa Qala in Helmand Province, killing 11, including 4 soldiers and 7 police officers. Police retook the district police headquarters area after several hours of clashes.

June 18—Israel—The Blaze reported that arson was suspected in a morning fire that hit the ­fifth-century Byzantine Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication in Tabgha along the Sea of Galilee which is believed to be the site of where Jesus multiplied 5 loaves and 2 fish to feed 5,000 people. Graffiti found on a wall quoted from a Jewish prayer that said in Hebrew, “The idols will be eliminated.” Two people were treated for smoke inhalation from the 4 a.m. fire. The Israeli website NRG indicated that a guest room, prayer room and storage room were damaged.

On July 12, 2015, AP reported that police arrested suspects in the arson. The press said Jewish extremists were suspected. Police detained 16 Jewish settlers, all minors, earlier, but released them. The Church is run by Benedictine monks.

June 18—Australia—Police issued an arrest warrant for Tareq Kamleh, 29, alias Abu Yusuf ­al-Australi, an ­Australian-born and -educated doctor who appeared in an Islamic State video in April calling on Western medical professionals to join him in Syria. He had worked in several Australian public hospitals. He said his medical practice in Syria was his “jihad for Islam.” His Palestinian father and ­German-born Muslim convert mother raised him in Perth. He joined IS in 2014. He was charged with 3 terrorism offenses, including being a member of and recruiting for a terrorist organization and remaining in a terrorism ­no-go zone (in this case, ­al-Raqqa, Syria), and faced 45 years in prison.

June 18—Niger—Boko Haram conducted nighttime attacks on the border towns of Lamana and ­Ungoumawa in the Diffa region, killing 40 people—mostly women and children—looting stores, and burning the villages. At least 28 people were killed in Lamina, including Lamina resident Malam Abba’s wife, mother, and 5 children, who were burned alive.

June 18—Iraq—Reuters reported that IS claimed on Twitter that it had shot down an Iraqi ­Russian-made SU-25 fighter jet north of Ramadi in Anbar Province.

June 18—Uruguay—UPI reported that the World Trade Center’s Tower 4 in Montevideo was evacuated due to a bomb threat. The device was dropped near the Israeli Embassy, which is within the complex. The inoperative device contained 2 shotgun shells, a battery, a cable and a small initiator hidden inside a can of sardines. 15061801

June 19—U.S.—NBC News reported that authorities arrested Amir Said Abdul Rahman ­al-Ghazi, birth name Robert McCollum, 38, in North Olmstead, Ohio, west of Cleveland, on charges of attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, possession of a weapon by a felon and distribution of marijuana (selling it to a confidential FBI informant). Prosecutors alleged that he pledged allegiance to IS and bought an AK-47 assault rifle from an undercover FBI agent to use in propaganda videos. The criminal complaint said he told an FBI informant earlier in the month that he was “trying to put a squad together” and would conduct an attack in the U.S. He called himself “cyber jihadi” and said he would not kill anyone. The FBI found his pro–IS social media postings in August 2014 and put him under surveillance, including using 2 undercover informants. They also interviewed him twice in the fall of 2014. ­Al-Ghazi lived in Sheffield Lake.

June 19—Israel—A gunman fired on a car on a dirt road outside the West Bank settlement of Dolev, killing an Israeli and lightly wounding a second. Police deemed it a “terror attack.” The military had a slightly different story, saying the 2 Israelis in their 20s had been hiking when a Palestinian pulled them over, asked for information about a local spring, then fired on them. YNet showed a photo of the car with 4 bullet holes in the windshield. Hamas praised, but did not claim, the attack.

June 19—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported the arrests of 2 Georgian citizens—a woman identified as N.K., aged 43, and a man, I.A., 40—who tried to enter the country on foot from Georgia with radioactive material, including 1.2 kilograms of cesium-137, at a border gate in northeastern Turkey. Authorities later detained a 60-year-old Turkish citizen.

June 20—Afghanistan—The van of an Afghan family returning to their home after fleeing an apparently military operation hit a land mine in Helmand Province’s Marjah district, killing 12 of them and wounding 8. Reuters and the Voice of America reported that all of the children were under age 5.

June 20—Yemen—The Islamic State took credit when a car bomb exploded outside the Qabat ­al-Mahdi mosque in Sana’a’s old city, killing 2 and wounding 6. IS said on Twitter that it targeted Shi’ite Houthis.

June 20—Saudi Arabia—A Houthi border attack killed a Saudi soldier and wounded 5 in the mountainous Jizan region, which borders Yemen. 15062001

June 21—Israel—Al-Jazeera reported that a paramilitary policeman shot a Palestinian, 18, who had stabbed him in the neck and seriously wounded him near the Damascus Gate entrance to the Old City of East Jerusalem.

June 21—Somalia—In the morning, an ­al-Shabaab suicide car bomber crashed into the entrance of a training compound of the national intelligence headquarters in Mogadishu; 2 terrorists and a soldier were killed. Soldiers then shot 2 gunmen who were attacking a nearby civilian house.

June 21—Afghanistan—The Voice of America reported that Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed the group killed 24 Afghan police and soldiers and kidnapped 25 Afghan soldiers in the battle for Chardara. Security forces said only 12 members of the national security forces had been killed.

June 21, 22, 22—Iraq/Syria—On July 18, 2015, the U.K.-based organizations Conflict Armament Research (CAR) and Sahan Research reported that the Islamic State had used ­projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish peshmerga forces in Iraq and Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units in Syria on June 21, 22 and 28, 2015. The groups said IS fired 17 artillery projectiles against civilian residential areas and YPG forces stationed south of Tell Brak in Syria’s Hassakeh Province. IS fired a projectile containing a liquid chemical agent at a peshmerga checkpoint near Iraq’s Mosul Dam.

June 22—Afghanistan—The Washington Post reported that a Taliban suicide car bomber attacked the Afghan Parliament as it was meeting to endorse new Defense Minister Masood Stanekzai. Other terrorists then fired ­rocket-propelled grenades at the building, forcing lawmakers to flee. Guards fired back, forcing the terrorists into a nearby building under construction. All 7 terrorists, plus a woman and child, were killed. Some 40 civilians in the building and in cars driving past were injured.

Dutch aid worker Anja de Beer was kidnapped by gunmen in Kabul. On September 10, 2015, AP reported that Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders announced that she had been released after 81 days and was in good health. He said that the government had no direct contact with the kidnappers and ­remained in close contact with Afghan authorities and her aid agency. 15062201

June 22—Iraq—Gunmen in 2 SUVs killed 2 policemen and a civilian and wounded 2 other civilians traveling in a civilian car in Baghdad’s eastern Baladiyat neighborhood.

A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Taji, killing 3 civilians and wounding 8.

A bomb at a market in Baghdad’s southern Abu Disher neighborhood killed 2 civilians and wounded 11.

June 22—Burundi—During the night, 2 grenades were thrown into a bar in Ngozi, killing 4 and wounding 30. Three suspects were arrested. Eleven police officers were wounded during the weekend in other grenade attacks in Bujumbura.

June 22—Nigeria—Two teenage female suicide bombers blew themselves up near a mosque in Maiduguri, killing 30 people. Local fishmonger Idi Idrisa said one teenager’s bomb went off during the afternoon as she approached the mosque crowded with people from the nearby Baga Road fish market. The second girl ran away, but her explosives went off, killing her.

June 22—U.S.—Justin Nojan Sullivan, 19, from Morganton, North Carolina, was detained after tell­ing an undercover FBI officer that he wanted to support the Islamic State by killing 1,000 people in the U.S. Charges included attempting to provide material support to the IS.

June 23—Syria—The Islamic State released an audio in which it called for increased attacks during Ramadan. Its supporters should “be keen on waging invasion in this eminent month and commit martyrdom.”

June 23—Iraq/Australia—Australian authorities were investigating reports that Australians Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar were killed in fighting in the Islamic ­State-held city of Mosul, Iraq. Fairfax Media reported that the Australian family of Sharrouf’s ­Muslim-convert wife, Tara Nettleton, were trying to help her bring her 3 young boys and 2 teenage daughters from Syria home to Sydney.

June 23—U.S.—NPR, Foreign Policy, and news services reported that the Obama administration would announce a change in hostage negotiation policy the next day. While the administration would not negotiate with terrorists, it would tell families that they could communicate with kidnappers of family members and even pay ransom without fear of prosecution. The Justice Department would indicate that it had never prosecuted anyone for paying ransom, and would continue to look the other way. The government would also announce the creation of a hostage recovery “fusion cell,” housed in the FBI, to coordinate government agencies involved in such issues. President Obama said on June 24, “These families have already suffered enough and they should never feel ignored or victimized by their own government.” He said that U.S. government officials could communicate directly with terrorists and help families negotiate.

June 23—Nigeria—UPI reported that at 11 a.m., a 12-year-old girl set of her explosives at a crowded market in Gujba, killing 10 and injuring 20.

June 23—Niger—Army spokesman Colonel Michel Moustapha Ledru said that the army had killed 15 Boko Haram terrorists, captured 20 others, and destroyed ammunition cars and motorcycles after Boko Haram attacked the village of Yebbi in the Diffa region the night of June 23, killing 5 residents and burning more than 100 homes.

June 24—Somalia—A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of vehicles transporting United Arab Emirates diplomats, including the Ambassador, in Mogadishu, killing 9 people, mostly Somali civilians, and wounding several people, including the wife of Ah­med Mohamed. No diplomats were injured. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected. 15062401

June 25—Italy—Police in Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci Airport arrested a Pakistani male al-Qaeda member suspected of helping organize the 2009 attack on a Peshawar market that killed more than 100 people. The suspect had arrived on a flight from Islamabad.

June 26—Somalia—At dawn, ­al-Shabaab attacked an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Leego in the Lower Shabelle region, causing numerous casualties. UPI reported that 30 people were killed. A suicide car bomber hit the base entrance; gunmen then fired machine guns and ­rocket-propelled grenades at the base, which is maintained by Burundian soldiers. The AU said up to 25 attackers were killed. ­Al-Shabaab claimed credit; it had earlier vowed to step up attacks during Ramadan. 15062601

June 26—Kuwait—A suicide bomber from the Najd Province, an Islamic State affiliate, walked into the Imam Sadiq Mosque in the ­al-Sawabir residential neighborhood of Kuwait City, yelled “Allahu Akbar,” mentioned joining the Prophet Muhammad for iftar (the dusk breaking of the daily Ramadan fast), and set off his explosives, killing 27 people and wounding 227, according to Reuters. The building was one of the oldest Shi’ite mosques in the country. Najd is the central region of Saudi Arabia where Wahhabism began. IS said on Twitter that one of its members, Abu Suleiman ­al-Mowahid, set off a suicide bomb at a “temple of the apostates.” More than 2,000 adherents of the Shi’ite Ja’afari sect were praying at the mosque. The next day, police interrogated several sus­pects and arrested the owner of the car used by the suicide bomber. On June 28, the Interior Ministry said the bomber was a Saudi who was born in 1992 and named Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen ­al-Gabbaa, who flew in from Saudi Arabia via Bahrain at dawn hours before the attack. Authorities said he had no background suggesting terrorist intentions. Police said they arrested the man who drove the bomber to the mosque, saying Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, 25, was as an “illegal resident” born in 1989. Au­thorities called him a “bidoon,” a descendant of desert nomads and others considered stateless. Police also detained the driver’s Kuwaiti landlord, calling him the “bearer of fundamentalist and deviant ideology.” The ­government-linked al-Jarida newspaper reported that at least 7 suspects had been detained.

On July 14, 2015, Kuwait announced that 29 people, most of them residents of Kuwait, would face trial for the suicide bombing. The Kuwait News Agency said they included 7 Kuwaitis and 13 “illegal residents”—a reference to Kuwait’s “bidoon” community of desert nomads considered stateless by the government. The others were 5 Saudis, 3 Pakistanis and a fugitive whose nationality was not known. Charges included illegally possessing explosives, ­incitement to violence and joining an extremist group.

On October 25, 2015, the official Kuwait News Agency reported that the Court of Appeals began the appeal of a verdict against 15 people convicted for an Islamic ­State-claimed suicide bombing at a Shi’ite mosque on June 26 that killed 27 people. In September 2015, a lower court sentenced 7 people to death and another 8 to 2–15 years. The bomber was identified as Saudi citizen Fahad Suleiman Abdulmohsen ­al-Gabbaa.

On December 13, 2015, AFP reported that Ku­wait’s appeals court upheld the death penalty for the main organizer of the bombing. The court also reduced the death sentence imposed on the alleged leader of IS in Kuwait, Fahad Farraj Muhareb, to 15 years in prison. A lower court in September issued the death penalty to Muhareb and Abdulrahman Sabah Eidan Saud, who drove the suicide bomber to the mosque. The court also announced prison terms of 2–15 years to 8 others, including 5 women, and acquitted 14 others. On December 13, the appeals court acquitted one of the women. Judge Hani ­al-Hamdan said that the cases of 5 men sentenced to death in absentia were not reviewed. Four of the men at large were Saudis; 2 were brothers who smuggled the explosives belt used in the attack into Kuwait from Saudi Arabia. The fifth is a stateless Arab. Some 29 defendants, including 7 women, were tried for helping the Saudi suicide bomber. Saud confessed to most charges in the first trial but denied all of them on appeal. The acquitted included Jarrah Nimer, owner of the car used to drop off the bomber. 15062602

June 26—U.S.—Police in coordination with the FBI arrested a British boy, 16, for making hoax bomb threats against U.S. facilities, schools, media companies, airports and airlines using Skype, Twitter, MSN Messenger and email. Authorities seized his computers and mobile phones. He was questioned about making malicious phone calls to law enforcement agencies in the U.S. Many of the threats were made between September 2014 and April 2015 to schools and universities in Michigan.

June 26—France—Yassine Salhi (variants Yacine Sali and Yessim Salim), 35, crashed a utility truck into a hangar at a U.S.-owned gas factory in ­Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in southeastern France’s Isere region, setting off an explosion that injured 2 people at 10 a.m. Authorities found the severed head of ­Fontaines-sur-Saone businessman Herve Cornara, 54, stuck on a gate, surrounded by 2 flags carrying Islamic declarations. Police said the attacker was a father of 3 and local truck driver known to workers at the Air Products plant because he made regular deliveries. Officials said Salhi took a “selfie” with the victim and sent the image via WhatsApp to a Canadian mobile phone number, possibly owned by Younes, a person in Syria. Authorities detained the suspect, his wife, sister and another person; the man was freed the next day. A man found the decapitated body at the factory was the supervisor of the transportation company that the driver worked for. A knife and his body were found near the truck. AP reported that Salhi was arrested with a ­long-bladed knife, a gun and 2 new flags emblazoned with the Muslim declaration of faith. He faced preliminary murder and terrorism charges and was suspected of ties to the Islamic State. Air Products, an Allentown, ­Pennsylvania-based chemical company which employs 20,000 people in 50 countries, evacuated the site. Salhi, a resident in his 30s of the Lyon suburb of ­Saint-Priest, was believed linked to French jihadis in 2006; surveillance was dropped in 2008. He had no previous arrest record. French President Francois Hollande called the incident “a pure terrorist attack.” Police released Salhi’s wife and sister on June 28. On December 23, 2015, Deputy Prosecutor ­Jean-Michel Bourles in Evry, a Paris suburb, said that Yassin Salhi hung himself with an electric cable in his cell the previous night in ­Fleury-Merogis prison. 15062603

June 26—Spain—Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz raised the terrorist level from 3 to 4, meaning the country faced a high risk of attack. The highest terror threat level is 5.

June 26—Tunisia—Seifeddine Rezgui, 24, shot to death 39 people and wounded another 39, 2 or 3 critically, near a ­Spanish-owned RIU Hotels and Resorts Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba at the Sousse beach resort in the Port el-Kantaoui neighborhood. The Health Ministry added Tunisians, a German, a Portuguese, and a Belgian to the list of those killed. AP reported that the dead included 15 Britons and Lorna Carty, an Irish nurse in her 50s on vacation with her husband Declan from Robinstown, County Meath, northwest of Dublin. The French Foreign Minister denied that there were French victims, contradicting a Tunisian government an­nounce­ment. The wounded included Belgian tourist Clause Besser, who was hit in the leg. Police said the gunman was previously unknown, had never traveled aboard, was a Master’s student at Kairouan University, and lived in Gaafour in Siliana Governorate. He walked from the beach, hiding his Kalashnikov under an umbrella, before opening fire. He then entered the hotel through the pool, continuing to fire. Interior Ministry spokesman Mohammed Ali Aroui said the terrorist “was killed during an exchange of fire with security forces…. A terrorist infiltrated the buildings from the back before opening fire on the residents of the hotel, including foreigners and Tunisians.” Authorities had searched for a possible second gunman, but later said he had acted alone. Rafik Chelli, secretary of state of the Interior Ministry, said the attacker was a young student not previously known to authorities who “was certainly involved with certain extremists.” The Islamic State claimed credit, saying his name was Abu Yahya ­al-Qayrawani.

The next day, Health Ministry spokesman Chokri Nafi said the injured included 7 Tunisians, 25 Britons, 3 Belgians, a German, a Ukrainian, a Russian and one who had not yet been identified.

On June 28, an Interior Ministry official said that while the gunman acted alone during the attack, he had ­pre-attack accomplices who provided him the Kalashnikov and drove him to the scene. Authorities detained his father and 3 roommates for questioning. By July 2, police had 8 people, including a woman, in custody on suspicion of having direct links to the attacker. Another 4 people detained earlier were released. The arrests were conducted in 3 cities.

The British government identified several of the victims, saying on July 2 that 30 Britons were killed:

• Joel Richards, 19, a student and soccer player, who died with his uncle, Adrian Evans, 49, who managed gas services; and his grandfather, Charles Evans, 78. Joel’s brother, Owen, 16, was hit by a bullet in the shoulder.

• Carly Lovett, 24, a 2013 University of Lincoln school of film and media graduate and a photographer who had recently begun a blog on beauty products, was on vacation with her fiancé, Liam Moore.

• Sue Davey, 44, mother of Conor Fulford, 23.

• Scott Chaulkley, 42, father of Ross Nayler and who was on holiday with Sue Davey.

A senior security official said that the terrorist had trained in a jihadi camp in Sabratha, Libya, site of Roman ruins, in January 2015, at the same time as the 2 men who attacked Tunisia’s Bardo museum in March. 15062604

June 26—Israel—Soldiers shot to death a Palestinian man who had fired from his car at soldiers at a military checkpoint in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank. No soldiers were wounded. 15062605

June 26—Syria—Reuters reported Islamic State terrorists, including 3 suicide car bombers, killed 145 civilians, among them the elderly, women, and children, during an attack on Kobani and Brakh Bootan, a nearby village.

June 27—Mali—At 5 a.m., gunmen attacked a military camp near Nara village, 30 miles from the Mauritanian border, sparking a 4-hour gun battle in which 3 National Guard soldiers and numerous terrorists died. Ansar Dine was suspected.

June 27—Iraq—A car bomb exploded at noon near car parts stores in southeastern Baghdad, killing 5 and wounding 13.

A bomb exploded at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s eastern suburbs, killing 3 and wounding 8.

A bomb went off near shops in Baghdad’s western Baiyaa neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 10.

A bomb exploded near a vegetable and fruit whole­sale market in southern Baghdad, killing 2 and wounding 3.

June 27—Nigeria—The Voice of America reported that 2 female suicide bombers were killed in Jakana at 4:20 p.m. when one of their bombs went off while they were trying to hitchhike to Maiduguri. One woman was torn apart; her partner was found dead with a bomb strapped to her waist.

June 28—Chad—On July 1, 2015, Chief Prosecutor Alhassim Khamis announced the arrest of Bahna Fanaye, alias Mahamat Moustapha, a leader of Boko Haram, along with 2 others. Khamis said Fanaye coordinated the movement of weapons between Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad. Police seized weapons, communications materials, documents, and more than 50 SIM cards from Fanaye’s home. A Boko Haram financier was arrested in a separate raid.

June 28—Mali—Gunmen riding motorcycles, waving a black jihadi flag, and claiming to be jihadis briefly occupied Fakola, a village 9 miles north of the border with the Ivory Coast. They burned administrative buildings and a building used as a military police base before security forces drove them out. Military police sustained no casualties.

June 28—Afghanistan—The Taliban ambushed an Afghan Army convoy in Herat Province en route to Bagdhis Province, killing 11 soldiers.

June 29—Pakistan—On July 1, a Pakistani official announced that during a June 29 raid by police and the ­Inter-Services Intelligence agency on a home near Lahore, authorities killed 4 members of ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent and arrested 2 other terrorists. It was the first announced operation against the AQIS in Lahore. The Home Minister for Punjab Province, Shuja Khanzada, said the terrorists planned to attack the offices of a civilian intelligence agency, and that one of those killed was the provincial head of AQIS.

June 29—U.S.—WABC reported that ­American-born Alaa Saadeh, 23, of Hudson County’s West New York, was arrested at his home during the morning for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State. He was charged with conspiring with others in New Jersey and New York to provide services and personnel to IS, aiding and abetting an attempt to provide services and personnel to IS, and attempting to persuade a witness to lie to the FBI. His attorney said Saadeh had a decent work history and no criminal record. The FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force evidence cited in the Complaint indicated that Conspirator 1 (CC-1) lived in Rutherford until leaving the U.S. on May 5, 2015, allegedly to join IS. Conspirator 2 was identified as a Queens resident who was arrested in New York on June 13, 2015 on terrorism charges. Authorities arrested Samuel Rahamin Topaz of Fort Lee on June 17, 2015, on charges of conspiring to provide services and personnel to IS. Saadeh was heard in taped conversations telling an informant that he supported IS beheadings and mass killings. Each count carried a possible sentence of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

June 29—Cyprus—Hussein Bassam Abdallah, 26, a ­Lebanese-Canadian man who had admitted to membership in Hizballah, pleaded guilty to all 8 charges, including membership and support of a terrorist organization, against him in connection with the seizure of 9 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical compound that can be converted into an explosive. The prosecutor said Abdallah planned to conduct bombings against Israeli interests in Cyprus.

June 29—Yemen—Al-Jazeera and Reuters reported that IS claimed credit when a car bomb exploded at 11:30 a.m. near a military hospital in Sanaa, killing 10 and injuring 20. IS said it attacked “out of revenge for the Muslims against the Houthi apostates.”

June 29—Chad—Two bombs in N’Djamena killed 11 people, including 5 police officers, according to Minister of Territory and Public Security Abderahim Bireme Hamid. The first bomb went off in N’Djamena’s Dinguessou neighborhood of N’Djamena at 5:10 a.m., the second 6 minutes later. Hamid said “the mastermind of the network was arrested yesterday.”

June 29—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen killed a ­pro-government Sunni tribal sheikh and his 3 guards in Tarmiyah.

A bomb at an outdoor market in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah neighborhood killed 3 civilians and wounded 9.

Authorities found the bodies for 4 men and 2 women dumped in different areas around Baghdad, all shot in the chest and head with their hands and legs tied.

June 29—India—UPI reported that India’s National Investigation Agency announced it had detained Khumlo Abi Anal, a member of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland, which India has deemed a terrorist organization. NIA said the group on June 4, 2015, ambushed Indian troops in Manipur State, killing 20 soldiers. The Times of India reported he was first detained by Manipur Police commandos earlier in the month.

June 29—Egypt—During at 10 a.m. rush hour in an upscale Cairo suburb of Heliopolis, a remotely-detonated bomb exploded in the motorcade of Egyptian State Prosecutor Hisham Barakat, 65, killing him and seriously wounding 8 other people, including 2 drivers, 5 guards, and a civilian as his convoy left his residence. Hours later, the Popular Resistance in Giza claimed credit on Facebook, showing photographs of the bomb site. Barakat led the prosecution of members of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists, including former President Mohammed Morsi, who was overthrown by the military in July 2013.

At roughly the same time, a bomb went off in a village near ­el-Arish, killing 3 engineers riding in a bus.

June 30—Afghanistan—The Taliban claimed credit for a 1:20 p.m. Toyota Corolla suicide car bomb attack on a NATO convoy on the Kabul airport road, less than half a mile from the U.S. Embassy, that killed an Afghan civilian and wounded 22 people, includ-ing 4 children, 3 women, and 2 coalition soldiers ­affiliated with NATO’s Resolute Support mission. 15063001

A suicide car bomber crashed into the back wall of the police headquarters of Helmand Province, killing 3 people and wounding more than 50, including policemen, women and children.

A vehicle hit a roadside mine in Paktya Province, killing 3 and wounding one.

June 30—Syria—UPI reported that the Islamic State beheaded 2 women. One was killed with her husband in Deir ­al-Zor on charges of sorcery and witchcraft. A second couple was killed in ­al-Mayadeen, where 5 other men were crucified after being accused of eating during daylight hours of Ramadan. It was the first time IS beheaded women, although it had stoned to death several women.

June 30—Nigeria—Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Chris Olukolade announced the arrest of Babuji Ya’ari, whom he said ran a “terrorists’ intelligence cell” for Boko Haram while posing as a member of the ­self-defense Youth Vigilante Group. He said the businessman was accused of “participating actively” in Boko Haram’s mass abduction of 273 schoolgirls from Chibok in April 2014. He added, “The arrest of the businessman … has also yielded some vital information and facilitated the arrest of other members of the terrorists’ intelligence cell who are women.” He said that since 2011, Ya’ari coordinated several deadly attacks on Maiduguri, and spearheaded the May 2014 assassination of the emir of Gwoza. The Defense Ministry added that Hafsat Bako, an arrested woman, had confessed to coordinating the payroll for operatives who were paid a minimum of 10,000 naira (about $50) per job.

Boko Haram attacked the village of Mussaram during the night, separated the males, and shot to death 48 men and boys. Another 17 were seriously injured.

June 30—Germany—Prosecutors charged Kerim Marc B., 22, a ­German-Turkish dual national, with murder and membership in a terrorist organization for allegedly fighting with the Islamic State in Syria. Prosecutors said he joined IS after traveling to Syria via Turkey in 2013, received military training in Syria and fought in multiple engagements, “killing at least one person.” He allegedly returned to Germany in early 2014, went back to Syria in July 2014 and resumed fighting. Turkish officials arrested him in January 2015 and returned him in March to Germany, where officials took him into custody at Dusseldorf airport.

July—Albania—On September 23, 2015, Albanian authorities extradited to Italy Baki Coku, 40, an Albanian accused of recruiting for the Islamic State in Syria. He was arrested in July 2015 on an Italian request. Italy accused him of belonging to a recruiting ring that included his nephew, Aldo Kobuzi, who allegedly underwent weapons training in Iraq with Islamic terrorists. Among the alleged recruits was Kobuzi’s Italian wife, Maria Giulia Sergio, a Muslim convert who allegedly became radicalized and went to Syria.

July 1—Italy—Anti-terrorism police arrested several family members of a married couple who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State and were allegedly trying to persuade their relatives to join them. Police and prosecutors said Italian Maria Giulia Sergio converted to Islam, became radicalized, and in September 2014 married Aldo Kobuzi, an Albanian who trained in Iraq for jihad. Telephone wiretaps between Sergio, 28, and her relatives indicated that she was living in Syria and wanted her family to join her. Police said they traced the family’s movements and ­established that they bought suitcases, sold their possessions, applied for a passport, and obtained severance payments to fund their trip. Police in Milan arrested Sergio’s parents and sister. Police arrested Kobuzi’s uncle in Albania and an aunt in Grosetto. Authorities issued arrest warrants for the couple, Kobuzi’s mother who was also in Syria, and other relatives, plus for a Canadian citizen in a third country who helped recruit Sergio and persuaded her and her sister to convert to Islam. Police said the Kobuzi family provided the Islamic State with several foreign fighters, including one who died in battle.

July 1—Lebanon—The state news agency reported that the Sunni Future Movement and the Resistance Brigades, which is close to Hizballah, clashed in Saadiyat, wounding 7 people, including a soldier.

July 1—Egypt—The Islamic State affiliate claimed credit for attacks against 6 Egyptian Army and 9 police checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai Province, killing 50 soldiers and wounding 55. Three suicide bombers hit 2 checkpoints in Sheikh Zuweid and an officers’ club in ­el-Arish. The terrorists took several soldiers hostage and stole weapons and several armored vehicles. An Army Apache gunship destroyed one of the captured armored carriers. Military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said 70 gunmen attacked 5 checkpoints in northern Sinai and that Egyptian troops killed 22 of them and destroyed 3 ­all-terrain vehicles fitted with ­anti-aircraft guns. The Associated Press quoted security officials saying that nearly 100 attackers were killed.

July 1—Nigeria—Boko Haram terrorists shot to death 140 praying in mosques in Kukawa and women and children in their homes preparing the evening Ramadan meal.

July 1—Bangladesh—On July 3, 2015, AP reported that a court gave police 3 days to question 12 suspected members of ­al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent after their arrests in separate raids earlier in the week. Suspects included the alleged head of the group in Bangladesh. The ­anti-crime battalion seized explosives, ­bomb-making materials and books on jihad. AQIS claimed credit for killing 2 secular bloggers, including a ­Bangladeshi-American, who had criticized Islamic fundamentalism.

July 1—Afghanistan—During the night, the Taliban attacked police checkpoints in Wardak Province, killing 7 local policemen. Zakir Hussain Sultani, deputy provincial governor in Wardak, said that the Taliban captured 5 of the checkpoints in Jalrez district. A roadside mine hit 2 Afghan army tanks in the area.

July 2—North Korea—On July 10, UPI and South Korea’s Newsis service reported that an individual inside North Korea claimed that individuals failed to set off bombs at the towers of “eternal life” in Dokchon, in South Pyongan Province. Radio Free Asia said that a person in North Korea’s Jagang Province said the incident occurred on the night of July 2. The bombers had filled portable gasoline containers with nitrogen fertilizer. South Korean news outlet No Cut News reported that extra soldiers and loyal students were summoned to guard similar sites.

July 2—Colombia—A bomb went off at an office of the Porvenir pension fund in northern Bogota’s banking district, wounding 10 people, none seriously. A bomb hit a branch of the Porvenir pension fund in the Puente Aranda area in western Bogota, injuring one person. The fund is owned by the country’s wealthiest businessman. The next day, President Juan Manuel Santos said the National Liberation Army (ELN) was likely involved. Authorities offered $40,000 for information leading to arrests. On July 8, police arrested 15 suspects on raids on several Bogota residences. Among the detainees were 2 contractors for the city government; other were tied to student groups.

July 2—Mali—In the morning, gunmen ambushed a UN convoy on the road between Goundam and Timbuktu, killing 6 peacekeepers and wounding 5 others. All of the victims were from Burkina Faso. Two vehicles were destroyed. Nearby Tuareg camp residents saw a jihadist flag on the attackers’ vehicles. 15070201

July 2—Egypt—Gunmen shot to death a security guard in front of a bank in Fayoum.

July 2—Yemen—NPR and the BBC reported that a car bomb exploded at a mosque in Sana’a.

July 3—Canada—At ­mid-morning, a bomb exploded at the Petersen King law office in Winnipeg, seriously injuring a woman in her upper body. A bomb was found on July 4 at a small business elsewhere in Winnipeg. On July 5, police detonated another explosive device at another law firm. On July 6, Canadian police charged Guido Amsel, 49, with 2 counts of attempted murder, one count of aggravated assault and a number of offences related to possessing explosives. Police said that Amsel targeted law firms that had represented him or his ­ex-wife.

July 3—Nigeria—A woman and a girl strapped with explosives set off their bombs at a crowded market and a military checkpoint in Malari village, killing 13 people. The teen hit a market, killing 10 people. The woman in a taxi hit the military checkpoint, killing a soldier and 2 passengers.

July 3—Iraq—A bomb went off near Madain shops, killing 3 and wounding 8. A bomb went off at a Madain checkpoint run by Sahwa militia, killing 2 and wounding 5.

A bomb in a commercial street in eastern Baghdad killed 3.

Authorities in eastern Baghdad reported the discovery of 2 bodies with gunshot wounds to the head and chest.

July 3—Spain—Deputy premier Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said the government would ask Vene­zuela to extradite Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos, wanted for charges of praising terrorism in a letter following his 2008 release from prison after serving 21 years for attacks for the ETA. He disappeared from Northern Ireland in 2010 while appealing a Spanish extradition order.

July 3—Israel—A rocket fired from the Sinai hit an open field in southern Israel, causing no damage or injuries. Egyptian troops were battling the Islamic State in the Sinai.

July 3—Nigeria—Boko Haram slit the throats of 11 alleged “traitors” who had deserted from the group in Miringa.

July 3—Libya—Three car bombs exploded simultaneously during the evening in Darna, killing 10 civilians.

July 4—U.S.—On July 9, FBI Director James Comey announced the arrest of more than 10 ­IS-inspired individuals in suspected terrorist plots during the 4–6 weeks leading to the 4th of July holiday. “I do believe that our work disrupted efforts to kill people, likely in connection with July 4. He said IS uses the Internet in “recruiting, directing and motivating” adherents.

July 4—U.S.—On July 13, CNN reported that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts announced the July 4 arrest of Alexander Ciccolo, alias Ali ­al-Amriki, 23, on charges of felony possession of fire­arms and plotting to conduct terrorism for the Islamic State. His father, Robert, a Boston police captain, turned him in to authorities after he made alarming comments. The father and son had minimal contact since Alexander turned 7. Court documents indicated that Alexander had a long history of mental illness and had become obsessed with Islam in the past 18 months. Prosecutor Carmen M. Ortiz said that on July 4, Alexander accepted firearms—including a Colt AR-15 .223-caliber rifle, a SigArms Model SG550-1, 556 caliber rifle, a Glock 17 9mm pistol and a Glock 20-10 mm pistol—that he had ordered from a person who was cooperating with members of the Western Massachusetts Joint Terrorism Task Force. The team had recorded conversations about Ciccolo’s plans to commit an act of terrorism, including killing students online. He allegedly said he was inspired by ISIS and wanted to set off homemade bombs such as pressure cookers filled with black powder, ball bearings and glass where many people gather, including college cafeterias. Agents watched Ciccolo purchase a pressure cooker. Investigators found several partially-constructed Molotov cocktails in Ciccolo’s apartment. A detention hearing was set for July 14 in U.S. District Court in Springfield, Massachusetts.

July 4—Spain—Police in Badalona arrested a Moroccan on suspicion of having spent months praising jihadi terrorism and disseminating propaganda for the Islamic State. He was alleged to have assessed possible jihadis for “combat duties” in Syria and Iraq or for terror activities within their respective countries of origin.

July 4—Afghanistan—CNN reported that 2 male terrorists riding a motorbike threw acid in the faces of 3 girls, aged 16 to 18, on their way to school in Herat city. Two of the girls were in critical condition. The men said, “This is the punishment for going to school.”

July 4—Iraq—During the night, a car bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s western Amil neighborhood, killing 9 and wounding 24.

A car bomb exploded near a bus stop in southern Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 15.

A bomb hit an outdoor market in Mohamoudiya, killing 3.

A car bomb exploded near a row of restaurants in Balad Ruz, killing 4 and wounding 14.

July 4—Syria—CNN reported that IS released a 10-minute video showing them executing 25 captives, believed to be soldiers, on May 27 in the ruins of a Roman amphitheater in Palmyra, where IS was also destroying antiquities.

July 5—South Sudan—Gunmen attacked an International Committee of the Red ­Cross-supported hospital in Kokok in Upper Nile State, killing 2 people and wounding 11. After doctors and nurses fled, another 11 patients died due to lack of surgical assistance. The ICRC suspended operations. 15070501

July 5—Afghanistan—A bomb strapped to a motorcycle exploded in the evening at a police checkpoint in Kandahar, killing 2 civilians and a policeman and wounding 13 others, including 11 civilians and 2 police officers.

July 5—Nigeria—CNN reported that a suicide bomber attacked the Redeemed Christian Church of God in Potiskum, killing the priest and 4 worshippers, including a woman and her 2 children.

July 5—Iraq—A bomb exploded during the night near a café in eastern Baghdad’s ­al-Obeidi district, killing 4 and wounding 14.

A bomb went off during the evening near a small restaurant in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Jisr Diyala, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A bomb exploded at a bus stop in northeastern Baghdad’s suburbs, killing 4 and wounding 9.

A bomb went off near a bus stop near Baghdad’s northwestern Shulla district, killing 3.

July 5—Mali—Malian special forces spokesman Modibo Nama Traore said on July 6 that French special forces killed Mohamed Ali Ag Wadossene in an operation in the Tigharghar mountains in the Kidal region. A dozen others were arrested. Wadossene and 3 other terrorists were released in December 2014 in exchange for the freedom of French hostage Serge Lazarevic in Mali. Ag Wadossene was among the AQIM kidnappers of Philippe Verdon and Serge Lazarevic in Mali in 2011.

July 5—Syria—On September 23, 2015, Tribune News Service reported that the Pentagon announced that Frenchman David Drugeon, 25, an al-Qaeda member who had escaped 2 earlier airstrikes (on September 23, 2014, and in November 2014 in which he was injured in his car), died in a July 5, 2015, airstrike near Aleppo, Syria. He was radicalized in French and Egyptian mosques.

July 5–6—France—Overnight, 200 detonators plus grenades and plastic explosives were stolen from a military site at the Miramas site, operated by a combination of military services west of Marseille.

July 5–6—Nigeria—In nighttime attacks, Boko Haram bombed a mosque and a Muslim restaurant in Jos, killing 44 and wounding 67. Cleric Sani Yahaya of the Jama’atu Izalatul Bidia organization, which preaches peaceful ­co-existence of all religions, was addressing a crowd at the Yantaya Mosque. The second bomb went off at Shagalinku, a restaurant whose clientele included state governors and other politicians.

July 6—Nigeria—A female suicide bomber hit a service of the evangelical Redeemed Christian Church of God in Potiskum, killing 6 people.

Boko Haram attacked northeastern villages raided 3 days earlier, killing 29 villagers and burning down 32 churches and about 300 homes, according to Stephen Apagu, chairman of a vigilante ­self-defense group in Borno State’s ­Askira-Uba local government area. He said the vigilantes killed 3 terrorists.

The military freed 180 detainees held for up to 2 years, declaring they were no longer suspected of being part of Boko Haram. They were to return to their families in Maiduguri.

July 6—Israel—Shin Bet announced its arrest of 6 Bedouin from the township of Hura in the Negev desert for establishing a cell supportive of the Islamic State. Four were teachers who tried to indoctrinate students at their schools with IS ideas, according to Shin Bet, which said that the suspects planned to go to Syria and fight for the Islamic State. The detainees were identified as teacher Hamza Abu Ali Abu Al­kyan; elementary school teacher Akram Al’ab Ahmed Abu Alkyan; high school teacher Muhammad Al’ab Ahmad Abu Alkyan; elementary school teacher Ba­shir Jabran Salim Abu Alkyan; and Khader Hassan Abu Alkyan and Sharif Shahada Abu Alkyan, ranging in age from their early 20s to early 30s.

July 6—Italy—Pisa’s ­anti-terrorism police arrested Moroccan citizen Jalal ­el-Hanaoui, 24, for using Facebook and other social media to incite Muslims to use terrorism. Pisa’s ­anti-terrorism police squad head Gonario Antonio Rainone said ­el-Hanaoui had posted photos of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Statue of Liberty and other architectural sites on Facebook and with slogans attempted to “instigate the faithful to spread Islam even using terrorism” and other violence. ­El-Hanaoui had moved to the Pisa area from Morocco when he was a child.

July 6—Jordan—The ­government-owned al-Rai newspaper and the state news agency Petra reported that security forces arrested a man with purported links to an Iranian group, Beit ­al-Maqdis, on suspicion that he planned to conduct terrorist attacks in the kingdom. Authorities seized 99 pounds of ­high-grade explosives. The individual held Iraqi and Norwegian citizenship.

July 6—Germany—Berlin state court spokesman Tobias Kaehne said Fatih I., 28, a Turkish man, was convicted of 2 counts of supporting a terrorist organization fighting in Syria, and of fraud, and sentenced him to 2½ years in prison. Prosecutors dropped charges of membership in a terrorist organization for lack of evidence. He defrauded a bank of 25,000 euros ($27,500), of which he sent some 7,000 euros to the Syrian rebel group Junud ­al-Sham in 2013, and obtained a vehicle for them. He sent another 1,550 euros to an Islamic ­State-related organization in March 2014 and was arrested after that.

July 6—Afghanistan—During the night, the Taliban attacked a police checkpoint in Gershk District in Helmand Province, killing 3 police officers wounding 2. Police fired back, killing 6 Taliban.

July 6—Syria—An Islamic State video posted on Facebook showed the group killing 2 Syria activists in orange jumpsuits in Raqqa for spying. The terrorists said Faysal Hussein Habibi, 21, and Bishr ­Abdul-Azim, 20, were paid $400/month for filming and photographing ­IS-held areas in Syria and sending footage to a person abroad. Masked gunmen tied them to a tree and shot them in the head.

July 6—Spain—Police arrested 2 men in Madrid for alleged collaboration with Kurdish groups fighting in Syria and Iraq. They were suspected of having been trained to use arms and explosives and fight guerrilla warfare.

July 6–7—Central African Republic—A dozen gunmen hopped fences and surrounded the CAR state radio station, threatening to take gendarmes hostage. A gendarme with a grenade forced the attackers to leave during the night.

July 7—Canary Islands—Spanish police in Arrecife on the Canary Island of Lanzarote arrested a Spanish woman suspected of recruiting ­pre-teen girls and teenagers to send to areas controlled by the Islamic State in Syria. The Interior Ministry said she was in contact with IS members in Syria, among them a facilitator who gave her orders for recruiting girls and arranging their travel to Syria. Authorities had been investigating her since 2014.

July 7—Spain—Civil Guard police in Barcelona airport arrested an ­Algerian-born man wanted on terrorism charges by Belgium, where he previously resided. He was a suspected member of the Islamic State who had fought in Syria. He was waiting for a connecting flight, after flying from Algeria.

July 7—Algeria—The Defense Ministry announced that 102 extremists had been killed, arrested or turned themselves in so far in 2015. The official APS news agency said that 66 of the terrorists were “neutralized” outside Algiers, and the Kabylie region to the east, where AQIM is headquartered. Seventeen were neutralized south of Algiers in the Sahara region.

July 7—Kenya—UPI and Kenya’s Standard Digital reported that a 1 a.m. grenade and gunfire attack on Soko Mbuzi village, near the Somali border, killed 14, including Kenya quarry workers and the compound’s landlady, and injured 11. CNN said ­al-Shabaab’s military operations spokesman, Sheikh Abdiaziz Abu Musab, claimed credit on Radio Andalus for attacking Kenyan Christians. Observers suggested that 10–15 attackers were involved. 15070701

July 7—Afghanistan—A Taliban motorcycle suicide bomber hit the gate of a National Directorate of Security intelligence facility in eastern Kabul, killing a soldier guarding the compound and wounding another. Two other gunmen on foot fired at the rest of the guards, but were shot and killed.

Around noon, a Taliban suicide car bomber hit a NATO convoy in the same area, wounding 2 people, damaging several cars and shattering windows on several buildings. General Abdul Rahman Rahimi, Kabul’s police chief, said one victim was an Afghan civilian while the second person was from the convoy. 15070702

July 7—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected when a female suicide bomber set off her explosives at the government headquarters building in the northern university town of Zaria in Kaduna State, killing between 25 and 40 people, including a 2-year-old, and hospitalizing another 50. Civil servants had assembled to welcome a new chairman.

July 8—Iraq—An Iraqi court sentenced to death 24 terrorists for killing hundreds of soldiers in the summer of 2014. The Islamic State had captured the soldiers in Tikrit as they tried to escape from an army base. Four others were acquitted for lack of evidence.

July 8—Colombia—The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) unilaterally announced a ­month-long ceasefire, to begin on July 20.

July 8—India—Two Indian soldiers died in a gun battle with Pakistani troops and Kashmiri insurgents in 2 incidents in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir. Indian Army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nitin N. Joshi said Pakistani troops fired on Indian soldiers in the border district of Nowgam. The Indian forces retaliated and lost one paramilitary soldier. During the night, Kashmiri insurgents fired on Indian soldiers in south Kashmir’s Shopian district; an Indian army soldier later died of his wounds.

July 8—Syria—CNN reported on July 21 that ­Kuwait-born Muhsin ­al-Fadhli, head of the Khorasan Group of senior ­al-Qaeda members in Syria, was killed in an airstrike on a vehicle near Sarmada on July 8. The U.S. Rewards for Justice Program had offered a $7 million bounty. He was believed involved in terrorist attacks in October 2002, including against U.S. Marines on Faylaka Island in Kuwait and on the French ship MV Limburg.

July 9—Tunisia—The UK urged all British tourists to leave Tunisia, saying a terrorist attack was “highly likely.”

July 9—Northern Ireland—Colin “Bap” Lindsay, 47, a senior Ulster Defence Association figure, was killed with a samurai sword in his home in south Belfast’s Belvoir neighborhood. A 52-year-old man was seriously wounded. A 46-year-old acquaintance drink-ing with him was arrested on suspicion of murder. The outlawed UDA killed hundreds of people, mostly Catholic civilians, from 1971 to 1994 be-fore it called a ­cease-fire. AP reported that the group runs criminal rackets in ­working-class Protestant districts.

July 9—Germany—Federal prosecutors charged 4 men with supporting a foreign terrorist organization—the Islamic State; one of them helped smuggle volunteers to Syria. The 4 were identified as a Tunisian citizen identified only as Kemal Ben Yahia S.; Russian national, Yusup G.; and 2 ­German-Moroccans: Mounir R. and Azzedine Ait H. The Tu­nisian was accused of organizing travel to Syria for po­tential IS recruits on several occasions between July 2013 and October 2014, including for a 17-year-old boy. Prosecutors said that he supplied the group with nearly 5,000 euros ($5,500) in cash, plus clothing.

July 9—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit a bus and armored personnel carrier north of the Sinai Peninsula, injuring 20 policemen in civilian clothes who were leaving ­al-Arish to go on leave.

July 10—Ethiopia—Assefa Abiyu of the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission told the ­state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation that police killed 30 gunmen who tried to illegally slip into the country from Eritrea’s western Tigray region.

July 10—Yemen—CNN reported that AQAP leader Qasm ­al-Rimi, alias Abu Hureira ­al-Sanaani, said in a video that Muslims must attack the U.S., observing, “All of you must direct and gather your arrows and swords against it.”

July 10—Somalia—Al-Shabaab suicide car bombers and gunmen attacked Mogadishu’s Siyad Hotel, opposite the presidential palace, and the Weheliye Hotel on Makka Almukkaramah Road. In the ensuing gun battle with special forces, 10 people, including hotel residents and the gunmen, died.

Jihadis were suspected in mortar attacks on a military base for the African Union forces in Mogadishu; no casualties were reported.

July 10—Tanzania/Uganda—Tanzania extradited to Uganda the jihadi leader of the ­Congo-based Allied Democratic Forces, Jamil Mukulu, who was accused of committing atrocities in Uganda and Congo. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam earlier in 2015. The Islamic convert was accused of leading a 1998 attack in which scores of Ugandan students were burned to death while asleep in their dormitories in a town near the Congo border. The Allied Democratic Forces was believed behind fatal bombings in Kampala in the late 1990s before a military operation forced the rebels to move to eastern Congo.

July 10—Iraq—Soldiers and Shi’ite militiamen repelled an Islamic State attack against the ­government-held town of Khalidiyah in western Anbar Province. Ten Iraqi soldiers and 12 terrorists died during the attack in which the terrorists fired mortar shells and sent in 5 suicide car bombers.

July 10—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu news agency reported that police carried out raids in Istanbul and 3 other cities, arresting at least 21 people suspected of Islamic State membership. Three suspects were foreign nationals who were planning to cross into Syria to join IS. Others were believed to have been working to recruit fighters for the group. Police seized 2 rifles, large amounts of ammunition, documents and military uniforms.

July 10—Indonesia—A bomb went off at the Alam Sutera mall in the Serpong region of Banten Province, west of Djakarta, causing no casualties.

July 10—Tunisia—The Interior Ministry said the national guard and the army chased 8 suspected extremists in the mountainous Ouled Bouomrane area, near Gafsa’s mining zone and killed 5 suspected jihadis near El Ktar.

July 10—Mali—The government issued a “red alert” that called on Bamako residents to avoid large gathering spaces, markets, supermarkets, restaurants “and other places frequented by the U.N.”

July 10—France—A Paris court convicted Mohamed Achamlane, 37, ­self-proclaimed “emir” of the ­since-disbanded Forsane Alizza (Knights of Pride) group, of plotting attacks on kosher markets and other Jewish businesses in Paris, abducting and torturing a Jewish judge in Lyon, recruiting for jihad, and threatening France. He was sentenced to 9 years in prison. Thirteen others, who were similarly convicted of criminal association with a terrorist enterprise, were sentenced to up to 6 years in prison; the lone female defendant received a suspended 12-month sentence. The group was founded in 2010 and disbanded in 2012 as its members were arrested because authorities feared they would carry out violent acts. Judge Dominique Piot ruled that Achamlane intended to “perpetrate an act of a terrorist nature.”

July 10—Afghanistan—The Washington Post and Associated Press reported that Abdul Hassib Sediqi, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, credited a U.S. drone strike with killing the top leadership of the nascent Afghan branch of the Islamic State. “With the killing of Hafiz Sayeed, Gul Zaman and Shahidullah Shahid, who were ­high-profile figures of Daesh in Afghanistan, we have destroyed the base of ISIS.” Afghan authorities said the July 10 airstrike killed Sayeed and more than 30 other terrorists, and a separate strike on July 6 killed Gul Zaman, the IS Khorasan chapter’s military operations deputy and its ­second-highest leader, and 6 others, including a former Pakistani Taliban spokesman—Shahidullah Shahid. The South Asia Terrorism Portal reported that Zaman had run the Pakistani Taliban’s operations in Pakistan’s Orakzai tribal area. U.S. Army Colonel Brian Tribus confirmed a U.S. airstrike in Nangarhar Province’s Achin District. AP reported on July 13 that IS released an audio clip they claimed was of Sayeed speaking in Pashtun and calling on people to join the Islamic State and shun the Taliban, and denied that he was killed.

The New York Times reported that a U.S. airstrike in the Achin District of Nangarhar Province killed Hafiz Saeed Khan, a Pakistani leader of the Afghanistan and Pakistan affiliate of the Islamic State, along with 29 other terrorists. He had defected from the Paki­stani Taliban in 2014 and became the IS regional chief in January 2015. IS disputed his death on Twitter.

July 10–11—Thailand—Six people were killed and 11 wounded in attacks in southern Thailand. A motorcycle bomb exploded on the night of July 10 near a karaoke bar in the Padang Besar border town, killing 3 women and injuring 3.

Apparent arsonists killed 3 people at a shop in the Sungai Kolok border town.

A bomb exploded in a planter in front of a hotel in Sungai Kolok, injuring 8 people, including 3 Laotian women. 15071101

Police Colonel ­Kong-at Suwannakam said suspected Muslim separatists threw giant firecrackers at restaurants and torched 2 other shops in Sungai Kolok, injuring 8.

Bombs destroyed 8 electricity transmission towers in Yala Province during the night.

July 10–11—Nigeria—On July 13, police were investigating reports that Boko Haram killed 43 villagers in Misala and Kalwa villages on July 10 and others in nearby Borno State villages the next day.

July 11—Nigeria—Several Boko Haram gunmen attacked the village of Ngamdu, killing 10 people, wounding many others, and taking over a major highway in the region.

Authorities prevented an ­explosives-laden ­tuk-tuk ­3-wheeled motorized rickshaw from entering Mai­duguri’s largest bus station in the morning. The driver and 4 passengers then tried to attack a bus filled with passengers outside the station’s entrance but the bus driver drove away before the ­tuk-tuk exploded, killing the driver and 3 occupants and slightly injuring 3 bystanders. A fifth passenger of the ­tuk-tuk escaped on foot but was detained by a civilian security group.

July 11—Chad—A man clad in a burqa set off a bomb after being stopped by military police outside N’Djamena’s main market, killing 14, including 5 men and 9 women who worked at the market, and injuring 74 people. Boko Haram was suspected. 15071101

July 11—Iraq—Three roadside bombs simultaneously hit an army convoy southeast of Baghdad, killing 4 soldiers and wounding 9.

A bomb went off near an outdoor market in Youssifiya, killing 2.

Drive-by gunmen killed 2 people in Baghdad’s northeastern suburbs.

A bomb went off near a vegetable and fruit market in Rashidiya, killing 3 people and wounding 5.

July 11—Mali—Special forces disrupted a group of 6 Ansar Dine members plotting an attack in Bamako. Commander Modibo Naman Traore said the first suspect was stopped on the main road to Bamako from Mopti. He was carrying 9,900 euros ($11,000) as well as plans for an attack that were to be delivered to terrorists in Bamako. Malian intelligence officials believed the money and plans originated with Ansar Dine’s leader, Iyad Ag Ghaly, during a meeting in late June near the border with Algeria. Authorities then wrapped up another 3 men and 2 women in Bamako.

July 11—Afghanistan—AP reported on July 24 that U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced that a July 11 airstrike killed 3 terrorists, including senior ­al-Qaeda operational commander Abu Khalil ­al-Sudani in the Bermal District of Paktika Province in eastern Afghanistan. Carter described him as a senior shura member and head of ­al-Qaeda suicide and explosive operations who was directly linked to plots to attack the United States. Carter added that he directed operations against coalition, Afghan and Pakistani forces, and maintained a close association with Ayman ­al-Zawahiri.

The New York Times reported that a bomb hidden in a pillow near a religious school outside Kandahar killed 3 children and wounded 6 others.

July 11—Egypt—Islamic State supporters claimed credit for bombing the Italian Consulate in Cairo at 6:20 a.m., killing one person and injuring 9 others, including 3 members of the same family who were passing by and one policeman. The explosion caused heavy damage to the building and ruptured water lines, causing local flooding. The consulate was closed. No Italians were injured. Among the injured was Ahmed Hasan, 20, a neighbor, who had cuts on his leg. He said he saw a victim with a severed leg. The New York Times reported that the claim of credit did not include the logo of the “Sinai Province” IS affiliate, but rather said “Islamic State, Egypt.” The statement on Twitter said its “soldiers” used a 450-kilogram car bomb, and that Muslims should avoid “security dens” which are “legitimate targets.” 15071102

July 12—Tanzania—In the night, gunmen attacked a police station in Dar es Salaam, killing 4 police officers and 3 civilians—possibly including an attacker—and injuring 4 people. The gunmen stole firearms and ammunition.

July 12—Iraq—A suicide car bomber hit the Aden checkpoint in Baghdad’s Khazimiyah district, killing 8, including 5 civilians, and wounding 23.

A car bomb exploded at sunset on a commercial street in Baghdad’s ­al-Askan district, killing 4 and wounding 11.

A roadside bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s ­al-Amal neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 7.

A suicide bomber set off his explosive vest in a crowded market in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood, killing 9 and wounding 25.

A car bomber killed 6 and injured 15 in Baghdad’s Banook District.

July 12—China—The government claimed that many of the 109 Uighurs who were repatriated by Thailand after fleeing China were on their way to fight in the Middle East and that some were implicated in terrorist activities at home. Thai deputy government spokesman Maj. Gen. Verachon Sukhonthapatipak said the Uighurs had been held for more than a year; they had claimed to be Turkish. Some 173 were sent to Turkey, but the 109 were Chinese. Xinhua cited the Chinese Ministry of Public Security as indicating that the 109 “illegal immigrants” had been on their way “to join jihad” in Turkey, Syria or Iraq, and that 13 of them had fled China after being implicated in terrorist activities. Another 2 had escaped detention. Xinhua said that many of the 109 Uighurs had been radicalized by materials sent by the exiled World Uyghur Congress, a Munich, ­Germany-based rights group, and the East Turkestan Islamic Movement, designated by China as a terrorist organization.

Xinhua claimed that a Chinese police investigation had uncovered several gangs recruiting people for jihad.

July 12—Afghanistan—A van hit a roadside bomb in Tagab District in Kapsia Province, killing 10 civilians.

A roadside bomb hit a passing police vehicle in Kunduz Province, killing 2 civilians and injuring 4 civilians and 2 policemen.

A suicide car bomb hit a checkpoint near Camp Chapman manned by members of the Khost Provincial Force, killing 33 people, including 6 security personnel and 27 Afghan civilians, mostly women and children, and wounding 6 civilians, 2 of them critically. No U.S. or coalition soldiers were killed.

July 13—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected when 2 bombs went off in a bar in Fotokol, near the Nigerian border, killing 14 people, including 3 Chadian soldiers. No Cameroonian soldiers were hurt. 15071301

July 13—Indonesia—A panel of judges at the North Jakarta District Court sentenced Chinese Uighurs Ahmet Mahmud, 20, Abdulbasit Tuzer, 24, and Altinci Bayyram, 28, alias Abdullah, to 6 years in prison for violating the nation’s ­anti-terrorism and immigration laws by conspiring with Indonesian militants, including Abu Wardah Santoso, a fugitive who is on the nation’s ­most-wanted list. The trio were arrested in September 2014 with Uighur Ahmet Bozoglan and 3 Indonesian men, while allegedly trying to meet Santoso in Central Sulawesi Province. Santoso runs the outlawed East Indonesia Mujahideen and was accused of killing several Indonesian policemen. He had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Presiding Judge Kun Marioso said the defendants had conspired with a ­Santoso-led terrorist group in Poso in Central Sulawesi and used fake Turkish passports. The defendants were ordered to pay $7,535 each or spend 6 additional months in custody.

July 13—Afghanistan—A bomb went off in a mosque in Puli Khumri in Baghlan Province after evening prayers, wounding 29 people, including a member of the local provincial council. The worshippers were awaiting food deliveries donated by acting pro­vincial governor Sultan Mohammad Ebadi.

July 13—Burundi—The army killed 31 suspected rebels and captured 170 others in fighting in northwestern Cibitoke Province. Six soldiers were wounded. Soldiers seized 80 weapons. Canesius Ndayimanisha, governor of northern Kayanza Province, said rebels conducted 2 attacks inside Burundian territory on July 10 after entering Burundi through the dense Nyungwe forest on the Rwanda border.

July 13—France—Interior Minister Bernard Caze­neuve said authorities arrested 4 ­would-be jihadis, aged between 16 and 23, who planned to attack military bases. The arrests took place in Marseille, in the northern Nord region, and in Chesnay west of Paris. Ringleader Ismael K., 17, had been under surveillance after authorities spotted his online posts. He said he wanted to travel to Syria. Djebril A., 23, was a former French Marine dropped from the Corps. Antoine F., 19, was also a member. The 16-year-old was soon released. A judicial official said the remaining suspects planned to film the decapitation of the base chief at Fort Bear, where Djebril A. had worked. The Paris Prosecutor’s office said the trio were in contact with an Islamic State member who told them to “strike in France.”

July 13—China—UPI reported that Chinese police shot dead 3 ­knife-wielding men they characterized as “terrorists” from Xinjiang Province. The trio shouted jihadi slogans as police entered their Shen­yang apartment to attempt their arrest. A 28-year-old female assailant was wounded in the encounter. She and 3 children were taken into custody. A female bystander was injured by police gunfire. Police were investigating the Hijrah Jihad group and said the foursome were “Xinjiang terrorists.” Authorities said they arrested 16 “terrorism suspects” in an earlier raid in the city.

July 14—UK—London police arrested 2 men in their 20s and a man in his 30s at 2 separate residen-tial addresses north of London in Letchworth and greater Luton on suspicion of preparing acts of terrorism.

July 14—Somalia—UPI reported that African Union forces claimed they killed 25 ­al-Shabaab terrorists who had attacked a district in the south. Five soldiers and 2 civilians died during the 5-hour gun battle in Rage Celle, according to Xinhua.

July 14—Afghanistan—During the night, gunmen killed 5 Afghan civilians in Zabul Province. In a gun battle between police and the Taliban at a Zabul checkpoint, one policeman and one terrorist were killed and 3 civilians were injured.

July 15—U.S.—CNN reported that 34 commercial pilots said that lasers had been pointed at them during flights. Eleven of the incidents occurred in New Jersey. The FAA said nearly half of the attacks were close to Newark Liberty International Airport, while the others occurred in Robbinsville, near the Pennsylvania border, and Ocean City, along the Atlantic Ocean. Carriers included 3 American Airlines planes, 2 from JetBlue and one each from United, Delta and Republic. The FAA reported 3,894 laser incidents in 2014, up from 283 in 2005. On July 15–16, the FAA reported 43 incidents.

July 15—Mongolia—UPI reported that Chinese authorities planned to charge a group of tourists in Ordos, Mongolia, for alleged links to terrorism. They included 3 British citizens, 2 with dual British and South African citizenship, one Indian and 3 South African citizens, in a tourist group on a 47-day sightseeing trip of ancient Chinese cities. Six British and 5 South African citizens in the China Odyssey Tours vacation were to be deported.

July 15—Austria—Presiding judge Alexandra Skrdla of the Vienna regional court sentenced Oliver N., 17, to 21/2 years in prison for participating in a terror organization and incitement to terrorism by joining the Islamic State. He went to Syria in 2014 and said he was an ambulance driver collecting wounded IS fighters. Prosecutors said he spread IS propaganda videos online. He was represented by attorney Wolfgang Blaschitz. N. returned to Austria in the spring of 2015.

July 15—Bahrain—The Interior Ministry said a man died in Eker when a bomb he was planting to target police exploded prematurely.

The Interior Ministry announced the interception of a boat attempting to smuggle weapons, ammunition and explosives into the country. Authorities arrested 2 Bahraini suspects, Mahdi Subah Abdulmohsen Mohammed, 30, and Abbas Abdulhus-sain Abdullah Mohammed, 30. Officials said Mahdi received military training in Iran in August 2013. The Ministry said that the men admitted to receiving the shipment from “Iranian handlers outside Bah­rain’s territorial waters.” Two other men were also arrested.

July 15—Somalia—A Somali official and ­al-Shabaab spokesman Abu Mohammed claimed that a U.S. drone strike on a vehicle in Bardhere killed ­al-Shabaab commander Ismael Jabhad and 3 other terrorists.

July 15—Afghanistan—Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar issued a rare message to the media in which he said “The objective behind our political endeavors as well as contacts and interactions with countries of the world and our own Afghans is to bring an end to the occupation and to establish an independent Islamic system in our country.” He called on the “Muslim world maintain unity and fraternity among themselves and not allow internal differences to weaken their ranks.” The United States Rewards for Justice Program had offered a reward of $10 million for information leading to his capture.

A remotely-detonated roadside bomb wounded 13 Afghan civilians in northern Faryab Province.

July 16—Egypt—The Sinai Province of the Islamic State said on Twitter that it had destroyed an Egyptian navy vessel with a rocket off the peninsula’s Mediterranean coast. The group included showing a rocket flying toward the vessel, a large explosion and then black smoke rising up from the vessel. Egyptian military spokesman Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said that the vessel caught fire in an exchange of gunshots with “terrorists” on the shore.

July 16—U.S.—At 10:45 a.m., ­Kuwait-born ­Jordanian-American dual citizen Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, 24, fired an AK-47 from a Mustang convertible at a military recruiting center in a strip mall on Amnicola Highway in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He then drove 7 miles and crashed through the gates of the Navy Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center. He killed 2 Marines, then ran to the motor pool, killing 2 more Marines. The resident of Hixson, Tennessee also wounded another Marine, a male sailor, and Chattanooga police officer Dennis Pedigo, who was hit in the ankle. Police killed the shooter at 1:15 p.m. Police found 30-round magazines on his body. He had 2 rifles or shotguns and a handgun with him during the shooting but was not wearing body armor. Ed Reinhold, FBI Special Agent in Charge, said, “We will treat this as a terrorism investigation until we determine it was not. We have not determined if it was an act of terrorism or a criminal act.”

Abdulazeez did not work at either facility. In the previous quarter, he was a shift supervisor at Superior Essex, Inc., a technology company that designed and produced specialty wiring and cables in the Nashville suburb of Franklin.

In a July 13 myabdulazeez blog post, Abdulazeez wrote “life is short and bitter” and that Muslims should not let “the opportunity to submit to Allah … pass you by.” In his Red Bank High School year book, he wrote, “My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?” He had participated in mixed martial arts. He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in electrical engineering in 2012. He was not in any U.S. terrorism databases. He had a DUI arrest in April 2015; a court appearance was scheduled for July 30. He had visited Jordan on ­April–November 2014 and Kuwait in 2010. He was believed to have acted alone.

The family came to the U.S. at the start of the Gulf War in 1991. His parents were naturalized U.S. citizens and conservative Muslims. His father, Yousef, worked at Chattanooga’s Public Works Department and had been removed from a terrorism watch list. The father had filed for federal bankruptcy protection in 2002. His mother, Rasmia, filed for divorce in 2009 in Hamilton County, Tennessee, saying You­sef physically and sexually abused her. When the couple reconciled, they signed a ­post-nuptial agreement under which Yousef agreed to give Rasmia a monthly allowance of $200. The FBI had investigated Yousef in 1994 and in 2002 for donating to Palestinian groups suspected of having ties to terrorism.

Military officials as identified the dead Marines as

• Gunnery Sergeant Thomas J. Sullivan of Hampden, Massachusetts, who graduated from Cathedral High School and grew up in Springfield’s East Forest Park neighborhood

• Staff Sergeant David A. Wyatt of Burke, North Carolina

• Sergeant Carson A. Holmquist of Polk, Wisconsin

• Lance Corporal Squire K. “Skip” Wells of Cobb, Georgia, who graduated in 2012 from Marietta, Georgia’s Sprayberry High School, where he was in the band and ROTC. He studied history at Georgia Southern University through the fall of 2013.

On July 18, AP reported that Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith, 26, died at 2:17 a.m. from his wounds. The married father of 3 children had recently ­re-enlisted. He had a scholarship to play baseball at Defiance College in Ohio, but could not play after injuring his shoulder.

On July 21, AP reported that Asaad Ibrahim Asaad Haj Ali, a maternal uncle of the shooter, had been in Jordanian custody since July 17, according to attorney Abed ­al-Kader Ahmad ­al-Khateeb.

AP also reported that investigators found writings by the shooter that mention Anwar ­al-Aulaqi.

Investigators said on July 22, 2015, that Abdulazeez acted alone.

July 16—Kyrgyzstan—The National Security Committee announced that 4 gunmen linked to an international terror organization were killed in a ­shoot-out in Bishkek. One NSC officer was wounded. Local media suggested Islamic State involvement.

July 16—Nigeria—Two bombs hit a market in Gombe, killing 50, including children, and wounding 75. One bomb was set off by a suicide bomber; the other bomb was hidden in the market.

July 16—Saudi Arabia—An Islamic State car bomb exploded at a checkpoint near the country’s highest security prison, killing the driver and wounding 2 security officials.

July 17—Nigeria—In the morning in Damaturu, an elderly woman and a 10-year-old girl killed 12 peo-ple and injured 18 at the checkpoints of 2 prayer grounds.

July 17—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide bomber set off a small truck bomb in a marketplace in Khan Beni Saad in Diyala Province, killing 130 and injuring 170. Another 20 people were missing. IS said on Twitter that it used 3 tons of explosives in revenge for the killing of Sunni Muslims in Hawija, in neighboring Kirkuk Province.

July 17—Morocco—Security forces announced the arrest of a Syrian carrying a Tunisian passport with alleged links to the Islamic State.

July 18—Iraq—A roadside bomb went off on a commercial street in Baghdad’s Dora district, killing 4 people and wounding 7.

A roadside bomb exploded on a commercial street in ­al-Rashidiya, killing 3 and wounding 11.

July 18—Algeria—The Defense Ministry announced that jihadi gunmen ambushed an Algerian army convoy in a forest in Ain Defla Province, killing 9 soldiers (the media initially said 11 were killed) and wounding 2 soldiers. AQIM said it had killed 14 soldiers.

July 18—Saudi Arabia—The government announced the arrest of 431 individuals, including foreigners, suspected of planning Islamic State attacks. The government said the plot included “6 successive suicide operations which targeted mosques in the Eastern province on every Friday timed with assassinations of security men…. Terrorist plots to target a diplomatic mission, security and government facilities in Sharurah Province and the assassination of security men were thwarted.” Several suspects ran jihadi websites. Charges included smuggling explosives, surveying potential attack sites, providing transport and material support to bombers, smuggling in explosives from abroad and manufacturing suicide vests. The New York Times quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that while most of the detainees were Saudis, those arrested included Yemenis, Egyptians, Syrians, Jordanians, Algerians, Nigerians and others.

July 18—Lebanon—Five Czech nationals and their Lebanese taxi driver were reported missing in eastern Lebanon. Their car was discovered several hundred yards from a Lebanese army checkpoint in Kefraya. A suitcase in the car contained their passports, Lebanese lira and euros.

July 18—Egypt—The ­state-run MENA news agency reported that Islamic State gunmen fired ­rocket-propelled grenades at 2 military checkpoints near Sheikh Zuweid in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 7 soldiers and wounding 7. Brigadier General Mohammed Samir said the military killed 59 terrorists.

July 19—Israel—NBC News reported that Islamic State flags were found near some of the 5 cars belonging to leaders of Islamic groups, including Ha­mas leaders, that were destroyed by bombs in Gaza. No injuries were reported but a house was burned.

July 19—Iraq—The Islamic State blew up a 30,000-capacity sports stadium in Ramadi in Anbar Province. It had never been used for sports, having recently been used as a military base for Iraqi security forces and militia.

July 19—UK—Al-Jazeera reported that British citizen Babar Ahmad finished his 11-year sentence in a U.S. prison and returned home to the UK, where he had earlier spent 8 years in prison without charge before his extradition to the U.S. on charges of running a pro–Taliban website.

July 19—Libya—UPI reported that late in the day, gunmen kidnapped 4 Italian construction workers employed by Bonatti S.P.A., which specializes in oil field construction in hazardous areas, near western Libya’s Eni oil and gas fields, in Mellitah, after a trip to Tunisia. 15071901

July 19—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected of killing 23 people in an evening attack by 80 gunmen on northern Kamouna village. There were only 7 local soldiers guarding the village. 15071902

July 20—Italy—The ANSA news agency reported that an Italian judge indicted 25 suspected members of the ­extreme-right movement Stormfront on charges of racial hatred and making threats following posts in 2011 and 2012 on the group’s website against migrants, Jews and officials. A judge in Rome set the trial’s opening for December 15. The group had targeted anti–Mafia writer Roberto Saviano and Mayor Giusi Nicolini of the southern Sicilian island of Lampedusa.

July 20—Turkey—At ­mid-day, a suspected Islamic State suicide bomber attacked the Amara Cultural Center in Suruc near the Syrian border, killing 32 and hospitalizing nearly 100. A political group was holding a news conference on the reconstruction of nearby Kobani, Syria. Some 300 people from the Federation of Socialist Youths were staying at the center. Among the injured was Fatma Edemen, 22, who had minor injuries to her legs. The next day, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said a suspect had been identified. 15072001

On July 22, Kurdish militants claimed responsibility for killing 2 policemen in retaliation for the ­suicide bombing, which killed many Kurds, saying the government did not do enough to prevent the attack.

July 20—Syria—Fox News reported that ISIS posted on a website “We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target as we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers, 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday.”

July 20—Iraq—The Islamic State ambushed a military unit near Fallujah in Anbar Province, killing the group’s commander, Ali Ahmed, and 4 of his men.

July 20—Germany—A Munich court rejected a request by 3 ­court-appointed defense attorneys—Wolfgang Heer, Anja Sturm, and Wolfgang Stahl—to resign from the country’s biggest neo–Nazi murder trial. The trio wanted to back away from defending Beate Zschaepe, who had been on trial since May 2012 for alleged complicity in 10 murders. Prosecutors claimed that she was part of the National Socialist Underground, which allegedly killed 8 Turks, a Greek and a German policewoman between 2000 and 2007. The group’s 2 other members died in an apparent ­murder-suicide in November 2011.

July 21—Internet—BBC News reported that the hacktivist group Anonymous published on the Pastebin website a list of 750 Twitter accounts it claimed are spreading Islamic State propaganda. The group also tried to take down Facebook pages, blogs, websites and web proxies used by supposed IS supporters.

July 21—Syria—UPI reported that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi had banned videos of beheadings and other executions by his followers. The ­London-based Arab newspaper al-Quds ­al-Arabi reported that the group wanted to “respect the sensitivities of Muslims and children who find such images repulsive.” ­Al-Baghdadi showing only the initial ­throat-cutting, followed by the placing of the severed head on the body.

July 21—Iraq—A car bomb exploded in front of a New Baghdad clothing store in the evening, killing 14 and wounding 30. UPI and Xinhua reported that 2 other car bombings in Baghdad killed 10 and injured 32.

July 21—UK—The Crown Prosecution Service charged under the Terrorism Act of 2006 Junead Ahmed Khan, 24, and his uncle, Shazib Ahmed Khan, 22, with trying to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Junead Khan was also charged with plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in the UK. Prosecutors said he planned to kill a U.S. service member by running him over with a car and stabbing him, possibly while wearing a suicide vest. The duo were arrested on July 14 in Luton, north of London. A third unnamed male detainee was released without charge. The 2 appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court. Their next hearing was scheduled for Au-gust 10.

July 21—UK—Prosecutors said UK software engineer Mohammed Ali, 31, used the Internet to contact a U.S.-based seller, who used the names Dark Mart and Psychochem, about purchasing 500 milligrams of ricin for $500. He planned to test it by killing a small animal. Ali had contacted an undercover FBI agent, who sent him a toy car containing a harmless powder that he believed was ricin. He was arrested in February 2015. Police said his computer had notes saying “paid ricin guy” and “get pet to murder.” On July 23, AP reported that psychologist Alison Beck told a London jury that Ali got the idea from a Breaking Bad episode in which Walter White killed a rival with ­ricin-laced tea. On July 29, 2015, he was convicted. Ali faced life in prison. On September 18, 2015, AP reported that Ali was sentenced to 8 years.

July 21—Syria—Spanish journalists Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre were reported missing. They entered Syria from Turkey on July 10. Their families had not heard from them since July 13, when they were seen in a white van in the ­rebel-held Maadi district of Aleppo. Pampliega was a freelance reporter; Lopez was a photojournalist. 15072101

July 21—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the dismantling of an 8-man cell that had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was planning attacks in Morocco. The suspects were picked up in the northern cities of Tangier and Taounate and the southern towns of Khouribga and Bouznika. The men also had links to former ­al-Qaeda members who fought in Afghanistan.

July 21—Peru—A grenade exploded at a circus performance in Lima, wounding 11 people, including clowns and members of the audience. Firefighters said most had shrapnel wounds in their legs. Four sustained hearing problems. One circus worker was hospitalized with a stomach wound. Police were investigating whether extortion was involved.

July 22—Cameroon—Two suicide bombers hit a marketplace and a neighborhood in the regional capital of Maroua, killing 24 people and injuring 50. One of the bombers was a 9-year-old girl disguised as a beggar. Boko Haram was suspected. A local businessman claimed that hundreds of people were wounded. 15072201

July 22—Egypt—Former Army officer Hisham ­el-Ashmawi issued an audio message calling for holy war against President ­Abdel-Fattah ­el-Sissi, describing him as a “new pharaoh.” ­El-Ashmawi was linked to the ­Sinai-based Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis Islamic State affiliate. He was implicated in several deadly attacks, including July’s bombing outside the Italian Consulate in Cairo. He was sacked from the special forces in 2009 for his radical ideas.

On July 24, 2015, AP reported that Croatia’s foreign ministry said that a Croatian man, T.S., born in 1984, had been kidnapped on a highway west of Cairo by an unidentified armed group 2 days earlier. The petroleum engineer was traveling to work for a multinational ­French-based company when the group stopped his company car, forced him out and drove away. The kidnappers left behind his car, driver and belongings. Islamic State sympathizers in the Sinai said they had kidnapped Tomislav Salolpek, 30, a married Croatian petroleum engineer/surveyor from Vrpolje and father of 2, who was driving on the Oasis Road highway west of Cairo while on his way to work. The group left behind his car, driver, and belongings. He was affiliated with the ­France-based CGG Ardiseis, worked in the oil and gas sector and had a branch office in Cairo’s Maadi suburb, where many expats and diplomats live. Salopek started working 2 months earlier on a project for a ­sub-contractor of CGG. On August 5, 2015, AP reported that an Islamic State affiliate released a video, entitled “A Message to the Egyptian Government,” threatening to kill him if Egyptian authorities did not release “Muslim women” held in prison within 48 hours. The video showed a man wearing a yellow jumpsuit kneeling in the desert before a ­knife-wielding masked man in military fatigues. An Islamic flag was nearby. Salopek said in English that if the demands were unmet, “the soldiers from Wilayet Sina will kill me.” Wilayet Sina is the Arabic phrase for the Egyptian Sinai Province of the Islamic State. On August 12, IS released an online image of his beheaded body. The family of photographer and activist Esraa ­el-Taweel, whose freedom was demanded, expressed shock. ­El-Taweel had been in jail for 2 months. Croatian Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic reported on August 13 that an unidentified group kidnapped Salopek, demanded a ransom from his employer on July 30, then handed him to the IS. 15072202

July 22—Italy—Prosecutor Maurizio Romanelli said 2 men, a Tunisian and a Pakistani arrested in Brescia earlier in the day, claimed allegiance to the Islamic State and planned to attack Ghedi air base near Brescia that has a U.S. military presence. They said on Twitter that they would also attack Milan’s Duomo and Rome’s Colosseum. Prosecutors said targets included a food packaging company where one of the men worked. They were detained while planning to travel to Islamic State territory for military training. They found on the Internet the manual “How to Survive in the West,” a 2015 guide for mujahedeen that includes primitive weapons and bomb making, how to escape after carrying out an attack and how to avoid detection as an extremist. The ­long-time residents in Italy with families were held on suspicion of terror association and subversion.

July 22—Syria—AP reported that Japanese freelance journalist Jumpei Yasuda was reported missing for a month. He had reported from the Middle East since 2002. He and 3 other Japanese had been taken hostage in Iraq in 2004, but he was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release. Fellow Japanese freelancer Kosuke Tsuneoka said that he last received a message from Yasuda in Syria on June 23. Yasuda wrote a book in 2010 about laborers in war zones after working as a cook in Iraq for a year. AP reported on December 24, 2015, that Reporters Without Borders claimed earlier in the week that the ­hostage-takers began a countdown for a ransom payment, threatening to kill Yasuda or sell him to another militant group. Yasudu reportedly had gone to Syria in part to report on the kidnapping of Kenji Goto, who was his friend and who was killed by the IS.

July 22—Melilla—Spain’s Interior Ministry announced the arrest in Melilla, a Spanish enclave in Africa, of a 29-year-old Spaniard suspected of recruiting women to send to areas controlled by the Islamic State in Syria. The Ministry said he distributed recordings of pro–IS speeches to recruits.

July 22—Turkey—The Governor for Sanliurfa Prov­ince, Izzettin Kucuk, said police officers Feyyaz Yumusak and Okan Acar were found shot dead in their Ceylanpinar home near the border with Syria. It was not clear if the incident was terrorism related.

The ­state-run Anadolu news agency said the youth wing of a Kurdish rebel group claimed responsibility for killing Mursel Gul, 45, in Istanbul. The group falsely accused him of being an IS member.

July 22—Iraq—The Washington Post and Vocativ.com reported on July 24 that IS released a video in Dijla Province showing child soldiers, including a 3-year-old boy, giving testimonials and reciting Koran verses. One boy asked, “Where are the martyrs? Where are the suicide attackers?” then called for Muslims and Arabs to stop talking and begin acting, saying “Give me my weapon.” He then fired a rifle.

A car bomb exploded in southwestern Baghdad’s ­al-Bayaa neighborhood, killing 18 and wounding 36.

A car bomb exploded in Baghdad’s ­al-Shaab neighborhood, killing 8 and wounding 22.

July 22—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt after a guard spotted him in a market in the Almar District of Faryab Province, killing at least 20 people and wounding 30. A local official said 38 were injured. The Deputy Governor, Abdul Satar Barez, said 25 were killed, including 2 members of the security forces.

July 22—Nigeria—Bombs went off during the night at 2 bus stations in Gombe, killing 29 and wounding 105.

July 22—Belgium—CNN reported on July 24 that 2 days earlier, police arrested 5 people, including 2 former Guantanamo Bay detainees, believed to be part of a recruiting network for al-Qaeda in Syria. The group was about to conduct a nighttime ­break-in of a house to raise funds in Hoboken, near Antwerp. The Gitmo alums were Moussa Zemmouri, 37, a Moroccan born in Antwerp, and an Algerian identified as Soufiane A., who prosecutors believe spent time in Syria. They were charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group. All 5 were charged with attempted armed robbery.

In 2003, Zemmouri was transferred to U.S. custody after he was detained by Pakistani police when fleeing Afghanistan in autumn 2001. The U.S. said he had trained in the al-Qaeda–sponsored Derunta training camp in Khost, Afghanistan and that he served as a senior member of the Theological Commission of the ­al-Qaeda-affiliated Moroccan Islamic Fighting Group (MIFG). Zemmouri was released from Guantanamo in 2005. He wrote the book Innocent at Guantanamo after returning to Belgium. The UK Muslim prisoner advocacy group CAGE often cited his case. Belgian police put him under surveillance and suggested that he provided theological encouragement to several former MIFG members who went on to the jihad in Syria after completing prison sentences in Belgian jails.

July 23—Sweden—Security police in the southwestern region of Goteborg arrested 2 Swedish citizens—2 men in their early 30s—on suspicion of terrorist offenses and murder in Syria in ­April-July 2013. A warrant for a third suspect was issued.

July 23—U.S.—FBI Director James Comey told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer that the Islamic State was a bigger threat to the U.S. than al-Qaeda after U.S. military strikes had diminished the al-Qaeda affiliated Khorasan Group.

John Russell Houser, 59, fired a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun on an audience watching the movie “Trainwreck” in the Grand 16 theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing 2 women and injuring 9 people. The dead were Mayci Breaux, 21, and Jillian Johnson, 33. He shot himself dead while trying to escape. The Associated Press said that he had been a caller on the WLTZ NBC television affiliate in Co­lum­bus, Georgia in the 1990s in which he advocated violent ­anti-abortion attacks. He was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital in 2008 and was suspect of a restraining order preventing him from approaching family members. His estranged wife said he had “a history of mental health issues, i.e., manic depression and/or bipolar disorder.” On ­right-wing extremist Internet boards he praised Adolf Hitler and said to consider “the power of the lone wolf.” The Southern Poverty Law Center said in 2005 he registered to meet with former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Police found wigs and disguises in his Motel 6 room.

July 23—Egypt—An armored vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Rafah in the northern Sinai near the Gaza Strip, killing an officer and 3 soldiers and injuring 3 soldiers. A security official in Sinai said the explosion occurred outside a checkpoint in ­el-Mahdiya village in Rafah. Clashes with terrorists led to the death of a 5th soldier.

July 23—Russia—UPI, the Moskovskij Komosomolets daily and the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported that a gunman fired a ­sawed-off Osa pistol in Moscow, critically wounding Sergei Ustinov, 62, vice president of the Russian Jewish Congress, in near his real estate agency on Petrovsko Razumovskaya Street in what may have been an anti–Semitic attack. Ustinov founded the Jewish History Museum in Russia in 2011.

July 23—Philippines—A package filled with nails exploded in a massage parlor in Zamboanga in the evening, killing one person and injuring 8, 2 of them critically.

July 23—Syria/Australia—Federal police said Australian nurse Adam Brookman, 39, would voluntarily return to Sydney on July 24 with a police escort on a flight from Turkey after surrendering to authorities. He told Fairfax Media in May that the Islamic State had forced him to work as a medic. The Melbourne native said he was injured in an airstrike and was taken to an ­IS-controlled hospital. The Islamic convert faced prosecution for supporting terrorists. He was arrested on July 24 upon arrival in Australia. Conviction for being in Raqqa, Syria, carried a 10-year jail term. He was also accused of working as a guard for IS.

July 23—Tunisia—In a series of raids in Bizerte Province, authorities killed one terrorist and arrested 16 people. In the morning at Sejnane, police detained 13 people and killed one man who fired on them. He was a member of the banned Ansar ­al-Shariah movement who later pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. Police then raided 3 homes near Bizerte city, detaining 2 men. A third fired at police and took his wife and infant hostage. Police brought in his parents to convince him to give himself up. The Interior Ministry said the raids had foiled a planned attack. Authorities seized several assault rifles, ammunition and explosives.

July 23—Turkey/Syria—Five Islamic State gunmen fired at a Turkish military outpost from Syrian territory, killing Turkish soldier Yalcine Nane and wounding 2 sergeants, neither seriously. Turkish troops killed at least one IS terrorist. The military seized a rocket launcher and an AK-47 rifle. 15072301

Gunmen ambushed traffic police in Diyarbakir in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, killing an officer and seriously wounding another. They were responding to a hoax traffic accident.

July 24—China—At 5 a.m., police in Wenzhou conducted several raids and arrested 2 men alleged to be members of a terrorist ring. Police seized 5 homemade bombs, knives, and other weapons.

July 24—Morocco—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 2 women in Tangiers in connection with a recently dismantled cell which had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was planning to bring in an ­IS-trained brigade to conduct attacks in the country’s south as the local IS affiliate. The state news agency said they had spent time in ­al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

July 24—Turkey/Syria—Turkey announced that U.S.-led coalition forces could base manned and unmanned aircraft at its air bases for anti–IS attacks, and itself began Operation Yalcin airstrikes on IS in Syria, killing 9 terrorists. Turkish media said the bases would include those at Incirlik, Diyarbakir and Batman, in southern Turkey near the border with Syria.

Meanwhile, 5,000 police officers conducted a sweep against suspected terrorists, including the PKK Kurdish rebel group and the outlawed ­far-left ­DHKP-C, detaining 37 foreigners. Anadolu reported that a ­DHKP-C woman was killed in a gunfight with police in Istanbul. One detainee in Istanbul was Halis Bayuncuk, an alleged IS cell leader suspected of recruiting supporters.

July 24—Russia—Iran’s Tasnim News Agency and Russia Today reported that more than 30 suspected Islamic State recruiters were arrested in a mosque on Pervomayskaya Street in Balashikha, a Moscow suburb. The news services said Lomonosov Moscow State University philosophy student Varvara Karaulova and 13 other Russians were caught trying to cross the ­Turkey-Syria border to join the Islamic State in June.

July 24—Nigeria—AFP reported that Boko Haram was suspected of a 9 a.m. attack on Maikadiri village in Borno State in which 21 people were killed.

July 25—Colombia—President Juan Manuel Santos announced the suspension of aerial bombings of rebel camps in response to the unilateral ceasefire of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia begun on July 20.

July 25—Iraq—Reuters reported that 2 suicide bombers hit a swimming pool in Tuz Khurmatu, killing 12 people and injuring 45, most of them Shi’ite Turkmen. One bomber set off his explosives at the pool, while a second set off his explosives at a nearby motorcycle at the pool’s entrance while police and rescue teams were moving casualties.

July 25—Syria—The International Business Times reported that Mohammed Emwazi, 26, believed to be Islamic State beheader/spokesman Jihadi John, had fled the group in Syria several weeks earlier. He was wanted by coalition forces for questioning in the killings of James Foley, David Haines, Alan Henning, Peter Kassig and Steven Sotloff.

July 25—Cameroon—During the night, a suicide bomber attacked a night spot in the Port Vert neighborhood of Maroua, killing 10 people. Boko Haram was suspected. 15072501

July 25—Lebanon—Gunmen ambushed and killed Talal Baladneh, alias Talal ­al-Urduni (Talal the Jordanian), a senior security official with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s mainstream Fatah party, and his bodyguard in the Ein ­el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Gunmen intercepted them near the Nidaa hospital. Lebanese security officials said jihadis were suspected.

July 25—Turkey—A car bomb hit a military vehicle on a road in Lice in southeastern Turkey, killing 2 soldiers and wounding 4 others. The government blamed Kurdish rebels a day after Turkey conducted airstrikes against Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) insurgents in northern Iraq while also bombing IS positions in Syria. The government arrested hundreds of suspects.

Gunmen fired at police stations in Diyarbakir, Siirt and Mardin, causing no injuries.

July 25—Thailand—Muslim insurgents were suspected when a remotely detonated bomb exploded among monks in Pattani Province who were re­ceiving alms during a Buddhist ritual and police officers guarding them. A Buddhist monk and a Thai policeman were killed and 6 other people, including another monk, 2 police and 3 civilians, were wounded.

July 26—Nigeria—UPI reported that in the morning, Boko Haram was suspected when a mentally unstable female suicide bomber attacked a market in Damaturu, killing 15 people and injuring 47.

July 26—Pakistan—In a morning attack, gunmen shot to death Iqbal Baig, a local employee of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency at the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad. He was killed at his home. The motive was unclear. He belonged to the minority Ismaili Shi’ite sect. 15072601

July 26—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber driving a Toyota Dyna truck crashed into the outer blast wall of Mogadishu’s ­6-storey luxury Jazeera Hotel and set off a ton of explosives, killing 15 people, including a Chinese embassy guard, wounding 20, including a Kenyan diplomat, 3 Chinese embassy staffers, and 3 journalists, including one working for the ­London-based Universal Television, and destroying 8 rooms and dozens of nearby homes. The hotel is the site of the diplomatic missions of China and the UAE. ­Al-Shabaab said it was responding to the deaths of dozens of civilians at the hands of Ethiopian soldiers who were part of the African Union force, and chose the hotel because it hosted “Western” embassies that were helping coordinate the AU’s ­anti-al-Shabaab Operation Jubba Corridor offensive. On July 29, UPI quoted a Somali intelligence officer who said that the male bomber was a German citizen of Somali descent who had recently returned to the country from Bonn, Germany. 15072602

July 26—Afghanistan—UPI reported that during a ­3-day gun battle at a police base in the Wardoj District of Badakhshan Province, the Taliban captured but then freed more than 100 police officers after stealing their weapons.

July 26—France—Paris police shot at 2 occupants of a car that tried to crash through barricades in the Place de la Concorde hours before the final arrival of the Tour de France cycling race. It was not clear whether the incursion was ­terrorist-related. The next day, 2 people surrendered to police. One of the car’s occupants, a woman, was hospitalized. The driver, who surrendered, was believed to be a 17-year-old boy without a license.

July 26—Afghanistan—Gunfire broke out between 2 groups at a wedding of a mullah’s son in Dih Salah District in Baghlan Province, killing 21 people and wounding 8. Most of the dead were wedding guests. Two of the wounded were younger than 18 years old. Some 400 people were at the wedding in a private home.

A local police commander and 7 of his men surrendered to the Taliban in Kohistanat District in northern Sari Pul Province after Taliban fighters attacked police checkpoints.

July 26—Egypt—In the morning, a roadside bomb hit a bus carrying police conscripts along a seafront road in ­el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, wounding 18 conscripts. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed credit on Twitter.

July 27—India—Before dawn, 3 gunmen dressed in army fatigues and believed to be from the Indian portion of Kashmir hijacked a car, fired at a moving bus at a bus station, shot at a roadside eatery, then entered a police barracks next to a hospital near Gurdaspur in Punjar State on the Pakistani border. During the attacks, Gupreet Tur, police chief of Gurdaspur district, said the attackers killed at least “2 in the police station, 2 in the adjoining hospital and one out-side.” By the end of the 12-hour gun battle, 9 people died and 8 were hospitalized, 7 in serious condition, according to the Press Trust of India. The gunmen threw grenades and killed 3 civilians and 4 policemen. The 3 attackers were killed by army and police personnel. The state’s ­director-general of police, Sumedh Singh Saini, said “They carried firearms and grenades. They came well-equipped and carried 2 GPS systems.”

The ­state-run All India Radio reported that police had discovered 5 bombs on a railway track in the area.

July 27—Pakistan—Gunmen fired on a police convoy in Quetta, killing 2 officers and a woman ­passer-by. Police fired back, killing an attacker. The second attacker was wounded, but rode off on his motorcycle.

July 27—Germany—An early morning explosion damaged the car of the opposition Left Party’s Michael Richter, a town councilor in the Dresden suburb of Freital, who had been working in support of refugees. No injuries were reported.

July 27—Turkey—Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said an explosion at a natural gas pipeline in Agri Province, 15 kilometers from the Iranian border, caused a large fire and shut down the flow of gas. The fire was quickly brought under control. He suggested that Kurdish rebels were responsible.

Rebels killed a military police major during an ambush of his car in Mus Province. Authorities detained 10 people for questioning.

July 27—U.S.—NBC News reported that the FBI arrested Harlem Suarez, alias Almlak Benitez 23, of Key West, Florida, on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against a person or property within the U.S. He faced life in prison for planning to use a cellphone to set off a ­nail-filled backpack bomb on a Florida beach. The FBI spotted his Facebook praise of the Islamic State. He was detained after receiving a fake bomb provided by the FBI. The Bureau said he told a confidential source, “I can go to the beach at night time … put the thing in the sand … cover it up … so next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is gonna make … a real hard noise from nowhere.” He ordered an AK-47 assault rifle over the Internet in May 2015, but it was not delivered. Also in May, an FBI informant helped him produce a video urging “Muslim brothers to buy AK’s, knives and machetes and fight.” In early June, Suarez and 2 FBI undercover operatives discussed July 4th events in Florida that could be attacked. By July 19, he had purchased 2 boxes of nails he wanted to be included in a bomb, which he paid an operative $100 to build for him.

July 28—Spain—One person was wounded by a gunshot in front of a downtown Barcelona hotel where the city’s ­tourist-popular boulevard, Las Ramblas, intersects with Pintor Fortuny Street.

July 28—Bahrain—A remotely-detonated bomb exploded in the Shi’ite community of Sitra, south of Bahrain city, killing 2 police officers and injuring 6 officers on a bus carrying policemen near a primary school for girls. The next day, AP and the official Bahrain News Agency reported that public security chief Major General Tariq ­al-Hassan announced the arrests of several suspects. On August 13, 2015, ­al-Hassan announced the arrests of 5 suspects with links to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the ­Iranian-armed and -funded Lebanese Hizballah.

July 28—Lebanon—A gun battle in the Ein ­el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp killed 2 men and wounded 2 civilians and a Jund ­al-Sham member. One of the dead was a member of Jund ­al-Sham while the other belonged to Fatah. The wounded included 2 civilians and a Jund ­al-Sham member. 15072801

July 28—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency reported that a ­drive-by gunman killed a police officer in the village of ­al-Jish in the eastern Qatif region. Police arrested 2 suspects.

July 28—Jordan—The state security court sentenced 12 defendants to prison terms ranging from one to 15 years for a Hamas plot to conduct attacks in the West Bank. Eight defendants were sentenced to 1–5 years; 4 others were sentenced in absentia to 15 years. Charges included conspiring against state security. Al-Ghad newspaper reported that recruits were alleged to have trained in shooting, making bombs and street fighting in Jordan and in ­Hamas-ruled Gaza.

July 28—Turkey—A masked gunman shot in the head a soldier in Semdinli, near the Iraqi border. The soldier died in a hospital.

The ­state-run Anadolu news agency reported that the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fired at police and judicial officials’ lodgings with rockets in Hak­kari Province, causing no injuries.

July 29—Jordan—The state security court sentenced 8 defendants in a ­decade-old plot by Leba­non’s Hizballah to attack U.S. troops and the Israeli embassy in Jordan, according to the Jordanian press. The Jordanian leader of the cell was sentenced to 10 years for communicating with Hizballah. Other cell members were sentenced to 2–3 years on various charges, including possessing weapons. An at large Syrian was sentenced to 15 years.

July 29—U.S./Canada—A British Airways flight carrying 312 passengers and 17 crew members from Las Vegas to London was diverted to Montreal following a bomb threat.

July 29—Iraq—In 2 morning attacks, suicide bombers crashed their Humvees into military forces deployed outside the University of Ramadi complex, killing 12 Iraqi troops and wounding 8 soldiers.

Later that day, a suicide bomber drove an ­explosives-laden Humvee toward army and paramilitary forces near Fallujah, killing 6 troops and wounding 4 others.

In a gun battle southwest of Ramadi, one soldier and 14 terrorists were killed and 8 other soldiers were injured.

July 29—Afghanistan—Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokes­man for the governor of Nangarhar Province, announced that 2 nighttime drone strikes in Haska Mina District, near the Pakistani border, killed 20 IS terrorists and caused no civilian deaths or injuries.

Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, a spokesman for the police chief in Kunduz Province, said a local police vehicle was hit by a car bomb, killing 2 civilians and wounding 11. No police were hurt.

July 29—Egypt—At 1 a.m., ­drive-by gunmen opened fire outside the closed Niger Embassy in Cairo’s Giza district, killing a police conscript and wounding 3. 15072901

July 29—Pakistan—At least 14 terrorists, including Malik Ishaq, 55 or 56, who directed the operations of the Taliban- and ­al-Qaeda–linked ­Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, died in a ­pre-dawn assault on a police convoy that was transporting him from a prison in Multan. He was believed to have orchestrated the killing of hundreds of minority Shi’ites. Police had arrested him on July 27, 2015, on suspicion of being involved in the murder of 2 Shi’ites. Among the dead were 2 of his sons and his deputy, Ghulam Rasool. Police later said that “14 or 15 unidentified armed terrorists” attacked police vehicles to free Ishaq. Officers were returning from nearby Muzaffargarh after seizing weapons, explosives and detonators on in­formation provided by Ishaq and his associates. During the ­shoot-out, Ishaq and 5 detainees were killed, as were 8 of the attackers. Six police officers were wounded. The next day, hundreds of followers and relatives attended his burial. His nephew, Mo­ham­mad Kashif, claimed it was an extrajudicial kill-­ing.

He helped found ­Laskhar-e-Jhangvi in the 1990s. The U.S. State Department designated him as a terrorist in February 2014, freezing any assets in the U.S. He was arrested in 1997 and accused in more than 200 criminal cases, including the killings of 70 Shi’ites. He was not convicted after a campaign of intimidation of witnesses, judges and prosecutors. However, he stayed in prison for 14 years as prosecutors slowly tried cases. In 2009, he was flown from jail to negotiate with terrorists who had taken hos­tages at the military headquarters in Rawalpindi. Ishaq had been freed from jail in July 15, 2011, and returned to his home town of Rahim Yar Khan.

On July 30, 2015, police detained a close aide of Ishaq and some 15 Lashkar activists in Quetta.

July 29—Syria—Rebels and oppositionists said that masked ­al-Qaeda franchise Nusra Front gunmen kidnapped Colonel Nadim ­al-Hassan and 6 fellow members of the U.S.-backed Division 30 rebel group near the border town of Azaz in the northern Aleppo countryside during the night. The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that ­al-Hassan was a Syrian army defector who now leads Division 30. The Nusra Front attacked the Division 30 headquarters 2 days later, killing 5 militia members and wounding 18 while losing 8 of its members.

July 29—Yemen—AQAP gunmen publicly executed 6 Shi’ite Houthis in Dar Saad, north of Aden.

Earlier in the week, AQAP looted the office of CARE International in Aden, stealing 2 cars. 15072902

July 29—Afghanistan—Abdul Hassib Sediqi, spokes­man for the National Directorate of Security, announced that Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar died in a hospital in Karachi, Pakistan of hepatitis in April 2013. Omar had not been seen since fleeing into Pakistan after the coalition incursion into Afghanistan following the 9/11 attacks. The Taliban confirmed his death the next day. He had been declared dead several times before. The U.S. Department of State had offered a $10 million (£6.4 million; €9 million) bounty. Earlier in the month, the Taliban had posted on the Internet a text, purportedly from Omar, expressing support for the ongoing peace talks. The Taliban had earlier claimed that he was born in 1960 in ­Chah-i-Himmat in Kandahar Province. He suffered a shrapnel injury to his right eye while battling the Soviet occupation in the 1980s. He became the Taliban’s “Supreme Leader” in 1996. Meeting in Quetta, Pakistan, the 7-member Afghan Taliban Shura (Supreme Council) chose his deputy, Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, as his successor. Mansoor’s deputy was to be Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also had a U.S. State Department bounty of $10 million as head of the Haqqani Network, which has al-Qaeda ties.

July 29—Turkey—During the night, Kurdish rebels fired on a tea house in Diyarbakir, killing a police officer and a civilian.

July 29–30—Nigeria—The military announced that Nigerian soldiers had rescued 71 people, almost all girls and women, in firefights that killed many Boko Haram terrorists in villages near Maiduguri. Some hostages were held for a year. “I was waiting for death … they often threatened to kill us,” said Yagana Kyari, a woman in her 20s who was kidnapped from Kawuri and taken to a BH camp in Walimberi. The military freed 12 women and girls on July 29 in Kilakisa, then freed 54 women and children and 5 elderly men the next day.

July 30—Pakistan—Gunmen attacked a police station in Gujrat. Police killed 2 attackers; the others escaped.

Police killed several gunmen in a raid in Karachi.

July 30—Kuwait—The Ministry of Interior announced the discovery of an Islamic State cell of 5 Kuwaitis involved in fighting in Iraq and Syria. The Ministry said one of them, Mubarak Malfi, died in fighting in Iraq. The other 4 were in custody. The Ministry said they had confessed to being indoctrinated by the IS and receiving weapons training before taking part in fighting abroad. The suspects were born between 1982 and 1990.

July 30—Turkey—Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels armed with automatic rifles and hand grenades raided a Turkish police station in Pozanti in Adan Province, killing 2 policemen in a gun battle that also left 2 terrorists dead.

The ­state-run Anadolu news agency reported that a second group of PKK gunmen set off a bomb on train tracks and fired on railway workers repairing the line in Kars Province, killing one of the workers.

The PKK attacked soldiers protecting a military convoy in Sirnak Province, near the border with Iraq, killing 3 soldiers and an officer. A PKK gunman was killed.

July 30—Syria—The Christian Science Monitor reported that 3 young Chechen women posed as potential IS recruits using fake social media accounts and “catfished” the group out of $3,300 for travel costs to become IS brides. There were under investigation for fraud, but many lauded their actions. The International Business Times reported that they could face fines and 6 months in jail. Finding a party with standing (IS) and willing to ask for prosecution of the case could be difficult. RT.com reported that several men had used the same scam, posing as women interested in joining IS lonely hearts clubs.

July 30—Macedonia—Police spokesperson Ivo Kotevski said that a device, probably a hand grenade, exploded before dawn outside the Aerodrom police station in Skopje, breaking windows and damaging 3 parked cars but causing no injuries. No one claimed credit.

July 30—Israel—Ultra-Orthodox Jew Yishai Schlissel stabbed in the back 6 people at the annual gay pride parade in Jerusalem. He had recently been released from prison after serving a term for stabbing several people at a similar parade in 2005. Police grabbed and arrested him within seconds. On August 2, BBC News reported that Shira Banki, 16, died from her wounds at the Hadassah Medical Centre. On August 24, 2015, Jerusalem’s District Court indicted Yishai Schlissel for murdering Shira Banki and added 5 attempted murder charges for those he wounded.

July 30—Libya—Unknown individuals detained 4 Indian nationals at a checkpoint 30 miles from Sirte during the night. Islamic State gunmen operate in the area. Three of the hostages had taught at Sirte’s university; the fourth worked in nearby Jufra. By the evening of July 31, 2 of the men had returned safely to the Sirte university. 15073001

July 31—Sri Lanka—Drive-by gunmen fired at campaign workers for Finance Minister Ravi Karu­nana­yake of the United National Party in Colombo, killing a woman and wounding 13 other people.

July 31—Israel—Two suspected masked Jewish extremists firebombed a home in Duma village in the West Bank, burning to death Ali Saad Dawabsheh, an 18-month-old Palestinian child, and critically injuring his 4-year-old brother, Ahmad, and their parents, Saed and Riham, variant Reham. The terrorists scrawled graffiti in Hebrew, including “Long live the Messiah,” “revenge” and “price tag” before fleeing in the night. Riham had ­life-threatening burns over 90 percent of her body; Ahmad had burns over 60 percent of his body. Saed died of his wounds on August 8. UN Secretary General Ban ­Ki-moon called the attack a “terrorist act”; Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas deemed it a “war crime.” An empty nearby house was also torched.

On August 4, Shin Bet said it was interrogating Meir Ettinger, 23, after arresting him the previous day for “involvement in an extremist Jewish organization” that was seeking to bring about religious “redemption” through attacks on Christian sites and Palestinian homes. He had been arrested several times earlier and was banned from the West Bank. He was the grandson of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League. Ettinger was represented by attorney Yuval Zemer. Shin Bet did not say whether he was believed involved in the arson.

On August 9, authorities arrested 9 Jewish settlers suspected of anti–Palestinian attacks.

On September 7, 2015, AP reported that Riham Dawabsheh, mother of the Palestinian toddler, died of her wounds.

July 31/August 1—Peru—Security forces announced the rescue of 54 adults and children, mostly members of the Ashaninka indigenous group, who had been held captive by Shining Path rebels in the remote jungle region of Sector Cinco in Rio Tambo in Pangoa Province. Some of the adults had been kidnapped between 20 and 30 years earlier from Puerto Ocopa and nearby towns. Police said the women were used to produce child soldiers and grow crops for them. The oldest of the 34 children was 14. Two young Shining Path deserters who were raised in the camps led authorities to them. Seventy people were rescued from such camps in the past year.

August—Singapore—On September 30, 2015, the government announced the arrest in August of 2 Singaporeans—Muhammad Shamin Mohamed Sidek, 29, and Muhammad Harith Jailani, 18—for attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. The Ministry of Home Affairs said the “self-radicalized” duo read IS online propaganda. They were held without trial under the Internal Security Act. Sidek was sentenced in May to 3 months in jail for inciting religious violence through pro–IS postings on social media. The Ministry said Jailani reportedly collected information on how to travel to Syria and tried to recruit others for IS.

August 1—Afghanistan—The Taliban’s newly named leader, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, released a 30-minute audio message in which he called on his fighters to remain unified after the death of longtime leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. “The enemies have tried a lot, with the help of money and media and many other ways, to weaken the morale for jihad and destroy our unity…. We should keep our unity, we must be united, our enemy will be happy in our separation. This is a big responsibility on us. This is not the work of one, 2 or3 people. This is all our responsibility to carry on jihad until we establish the Islamic state…. We have to continue our jihad, we shouldn’t be suspicious of each other. We should accept each other. Whatever happens must comply with sharia law, whether that be jihad, or talks, or an invitation to either. Our decisions all must be based on sharia law.”

AFP reported that the Taliban denied Pakistani media reports that Jalaluddin Haqqani, 70, founder of the Haqqani Network, had died.

August 2—Mali—Gunmen ambushed a convoy of Malian soldiers on the road between Nampala and Diabaly, killing 2 soldiers and injuring 5.

August 2—Turkey—A Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) suicide bomber driving an agricultural vehicle carrying 2 tons of explosives attacked a military police station on a highway near Dogubayazit in Agri Province, close to Turkey’s border with Iran, killing 2 soldiers, wounding 24 others, and causing extensive damage to the building.

In Mardin Province, a Turkish military vehicle hit a land mine, killing one soldier and injuring 4 others.

August 2—Saudi Arabia—A Saudi was killed when a Najran house he was inside was hit by gunfire from Yemen. 15080201

August 2—Burundi—Drive-by gunmen fired at the car of former intelligence chief General Adolphe Nshimirimana in Bujumbura’s Kamenge neighborhood, killing him. The terrorists also threw a grenade into his vehicle.

August 2—United Arab Emirates—Prosecutor General Salem Saeed Kabish referred 41 people to trial on charges of planning to carry out terrorist acts against the country’s leadership and public with the aim of overthrowing the government and establishing an extremist state. He also accused the group of acquiring firearms and explosives through money raised from “foreign terrorist groups.” Some of the accused were Emiratis.

August 2—Central African Republic—Gunmen firing machine guns and throwing grenades attacked a group of UN peacekeepers carrying out an arrest warrant issued by the public prosecutor in Bangui’s PK5 district, killing one peacekeeper and injuring 8 others. 15080202

August 2—Nigeria—Military spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau announced that troops had rescued 178 Boko Haram hostages—including 101 chil-dren, 67 women and 10 men—and destroyed several BH camps in the northeast. The Nigerian Air Force reported killing “a large number” of terrorists while repelling an attack on Bitta village, 30 miles southwest of the army operations that took place around Bama.

August 2—U.S.—Two bombs exploded within 20 minutes of each other at 2 churches in Las Cruces, New Mexico, causing no injuries. The first bomb, hidden in a mailbox outside an administrative entrance on the opposite side of the church from the door where worshipers were entering, went off at 8:20 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in southern Las Cruces. At 8:40 a.m., a bomb exploded inside a trash can outside the nearby Holy Cross Catholic Church, shattering the building’s glass front while people were queuing for Communion.

August 2—Russia—The ­Anti-Terrorist Committee announced the killing of 8 suspected terrorists in Ingushetia Province.

August 3—Russia—The ­Anti-Terrorist Committee announced that it had killed 6 suspected terrorists in an apartment in Nalchik, regional capital of ­Kabardino-Balkariya Province in the North Caucasus. The ATC said the suspects were accused of several attacks, including the previous week’s killing of a senior police officer.

August 3—Ethiopia—A court sentenced 18 Muslim activists to jail terms of 7 to 22 years on terrorism charges, including attempting to establish a caliphate. Four suspects received 22-year sentences. The defendants included Muslim leaders and activists who were arrested in July 2012 following 6 months of protests in Addis Ababa and elsewhere over alleged government interference in religious affairs.

August 3—Germany—A court in Celle began the case against 2 men from Wolfsburg—German-Tunisian Ayoub B., 27; and Ebrahim H.B., 26—accused of membership in the Islamic State. Ebrahim H.B. told public broadcaster NDR that IS gives new recruits a choice of fighting on the front line, or becoming suicide bombers. Suspected traitors are executed. The duo reportedly went to Syria in May 2014 to join IS, then returned to Germany in ­August-September 2014. Prosecutors said Ebrahim was part of an IS suicide team in Baghdad, but the attempt was called off when part of the team was arrested. Ayoub was accused of fighting for IS.

August 3—Mali—Gunmen on motorcycles attacked an army post in ­Gourma-Rharouss village in the morning, yelled “allahu akbar,” killed at least 10 soldiers, including a lieutenant, burned 2 Malian army vehicles, and escaped. AQIM told the Mauritanian news agency al-Akhbar that it killed 9 soldiers.

August 3—Burundi—During the night, gunmen wounded Pierre Claver Mbonimpa, president of the Association for the Protection of Human Rights and Detained Persons, as he was walking to his home in Bujumbura.

August 3—Israel—A firebomb was thrown at a passing car in Jerusalem, seriously injuring a woman. A second person was hurt, possibly when the first victim’s car hit another vehicle.

August 3—Nigeria—AFP reported that Boko Haram attacked Malari village in Borno State at 1 a.m., killing 13 and wounding 27.

August 4—Germany—Police arrested Moroccan citizen Ayoub Moutchou at a residence for asylum seekers outside Stuttgart. On September 3, Germany handed over the Islamic State recruiter to Spanish police, who said he handled communications for IS in Iraq, Syria and Turkey and sympathizers in Europe, and had begun making contacts to conduct attacks in Spain. He had fled Spain following the arrest on July 7 of a Spanish woman believed to be recruiting ­pre-teen girls and teens for IS. The Interior Ministry said he had said he wanted to go to Syria.

August 4—U.S.—At 11:45 a.m., one or 2 ­drive-by gunmen fired at 2 National Guard soldiers who were training at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center along Peret Tower Road near Hattiesburg. Mississippi. No one was injured. Police traced the gunmen’s red Ford Ranger with “broken arrow” written across the top to a local residence.

The next day, CNN reported that a gunman returned at 8 a.m. to fire shots near Camp Shelby. County authorities and the military were searching for a “white male in a red pickup truck, make and model unknown.”

August 4—Cameroon—The government deported more than 3,000 Nigerians and arrested hundreds of Cameroonians and Nigerians accused of collaborating with Boko Haram.

Suspected Boko Haram gunmen crossed from Nigeria in the morning on trucks and attacked the villages of Tchakarmari and Kangaleri in Cameroon, killing 6 men and 3 women, setting alight 15 homes, and kidnapping dozens, including children and teenagers. 15080401

August 4—Egypt—Terrorists shelled a Sheikh Zu­weid home near a northern Sinai security checkpoint in the morning, killing 5 family members, including 3 children, and wounding 9 neighbors.

August 4—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) set off a roadside bomb as a military vehicle was passing by near Arakoy village in Sirnak Province on the Iraqi border, then opened fire, killing 2 soldiers and wounding a soldier and a ­government-paid village guard.

August 5—UK—The Crown Prosecution Service charged radical preacher Anjem Choudary, 48, and Mohammed Mizanur Rahman, 32, under the Terrorism Act of 2000 with inviting support for the banned Islamic State through lectures published online from June 29, 2014, until March 6, 2015. Choudary had led the banned ­al-Muhajiroun.

August 5—Germany—Spain’s Interior Ministry announced that German police in Stuttgart had arrested a suspected jihadi Moroccan resident of Spain who recently fled from Spain. The Spanish ministry said he had disseminated Islamic State propaganda on Internet social networks. He said he wanted to join IS in Syria and called on others to come with him. The ministry said he fled Spain after the July 7 arrest of a Spanish woman alleged to have recruited ­pre-teen girls and teenagers for the Islamic State.

August 5—Syria—AFP reported that in a 5-minute execution video released by the Islamic State, an Austrian identified as Mohamed Mahmoud, alias Abu Usama ­al-Gharib, and a German, Abu Omar ­al-Alamani, both speaking in German, threatened to attack Germany, then fired assault rifles to kill 2 bound and kneeling male hostages in Palmyra, Syria. The duo called on “brothers and sisters” in Germany and Austria to join the IS or attack “unbelievers” at home. One terrorist threatened Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying he would avenge the “blood of Muslims spilled in Afghanistan.”

August 6—Saudi Arabia—The Interior Ministry reported that a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest hit a mosque used by Interior Ministry special forces and police trainees in Abha during afternoon prayers, killing at least 15 people, including 11 security force members and 4 Bangladeshi workers. The ­state-owned al-Ekhbariya news channel had said that 17 had been killed. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said 9 people were wounded, 3 of them seriously. The previously-unknown Hijaz Province of the Islamic State claimed credit, saying the bomber hit a “monument of the apostate.” Previous IS attacks were claimed by a group calling itself Najd Province. Initial reports said the bomber was disguised as a janitor. On August 7, an IS audio said the bomber was Abu Sinan ­al-Najdi. The Interior Ministry said the bomber was Youssef ­al-Suleiman, 21, a Saudi. 15080601

August 6—West Bank—Reuters reported that a driver injured 3 Israelis when he ran them down in his car on the West Bank before he was shot 3 times by Israeli troops. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the incident was terrorism. Two of the victims were in critical condition.

August 6—Libya—The body of Libyan Judge Mohamed ­al-Nemli, who was believed to have been kidnapped by an Islamic State affiliate in July, was found near Misrata, with a gunshot wound and signs of torture.

August 6—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State took over ­al-Qaryatayn in western Syria, then abducted 230 people. Another 270 were missing. IS targeted Christians, taking several from the Dar Alyan monastery, as well as people believed to have alliances with the Syrian regime.

August 6—Macedonia—Interior ministry spokes­man Ivo Kotevski announced that police arrested 9 Macedonians suspected of belonging to and/or recruiting for the Islamic State and were seeking a further 27, following raids in Skopje and Kumanovo, Tetovo, Gostivar and Struga in the northeast. Police raided 25 houses, an Internet cafe, a mosque and the offices of 2 ­Islam-linked NGOs, and seized computers, mobile phones and cash. Membership in overseas terrorist groups carried a 4-year prison sentence. Interior Minister Mitko Cavkov said detainees included a Muslim cleric believed to be the group’s main organizer.

August 7—U.S.—WTVR reported that a federal jury in Richmond, Virginia convicted Irek Hamidullin, 55, of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, conspiring to shoot down American helicopters and to kill U.S. and Afghan soldiers, conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction, and several other charges regarding a November 2009 Taliban attack he led against U.S. and Afghan forces. He also had contact with senior Haqqani Network leaders. Assistant Attorney General Carlin told a press conference, “Hamidullin was captured and detained by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and brought to the United States for trial.” It was the first time a military detainee from Afghanistan had been brought to the U.S. for trial. He was indicted in April 2015 on 12 charges, including providing material support to terrorists, attempting to destroy a U.S. military aircraft, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to kill an officer of the United States.

August 7—Mali—At 7:20 a.m., jihadi gunmen armed with rockets and AK-47s yelled “Allahu Akbar” and attacked a military site in Sevare, 9 miles from Mopti in central Mali. They were repelled and entered the neighboring Hotel Debo and Hotel Byblos. Ten gunmen took 10 hostages, including locals and Westerners, and killed 3 Malian soldiers and a UN peacekeeper. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry quoted its embassy in Algeria as saying that the attackers wanted to take foreign citizens hostage, observing, “According to the information available, a Ukrainian citizen may be among those foreign citizens taken hostage. In addition, 3 citizens of South Africa and a French citizen may be held hostage.” CNN reported that later that day as soldiers surrounded the hotel, a Ukrainian hostage escaped after being held in a room with 2 armed guards. Army Colonel Sou­leymane Maiga said 3 Macina Liberation Movement terrorists, 4 soldiers, and a foreigner were killed and 5 soldiers were wounded in the ­day-long standoff. The UN Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said a foreign MINUSMA staffer also died. CNN and Malian ­state-run ORTM reported that by August 8, a dozen people, including 5 Malian soldiers, 4 terrorists and 3 civilians, among them a foreigner, had died in the ongoing siege. Five foreigners, including 4 UN employees—2 South Africans, a Russian, and a Ukrainian—were freed. At the end of the fighting at 5 a.m., authorities found 4 bodies in the Hotel Byblos. The military detained 7 suspected terrorists. The UN later announced that 5 UN contractors died, including a Malian driver, a Nepalese, a South African, and 2 Ukrainians. The dead 38-year-old South African worked for an aviation company aiding the UN in Mali. The press speculated that the attackers were followers of Amadou Koufa, who had been linked to earlier attacks on Mali’s army, including a January 2015 assault that killed 10 soldiers in Nampala. 15080701

August 7—Afghanistan—Several attacks in Kabul killed 44 people and wounded more than 300, the highest civilian casualty toll in a single day.

At 1 a.m., a suicide truck bomber attacked near a Defense Ministry compound in Kabul, killing 15 and wounding more than 200. Police chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi and hospital officials said all of the victims were civilians, including 48 women and 33 children. The blast flattened a city block and left a 30-foot crater.

A Taliban suicide bomber attacked recruits outside a police academy, killing 20 cadets and wounding 24.

A Taliban terrorist attack on a NATO military base near Kabul international airport killed an international service member and 8 Afghan contractors and wounded 10 local security guards. Three terrorists died.

In the evening, a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform set off his explosive vest among recruits outside the gates of a Kabul police academy, killing 20 recruits and wounding 25.

August 7—Turkey—The Anadolu Agency reported that Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) supporters fired at police and workers who were filling ditches that were dug to prevent police from entering a neighborhood in Silopi, starting a 4-hour gun battle that killed 3 people. A rocket hit a police armored vehicle, seriously wounding one officer.

August 7—Philippines—Abu Sayyaf was suspected when a homemade bomb hit a security detail guarding a highway used by troops and civilians in Basilan Province, killing 2 soldiers.

August 7—Bangladesh—Four suspected jihadis posing as potential tenants entered a Dhaka apartment building and hacked to death secular blogger Niladri Chottopadhay Niloy, 40 (or 28, reports differed), in his apartment. He used an online name of Niloy Chowdhury and a “Niloy Neel” Facebook account to criticize radical Islamists in Bangladesh and abroad. ­Ansar-al-Islam, which intelligence officials believed was affiliated with ­al-Qaeda on the Indian Subcontinent, sent an email to media organizations claiming credit and calling him an enemy of Allah. On August 13, the detective branch arrested ­Saad-al-Nahin and Masud Rana, suspected members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, a local jihadi group. Nahin was arrested in 2013 for attempted murder in an attack on blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who was injured. He was freed on bail but was supposedly under surveillance. On August 28, police arrested suspected Ansarullah Bangla Team members Kausar Hossain Khan, 29, and Kamal Hossain Sardar, 29, in the case. Police said they were out on bail after being accused of attempted murder in an attack on blogger Asif Mohiuddin, who had since fled for Germany.

August 7—Iraq—UPI quoted Said Mimousini of the Kurdish Democratic Party who said that the Islamic State in Mosul had in the last 2 days executed 19 women for refusing sexual advances of jihadis.

CNN reported that the Islamic State claimed credit for an ice truck bombing in Khan Bani Saad in Diyala Province that killed 120 people and injured more than 140 on the eve of Eid ­al-Fitr—the end of the month of Ramadan. Hundreds of people were in an ­open-air market when the driver of the ice truck said that he was offering a discount on ice because of the Eid holiday. Iraq had been in the midst of a heat wave, and the temperature was still 95 degrees Fahrenheit at sundown. When people crowded around the truck, he set off a ton of explosives.

August 8—Afghanistan—Heyatullah Amiri, district administrative chief of Khan Abad district, said a suicide bomber on foot in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province killed 29 people, 25 of them members of illegal armed groups that have clashed with security forces and the insurgents in the past, including 4 leaders, in a nighttime attack on a meeting of criminal groups. The other 4 dead were civilians. Another 19 were wounded, including 15 civilians. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid ­e-mailed the media to claim credit.

The Taliban beheaded 2 local policemen and a civilian in Badkhshan. They had accused the trio of spying.

The Taliban in Badakhshan Province hanged a 27-year-old mother of 3 for having extramarital sex.

A roadside bomb went off near a checkpoint in Surkh Rod District in Nangarhar Province, killing a traffic police officer and a civilian and wounding 3.

August 8—Yemen—Officials said that a bomb exploded in a ­booby-trapped car at a military base, kill­ing 15 ­anti-rebel fighters.

August 8—Egypt—Gunmen fired on a police vehicle carrying prisoners on the road between Cairo and Fayoum, killing an officer and injuring 3 others. The next day, the Revolutionary Punishment claimed credit via a Twitter posting. Authorities believed the group consisted of Islamist youths seeking revenge for the ongoing crackdown on former president Morsi’s supporters.

August 8—India—Gunmen crossed into India from Pakistan in the Tangdar sector of the border and killed an Indian army soldier and wounded 2 oth-ers.

August 8—U.S.—On August 11, CNN reported that authorities arrested engaged couple Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 22, of Starkville, Mississippi, and Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 19, at a Mississippi’s Golden Triangle Regional Airport on charges of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State by traveling to Syria via Europe to join the group. The criminal complaint said they had told 2 FBI undercover agents via social media about their plans. She had claimed that the duo were married in June and were flying to Europe for a honeymoon. The complaint said that in July, Young praised the July 16 attacks at military centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, observing, “The numbers of supporters are growing.” The complaint also said Dakhlalla wrote, “I wanted to ask about the military experience there. Would I be with people that speak English as well or do they put me with everyone at basic training? I am excited about coming … but I feel I won’t know what all I will be doing.” Law enforcement officials said he was the son of a local imam and she was the daughter of a Vicksburg, Mississippi, police officer and a recent convert to Islam. He had graduated in the spring of 2015 from Mississippi State University with a psychology degree. She had been enrolled in the spring of 2015 at MSU as a sophomore majoring in chemistry.

August 9—Pakistan—The Army announced that, acting on an intelligence tip, it had foiled a “foreign sponsored” terrorist plot to conduct a suicide bombing in Karachi during Pakistan Independence Day celebrations on August 14. Authorities seized an ­explosive-laden vehicle during raids in Hyderabad and Karachi and captured terrorists, including Bakhat Zaman, the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban.

August 9—India—Gunmen entered India from Pakistan near the Keran sector of the Kashmiri border; 2 died in a gun battle with Indian soldiers.

August 9—Turkey—The Mardin Province Governor’s office said Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) gunmen fired at a police vehicle on patrol duty during the night in southern Turkey, killing a policeman and wounding another. Gunmen also fired rockets at a military outpost in the southeastern Mus Province, causing no casualties.

August 9—Russia—A homemade bomb went off in a wooded area of Chechnya, killing a soldier and wounding 2 others during a Russian military reconnaissance operation.

August 9—Israel—Shin Bet announced the arrest at Tel Aviv International Airport in July of arriving Swedish citizen Hassan Khalil Hizran on charges of spying for the Lebanese Hizballah. Shin Bet said he confessed to being recruited in 2009 and being asked to report on Israeli military bases, tanks and weap­ons. He was represented by attorney Lea Tsemel, who said he was visiting Israel for personal reasons and did not spy. She said his parents were Palestinian refugees in Lebanon who later immigrated to Sweden.

August 9—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit a police armored vehicle in ­el-Arish in the northern Sinai peninsula, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding 3 others.

Interior Ministry official Major General Hassan ­el-Sohagi said that Essam Derbala, 58, a senior member of the Gamaa Islamiya, died in prison of natural causes. He was arrested earlier in 2015 on charges of inciting violence.

August 10—Turkey—A man and a woman (some reports said 2 women) fired at the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul’s Sariyer district, causing no casualties. One of them was captured in a nearby building and hospitalized. The Revolutionary People’s Liberation ­Army-Front (DHKP-C) said she was Hatice Asik, 51, a member of the group. The second shooter escaped. 15081001

The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that a car bomb exploded at a police station in Istanbul’s Sultanbeyli neighborhood. Gunmen then fired on investigating police, injuring 5 police officers and 7 civilians, damaging 20 cars, and starting a fire that collapsed part of the 3-storey building, the agency reported. In the ensuing gunfight, the terrorists killed a member of the inspection team, but police killed 2 gunmen. No one claimed credit.

Kurdish rebels set off a roadside bomb in Silopi in Sirnak Province, killing 4 police in an armored vehicle.

Kurdish rebels attacked a helicopter in Sirnak Province, killing a conscript and injuring another 7 soldiers.

August 10—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber set off his explosives at a busy roundabout near the entrance to Kabul’s international airport, killing 5 and wounding 16. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Twitter that the group was targeting “foreigners.”

August 10—Iraq—Two bombs went off during the night in Diyala Province, killing 42 people.

An Islamic State suicide car bomber attacked a marketplace near Baquba, killing 35 and wounding 72. IS said on Twitter the Iraqi terrorist Abdullah ­al-Ansai hit the predominantly Shi’ite neighborhood of Huwaydah.

A suicide bomber attacked a residential area in Kanaan, killing 7 and wounding 15.

August 10—Mali—An army vehicle on patrol near Diabozo hit a roadside bomb, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 4 others.

August 10—U.S.—CNN reported that authorities arrested New Jersey resident Nader Saadeh, 20, on one count of conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State and one count of attempting to provide material support to IS. Both charges carry maximum sentences of 20 years in prison and maximum fines of $250,000. He brother and others were arrested on similar charges 2 months earlier. He was represented by public defender Frank Arleo. Prosecutors said Saadeh flew from New York City’s JFK airport to Amman, Jordan on May 5, 2015, but was detained in Jordan for 5 days in solitary confinement and held for 3 months. His brother, Alaa Saadeh, 23, who was arrested in June, apparently bought a plane ticket for Nader to join him. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for New Jersey said that Nader had conspired with his brother, Samuel Rahamin Topaz, 21, and another unidentified ­co-conspirator. The trio were arrested in June. The Office said that during 2012–2013, Nader Saadeh sent electronic messages to his unidentified ­co-conspirator denouncing the United States and his desire to form a small army with his friends. An informant told the FBI that Nader believed that the IS immolation of a Jordanian Air Force pilot and the Charlie Hebdo murders were justified. The FBI found IS propaganda on Nader’s computer.

August 10–11—India—Soldiers killed 2 gunmen in a 2-day ­shoot-out in which a police officer was wounded in Ratnipora in the Indian section of Kashmir. Police had surrounded some houses; the terrorists slipped away to nearby rice fields during the night.

August 11, 13—Iraq—The Wall Street Journal reported that the Islamic State likely used mustard agent it obtained in Syria against Kurdish forces in Mahkhmour, Iraq earlier in the week. Initial field testing suggested that the agent was sulfur mustard that was loaded into mortars.

August 11—Nigeria—UPI and the BBC reported that a bomb exploded in the Jebo livestock market in Sabon Gari in Borno State at 1:30 p.m., killing 47 and wounding 52. Boko Haram was suspected.

August 11—Cameroon—Hundreds of gunmen crossed from Nigeria into Cameroon to attack Ashigashia village. Soldiers repelled the attack, killing 10. Two soldiers were wounded. No civilian injuries were reported. Boko Haram was suspected.

August 11—Syria—Brietbart News and the UK Daily Mail reported that the Islamic State released a video which showed that it had forced 10 “apostates” believed to be from the Shinwari tribe to kneel on buried explosives. The British Independent reported that IS released a video showing it beheading Taliban fighters.

August 11—UK—Fox News and Sky News reported that British police and intelligence services were investigating an Islamic State plot to set off a ­pressure-cooker bomb at the ­V-J Day commemoration ceremony to be held in London during the upcoming weekend. Sky News said it had been informed of the plot by Sally Jones, a British Muslim convert fighting with the IS in Syria who had communicated with reporters who used fake online profiles. She said she had instructed 3 Britons on how to conduct the attack. The commemorations were to be attended by thousands, including Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister David Cameron, World War II veterans, current service members, and other dignitaries.

August 11—Russia—The ­Anti-Terrorist Committee said it had killed 4 suspected terrorists, including Magomed Suleimanov, the leader of the Caucasus Emirate, and his deputy, in a raid in Dagestan Province. Suleimanov was suspected in the 2012 murder of Said Afandi, the leader of Dagestan’s Sufi Muslim brotherhood.

August 12—Spain—Police in Naron arrested a Span­ish man suspected of advocating terrorism and selling clothes carrying IS propaganda. His shop and online outlet offered clothes, including baby onesies, with jihadi group emblems, and ­T-shirts with images of IS attacks and an image of UK hostage Alan Henning kneeling beside his suspected IS killer.

August 12—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that police conducted raids in Ankara and 3 other cities, detaining 12 suspected IS sympathizers.

Police detained a member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) who it said was planning an attack in Diyarbakir.

The armed forces said PKK rebels fired shots and rockets at a military outpost near Diyarbakir, sparking a gun battle that killed a soldier and 2 PKK gunmen and wounded 4 soldiers.

August 12—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 4 policemen as they ate at a roadside restaurant near Karachi.

August 12—Afghanistan—Taliban gunmen dressed as police and driving in a police vehicle got past a checkpoint and killed 14 police officers in Helmand Province. Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi said the gunmen had captured 8 police.

August 12—UK—Scotland Yard in east London arrested 5 members of a family, including a 51-year-old man, a 53-year-old woman, and girls aged 16, 17 and 19, on suspicion of “possessing information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism.” The 16-year-old girl was first arrested in July on suspicion of preparation of terrorism.

August 12—Northern Ireland—Kevin McGuigan, a former IRA member, was shot to death. Reuters reported on September 9, that Bobby Storey, regional chairman of Northern Ireland’s main Irish nationalist party Sinn Fein, was one of 3 men arrested in the case. Police earlier arrested 13 other people, charging one with firearms offences. The others were released unconditionally.

August 12—Nigeria—Chadian President Idriss Deby announced that Boko Haram’s new leader is “someone apparently called Mahamat Daoud,” a new commander willing to negotiate with Nigeria’s new government. BH had earlier renamed itself the Islamic State West African Province. Deby said previous BH leader Shekau was severely injured in March 2015 in a battle in Dikwa, Nigeria. On August 16, 2015, UPI and the BBC reported that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau released an audio message to the Islamic State saying, “I am alive. I will only die when the time appointed by Allah comes.” He said claims of his demise were “blatant lies.”

August 12—U.S.—The Daily News reported that Brooklyn federal Judge John Gleeson sentenced Lawal Babafemi, 35, a Nigerian member of ­al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, to 22 years. Babafemi was a follower of Anwar ­al-Aulaqi, was involved with AQAP’s Inspire magazine, and had accepted money to recruit Nigerians. The Bureau of Prisons credited him for the 2 years he served in a Nigerian prison.

August 12—West Bank—CNN reported that Jewish extremists were suspected of throwing flammable material on a tent belonging to a Palestinian Bedouin family of Yousuf Ka’abna in the village of Ein Samia, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank, during the night. No injuries were reported. The extremists ­spray-painted graffiti on nearby rocks reading “administrative revenge.”

August 12—Indonesia—AFP reported that Indonesian police arrested 3 jihadis with links to the Islamic State who were planning bombings of churches and a police station in Solo on Java island during independence day celebrations on August 17. The detainees included a 29-year-old bombmaker; a man who helped mix explosives; and a third individual who helped with planning and surveying potential targets. Authorities seized chemicals used in ­bomb-making, explosives, 21 bomb detonators, and several IS flags and shirts. AFP reported that the trio were funded by an Indonesian IS member in Syria.

August 12—Syria—The Guardian reported that the Islamic State hacking division published names, email addresses, phone numbers and passwords of 1,400 USMC, NASA, FBI, State Department, and Air Force personnel, encouraging lone wolves to “act and kill.” Also listed were 8 Australians, including a member of the Victorian parliament and members of the Australian defense forces.

August 12—India—Gunmen in Trenz wounded an Indian army soldier who was traveling with other soldiers in a car.

Rebels threw a grenade at government forces outside a police station in Srinagar, injuring 3 police and a paramilitary soldier.

August 12—Australia—On August 20, 2015, AP reported that authorities had prevented 7 young Australians from leaving the country for fear that they intended to join terrorists in the Middle East. Counterterrorism authorities at Sydney International Airport had stopped 5 men on August 12, according to the Daily Telegraph.

August 12—Australia—Border Protection Minister Peter Dutton said authorities in Melbourne prevented 2 young Australians from flying to the Middle East to join a terrorist group.

August 13—China—A man slashed a woman to death and injured her French companion outside a Uniqlo store in the Sanlitun area in Beijing in broad daylight. Police detained a 25-year-old whose family name is Gao.

August 13—India—In the morning, a bomb exploded in a mosque complex in Trenz in the Indian portion of Kashmir, wounding 9 worshippers who were filing out of the mosque’s main prayer hall. Four people had multiple shrapnel wounds. Victim Abdul Gani Dar, 75, said a drinking glass had been lying outside the entrance to the mosque’s main prayer hall. “When a caretaker went to pick it up, the glass exploded with a deafening sound,” Dar said.

Police defused a similar device outside the home of a commander of Hizbul Mujahedeen, the largest militant group in the Indian portion of Kashmir.

August 13—Afghanistan—Al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri released a 10-minute audio in which he pledged his group’s allegiance to the new leader of the Taliban, Mullah Mansoor, observing “We are your soldiers and your supporters and a brigade of your brigades.” He eulogized the late Mullah Omar. “He was an emir who defied the polytheists and the pagans,” and was the first leader to establish a Muslim emirate after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. The audio included a clip of Osama bin Laden pledging allegiance to Mullah Omar.

August 13—Mali—Turbaned gunmen driving a 4×4 and a motorcycle fired automatic weapons at a police post near a bus station in Bamako, injuring 2 police officers.

August 13—Iraq—NPR and AP reported that the Islamic State claimed credit for setting off a refrigeration truck bomb in Baghdad’s Sadr City Jameela food market after dawn, killing 67 and wounding 152. IS said it used a parked truck and wanted to have the “rejectionists (Shi’ites) experience the same harm as their bombardments cause to our Muslim people.”

The New York Times reported that IS gunmen believed that their interpretation of Islam condoned and encouraged rape of preteen Yazidi girls who were not Muslims. The Islamic State Research and Fatwa Department had released internal policy memos which established guidelines for slavery.

August 13—Nigeria—On August 18, UPI reported that Boko Haram killed up to 150 villagers in ­Kukuwa-Gari village in Yobe State. Most of the victims were shot or drowned while trying to escape. The government said 50 had died.

August 14—Algeria—On August 16, UPI reported that gunmen ambushed soldiers in the northern woods of Colo in Skikda Province during an ­anti-terrorism operation, killing a commander and soldier.

August 14—Austria—The Austrian prosecutor’s office announced it was investigating Mohamed Mahmoud on suspicion of murder after a video was posted the previous week showing him shooting a kneeling man to death in Syria. He was earlier sought on an international arrest warrant for membership in a terrorist group; the prosecutor asked the court to add suspicion of murder to the warrant. The ­German-speaking Mahmoud was born in Vienna and left Austria in 2013, going to Germany then on to Turkey and ultimately Syria.

August 15—Lebanon—Beirut Airport authorities arrested ­hard-line IS cleric Ahmad ­al-Assir, who planned to fly to Nigeria on a forged Palestinian passport with a Nigerian visa.

August 15—West Bank—A Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli soldier after asking him for a glass of water at a West bank border crossing. Israeli troops shot the attacker.

August 15—Burundi—Gunmen shot to death former army chief Colonel Jean Bikomagu in his car.

August 15—Iraq—A car bomb exploded at a popular car dealership in Baghdad’s Habibiya neighborhood of Sadr City, killing 13 and wounding 52.

A bomb exploded at a market in Madain, killing 3 and wounding 10.

A bomb hit a row of auto repair shops in Taji, killing 2 and injuring 8.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s ­al-Askan district, killing 2 people and wounding 8.

A bomb exploded on a commercial street in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Jisr Diyala, killing 2 and wounding 7.

August 15—Internet—CNN reported that Hamza bin Laden, one of Osama bin Laden’s 11 sons, released an audiotape in which he called President Obama the “black sheep” in the White House and urged lone wolves to “take the battlefield from Kabul, Baghdad, and Gaza to Washington, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, and to take it to all the American, Jewish, and Western interests in the world.”

August 15—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu news agency reported that Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels set off a roadside bomb as a military vehicle was passing by on a highway between the eastern provinces of Bingol and Erzurum, killing 3 soldiers and injuring 6.

August 16—France—Two intruders grabbed a policeman’s gun and shot him when he found them rummaging in a government security building in Pantin outside Paris.

August 16—Pakistan—Two suicide bombers attacked the home of Shuja Khanzada, an anti–Taliban Punjab provincial home minister, killing him and 17 others and wounding nearly a dozen more, 4 critically, in Shadi Khan in Attock district. Khanzada helped establish the ­anti-terrorism department in Punjab Province. Jamatul Ahrar, a Pakistani Taliban splinter, said it was avenging the death the previous month of Malik Ishaq, who was the chief of the ­al-Qaeda–linked Pakistani group ­Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, in a police ­shoot-out.

August 16—Kuwait—The official Kuwait News Agency says 3 Kuwaiti members of a terrorist cell, were arrested during a raid on a farmhouse and 3 other houses. Police found 204 hand grenades, 65 guns, 56 ­rocket-propelled grenades and 317 pounds (144 kilograms) of ­bomb-making material. Local newspapers linked the cell to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and Lebanon’s Shi’ite Hizballah.

August 17—Thailand—A bomb exploded during the 7 p.m. rush hour at the Erawan Shrine in central Bangkok’s Rachapasong intersection, killing 20 people, including a Chinese citizen and a Philippine ­national and injuring 140. Deputy government spokes­man Sansern Kaewkamnerd said the victims included 5 Thais, 2 Malaysians, 2 Chinese, 2 people from Hong Kong, a Singaporean woman and 8 who were unidentified. Authorities later said the victims include 6 Thais, 4 Malaysians, 4 Chinese, 2 people from Hong Kong including a UK citizen, an Indonesian, and a Singaporean; 2 victims were unidentified as of August 19. Police said the 3-kilogram bomb was made from a pipe wrapped in cloth and attached to a utility pole in front of the shrine to the Hindu god Brahma. A second bomb inside the shrine was defused; a third on a train was also neutralized. Police released an arrest warrant, a security video and a sketch of a “foreign” male suspect wearing a yellow ­t-shirt who left behind a backpack. Police said he was part of a network. The warrant cited conspiracy to commit ­pre-meditated murder and charges related to possession of unauthorized explosives and weap­ons, which carry minimum terms of 3 years in prison. Police offered a 1 million baht ($28,000) reward for information leading to his arrest. Police released a video of 2 suspected accomplices, who later turned themselves in and were determined to be a tour guide and a Chinese tourist.

The British Foreign Office said Vivian Chan Wing Yan, a Briton who lived in Hong Kong, was dead. She had studied at London’s BPP University. The Associated Press later reported that 4 and possibly 5 members of a Malaysian family from Penang, including 4-year-old Lee Jing Sian; Tze Siang, 35; Lim Saw Gek, 49; and Neo Jai Jun, 20, a student in Taiwan; were killed. Lim So See, 52, who lived in Singapore, was presumed dead. Neo Hock Guan, 55, suffered minor injuries.

By August 20, no group had claimed credit. The media suspected Uighur or IS involvement. Meanwhile, the reward was doubled, thanks to an anonymous Thai businessman.

On August 28, AFP reported that Thai police questioned 3 Uighur Muslims. The next day, CNN reported that Thai police arrested a foreign suspect believed involved in the Shrine bombing and the one that occurred the next day. They said he was not believed to be the bomber, but an accomplice. Bombmaking materials, including ball bearings, were found in his apartment in Nong Jok, a Bangkok suburb with a large Muslim community. Police said they found more than 200 fake foreign passports including 2 fake Turkish passports. On August 30, Thai police said the suspect was being uncooperative and was possibly lying. He did not speak Thai but spoke some English, and Thai officials had contacted several embassies to obtain interpreters.

On August 31, 2015, AP reported that Thai police issued arrest warrants for Thai woman Wanna Suansun, 26, alias Mai Saloh, who was believed to be in Turkey, and a foreign man of unknown nationality. Police found ­bomb-making materials in a second apartment in a neighborhood known as Min Buri, which was rented by Wanna Suansun. Police said she has a house registration in the southern Thai province of Phang Nga.

On September 1, AP reported that Thai authorities arrested a foreign man in eastern Thailand near the Cambodian border who resembled the ­yellow-shirted man in a surveillance video who police say planted the bomb. The next day, police said his fingerprints matched those on a bottle of bombmaking materials found in an apartment raided the previous weekend. He admitted to being near the shrine, but denied planting the bomb.

Also on September 2, Thai police said they were seeking the arrest of Turkish male Emrah Davutoglu, the husband of Wanna Suansun, who said she was innocent and was living in Turkey. Davutoglu faced charges of conspiracy to possess unauthorized war materials.

Thai police said they were looking for a 10th suspect on September 5, saying he shared an apartment with a suspect arrested earlier. Bombmaking materials were found in the apartment of the suspect, who had a faked Turkish passport in the name Adam Karadag. Police called him Adem Karadak.

On September 7, 2015, AP reported that suspect Yusufu Meerailee, variant Mieraili Yusufu, variant Yusufu Mierili, who had been arrested on September 1, was transferred from military to police custody in Bangkok in connection with the August 17 bombing at Bangkok’s popular Erawan Shrine. When asked before the press whether he was guilty of the charge of ­co-possession of illegal explosives, he answered through a translator, “Guilty.” Police say they found his DNA or fingerprints in 2 apartments they raided, including on a container of gunpowder. Police said he was carrying a Chinese passport that indicated he was from Xinjiang, home to ­Turkish-speaking Uighurs. Police said Mieraili confessed to delivering the backpack bomb to the man who left it at the shrine.

Police issued a warrant for Abdullah Abdullahman, of unknown nationality, and an unnamed “foreign man” for conspiracy to possess unauthorized explosives and unauthorized war materials.

On September 10, AFP reported that Adem paid a $600 bribe to illegally enter Thailand. Police Chief Somyot Poompanmoung said, “The first man (Kara­dag) said he traveled through Vietnam to a neighbouring country where he then paid for transportation. At the Thai border he paid $600 (to cross into Thailand).”

Thai media reported that the suspected mastermind was “Izan” or “Ishan” who fled the country before the attack.

On September 11, AP reported that Thai authorities asked China to check whether a prime suspect had arrived. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth ­Chan-ocha said that a man carrying a Chinese passport in the name Abudureheman Abudusataer had gone from Thailand on August 16 to Bangladesh and continued on to China. The Bangladeshi Ambassador said that the suspect left Bangladesh on August 30 and was supposed to transit in Delhi on his way to China but never got to China. On September 12, Thai authorities issued an arrest warrant for a 27-year-old ethnic Uighur from China whose passport said Abudusataer Abudureheman but who also used the name “Ishan.” Police spokesman Lieutenant General Prawut Thavornsiri said he was charged with illegal possession of military hardware.

On September 14, 2015, Reuters reported that Malaysia arrested 3 suspects—2 Malaysians, one female, and a Pakistani male.

On September 15, 2015, Thai national police chief Somyot Poompanmoung said that authorities tied the bombing to the trafficking of Uighur Muslims from China to Turkey. “It’s a network that smuggles Uighurs from one country to the other. The bombing at Rajaprasong resulted from the fact that Thai authorities destroyed or disrupted their human trafficking network and they couldn’t continue their business.”

On September 17, 2015, Thai police issued an ­arrest warrant for Pakistani citizen Abdul Tawab on charges of conspiracy to possess unauthorized explosives and conspiracy to possess unauthorized war materials. Police had been told that he had frequented an apartment where a police raid found ­bomb-making materials and arrested another suspect.

On September 23, Malaysian national deputy police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim said 8 people, including 4 believed to be ethnic Uighurs, were detained during the week in Kuala Lumpur and in northeastern Kelantan State in connection with the bomb-ing. He said 4 of the 8 were Malaysian human traffickers.

On September 28, 2015, AP reported that police attributed the attack to a ­people-smuggling gang seeking revenge for having their operation curbed. National Police Chief Somyot Poomphanmuang said that a Thai suspect still at large had been tied to bombings in 2010 and 2014. The 2010 bombing was loosely linked to “Red Shirt” activists. Police tied a Thai identified as Ord Payungwong, alias Yongyuth Pobkeaw, to 2 apparently accidental but fatal explosions in 2010 and 2014 who could have taken part in assembling the shrine bomb. Metropolitan Police Chief Srivara Rangsipramanakul said Ord “has committed at least 9 crimes so far, never been arrested and doesn’t have a Thai identification number.” The 2010 explosion in Bangkok partially destroyed a ­5-storey building and killed 4 people. The 2014 explosion on a motorcycle killed 2 men and led to the ­discovery of several pipe bombs in a nearby apartment.

On November 23, 2015, AP reported that a military court indicted Uighur Chinese Bilal Mohammad and Mieraili Yusufu on 10 charges connected to the Erawan Shrine bombing. Thai officials say there was no political or religious motive behind the attack, but rather was for revenge by a ­people-smuggling network against Thai authorities for breaking up their operation. The 2 were arrested in August and September. UPI and the Bangkok Post said the 2 were charged with premeditated murder and illegal possession of weapons, but not with terrorism, according to the BBC. Thai authorities said Mohammed confessed to placing the backpack, and Mieraili said he set off the bomb. Mohammed was represented by attorney Choochart Khanpai, who said his client requested an Uzbek interpreter. 15081701

August 17—Saudi Arabia—A missile fired from Yemen killing 2 Saudi soldiers in the Jizan region. Houthi rebels were suspected. 15081702

August 17—Afghanistan—Two gunmen kidnapped a German woman in Kabul after stopping her car in the morning. She was believed to be employed by the German government aid agency GIZ. On October 17, 2015, German Foreign Minister ­Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that she was freed. 15081703

August 17—Bangladesh—Authorities in Dhaka arrested 3 suspected male members of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, including Touhidur Rahman, 58, a British information technology expert of Bangla­deshi origin believed to be the cell’s mastermind and financier, for their involvement in the murders of secular bloggers Avijit Roy on February 26, 2015, and Ananta Bijoy Das on May 12, 2015. Mufti Mahmud Khan, head of the arresting battalion’s media wing said Sadek Ali, 28, acted as a bridge to communicate with Mufti Jasim Rahmani, the alleged head of the militant group. Ali met Rahmani while working as a printing press worker. Rahmani was in jail awaiting trial in the murder of another blogger, Ahmed Rajib Haider, in Dhaka in 2013. Suspect Aminul Mollick, 35, was a broker at a passport office and helped members of the group make fake passports so that they could travel abroad if necessary. Rahman was believed to have returned to Bangladesh in 2011 or 2012, then contacted Rahmani.

August 17—Pakistan—A raid on a Karachi apartment led to a ­shoot-out that killed 2 suspected ­al-Qaeda members and intelligence officer Major Mohammad Sajjad, who was leading the raid. The suspects were believed linked to a recent attack on bus that killed over 50 Shi’ites in Karachi.

August 17—Turkey—The Islamic State released a video on Twitter that called Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a traitor for allowing the U.S. to use air bases to “bombard the people of Islam,” and urged Muslims in Turkey to support IS and fight the “crusaders, atheists and tyrants.”

August 17–18—Turkey—UPI and Xinhua reported that the government and PKK rebels clashed in Lice in Diyarbakir Province, leading to the death of a Turkish soldier and injuries to 4 others.

August 18—Iraq—On August 21, U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price announced that a U.S. airstrike killed Fadhil Ahmad ­al-Hayali, alias Hajji Mutazz, deputy chief of the Islamic State, as he was traveling in a vehicle near Mosul. IS media operative Abu Abdullah also died. Price said ­al-Hayali was involved in IS’s finance, media, operations, and logistics, observing that he was the group’s “primary coordinator” for moving weapons, explosives, vehicles, and people between Iraq and Syria. He ran operations in Iraq and helped plan the group’s offensive in Mosul in June 2014 which led to the collapse of 4 Iraqi divisions and the capture of stocks of U.S.-supplied weapons, including tanks and armored vehicles.

August 18—Thailand—A bomb was thrown from the Taksin Bridge at the Sathorn Pier in Bangkok. It exploded in the Chao Phraya River, causing no injuries.

August 18—Pakistan—Gunmen on a motorcycle seriously wounded Rasheed Godil, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement political party, and killed his driver while they were in his car, leaving a Karachi marketplace. Godil was hit in the neck, jaw and chest, and hospitalized in critical condition.

August 18—India—Two ­motorcycle-riding gunmen fired at a police sentry post outside a shrine in the northwestern village of Tujjar Sharief in the ­Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing a police constable and a 70-year-old civilian man in a wheelchair. Senior police officer Garib Das said the gunmen grabbed the constable’s rifle and killed him.

August 18—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State beheaded Kalid ­al-Asa’ad, a university professor and the former general manager for antiquities and museums, in Palmyra’s public square.

August 18—Kenya—UPI reported that Kenyan police released a report, entitled “Tracing the Disappearing Kenyan Youth,” in which it named 3 ­al-Shabaab recruiters: Abdifatah Abubakar Ahmed, Ramadhan Hamisi Kufungwa, and Ahmed Iman Ali, all who were in Somalia. Police say Ahmed helped plan the 2013 attack on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, which killed at least 67 people. Kufungwa and Ali were clerics who preached at mosques in Nairobi and Mombasa, recruiting prospects and appearing in propaganda videos.

August 18—Burundi—Four friends were shot to death during the night in a bar in Bujumbura’s Mu­saga neighborhood in apparent revenge against members of the ruling party.

August 18—Philippines—A gunman on a motorcycle killed Gregorio Ybanez, publisher of Kabuhayan News Services and president of the Davao del Norte Press and ­Radio-TV Club, as he entered his house in southern Tagum city during the night. He also served as director of an electric cooperative. The attacker fled.

August 19—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that PKK rebels had set off a bomb on a highway in Siirt Province as a military vehicle drove by, killing 8 soldiers.

Police arrested 2 people after shots were fired at officers guarding Istanbul’s Dolmabache Palace, slightly injuring a police officer.

August 19—Yemen—Islamic ­State-affiliated terrorists claimed credit on Twitter for killing a Yemeni soldier at a checkpoint in Hadramawt Province. AQAP was initially suspected.

August 19—Tunisia—Two gunmen on a moped fired a rifle at 3 policemen in Sousse, killing one and wounding the other 2. The trio were waiting for transportation to Kairouan from the ­low-income neighborhood of Hay Zohour.

August 19—Philippines—Hundreds of soldiers attacked an Abu Sayyaf hideout in an attempt to rescue 2 kidnapped coast guard personnel and other hos­tages. The ensuing 2-hour gun battle against more than 100 terrorists in the mountains near Indanan in Sulu Province killed 15 terrorists but no soldiers. The terrorists beheaded a village leader the previous week and threatened to kill 2 coast guard hostages who were abducted with him in southern Zamboanga del Norte Province in May if a ransom was not paid. Abu Sayyaf had held them in a jungle base in Sulu. They had been shown blindfolded in a video in which a terrorist was holding a knife to a hostage’s neck. AP reported the next day that the 2 coast guard hostages had escaped.

August 20—Bosnia-Herzegovina—The trial began of 12 Bosnian men charged with fighting with the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the second half of 2013 and in 2014, which carries a 10-year prison term. The indictment claimed they entered Syria illegally from Turkey to “participate in terrorist activities … and fight on the side of the Islamic State.” Some defendants were also charged with illegal production, possession and trafficking of weapons and explosives.

August 20—Turkey—Two masked gunmen rammed their vehicle into the car of Star Media Group CEO Murat Sancar, then fired on his car in Istanbul. No one was injured. The gunmen fled. The firm owns the ­pro-government Star newspaper and TV news channel 24.

August 20—Yemen—A bomb exploded in the Governor Nayef ­al-Bakry’s compound in Aden, killing 4 people and injuring 10. The governor and other officials who were present were not hurt.

August 20—Egypt—At 2 a.m., a car bomb exploded near a national security building in Cairo’s working class Shubra ­el-Kheima neighborhood, wounding 29 people, including 11 police officers and soldiers, and tearing the facade off the government building. NPR reported that the local Islamic State affiliate said it was retaliating for the execution in May of 6 IS members by the government.

August 21—Syria—On September 7, UPI reported that British Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the government had conducting a “perfectly legal act of self defense” via a drone strike that killed 2 British citizens who were suspected of membership in the Islamic State. He said Reyaad Khan, 21, from Cardiff, Wales, and Ruhul Amin, from Aberdeen, Scotland, were plotting “barbaric” attacks on “high-profile public commemorations” in Britain.

August 21—Iraq—The Associated Press quoted UNESCO chief Irina Bokova as saying that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was engaging in the “most brutal, systemic” destruction of ancient sites since World War II. Hours earlier, the terrorists bulldozed the 1,500-year-old St. Elian Monastery near Qaryatain in central Syria.

August 21—Belgium/France—At 5:45 p.m., homeless Moroccan jihadi Ayoub ­el-Khazzani, 26, was heard loading his AK-47 in a rest room on a ­high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris as it was passing through Oignies, near historic Arras, Belgium. When he emerged, he was jumped by the Frenchman who had overheard him, along with several passengers, including a Briton and 2 plainclothes U.S. Marines and their American friend. He fired on the Marines with a handgun and slashed at them, wounding one of them. Three people were injured on the Thalys train before he was subdued. He was arrested when the train was rerouted to Arras, 115 miles north of Paris. Counterterrorism officials in France, Belgium and Spain were aware of his jihadi views and IS sympathies. French actor ­Jean-Hugues Anglade, 60, sustained a light hand injury. A Briton also sustained injuries.

The gunman entered the train in Brussels, Belgium. He had earlier traveled in Syria. He was armed with the assault rifle, 9 magazines, a Luger pistol and a box cutter. French authorities used fingerprinting to confirm that had had come to their attention in February 2014. He had frequented a mosque in Algeciras, Spain, which was under surveillance. His attorney, Sophie David, told French television BFM that he intended to rob the train and is “dumbfounded” that it was being treated as an act of terrorism. Spain’s Interior Ministry said he had lived with his parents in the poor neighborhood of El Saladillo in Algeciras and had been arrested 3 times for ­drug-dealing there. Spanish officials said he had lived in Spain until 2014, then moved to France, traveled to Syria, and returned to France. A French official said that on May 10 he was spotted in Berlin, en route to Turkey. The French tipped the Spanish, which said on May 21 that he now lived in Belgium. The French then advised Belgium.

Train and national officials cited the heroism of British businessman Chris Norman, 62, who was working on his computer when he heard a shot and glass breaking and saw a train worker running. They also praised U.S. Airman Spencer Stone, 23; National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos, 22, from Roseburg, Oregon; and their friend, Anthony Sadler, 23, a senior at Sacramento State University in California. Skarlatos, who had served in Afghanistan, told Oregon TV station KEZI, “I knew we had to do something or he was just going to kill people. I mean he wasn’t shooting at the time so I figured it was a good time to do it.” Sadler told AP they saw the man with the AK-47 and, “As he was cocking it to shoot it, Alek just yells, ‘Spencer, go!’ And Spencer runs down the aisle. Spencer makes first contact, he tackles the guy, Alek wrestles the gun away from him, and the gunman pulls out a box cutter and slices Spencer a few times. And the 3 of us beat him until he was unconscious.” Norman grabbed the gunman’s right arm and tied it with his necktie. Norman said, “He had a Kalashnikov, he had a magazine full. My thought was, OK, probably I’m doing to die anyway. So, let’s go. I’d rather die being active.” Skarlatos said the AK-47 did not fire because it had a bad primer, although the Tribune reported that the gunman got off 3 shots. French actor ­Jean-Hugues Anglade cut his finger to the bone while activating the train’s emergency alarm. Stone was taken to a Lille hospital with a hand injury. Authorities helicoptered Mark Moogalian, 51, a dual ­French-American citizen with a bullet wound in the chest, to another hospital in Lille. He was in intensive care in “serious but stable” condition at CHRU Lille hospital.

On August 24, UPI reported that French President Francois Hollande awarded the Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest honor, to Americans Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, and British citizen Chris Norman. ­French-American Mark Moogalian would receive the same award when he recovered from his injuries.

On August 25, CNN reported that Prosecutor Francois Molins said ­el-Khassani had 200 rounds of ammunition and that his Internet usage showed “clear evidence of terrorist intent.” He charged ­el-Khazzani with attempted murder, attempted mass murder and membership in a terrorist organization.

El-Khazzani posted to YouTube videos of jihadi anashid (propaganda songs) before starting the attack. 15082101

August 22—Egypt—The ­state-run news agency reported that Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie, Mohammed ­el-Beltagy, Safwat Hegazy and 14 others were sentenced to life in prison on charges related to the killing of 5 people in an attack on a police station in Port Said in 2013. The court sentenced 76 others in absentia to life in prison. Badie was earlier sentenced to death and to life in prison in other trials.

August 22—Nigeria—UPI reported that Boko Ha­ram was suspected in the ambush of the 20-vehicle convoy of newly-appointed chief of army staff Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai in Borno State in which a soldier and 5 terrorists died and 2 soldiers were injured. Buratai was not hurt. Authorities arrested 5 other terrorists on the road between Maiduguri and Ngala. The terrorists were hiding in a herd of cattle.

August 22—Afghanistan—NPR reported that a suicide car bomber killed 12 people, including 3 Americans working as NATO civilian contractors, and wounded 67, including Mohammad Hussain, in an attack on a NATO convoy traveling through Kabul’s crowded Macrorayan neighborhood near the private Shinozada hospital. At least one armored vehicle and a dozen civilian vehicles were destroyed in the 4:20 p.m. attack. The Americans worked for the McLean, ­Virginia-based DynCorp International military contractor. One of them was Barry Sutton, a former Floyd County deputy sheriff in northwest Georgia; he trained Afghan law enforcement personnel. The New York Times reported that many children were wounded in a nearby playground. The bomber used a Toyota Corolla to target an SUV full of foreigners wearing civilian clothes. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid denied involvement. 15082201

August 22—Somalia—Al-Shabaab suicide bombers crashed their vehicle into the gates of a former university campus now used as a military camp in Kismayo, killing 14 soldiers and wounding 9 being trained to fight them. Two suicide bombers died and 2 other suspects were arrested.

Later that day, a parked car exploded near a northern Mogadishu bus station, killing 4 people.

August 22—Algeria—UPI and Xinhua reported that the military killed 2 terrorists in Ain Kechra in Skikda Province during the night.

August 23—Egypt—Egyptian police in south-ern Sohag Province arrested 3 individuals accused of spreading Islamic State propaganda through ­Facebook. The 3 had 2 laptops containing IS videos.

August 23—Syria—The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights announced that a month earlier, the Islamic State blew up the 2,000-year-old Baalshamin Temple on the grounds of Palmyra.

August 23—Kenya—The Nairobi Daily Nation reported that police in Dadaab Town arrested 6 Tanzanians in Garissa and seized a weapons cache. Police believed the men, aged between 20 and 40, were planning to join ­al-Shabaab in Somalia. A Kenyan woman and a Tanzanian woman were arrested earlier in the week for planning to become ­al-Shabaab brides in Somalia. A spokesman said, “We arrested 6 ­al-Shabaab mili­tiamen with 2 pistols, 7 grenades, 20 rounds of ­ammunition and 15 magazines in Garissa Ndogo trading centre in Garissa Town on Sunday and we are looking for more accomplices who are on the run.”

August 24—Iraq—In a morning attack, 3 Islamic State vehicle bombs, including 2 fuel trucks, exploded at a military outpost west of Ramadi in Anbar Province, killing 8 soldiers and wounding 6.

August 24—Yemen—Gunmen attacked an International Red Cross office in Aden, holding employees at gunpoint while they stole cash, cars and equipment. The ICRC withdrew its 14 foreign staffers to another of its sites in Djibouti. 15082401

August 24—Burkina Faso—Jihadis were suspected in an attack 30 miles from the border with Mali in which 2 people were wounded. Alassane Hamidou said that when he knocked on the door of a police station in Oursi, 3 masked gunmen inside told him to lie down on the ground, saying, “There are no police here now—it is Boko Haram from now on. We are looking for Christians, and you are spared because you are a Muslim.”

August 24—El Salvador—The Supreme Court declared that street gangs, such as the Marasalvatrucha (MS-13) gang and any other gang that attempts to claim powers that belong to the state, as well as those that finance them, would be considered terrorists. The court defined terrorism as the organized and systematic exercise of violence.

August 24—Saudi Arabia—Yemeni Houthi rebels fired rockets and artillery at a Saudi border post in Jizan Province, killing a Saudi soldier. 15082401

August 24—U.S.—Authorities in Avondale, Arizona, arrested Ahmed Mohammed ­el-Gammal on charges of helping a 24-year-old New York college student get IS training in Syria. ­El-Gammal had mentioned his IS support online. The indictment said the student left New York for Turkey in January 2015. ­El-Gammal was formally indicted on August 27.

August 25—Saudi Arabia—The official Saudi Press Agency said an attack by Houthi rebels from Yemen killed 2 Saudi soldiers. 15082501

August 25—Somalia—UPI and Xinhua quoted Abdullahi Osman, government forces commander in Gedo region, that the military killed 12 ­al-Shabaab gunmen during a battle for Garbaherey in Gedo region. One soldier was injured. The surviving gunmen retreated.

August 25—Pakistan—UPI and Xinhua reported that gunmen killed 3 Pakistani soldiers at a post in the Ladha area of South Waziristan.

August 25—Spain/Morocco—Authorities in the 2 countries arrested 14 suspected members of a cell that recruited jihadis for the Islamic State. Morocco’s Interior Minister said that 13 people were arrested in raids in 5 cities, including Nador and Hoceima on the Mediterranean coast close to the Span­ish enclave of Melilla, as well as Fez and Casa­blanca. One of those detained had previously been arrested under the country’s ­anti-terror law. The network was headquartered in Madrid. Another arrest occurred in San Martin de la Vega, southeast of Madrid, Spain.

On August 27, 2015, Spanish National Court Judge Juan Pablo Gonzalez ordered jailed Moroccan man Abdeladim Achriaa on provisional charges of coordinating a cell that recruited jihadis from Spain and Morocco for the Islamic State. The ­long-time resident of Spain was arrested in San Martin de la Vega. Judge Gonzalez said 5 of Achriaa’s ­brothers-in-law had gone to fight in Syria.

August 25—Nigeria—Two suicide bombers killed 15 people in separate attacks in Damaturu. In one, a girl between 11 and 14 years old set off her explosives at the entrance to the main bus station, killing 15 and wounding 41. A young male suicide bomber died when his explosives went off prematurely after a passenger spotted him on a bus and wanted to arrest him.

At 11 p.m., 2 suicide bombers killed an Air Force lieutenant and injured a young woman and other ­soldiers who were questioning the suspects at a checkpoint at a traffic circle leading to Maiduguri’s international airport.

In a nighttime Boko Haram attack in Marfunudi, 24 people were killed. The terrorists slit many of the victims’ throats.

August 25—Germany—UPI reported that arson was suspected in the destruction of a Nauen, Brandenburg State, gym planned to be used as a shelter for 130 refugees in September. No injuries were reported.

August 25—Iraq—A suicide bomber in Anbar Province killed 13 troops and militiamen.

August 25—South Sudan—Doctors Without Borders said 2 of its workers—Gawar Top Puoy, a logistician, and community health worker James Gat­luak Gatpieny—were killed in separate attacks in villages in Unity State the previous week.

August 25—Syria—UPI reported that a drone strike killed UK citizen Junaid Hussain, alias Abu Hussain ­al-Britani, 21, a key hacker for the Islamic State’s Cyber Caliphate, near Raqqa, Syria, the IS capital. He was convicted in 2012 at age of 17 of hacking the email of a former aide to former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and for publishing Blair’s personal details online. The ­Birmingham-born Hussain left the UK in 2013 after his release from prison and went on to Syria. He was a member of the Team Poison hackers in the UK, whose exploits included attacking the Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) telephone system. He was also believed to have been involved in the IS hack attack of the U.S. Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts in January 2015.

August 26—Egypt—Three ­drive-by gunmen in a car killed 2 policemen guarding a post office in the Sinai Peninsula. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed credit on social media.

August 26—Afghanistan—Two gunmen wearing Afghan security force uniforms attacked a NATO vehicle and killed 2 U.S. airmen near Camp Antonik in Helmand Province. Troops returned fire, killing the terrorists. UPI reported that Captain Matthew D. Roland, 27, of Lexington, Kentucky, was assigned to the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron in Hurlburt Field, Florida. Staff Sergeant Forrest B. Sibley, 31, of Pensacola, Florida, was assigned to the 21st Special Tactics Squadron, Pope Army Airfield, North Carolina. 15082601

August 26—Turkey—The Anadolu Agency reported that a bomb exploded in Antakya beneath the black Hyundai hatchback of Jamil Raadoun, 44, commander of the Suqour ­al-Ghab brigade, which is affiliated with the Free Syrian Army rebel group. Raadoun, who had defected from the Syrian Army, had been targeted by bombers in April, but the bomb was discovered before it could go off. He had keyed the ignition, setting off the bomb. Turkish government officials blamed the Assad regime. 15082602

August 27—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide car bomber crashed into Iraqi troops near Ramadi in Anbar Province, killing 2 generals and 3 soldiers and wounding 10 other soldiers. The dead included Major General ­Abdul-Rahman ­Abu-Regheef, deputy chief of operations in Anbar, and Brigadier General Sefeen ­Abdul-Maguid, commander of the 10th Army Division. IS said on Twitter that 6 fighters in 4 ­explosives-laden vehicles and armed with 2 heavy ­machine-guns carried out the attack to avenge the killing of a local commander in Anbar it identified as Abu Radi ­al-Ansari.

August 27—Pakistan—Pakistani Taliban member Habibur Rehman blew himself up during a police counterterrorism raid on a house in Pir Mahal, killing himself, his wife and their 2 children. A gun battle had ensued after someone had thrown hand grenades at the police, who were investigating the assassination of Punjab provincial home minister Shuja Khanzada, who was killed along with 17 others in an attack by 2 suicide bombers in his northwestern hometown in August. He initially used his wife as a human shield. Police confiscated 4 suicide vests, assault rifles, hand grenades and a large quantity of explosives at the house.

August 27—China—Courts in Xinjiang jailed 45 people on ­terrorism-related charges, including 18 convicted of organizing illegal border crossings. Xinhua said they included 8 people sentenced to prison terms on charges of trying to leave China unlawfully. Five of them were sentenced to 8 to 10 years by a Kashgar court after they were captured by Tajikistan police near the border with Afghanistan. A Hotan court jailed 3 men for 10 to 15 years after they were detained by Chinese police at the Urumqi airport on their way to Turkey on falsified Turkish passports. A Karamay court convicted 18 people of organizing illegal border crossings. Wei Hai and Chen Qianggui were sentenced to life in prison after they and 11 others helped 305 people to illegally cross into Vietnam from December 2013 and June 2014, for a fee of up to $1,000 per person.

August 27—Nigeria—Boko Haram attacked the Kafa fishing village, killing 4 people.

August 28—Philippines—Philippine marines encountered a group of 300 Abu Sayyaf gunmen near a forested hill in Patikul Township, sparking a gun battle that killed 3 Abu Sayyaf terrorists and wounded 10 marines.

August 28—India—Soldiers killed 5 Naga insurgents in Pangsha in Nagaland State’s Tuensang District. An Army spokesman said they were part of a faction of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland led by S.S. Khaplang. In June, the faction ambushed an Indian army convoy in Manipur State, killing 18 soldiers.

August 28—Bahrain—A bomb went off in the predominantly Shi’ite village of Karanah, killing a police officer and wounding 7 people, including 4 policemen, a married couple and their child.

August 28—Nigeria—The Department of State Services intelligence agency announced the arrest earlier that week of a 14-year-old boy at the Abuja international airport for conducting surveillance of the facility for Boko Haram. He had watched the movement of passengers and security and reported back to his handlers.

Boko Haram killed 56 in Baanu village in Borno State in a nighttime attack.

August 28—Afghanistan—The Taliban attacked police checkpoints in the Andar and Qarabagh districts of Ghazni Province, killing 8 officers and wounding 15.

An Afghan airstrike killed 16 insurgents and wounded 17 in Ghazni’s capital.

A police vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Chora district of southern Uruzgan Province, killing 5 police officers.

August 28—Chad—Ten members of Boko Haram, including Bahna Fanaye, alias Mahamat Moustapha, whom Chadian officials described as a leader of the group, were sentenced to death by firing squad for murder and the use of explosives. Chadian soldiers carried out the sentence the next day.

August 28—El Salvador—Authorities acting on an anonymous tip found a bomb containing plastic explosives that was hidden in a stolen car parked near the security ministry. Experts defused it.

August 29—Afghanistan—The New York Times reported that the Taliban killed 3 prominent local ­leaders and 12 other people in 3 attacks in the south. The Taliban attacked an Afghan Local Police checkpoint in the Andar District of Ghazni Province at 2:30 a.m., killing 6 police officers, including the commander, a prominent leader known as Abdullah. At 10:30 a.m., the Taliban ambushed a government convoy escorting the provincial security chief, Rahi­mullah Khan, and the head of the Shura Council, Maulvi Lal Mohammad, as they were on a highway been Tarinkot and Kandhar. Mohammad, a tribal elder, and their driver were killed; Khan escaped. A bomb in the Chora District of Oruzgan killed the deputy district police chief, Amir Mohammad, and 2 bodyguards.

Taliban factions supporting Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, loyal to the family of the deceased Mullah Omar, and those supporting other Taliban leaders conducted a gun battle that killed 5 people in Afghanistan’s Zabul Province.

August 29—Pakistan—The Pakistani military said one of its airstrikes killed 14 “terrorists” in Shawal in North Waziristan.

August 29—Iraq—A roadside bomb hit a convoy near the border post of Trebil, killing 5 officers. The convoy was headed to the Jordanian border in western Iraq.

Two roadside bombs killed 5 people and injured 19 south and west of Baghdad.

Gunmen using pistols fitted with suppressors killed 2 people in the Jihad neighborhood of western Baghdad.

August 30—Nigeria—Tony Opuiyo, spokesman of the Department of State Services intelligence agency said that Boko Haram was infiltrating Lagos and planned to attack the country’s largest city. Security agencies arrested 14 Boko Haram suspects in Lagos, Abuja and other parts of the country outside the northeast in the past 2 months.

August 30—Pakistan—Ten to 12 gunmen on motorcycles attached Baluchistan Province’s Jewni Airport in the morning, killing an official on duty and wounding his supervisor before abducting a third engineer and destroying navigational equipment. The body of the abductee was found nearby.

August 30—Yemen—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Colonel Abdelhakim ­al-Sanidi, the head of security in Aden, as he was driving on a busy street in the ­al-Mansoura neighborhood. AQAP was suspected.

August 31—Iraq—The Kurdish government said IS fired a rocket carrying “chemical substances” at Kurdish peshmerga forces near the Mosul Dam.

August 31—Afghanistan—CNN reported that Herat Regional Hospital spokesman Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai said 140 schoolgirls in Herat were hospitalized after being poisoned by a gas.

September—Libya—Gunmen in Tajoura kidnapped Maltese businessman Noel Sciberras, the general manager of a ­Maltese-owned company which runs Tripoli’s only public parking lot. They demanded a $5 million ransom. The AP reported that he was freed after 6 weeks on October 28, 2015. It was unclear if the ransom was paid. The Maltese Foreign Ministry thanked a Maltese diplomat who earlier served in Libya and who negotiated the release of another Maltese man who was kidnapped in 2014. 15099901

September—Yemen—On November 24, 2015, the United Arab Emirates WAM state news agency reported that Emirati soldier Nasser Ali Hassan Mohammed Baloch, who was wounded by Shi’ite Houthi rebels in Yemen in September, died while receiving medical care in Germany.

September 1—Turkey—British police said Turkish police detained a 33-year-old mother and her 4 children, aged 4 to 12, from London who were believed to be on their way to Syria.

Authorities in Iskenderun detained a 21-year-old Israeli Jew suspected of planning to join the Islamic State. He was returned to Israel at the request of the Israeli Embassy. He had traveled a route from Crete to Izmir, Adana, and Iskenderun.

A Turkish soldier at a border post near Kilis died from shots fired from an ­IS-controlled area in Syria. A second soldier was missing.

September 1—Iraq—After firing mortars, 2 Islamic State suicide bombers on foot and 3 suicide car bombers killed 12 soldiers and Sunni militiamen in Haditha in Anbar Province. Another 5 soldiers and 3 Sunni militia were wounded.

September 1—Mali—Jihadis with automatic weap­ons were suspected of a morning attack on an army checkpoint in Timbuktu, killing at least 2 soldiers and injuring one. Another soldier was missing. The soldiers’ throats were slashed. Authorities made several arrests outside Timbuktu following the attack.

September 1—Kuwait—Public prosecutor Dherar ­al-Asousi announced he had referred 26 people—25 Kuwaitis and one Iranian—to court on allegations that include illegal weapons possession, committing acts harmful to the country’s unity, and having “furtive contacts” with Iran and the Lebanese Hizballah. Three suspects were at large.

September 1—Somalia—Al-Shabaab overran an African Union base in the small farming town of Janale in southern Somalia in the morning. The terrorists set off a suicide car bomb at the base’s gate, then began a ­one-hour gun battle. UNISOM said it was in control of the base; ­al-Shabaab spokesman Abdiaziz Abu Musab said it killed 50 Ugandan troops in retaliation over alleged killings by Ugandan troops of 6 men at a wedding in the Somali port town of Merka in July. On September 3, AP quoted the Ugandan military as saying that 12 Ugandan soldiers were killed and none were captured. Uganda’s Ministry of Defense said that Ugandan soldiers captured 2 of the attackers and killed 46. On September 12, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said 19 soldiers were killed and 6 were missing and presumed taken prisoner. On November 10, 2015, ­al-Shabaab released a video showing its members killing what it said were more than 50 African Union soldiers from Uganda during an attack on the AU base in Janale on September 1. 15090101

September 1—Nigeria—Boko Haram was suspected of ­late-night attacks on horseback on Kolori and ­Baana-imam villages that killed 26 people.

September 1—Saudi Arabia—Seven people were wounded when a missile fired from Yemen hit 3 vehicles in ­al-Tuwal village in Saudi’s Jizan Province. 15090102

September 2—Yemen—Gunmen killed 2 Yemenis working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Amran Province as they were traveling from northern Saada Province to Sana’a. 15090201

An Islamic State suicide bomber and a ­follow-up car bomber killed 28 people and injured dozens at a Sana’a mosque. The pedestrian bomber walked inside the mosque during the evening call to prayers; the car bomb went off outside an entrance while rescuers were carrying out the wounded. Yemen’s IS affiliate said the suicide attacker was Quay ­al-Sanaani, who was avenging attacks by Houthis.

September 2—Iraq—At 6 a.m., gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped 18 Turkish employees of Nurol Insaat, an ­Ankara-based construction company in Baghdad in the morning, threw them into several SUVs and drove off. The Turkish construction company was contracted to build a sports complex in the Shi’ite district of Sadr City. The terrorists attacked the construction site, where the Turks were sleeping, broke down doors, disarmed guards, and grabbed the hostages. An Iraqi was also kidnapped. Turkish Foreign Ministry Spokesman Tanju Bilgic said the gunmen took 14 workers, 3 engineers and an ac-countant, noting that the terrorists targeted Turkish nationals, leaving behind workers from other countries. A previously unknown terrorist group released a 3-minute video on September 11, 2015, showing 18 Turkish workers kneeling before 5 masked gunmen standing in front of a “Death Squads” ­Arabic-language poster. The group threatened Ankara with “the most violent means” if its demands were ignored. The group demanded that Turkey stop terrorists getting into Iraq, stop the passage of oil from Iraq’s northern Kurdish region via Turkish territory, and lift a “siege” on Syrian towns and villages. It also condemned “wrongful” foreign policies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. On September 12, Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali ­al-Sistani condemned the kidnapping and called for the Turks’ ­release. Two workers were released in Basra on September 16. The Turkish media reported on September 30, 2015, that 16 kidnapped Turkish workers were found in Musayyib. 15090202

Roadside bombs exploded in commercial streets throughout Baghdad, killing 9 people and wounding 29.

September 2—Afghanistan—CNN reported that Herat Regional Hospital spokesman Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai said 68 schoolgirls were poisoned by a gas.

September 3—Netherlands—The Defense Ministry announced that a 26-year-old serving member of the Dutch air force may have traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State. He was suspended from service, and had been banned from “all access to information, systems and locations.”

September 3—Afghanistan—CNN reported that 115 girls, aged 9–18, from a school in Herat were hospitalized after being poisoned by a gas, according to Herat Regional Hospital spokesman Mohammad Rafiq Sherzai, bringing the total to 300 girls who had been gassed in 3 incidents that week in Herat.

September 3—Ivory Coast—Modibo Naman Traore, spokesman for the Malian special forces, said Ivory Coast authorities arrested in the northern forests 7 jihadis accused of attacking the Malian military in southern Mali. They were handed over to Malian authorities. They were believed linked to Ansar Dine.

September 3—Iraq—A bomb exploded in Tarmi­yah, killing 3 shoppers and wounding 10.

Four bombs in Baghdad commercial centers killed 8 civilians and wounded 18.

September 3—West Bank—Five American ­ultra-Orthodox seminary students took a wrong turn into a Palestinian neighborhood in Hebron and their car was stoned and firebombed. Two students were slightly wounded. A Palestinian resident rescued them and arranged for Israeli authorities to evacuate them.

September 3—Cameroon—UPI reported that 2 bombs went off in the Kerawa region, where the army was fighting Boko Haram, killing at least 10 people. A bomb exploded at 9 a.m. at a market near the border with Nigeria. A second bomb hit near a military camp. Some reports said 40 people were killed. Reuters said 100 were wounded. A local government official initially said 6 died and 87 were wounded; another official said female bombers were involved. 15090301–02

September 3—Egypt—At 2 p.m., ­white-painted vehicles from the Multinational Force and Observers’ peacekeeping mission in northern Sinai Peninsula were hit with 2 explosive devices near their base in ­el-Gorah, injuring 4 U.S. soldiers and 2 Fijians. The Fijian vehicle hit the first bomb. The Americans were injured while attempting to respond and provide help. The troops were conducting supply and recovery convoys. They were airlifted for medical assistance to Israel, and were reported to be in stable condition. 15090303

September 4—Iraq—NPR reported that 3 Iraqi troops attempting to arrest kidnappers of 17 Turks were injured in a raid on a terrorist safehouse.

September 4—Yemen—The Saudi military said 10 Saudi soldiers were killed in a Houthi rebel missile strike that killed 50 other people, including 45 UAE soldiers and 5 Bahraini soldiers, at an ammunition depot in Marib Province. 15090401

September 5—Afghanistan—Gunmen stopped civilian vehicles and shot to death 13 Afghan civilians in Balkh Province.

September 5—Spain—AFP reported that police in Gandia near Valencia arrested an 18-year-old Moroccan woman for preparing to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. Police suspected she also recruited other women on the Internet to join IS and had lived for a long time in Spain.

September 6—Tunisia—The Tunisian Interior Ministry warned of a plan to attack “sensitive sites” in Tunis with car bombs and explosive belts. Police banned traffic on Bourguiba Avenue in the heart of downtown Tunis and nearby streets.

September 6—Syria—State television SANA ran a confession by Wafi Abu Trabi, who said he had been recruited by the Nusra Front to set off a bomb that killed a prominent cleric and 25 other people. He had confessed to elders in Sweida Province.

September 6—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that the military said PKK rebels set off bombs as armored military vehicles were passing by near the village of Daglica, in Hakkari Province, killing 16 soldiers and wounding 6 others. Firat News, a website close to the PKK, claimed that 32 soldiers were killed.

September 7—Iraq—A sniper missed Defense Minister Khaled ­al-Obeidi as he traveled in a convoy near the oil refinery town of Beiji. One of his guards was wounded.

September 7—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit a military vehicle in Taweel ­al-Amir, south of Rafah, in the northern Sinai, killing an officer and a conscript and wounding 5 soldiers.

Gunmen shot at a police patrol in Beheira Province in the Nile Delta, wounding 5 policemen.

In Mansoura in the Nile Delta, a court issued tentative death sentences to 9 people and sentenced 14 others to life in prison on charges of killing a police officer guarding a judge in 2014.

September 7—Spain—Police in Figueres, near the French border, announced the arrest of a 19-year-old woman for recruiting combatants to fight for the Islamic State and helping them plan their travel to Syria or Iraq. Police began the investigation when her name turned up in material seized from Ayoub Moutchou, a suspected Moroccan recruiter for the Islamic State who fled Spain in July and was arrested in August in Stuttgart, Germany. Germany turned him over to Spanish authorities in late August 2015.

September 7—Burundi—Unknown gunmen shot to death Patrice Gahungu, spokesman for the opposition UPD Zigamibanga party, outside his home in the Gihosha neighborhood of Bujumbura during the evening.

September 7—Libya—Islamic gunmen killed 8 soldiers southwest of Benghazi. One soldier was missing and another 10 were wounded.

September 8—Turkey—The Anadolu Agency reported that the PKK was suspected of detonating a bomb as a police vehicle escorting a group of customs officials to a border gate was passing by in Igdir Province, killing 14 policemen and injuring others. The customs officials were going to a border crossing between Turkey and the Azerbaijani enclave of Nakh­chivan.

September 8—Iraq—Gunmen stopped the convoy of acting Deputy Minister of Justice ­Abdul-Karim ­al-Saadi in Baghdad, kidnapping him and 2 guards. The guards were later freed.

September 8—Kenya—In the afternoon, police arrested a man trying to enter Nairobi’s Garden City shopping mail with a ­hand-held bomb. Police “safely neutralized” the device after evacuating the mall. Police questioned 3 men.

September 8—South Africa—Reuters reported that the U.S. Embassy warned its citizens of a possible attack by “extremists” against U.S. facilities or interests in South Africa. The embassy website noted, “The U.S. diplomatic mission to South Africa has received information that extremists may be targeting U.S. interests in South Africa, to possibly include U.S. government facilities and other facilities identifiable with U.S. business interests … no additional information as to timing or potential targeting.”

September 8–9—Pakistan—Gunmen killed 2 journalists in separate attacks in Karachi within 24 hours. During the night of September 8, gunmen fired on a van of the private satellite news channel Geo TV, killing a technician and wounding the driver. The next morning, ­motorcycle-riding gunmen killed journalist Aftab Alam, a Geo TV alum, as he stood outside his home.

September 9—Pakistan—ABC News reported that al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri released an audio declaring “war” against Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, observing, “We preferred to respond with as little as possible, out of our concern to extinguish the fire of sedition, but Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and his brothers did not leave us a choice, for they have demanded that all the mujahideen reject their confirmed pledges of allegiance, and to pledge allegiance to them for what they claim of a caliphate. Everyone was surprised” by Baghdadi’s declaration anointing himself the fourth caliph in Islamic history, al-Zawahiri remarked, saying ­al-Baghdadi had done this “without consulting the Muslims.” Analysts suggested that the audio was recorded in the spring, noting that it reiterated pledges of loyalty to the ­long-dead Taliban leader Mullah Omar.

September 9—Germany—Berlin state court spokesman Tobias Kaehne said the court had convicted Fatih K., 36, of membership in a terrorist organization for fighting with Junad ­al-Sham in Syria. Fatih K. was sentenced to 6 years in prison. The court said he traveled to Syria in mid–2013 to join the group, received military training, and served as a cameraman on propaganda films. He was arrested in 2014. The German citizen had been convicted in 2011 of supporting another Islamic terrorist organization and served nearly 2 years in jail. Accomplice Fatih I. was convicted in June 2015 of supporting Junad ­al-Sham.

September 9—Iraq—Two Islamic State suicide bombers attacked Iraqi troops at a military post in Anbar Province, killing 13 soldiers and wounding another 13.

September 9—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb targeting a local government official instead killed 4 children and wounded 3 in Kunduz Province.

A roadside bomb, possibly set off by remote control, killed 2 soldiers and wounded a civilian in Kabul Province’s Kalakan district. The Taliban claimed credit.

September 9—Syria—The Islamic State’s online Dabiq magazine posted photos of 2 men wearing ­yellow prison garb whom it said were Norwegian citizen Ole Johan ­Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, from Oslo and Fan Jinghui, 50, a freelance consultant from Beijing. The group listed their date of birth and home addresses. IS listed a telegram number under each man’s photograph and said, “To whom it may concern of the Crusaders, pagans, and their allies, as well as what are referred to as human ‘rights’ organisations, this prisoner was abandoned by his government, which did not do its utmost to purchase his freedom. Whoever would like to pay the ransom for his release and transfer can contact the following telegram number,” adding that it was a “limited time offer.” It did not specify when/where they were captured. AFP reported on September 11 that China said its government had initiated an “emergency response mechanism.” The Voice of America added that Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Soldberg said Ofstad was captured near the end of January.

Chinese media said Fan’s address was for a company he had owned. Fan worked in the advertising industry.

AP added on September 10 that ­Grimsgaard-Olfstad, from Porsgrunn, south of Oslo, was a graduate student in political philosophy whose Facebook feed shows a ­long-held interest in international affairs, Middle East conflicts and Norse mythology. On January 24, 2015, he posted on Facebook that he had “finally made it” to Idlib, Syria and was en route to Hama. 15090901

September 9—U.S.—AFP and Fairfax Media reported that the FBI, working with Australian Federal Police, arrested Joshua Ryne Goldberg, 20, an American living at his parents’ home in Orange Park, Florida. He was believed to have assumed the online identity of an Australian jihadist, Australi Witness, supporting the Islamic State. Australian Federal Police said “The man was arrested for distributing information relating to explosives and destructive devices to facilitate a possible terrorist act in the United States. It will also be alleged that this person provided information over the Internet in an attempt to facilitate and encourage terrorist acts in Australia.” Jacksonville TV stations reported that he had planned to facilitate attacks in the U.S. and Australia, including a proposed attack on a 9/11 memorial service in Kansas City, Missouri. Fairfax Media said “Australi Witness” distributed pictures of a bomb he was building which he said had “2 lbs of explosives inside” and that he was accused of coaching an individual on how to make a ­pressure-cooker bomb filled with nails and other metal pieces dipped in rat poison.

CNN reported that U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III of the Middle District of Florida said Goldberg was charged with distribution of information relating to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction. The FBI discovered him through Twitter messages under the Australi Witness name that encouraged attacks on the Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas, on May 3. The complaint said an FBI confidential source communicated with him through a direct messaging application, and Australi Witness discussed building a pressure-cooker bomb that could be detonated at the Kansas City Stair Climb, a September 13 event in which firefighters honor FDNY firefighters killed on 9/11.

Australi Witness suggested 5 websites with bombmaking instructions and observed, “I haven’t made one before, but I’ve studied how to make them. Get FAR away from the bomb, brother. There’s going to be chaos when it goes off. Shrapnel, blood and panicking kuffar will be everywhere.” The Washington Post reported that he told the informant, “Hopefully there will be some jihad on the anniversary of 9/11.”

The Washington Post reported that the FBI became interested in AusWitness after someone using that name claimed responsibility for the attack at a “prophet Muhammad cartoon contest” in Garland, Texas, in May on a Web site by saying, “You might know me for inspiring the attacks in Garland … where 2 mujahideen entered an event mocking the Prophet Muhammad … with intent to slaughter.” He claimed that he lived in Perth, Australia and was a refugee from Lebanon “enamoured with the Islamic State’s ideology…. The Jews are the worst enemies of Allah. When Islam conquers Australia, every single Jew will be slaughtered like the filthy cockroaches that they are.”

The FBI quoted an online conversation between AusWitness and Informant CHS that included the following passages:

CHS: “I don’t have any bombs. I don’t know how to make them.”

AUSWITNESS: “What weapons do you have brother? I can send you guides on how to make bombs if you need help.”

AUSWITNESS: “Have you decided what kind of attack to carry out on 9/11 … I was thinking a bombing. We could make pipe bombs and detonate them at a large public event.”

CHS: “I’m in the Midwest the closest place is Kansas City if you’re familiar.”

AUSWITNESS: “Where will the most people be in Kansas City on 9/11? That’s where we need to ­target.”

AusWitness suggested the “perfect place” would be the annual Kansas City 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb, during which “343 Firefighters will embark on a 110 story climb to the top of the Town Pavilion high rise in downtown Kansas City in remembrance of the 343 firefighters killed on 9–11–2001.”

AUSWITNESS: “Be careful…. When you go there to place the bomb, make sure the bomb is VERY well hidden.”

CHS: “Where do you think would be best near the fire fighters or the crowd?”

AUSWITNESS: “Good thinking … put the backpack near the crowd.”

AusWitness suggested that the ­pressure-cooker bomb should use “metal and nails” and “dip the screws and other shrapnel in rat poison before putting them in.” Those hit by them “will be more likely to die.”

He confessed during a raid on his home at the 3100 block of Pine Road in Orange Park, Florida, claiming that he would have warned authorities so he could be a hero. The complaint said that Goldberg “claimed that he intended for the individual to either kill himself creating the bomb or, if not, that he intended to alert law enforcement just prior to the individual’s detonating the bomb, resulting in … credit for stopping the attack.”

He faced 20 years in prison. On September 15, 2015, Magistrate Judge James R. Klindt postponed his hearing and committed Goldberg to a month at the federal medical center in Butner, North Caro­lina, for psychiatric observation and evaluation. Goldberg was represented by attorney Paul Shor­stein, who said his client was diagnosed with depression and his parents said he had other mental health problems.

On December 4, 2015, the Florida ­Times-Union reported that Lisa Feldman, a prison psychologist at the federal detention center in Miami, said Joshua Ryne Goldberg was “suffering from a mental disorder that significantly impairs his ability to understand what is happening” at trial. Goldberg was charged with distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. U.S. Magistrate Judge Klindt ruled at a December 14 competency hearing that Goldberg was ­incompetent to stand trial and order him sent to a mental health institution for at least 4 months for an evaluation.

September 10—Iraq—On September 23, UPI reported that the Pentagon announced that a September 10 airstrike near Tal Afar, Iraq killed Abu Bakr ­al-Turkmani, a senior leader for the Islamic State. He had been an al-Qaeda member before joining IS and was a close associate of several IS leaders near Mosul and Tal Afar.

September 10—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb, believed to have been remotely detonated by the Taliban, exploded in the morning in Ghazni, killing 5 police officers on patrol.

The Taliban fired 4 missiles into a U.S. Bagram Air Base at 9 p.m., causing no injuries. 15091001

September 10—Saudi Arabia—A Saudi soldier at a Saudi border guard outpost in the southern region of Jizan was killed by gunfire from Yemen. 15091001

September 10—Syria—The Washington Post reported that the 11th edition of the Islamic State’s online ­English-language magazine Dabiq featured a ­2-page photo spread of its destruction of the 2,000-year-old Temple of Bel in Palmyra, pictures of bound men moments before their summary executions, young boys training to be jihadists, and the famed photo of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian toddler whose drowned body washed ashore on a Turkish beach. The photo ran with the headline “The Danger of Abandoning ­Darul-Islam—or the lands of Islam” and said that the refugees traveling into “crusaders’ lands” was unforgivable. The article observed, “Sadly, some Syrians and Libyans are willing to risk the lives and souls of those whom they are responsible to raise upon the Shari’ah—their children—sacrificing many of them during the dangerous trip to the lands of the ­war-waging crusaders ruled by laws of atheism and indecency … voluntarily leaving [the lands of Islam] for [the lands of infidels] is a dangerous major sin, as it is … a gate toward one’s children and grandchildren abandoning Islam for Christianity, atheism or liberalism.”

September 11—Nigeria—BBC reported that Boko Haram was suspected when a bomb exploded in a tent near a warehouse and a central store at the Mil­kohi camp for internally-displaced persons who had fled the BH terrorist campaign, killing 7 people and wounding 13 near Yola in Adamawa State.

September 11—Egypt—A suicide car bomber killed a 61-year-old man and his 2 children, aged 3 and 7, inside their home in Rafah in northern Sinai on the border with the Gaza Strip. The bomber was targeting an approaching military convoy. One soldier and 4 civilians were wounded.

September 11—Burundi—Gunmen dressed in military fatigues fired from their pickup truck at the convoy of army chief Major General Prime Niyongabo in Bujumbura’s Kinindo neighborhood. During the attack, 3 soldiers, a civilian and 2 attackers were killed. He was unharmed. The getaway vehicle was found in the ­anti-government stronghold of Musaga, where security forces arrested 4 men.

September 12—Mali—During the evening, gunmen fired at a military police post in Ouenkoro in central Mopti region near the Burkina Faso border, killing one military police officer, injuring another, and burning a local government office and 2 cars.

September 13—Pakistan—During the night, a ­remote-controlled bomb went off outside a bus terminal in Multan, killing 9 and wounding 48. Government official Zahid Saleem said it appeared to be a suicide attack.

UPI reported that a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded after colliding with a packed rickshaw in Multan in Punjab Province, killing 10 and injuring 57. Central Police Officer Azhar Akram said ball bearings had been recovered from the site. District Commissioner Officer Zahid Saleem Gondal said the rider was transporting explosive materials that mistakenly blew up in the collision. Xinhua quoted a third po-lice officer who said the bomb was hidden in a bag and remotely detonated. The bomb destroyed between 5 and 7 rickshaws, a car, 2 motorbikes, and 2 shops.

September 13—Internet—CNN reported that al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri had released another audio message, this one seemingly contradicting a recent one, in which he called for cooperation between AQ and the Islamic State. He called on all jihadis in Iraq and Syria to cooperate against a common enemy. He said AQ had used great restraint to “stop the fighting between the mujahideen” in Syria and to “give room for the people of goodness to reconcile.” In addition, regarding IS, “were I in Iraq or in Sham (Syria), I would cooperate with them in fighting the crusaders, the secularists, the Nusayris (Alawites) and the Safavids (Shia) … because the matter is bigger than me and their claim of establishing a caliphate.” In the tape, entitled “The Islamic Spring,” he added, “unequivocally that if there is fighting between the crusaders, the Safavids, and the secularists, and any group from the Muslims and the mujahideen, including the group of Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and those with him, then our only choice is to stand with the Muslim mujahideen, even if they are unjust to us…. We call for cooperation with Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and his brothers to push back the attack of the enemies of Islam.” However, “We are not with them if they evade being ruled by the Sharia, or slander the Muslims or brand them as infidels, or break their promises, or seek to split their ranks.” “We consider that most of the corruption in the movement is within a small ruling minority that mixed good work with bad.”

September 13—Turkey—UPI reported that the PKK set off a car bomb next to a police checkpoint in Sirnak, killing 2 police officers and injuring 5.

The PKK fired a ­rocket-propelled grenade in Silvan in Diyarbakir Province, killing a police officer. Hurriyet Daily News reported that he had been inside an excavator on the way to fill in trenches dug by the Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement, the youth wing of the PKK.

September 13—Egypt—Terrorists fired a mortar shell that hit a home in Sheikh Zuweid in the northern Sinai, killing an elderly man and wounding his son.

A land mine exploded in Sheikh Zuweid, severely wounding 3 7-year-old boys.

September 13—Internet—Reuters reported that al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri posted an audio in which he called on young Muslim men in the U.S. and other Western countries to carry out attacks inside those countries. “I call on all Muslims who can harm the countries of the crusader coalition not to hesitate…. We must now focus on moving the war to the heart of the homes and cities of the crusader West and specifically America.”

September 13—Cameroon—A local ­self-defense group confronted Boko Haram suicide bombers in Kolofata, limiting the damage by blocking them from getting to a market. Nonetheless, 9 civilians were killed and 18 wounded. Ahmidou Fouman, one of the group’s members, said, “We detected 3 strange teenage boys and a girl dressed like a Muslim in our town. They pretended to be fetching water from a stream and when some members of our group went to search them, the girl detonated a bomb, killing some of us.” 15091301

Boko Haram conducted 7 attacks in the previous 5 days in northern Cameroon. 15099901–06

September 14—Syria—Two Islamic State car bombs exploded within 30 minutes in Hassakeh, a predominantly Kurdish city in the northeast, killing 26 people, including a woman, her 2 children, and several Kurdish fighters. The ­state-run SANA news agency said 21 people died in a bombing in the Mahatta neighborhood. The others, including the woman and her children, died in the Khashman district in northern Hassakeh. Authorities dismantled 2 other car bombs in the province. A human rights group said the dead included 13 civilians, 6 Kurdish fighters from the local police force and 7 ­pro-government militia members.

September 14—Morocco—Abdelhak Khiyam, head of the Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations, announced the dismantling of a terrorist cell in contact with the Islamic State group and that possessed weapons and ­bomb-making material. Authorities arrested 5 men awaiting the arrival of an IS ­bomb-making expert to carry out an attack. Authorities confiscated 4 pistols, an automatic weapon, pepper spray, samurai swords and quantities of sulfur and ammonium nitrate. Khiyam said the firearms were smuggled in via Algeria.

September 14—Afghanistan—In a morning attack, Taliban gunmen wearing military uniforms freed more than 355 inmates from a Ghazni Province prison. A suicide bomber breached the walls. Four guards died and 7 were wounded. Three terrorists died. Only 82 prisoners remained in custody. To divert attention, at 2 a.m. the Taliban conducted 10 other attacks in the city.

September 14—Philippines—Some 15–20 heavily armed Abu Sayyaf gunmen stopped a water delivery truck carrying 11 workers to a road construction site in Sumisip on Basilan island. Two workers escaped by jumping off the truck. More than 500 soldiers and marines found the burned truck and rescued the 9 Muslim hostages whom the kidnappers had abandoned in the jungle.

The previous week, a Philippine court designated Abu Sayyaf as a terrorist organization, the first to be so outlawed using the country’s ­anti-terrorism law.

September 15—Nigeria—The Army announced that it had rescued dozens of kidnapped women and children held captive by Boko Haram and had cleared BH camps in northeastern Borno State.

September 16—Saudi Arabia—The Interior Ministry announced on September 28 that authorities killed 2 suspected Saudi terrorists and arrested 3 other Saudis during a series of counterterrorism raids in Riyadh and Dammam against a suspected Islamic State cell. One of the suspects had ­earlier been jailed after repatriation from Iraq. Authorities said the dead terrorists had fired on security forces. The Interior Ministry said the terrorists were planning an imminent attack inside the country. Authorities found weapons and ­bomb-making material at an underground hideout and inside a residence. Al-Arabiya said the suspects were linked to a suicide bombing in Abha on August 6 that had been claimed by a ­previously-unknown Islamic State affiliate in the western region of Saudi Arabia.

September 16—Pakistan—Police in Karachi announced the arrest of Syed Sheaba Ahmad, a former air force pilot, for financing al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent. He said he was a businessman with 2 chemical companies in Karachi and Iran who had made large donations to the Afghan Taliban and another extremist group before supporting AQIS. Police said his computer had IS messages. He served in the Pakistani air force until 1998.

September 16—Egypt—Sinai Province of the Islamic State gunmen fired from a white car and killed police Major General Khaled Kamal Osman as he was inspecting a security position in ­el-Arish. Police fired back as the gunmen fled.

September 17—Iraq—A suicide bomber on foot set off his explosive vest at a police checkpoint in Baghdad’s Bab ­al-Sharji area, killing 9 civilians and 3 police officers and wounding 45 people.

A suicide bomber on foot set off his explosive vest in Baghdad’s ­al-Wathba Square, killing 9 people, including 4 police officers, and wounding 31 people.

September 17—Germany—German police shot to death Islamic extremist Rafik Mohamad Yousef, 41, after he threatened ­passers-by and attacked an officer with a knife on the streets of western Berlin’s Spandau area. He seriously injured a female officer before another officer shot and killed him. The Iraqi was convicted 7 years earlier of membership in an ­al-Qaeda–linked terrorist group. He was arrested in December 2004 on suspicion of plotting with 2 Ansar ­al-Islam members to assassinate former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi during a visit to Berlin. German authorities could not deport him to Iraq after his release in 2013 because he could have faced the death penalty. He was ordered to wear an electronic tag, but he removed it the morning of September 17.

September 17—Pakistan—Authorities arrested Umar Hayat, believed to be behind a recent failed attempt to attack an air force facility in Kamra.

September 17–18—Thailand—Nine bombs exploded in southern Narathiwat Province, killing a soldier and 2 civilians and injuring 14 other people. Eight bombs exploded during the night; the 9th bomb, set off by radio, weighed 22 pounds and damaged a police car. Police blamed separatists, who set off the nighttime ­time-bombs at residential areas, a Buddhist temple, telecommunications and waterworks buildings, a local government office and a royally sponsored development project.

September 18—China—Reuters and Radio Free Asia reported on September 23 that separatists stabbed 5 police officers in a knife attack at a coal mine at the Sogan colliery in Aksu in the Xinjiang region. News services later said 11 civilians and 5 police officers were killed. Dozens of other people were injured. Radio Free Asia quoted a government announcement that the knifing was “a ­long-planned, ­well-prepared, ­large-scale attack by separatists against police officers and mine owners at a coal field in our county.”

Radio Free Asia reported on October 2, 2015, that ­knife-wielding men attacked a Xinjiang coal mine, killing 50 people, including 5 police officers. Nine suspects were being sought.

AP reported on November 20, 2015, that Chinese police killed all but one of the 29 suspects by November 12. The remaining suspect was arrested. Radio Free Asia reported on November 9 that police had killed 17 suspects from 3 families, including women and children, who were accused of carrying out the mine attack. RFA said 50 people were killed in the mine attack.

September 18—Nigeria—UNICEF announced that Boko Haram attacks had forced 500,000 children to flee their homes in the last 5 months and that 1.4 million children were “on the run” in Nigeria and neighboring countries. More than half of the 1.2 million fleeing northern Nigerian children were less than 5 years old.

September 18—Philippines—A bomb exploded under a seat of a bus that was loading passengers at a bus terminal near a Zamboanga City market, killing an 11-year-old girl and wounding 32 other people; one person lost an arm and a leg. Abu Sayyaf was suspected. CCTV showed a man carrying a bag approaching the bus and minutes later running away before the explosion.

September 18—Saudi Arabia—Incoming fire from Yemen hit a residence for construction workers in Jizan Province, killing 3 foreign workers and wounding 28, including 4 Saudis. 15091801

September 18—Pakistan—The Taliban attacked the Badaber military base outside Peshawar, killing 29 people, including 16 worshippers inside a mosque and 3 air force guards and an army captain. Authorities said they killed 13 attackers during an ­hours-long firefight. Authorities said 29 people, including 10 soldiers and several civilians, were wounded. The Pakistani Taliban released a video showing new leader Khalifa Umar Mansoor sitting among the attackers and saying he was in charge of the attack, which was to avenge Pakistani military bombing of mosques and killing civilians in tribal areas.

September 18—Libya—The Tripoli Province of the Islamic State claimed credit for an attack on a Tripoli prison. Six gunmen wearing suicide belts fired a ­rocket-propelled grenade at the prison fence. Guards killed the gunmen. A guard and a prisoner also died.

September 18—India—Gunmen killed a 3-year-old boy and his father in northern Sagipora village in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Sopore region. The terrorists threw a grenade which failed to explode, then fired on Bashir Ahmed outside his home as he car-ried his son. Ahmed was a former militant. Police ­Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani blamed separatists.

September 19—Syria—The Nusra Front killed 56 Syrian soldiers it had kidnapped during its takeover of the Abu Duhur Airbase in Idlib Province earlier in the month.

September 19—Egypt—Gunmen from the Sinai Province of the Islamic State killed police Brigadier General Ahmed Mohammed Askar in ­el-Arish.

September 19—Nigeria—Terrorists set off 3 bombs at a mosque, a dining area and a computer games center in Maiduguri, killing 80 people and wounding 85. A suicide bomber killed at least 28 people and wounded 12 at a market in nearby Monguno. Boko Haram was suspected.

September 20—Cameroon—Two young female suicide bombers set off their explosives in Mora, near the border with Nigeria, killing 2 civilians and a police officer manning a checkpoint and injuring 29 people. Boko Haram was suspected. 15092001

September 20—Yemen—Houthi rebels released 6 foreign hostages who then flew out of Sana’a airport to Oman, which negotiated their freedom. The hostages—initially identified as 3 Americans, 2 Saudis and a Briton—were kidnapped earlier in the year. One of them was a journalist whom the Houthis said “entered the country illegally” and “worked without notifying the authorities.” CNN and the Washington Post later reported that 2 Americans had been freed and a 35-year-old American Muslim convert who was teaching English was still being held for unannounced reasons. Among the freed Americans was Scott Darden, 45, who worked for the New ­Orleans-based Transoceanic Development logistics company. The other American was Sam Farran, 54, a security consultant from Michigan. The Houthis’ internal security branch detained ­Farran and Darden on March 27. Darden had contacted Farran, a former Marine, for help in finding safety during Saudi bombing of Sana’a. 15032702, 15092002

September 20—Egypt—A bomb went off near a building with administrative offices for Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a ­middle-class neighborhood in Cairo, wounding 2 people.

September 20—UK—Authorities arrested Kevin Nolan, 45, after the discovery of a weapons cache in a house in Catholic west Belfast. On September 22, the Belfast Magistrates Court arraigned him on charges of possessing half a kilogram of Semtex, 2 detonators, 2 handguns and more than 200 rounds of ammunition for use by an unspecified IRA faction. He offered no plea.

September 20—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb went off in the afternoon in Paktia Province’s Zurmat district, killing 5 police officers, who were in a private vehicle on their way to Gardez.

A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Kandahar Province’s Daman district, injuring 3 people, including 2 police officers. The Taliban claimed credit. A security official told Xinhua that the bomb went off near Kandahar Airport and injured 4 police officers, one civilian and a foreign soldier. 15092003

A bomb hidden near an electric station in Kunar Province injured 16 civilians.

A bomb attached to a motorbike went off in Aibak, capital of Samangan Province, injuring 5 civilians.

A landmine exploded in Kandahar Province’s Nesh district, killing 2 civilians and wounding another when their vehicle drove over the bomb.

September 20—Mali—Jihadi gunmen fired on a police station in Binh near the Burkina Faso border, killing a police officer and a civilian.

September 21—Somalia—An ­al-Shabaab suicide bomber attacked the gate of the Villa Somalia presidential palace in Mogadishu, killing 11 people, including 2 Polish citizens, another foreigner, 4 civilians, and 2 soldiers, and injuring 14 people. Poland’s foreign ministry said a Polish victim was doing humanitarian and business work in Somalia. The BBC reported that Turkish diplomats were believed to have died. ­Al-Shabaab said on its online radio Andalus that it targeted “senior apostate leaders and Christian foreign invaders.” 15092101

September 21—Egypt—Military spokesman Brig­a­dier General Mohammed Samir announced that the air force and special ­anti-terrorism troops killed 10 terrorists near the Bahriyah Oasis. One wounded terrorist was arrested. Soldiers destroyed several 4-wheel drives and weapons. Samir said the “terrorists were preparing to infiltrate” several provinces during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid ­al-Adha for “attacks on vital institutions and foreign interests.”

September 21—Syria—Jabha ­al-Shamiya (Levant Front) announced on Facebook that it had freed a British woman and her 5 children who were kidnapped in the country as they fled an area controlled by the Islamic State. The UK Foreign Office said a British woman and her 5 children were reported missing in Turkey, but could not confirm it as the same case. 15092102

September 21—Philippines—Before midnight, 11 gunmen armed with 2 rifles and pistols drove a motorboat to the Holiday Ocean View Samal Resort on Samal Island off Davao City and kidnapped 2 Canadian tourists identified as John Ridsdel, 68, the former chief operating officer of mining company TVI Resource Development Philippines Inc., a subsidiary of Canada’s TVI Pacific, where he was still a consultant, and Robert Hall, 50; Kjartan Sekking­stad, 56, the Norwegian manager of the upscale marina and resort complex; and Teresita Flor, 40, his Filipina girlfriend. The terrorists tried to abduct an American and his Japanese companion on one of the yachts docked at the marina, but the couple resisted and escaped by jumping off the boat, suffering minor injuries. AFP added on September 23, 2015, that the kidnappers evaded a naval cordon and were in remote mountains in the southern Philippines. They had made no ransom demands.

On October 14, 2015, AP reported that the suspected Abu Sayyaf kidnappers released a video showing the 4 hostages surrounded by a dozen masked gunmen. The kidnappers demanded that the government stop its artillery attacks. John Ridsdel, speaking while a terrorist held his head and aimed a machete at him, said, “We beseech the Canadian government to please, please help us and the Philippine government … by stopping all of the operations that have been going on, like artillery fire which came near us.” A terrorist said the group would negotiate with the Canadian and Philippine governments and would issue demands once the shelling stopped. The gunmen they yelled “Allahu akbar.” Army Brigadier General Alan Arrojado said the government would reject any demands by the terrorists. Local press suggested that Abu Sayyaf commander Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan was involved. On November 4, 2015, Abu Sayyaf demanded more than $60 million ransom. 15092103

September 21–22—Cameroon—Soldiers killed at least 17 Boko Haram terrorists who attacked the border town of Amchide. 15092104

September 22—Cameroon—UPI reported that 2 suicide bombers prematurely set off their explosives after being discovered by troops in the village of Goudjoudour in the Far North region on the border with Nigeria’s Borno State. No one else was injured. 15092201-02

September 22—Germany—In the early morning, Berlin police raided 8 buildings, including a mosque’s office, after a ­months-long investigation into suspected Islamic extremists involved in terrorist activities. The key suspects included a 51-year-old Moroccan man accused of encouraging others to go to Syria to fight with “militant jihadist groups,” and a 19-year-old Macedonian man suspected of taking part in the fighting there. Police say there was no evidence that the suspects were planning any attacks in Germany.

September 22—France—Spain’s Interior Ministry said French and Spanish police arrested David Pla and Iratxe Sorzabal, ETA’s 2 seniormost leaders who also managed ETA’s arms and explosives stocks, in a country house in the western mountain town of ­Saint-Etienne-de-Baigorry, in France’s Pyrenees mountains region. They were wanted in Spain and France on terrorism charges. Authorities also detained the house owner and another person present at the time on unspecified charges. Pla and Sorzabal had earlier served jail terms in either Spain or France. A French court had convicted Sorzabal in absentia for her role as the ETA leader responsible for the group’s killing of 2 Spanish police in Capbreton, France in 2007.

The government expelled ­Franco-Moroccan dual national Ahmed Sahnouni ­el-Yaacoubi, who was naturalized in 2003, after he failed in an appeal against a decision to strip him of his nationality following convictions in 2013 for conspiracy to commit terrorist acts.

September 22—Syria—CNN reported that 58 people had defected from the Islamic State, 2⁄3 of them in 2015.

September 22—Afghanistan—In an insider attack, a traitor, soldier Mohammad Alim, let terrorists slip into a compound at the checkpoint in the Qush Tepa district in Zawzjan Province, where they killed 10 soldiers. The terrorists and Alim fled.

Five Afghan police officers, including a district police chief, died and 3 were wounded when a roadside bomb went off under their car in Balkh Province.

New Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor released a message in which he said, “If the Kabul administration wants to end the war and establish peace in the country, it must end the occupation and revoke all military and security treaties with the invaders.” He said a united Taliban should ignore “futile enemy propaganda.”

The Taliban conducted an attack near Bagram Airfield, killing a NATO soldier. 15092203

September 22—Guantanamo Bay—The New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Pentagon announced the repatriation to Saudi Arabia of Gitmo detainee/hunger striker Abdul Rahman Shalabi, 39, believed to have been a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. The Saudi had been held for more than 13 years. The Pakistani military captured him along the Afghanistan border in December 2001 and handed him over to the U.S. He arrived at Gitmo when the prison opened on January 11, 2002. The Times quoted a leaked military dossier indicating that al-Qaeda had considered him for a suicide attack in 2000. The dossier said he was born on December 4, 1975, and had used the names ­Abd-al-Rahman Shalbi Isa Uwaydah, Abdul Haq Rahman, Saqr ­al-Madani, and Mahmud Abd Aziz ­al-Mujahid. He had claimed to be a religious teacher. In 2009, a multiagency task force declared him too dangerous to release. His nephew had been repatriated from Gitmo to Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation program in 2006. Shalabi was represented by attorney Julia ­Tarver-Mason Wood. He had been on a hunger strike since 2005 and was ­force-fed for 9 years.

September 23—Nigeria—The military banned moving vehicles, bicycles, horses, donkeys and camels in Borno State as a security measure to try to stop Boko Haram attacks during the ­Eid-el-Kabir holiday, widely known as Sallah in Nigeria, which is on September 24–25.

September 23—Pakistan—Police official Ghulam Baqir announced the arrests at a checkpoint in Islamabad of Haroon and Haris Rasheed, sons of Abdur Rashid Ghazi, a slain Islamic militant who died in the 8-day Red Mosque siege in Islamabad in 2007. They were carrying weapons and military fatigues.

September 23—Colombia—Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and FARC leader Timoleón Jiménez, alias Timochenko, announced a major breakthrough in peace talks regarding whether disarming rebels would be subject to criminal prosecution, prison terms and potential extradition to the United States. The deal would establish a ­truth-and-reconciliation process under which rebels would be eligible for “alternative justice” limiting their punishment to financial reparations to victims and 5–8 years at ­low-security work camps or halfway houses.

September 24—Pakistan—Gunmen on a motorcycle in Charsadda killed the deputy chief of a jail and his brother as they received guests for the Eid ­al-Adha holiday. The Pakistani Taliban was suspected.

September 24—Yemen—An Islamic State suicide bomber disguised as a woman set off a bomb in his shoe at Sana’a’s ­al-Bolayli mosque during morning prayers for the Eid ­al-Adha holiday, killing 25 people and wounding 36. IS said, “In a security operation facilitated by God as part of the acts of revenge for Muslims from the rejectionist Houthis, brother Abu Omar ­al-Hadidi waded into a crowd of apostate Houthis at ­al-Balili temple, detonated his suicide belt causing dozens to perish or to be injured.” Some reports said a second bomber set off his explosives as people were coming out the door.

September 24—Bangladesh—UPI reported that the Ansarullah Bangla Team posted a manifesto that threatened to kill writers and bloggers around the world who were critical of Islam. The group named 9 bloggers in the United Kingdom, 7 in Germany, 2 in the United States, one in Canada and one in Sweden, saying, “Let Bangladesh revoke the citizenship of these enemies of Islam. If not, we will hunt them down in whatever part of God’s world we find them and kill them right there.”

September 24—Syria—CNN reported that Bazi, a 20-year-old Yazidi woman, told Christiane Amanpour that she was held as a sex slave by an IS member from the U.S. who used the name Abu Abdullah ­al-Amriki.

September 24—Saudi Arabia—The ­state-run Saudi Press Agency reported that gunmen fired at 2 police checkpoints in northern Hail Province, killing 2 civilians and one soldier.

September 24—Malaysia—National deputy police chief Noor Rashid Ibrahim said police detained 3 men—a Malaysian, an Indonesian and a Syrian, aged between 30 and 51 years—for questioning over their possible involvement in terrorism after the U.S. and Australian embassies warned of a potential attack at Alor Street in central Kuala Lumpur. One often visited Yemen and entered Malaysia a few days earlier.

September 24—Saudi Arabia—Islamic State loyalist ­Abdul-Aziz Radi Ayash ­al-Anzi, 18, released a video of him and his brother, Saad Radi Ayash ­al-Anzi, 21, killing their cousin, a soldier, whose hands they had bound, and 2 other citizens and a corporal in the desert. On September 26, Saudi Arabian security forces killed ­Abdul-Aziz and wounded and arrested Saad following a gun battle. A soldier died in the raid.

September 25—Guantanamo Bay—AP reported that the U.S. would release ­Saudi-born British citizen Shaker Aamer, 46, from Gitmo, after more than 13 years in U.S. custody. He is married to a British wo­man and has 4 children. He was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and was sent to Gitmo in 2002. In 2007, a senior U.S. official said Aamer had shared an apartment in London in the late 1990s with Zacarias Moussaoui and had lived on money from Osama bin Laden. He was not charged with a crime. He was cleared for release from Guantanamo in 2007 but stayed in custody. He was represented by British attorney Clive Stafford Smith.

September 25—Egypt—Police killed 6 gunmen in a house in Ausim, a farming area 3 miles outside Cairo. They were believed responsible for killing a policemen and bombing 5 electricity transmission pylons. Police found a bomb and automatic weapons in the house.

September 25—Turkey—Police said the PKK fired a rocket at a police vehicle in Bismil but missed, hitting a home, killing a 9-year-old girl, and injuring 5 others.

September 26—Saudi Arabia—Gunfire from Ye­men killed a Saudi soldier and Colonel Hassan Ghashoum Aqyli, senior border guard commander of the Harth border sector in Jizan Province, and injured 4 other soldiers. 15092601

September 26—Egypt—A roadside car bomb went off in ­el-Arish, killing 2 soldiers and injuring 16 troops as their vehicle was passing by. The local IS affiliate claimed credit.

September 26—Mali—Niger authorities arrested and sent to the International Criminal Court in the Hague Ahmad ­al-Mahdi ­al-Faqi, alias Abu Tourab, to face crimes against humanity charges of destroying religious buildings in Timbuktu in 2012. The ICC said he was a member of the ­al-Qaeda–linked Ansar Dine, which ruled in northern Mali in 2012. He was charged with the destruction of 10 historic buildings, including mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu. He appeared before the ICC on September 30, telling Judge Cuno Tarfusser he was about 40 years old and a civil servant in Mali. An evidentiary hearing was scheduled for January 18, 2016.

September 26—UK—Seventy members of the London Fire Brigade battled an apparent arson at the Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, south London, for several hours. One man was hospitalized for smoke inhalation. The fire damaged an administration build­ing but not the worship areas. On September 27, London Metropolitan Police arrested a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old on suspicion of arson.

September 27—Iraq—Iraqi officials announced that they would be sharing intelligence about IS forces with Russia, Iran and Syria.

September 27—Sudan—In the morning, rebels in Darfur ambushed a South African unit that is part of a ­UN-African Union peacekeeping mission, killing a soldier and seriously injuring another. 15092701

September 27—Afghanistan—Before dawn, Khorasan Province of the Islamic State gunmen attacked checkpoints in the Achin District of Nangarhar Province, killing 3 police and injuring 8 police in the group’s first attack on Afghan security forces. Afghan airstrikes killed 85 IS terrorists. The National Directorate of Security statement said, “All the terrorists killed were Pakistani citizens,” under the command of Hafiz Saeed, who was also killed. The group said on Twitter that it took over 2 army barracks in Achin, set fire to an army vehicle, seized weapons and killed 9 “apostates.” 15092702

September 28—Australia—Prosecutors in Victoria State Court said Amin Mohamed, 25, a New Zealand citizen, tried to enter Syria to fight alongside extremists. They said he used 4 phones to conduct coded conversations about “a big job” days before attempting to fly to Turkey. He was arrested in 2013 in Brisbane, Austria, while living in Australia on a temporary visa. He was trying to board a flight to Turkey. He was charged with 3 counts of preparing to enter a foreign state to engage in hostile activities. He faced up to 10 years in prison on each count. He pleaded not guilty. He was represented by attorney Julian McMahon.

September 28—Turkey—The Dogan news agency reported that the PKK was suspected of setting off a bomb on a road in the mainly Kurdish Bitlis Province, injuring 20 soldiers riding in a military vehicle.

Kurdish gunmen fired on a police vehicle outside a hospital in Adana, killing 2 police officers during the night.

The ­state-run Anadolu Agency said the PKK fired a rocket at a military convoy in the southeast, injuring 4 people.

The Turkish military said it killed 6 PKK rebels in a clash in Hakkari Province near the Iraqi border.

September 28—UN/UK—The UN placed 4 British IS jihadis—Aqsa Mahmood, Nasser Ahmed Muthana, Omar Ali Hussain and ­Sally-Anne Frances Jones—on a terrorist sanctions list which freezes their global assets and bans travel. The UN said Mahmood went to Syria in November 2013 to join IS and was “believed to be a key figure” in a female brigade charged with enforcing IS interpretation of sharia. It said she had recruited women for IS online and used social media to advise how to get to Syria. The UN said Muthana helped finance, plan and facilitate IS activities after traveling to Syria in 2013 and appeared in numerous recruitment videos calling for Muslims in the West to join jihad. Hussain went to Syria in January 2014, took in recruitment programs and threatened to return to the UK to “plant a bomb.” The UN said Jones went to Syria in 2013 to join IS with her husband and used social media to recruit female jihadis. She allegedly used the pseudonym Umm Hussain ­al-Britani to post messages such messages as, “You Christians all need beheading with a nice blunt knife,” and called for individuals to launch attacks inside the UK and offered guidance on how to build homemade bombs.

September 28—Maldives—An explosion went off on a boat carrying President Yameen Abdul Gayoom and his wife as it reached the main jetty in Male as they returned from Saudi Arabia after performing hajj. President Gayoom was unhurt. A bodyguard was seriously hurt. The President’s wife, Fathimath Ibrahim, and an aide suffered minor injuries. Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon said “it is likely that it was a targeted attack against the president, in which case it is something extremely serious and I strongly condemn it.” Authorities arrested 2 soldiers who had access to the presidential boat. Defense officials and 2 security personnel attached to the vice president were transferred. On October 14, President Gayoom fired Defense Minister Moosa Ali Jaleel and later fired the police commissioner. Home Minister Umar Nazeer said on October 20 that the explosive device was hidden under the seat usually occupied by the president, who was instead sitting next to his wife. Nazeer described the bomb as “small, designed not to kill everyone on board. [It was] targeted to kill or incapacitate him [the president].” Five people were detained. On October 24, police arrested Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, 33, at the airport when he returned from an official visit to China “on suspicion of involvement in the boat blast,” according to police spokesman Ismail. Three soldiers, including a former member of Adeeb’s security detail and a member of the army’s bomb squad, were also detained. On October 30, AP reported that Malaysian police deported 5 Maldives citizens, including a diplomat, in connection with the case. Malaysian National Police Chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the diplomat and 4 others, including 2 women, were detained in Kuala Lumpur on October 28. On October 31, the FBI said there was no evidence that a bomb was involved.

September 28—Bangladesh—Three Islamic State gunmen on a motorcycle shot to death Italian aid worker and veterinarian Cesare Tavella, 50, on a street in Dhaka’s diplomatic quarter during the night. IS said it used “silenced weapons.” Tavella worked for the ­Netherlands-based church cooperative ICCO as a program manager regarding food security and economic development for people living in rural areas.

AFP reported on October 26, 2015, that authorities detained 4 people in the killing of Tavella, confiscated the motorbike used in the attack, and said that the murder was a plot by the government’s opponents to trigger anarchy and not the work of the Islamic State. Dhaka police commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia told reporters that the foursome had confessed to the murder on “the orders of a ­so-called big brother who offered them money…. They carried out the murder to embarrass the government, to put the government under pressure and to create anarchy…. So far what they’ve admitted to us is that they were not specifically targeting Cesare Tavella but their aim [was to] kill any ­white-skinned foreigner…. Their big brother wanted to prove that Bangladesh is not safe for foreigners and if they could prove that, then it would put pressure on the government…. We have identified that ­so-called big brother. When we are able to arrest that man, it will be clear who used them.” Police said 2 of the suspects had records as drug dealers with previous criminal convictions, a third was a drug dealer, and the fourth was simply “a ­cold-blooded killer.” 15092801

September 28–29—Turkey/Iraq—Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said gun battles with Kurdish rebels led to the deaths of 30 rebels during the night in a ­cross-border military operation in northern Iraq.

September 29—U.S.—The Treasury and State Departments issued sanctions against 25 people and 5 groups affiliated with the Islamic State. State designated as foreign terrorist organizations IS franchises in the Caucasus region of Russia, Algeria, Indonesia, and the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Individuals included Sally Jones, British widow of an IS terrorist killed in a drone strike. Also listed were 3 French nationals and a Russian.

September 29—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosive vest at an army checkpoint in Tarmiyah, killing 4 soldiers and 3 civilians and wounding 16 people.

Xinhua reported that IS set off a Humvee vehicle bomb then fired mortars at a base in Garma in Anbar Province, killing 7 soldiers and Shi’a militiamen and wounding 10 others.

Shi’a paramilitary Hashid Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Committees) handed over 6 dead police officers to a police station in Khaldiyah in Anbar Province, claiming they had found the bodies on a road well.

A suicide bomber hit a parking garage in Baghdad’s Sadoun area, killing 7 and wounding 3.

September 29–30—Israel—A rocket was fired from Palestinian territory in the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel, causing no injuries when it was intercepted by Israel’s air defense system. The IDF responded the next day with airstrikes against 4 “terror sites” in Gaza that morning. Gaza media said Israeli planes hit Hamas training sites.

September 30—Bahrain—Police found 1.5 tons of explosives, including C4, RDX and TNT, as well as hand grenades, in a warehouse and underground bunker system in the Nuwaidrat residential district south of Manama. The explosives matched those used in recent attacks. Police arrested several people suspected of ties to Iran and Hizballah.

September 30—China—The South China Morning Post, Guangxi Daily, Washington Post, Voice of America, UPI, and Associated Press reported that between 3:50 p.m. and 5 p.m., at least 17 bombs went off in rapid succession in different locations, including a shopping mall, jail, a dormitory of animal husbandry, a vegetable market, a local center for disease control, supermarket, rail station, bus station, a hospital and an open air market in Liucheng (another went off in nearby Liuzhou), the county seat of southern Guangxi Province, killing 7 people and injuring 51. Two people were missing. Xinhua suggested parcel bombs were involved. Local newspaper Nanguo Zaobao said the bombs were hidden inside express delivery packages. Chinese authorities detained a suspect, a 33-year-old man whose family name is Wei, whose motive was unknown. Local residents identified 60 “suspicious” parcels.

Bloomberg and Xinhua reported on October 2, 2015, that Wei Yinyong 33, the suspected bomber, died in one of the explosions. Xinhua said he hired people to deliver the parcel bombs to public places following disputes over the operations of a local quarry. At least 10 people died and 51 were injured. The Southern Metropolis Daily said a van operator claimed he was paid 180 yuan ($28) by Wei to deliver a package. When the intended recipient asked him by phone to inspect the contents of the package, it exploded in his face, severing 2 fingers.

September 30/October 1—U.S.—CNN reported that around midnight, an arsonist broke a window and threw an accelerant that started a small fire at a Planned Parenthood Health Center clinic in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks, California. The sprinkler system extinguished the fire. No one was injured and damage was minimal.

October 1—Egypt—In the evening, smugglers shot to death Egyptian policeman Rabie Mostafa after he stopped a ­cross-border smuggling attempt in the northern Sinai.

October 1—Bahrain—The government declared acting Iranian charge d’affaires Mohammad Reza Babai persona non grata and demanded that he leave the country within 72 hours. Bahrain recalled its ­ambassador, Rashid Saad Al Dossari, over allegations that Iran sponsored “subversion” and funneled arms to militants in Bahrain. The government said Iran was involved in “supporting subversion, terrorism and incitement to violence through misleading media campaigns as well as assisting terrorist groups in the smuggling of weapons and explosives and training their members and harboring fugitives from justice.”

October 1—West Bank—A Palestinian gunman killed 2 parents, Eitam and Naama Henkin, driving with their 4 children along a West Bank road near the Palestinian village of Beit Furik. The 4 children, including a 4-month-old, were in the back seat and were lightly wounded (conflicting reports said they were not harmed). The family lived in the East Bank settlement of Neria. The armed wing of Hamas said on Twitter, “We praise the heroic operation that fighters in the West Bank carried out and we consider it a true response to the occupier’s crime.” On October 5, the U.S. Department of state said the father, Eitam Henkin, was a U.S. citizen. Israel announced it had arrested a 5-member Hamas cell that conducted the attack. The Israeli authorities said one of the gunmen accidentally shot a colleague in the arm, leading them to flee without harming the children. 15100101

October 1—China—An explosion hit a civilian’s house near a highway administration bureau in Liu­cheng in Guangxi region, damaging a ­6-storey building.

October 1—Israel—The government indicted 7 Arab men in their 20s and 30s on suspicion of setting up an Islamic State cell in Israel and planning to attack police and army bases and firebomb business that sold alcohol. Spokeswoman Luba Samri said the 7 had collected intelligence on police and military bases in Israel.

October 1—Germany—The Dusseldorf state court convicted German citizen Nezet Alija S., 22, of membership in a foreign terror organization and sentenced him to 2½ years in prison. The court said he spent 3 months in Syria in 2014 undergoing Islamic State military training and took part in combat at least once. There was no evidence he was planning an attack inside Germany.

October 1—Philippines—A bomb exploded in the overhead baggage bin of a passenger bus in Polomolok, injuring 18 people, including a 9-year-old girl with a serious head wound.

Thirty minutes later, Abu Sayyaf was suspected when a bomb in a parked motorcycle taxi hit the passing ­2-vehicle convoy of Isabela city Vice Mayor Abdulbaki Ajibon, killing her driver, another passenger, and 2 pedestrians and wounding at least 6 others. She was uninjured, but her SUV was badly damaged. The ­shrapnel-packed bomb went off in front of the house of Mayor Cherrylyn ­Santos-Akbar, who was not home. Three years ago, a roadside bomb exploded as Ajibon’s convoy was passing by the same area.

October 1—Nigeria—In a nighttime attack, 5 young female suicide bombers killed 10 other people and wounded 39 in the Sareji neighborhood of Maiduguri. Authorities blamed Boko Haram for the attacks at a mosque and house of a vigilante leader. Witnesses and security sources said some of the girls were 9 years old.

The armed forces said Boko Haram had poisoned water sources in the northeast. A spokesman said, “Credible information … indicates that no human life was lost as a result of the barbaric act of the terrorists. However, some cattle were killed after drinking water from some poisoned sources.”

Boko Haram was suspected of killing 5 people in Kirchinga village in Adamawa State.

October 1—U.S.—CNN reported that at 10:30 a.m., Chris Harper Mercer, 26, shot to death 9 people and injured another 9 at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. Wounded student Anastasia Boylan, 18, who underwent spinal surgery, said the gunman told her professor, “I’ve been waiting to do this for years,” before he shot him point blank. While reloading one of his 3 handguns, he asked students if they were Christians. He then said, “Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,” and shot them in the head. Student JJ Vicari said if they said “no” or “other” he shot them elsewhere in the body, usually in the leg. He fired on people in 2 buildings. The gunman died at 10:47 a.m. when police returned fire and he shot himself in front of his victims. A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent told the press that investigators recovered 13 weapons, including 6 at the school, a flak jacket with steel plates and 5 magazines of ammunition. The other 7 weapons, and more ammunition, were found at Mercer’s home. All were legally acquired.

The dead included

• Lucero Alcaraz, 19, of Roseburg, was on scholarship studying to be a pediatric nurse

• Quinn Glen Cooper, 19, of Roseburg, was due to take his brown belt test the following week

• Kim Saltmarsh Dietz, 59, of Roseburg, but originally from the UK, had worked as a caretaker for several years and was taking classes at the same school as her 18-year-old daughter, who was unharmed.

• Lucas Eibel, 18, of Roseburg, was studying chemistry, was a member of Future Farmers of America, and volunteered at the Wildlife Safari and Saving Grace animal shelter. He had received a Ford Family Foundation scholarship and the Umpqua CC scholars award.

• Jason Dale Johnson, 33, of Winston, was in his first week of school

• Lawrence Levine, 67, of Glide, assistant professor of English and a member of the Steamboaters fly fishing and conservation group

• Sarena Dawn Moore, 44, of Myrtle Creek, was a member of Grants Pass ­Seventh-Day Adventist Church. She left behind 2 sons.

• Treven Taylor Anspach, 20, of Sutherlin, was a firefighter’s son.

• Rebecka Ann Carnes, 18, of Myrtle Creek, was a relative of U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D–Oregon).

Chris Mintz, a former Army infantryman, was hit by 7 bullets as he tried to block the door and keep Mercer out of a classroom. Mintz told the killer it was his son’s birthday. Mintz sustained 2 broken legs. By the next day, a gofundme page for his surgery had raised more than $120,000.

Also wounded was Cheyanne Fitzgerald, 16, who lost a kidney; and Anastasia Boylan, 18.

Mercer left behind 5 blog posts under the username lithium_love regarding recent shootings: one about Vester Flanagan, who killed 2 local news reporters in Virginia, and one about an officer slain near Houston in August. Regarding Flanagan, an August 31 posting read, “I have noticed that so many people like him are all alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight…. And I have to say, anyone who knew him could have seen this coming. People like him have nothing left to live for, and the only thing left to do is lash out at a society that has abandoned them.”

Social media accounts attributed to Mercer, including a MySpace page and a dating profile, indicated that Mercer was interested in the Irish Republican Army and punk rock music and hated organized religion. He posted on the 4chan site, “Don’t go to school tomorrow if you are in the northwest.”

He grew up in California and attended the Switzer Learning Center for students with disabilities. Chris ­Harper-Mercer was listed as a production assistant on the Facebook page of a UCC fall show. He left the Army in 2008 after a month of basic training.

October 2—Yemen—Senior AQAP operative Kha­led Batarfi released a video saying that ­al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman ­al-Zawahri had both banned attacking mosques. IS had bombed 2 Shi’ite mosques, killing more than 20 people.

October 2—Spain—The National Court convicted and sentenced 11 Spaniards of Moroccan background from Ceuta, all members of a recruitment network that sent terrorists to carry out attacks for ­al-Qaeda–linked groups fighting in Syria. Members of the Jabhat ­al-Nusra recruited 28 gunmen in Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta and in Morocco in 2012 and 2013. At least 8 died in attacks that claimed hundreds of victims. The recruiters were arrested in 2013 in Ceuta. Cell leaders Karim Abdesalam Mohamed and Ismail Abdelaftif were sentenced to 12 years; the other 9 received 10-year sentences.

October 2—Nigeria—Two bombs went off during the night in Abuja’s suburbs, killing 15 people and wounding 41. One bomb hit Kuje, killing 13 people. The second hit Nyanya, killing 2 people. Boko Haram later claimed credit.

October 2—Australia—Australia 7 News reported that ­Iran-born Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, 15, of ­Iraqi-Kurdish background, shot to death Curtis Cheng, 58, a New South Wales police worker as Cheng left work at the State Crime Command outside the force’s Sydney headquarters in the Parramatta suburb during the afternoon. The ­black-robed Jabar kept firing after killing Cheng. Police shot Jabar to death. Police said the attack was “linked to terrorism.” Cheng had worked for the police finance department for 17 years. Police believed Jabar acted alone. On October 6, some 200 police conducted raids in western Sydney and arrested 4 men, aged 16 to 22. On October 16, 2015, authorities formally charged 2 men believed to have supplied Jabar with the .38 Smith & Wesson revolver. Police said Talal Alameddine, 22, who did not appear during the charging hearing in the Parramatta Local Court, gave the gun less than 3 hours before the shooting to accomplice Raban Alou, 18, who then gave it to Jabar during a meeting in the women’s section at the Parramatta mosque. Alou did not appear in the Downing Center Local Court when he was charged with aiding, abetting, counseling and procuring the commission of a terrorist act. He faced life in prison. Alameddine was charged with supplying a firearm and breaching an order that bans him from acquiring, possessing or using a firearm, a firearm part or ammunition. He was also charged with hindering police by attempting to hide evidence against Jabar and Alou by damaging a cell phone and its SIM card. He faced a sentence of 35 years if convicted. Neither man applied for bail or entered pleas. Their next court appearance was set for December 2015. Alameddine was represented by lawyer Stephen Zahr. Alou’s lawyer Moustafa Kheir said Alou would plead not guilty.

October 3—Iraq—Two Islamic State suicide bomb­ers killed 18 people in 2 majority Shi’ite neighborhoods in Baghdad. In the Kadhimiya neighborhood, a suicide bomber set off his explosive vest at a police checkpoint, killing 11 people, including 4 civilians, and injuring 36 people. In Baghdad’s ­al-Horreya ­district, a suicide bomber hit a busy street, killing 7 and wounding 25.

October 3—Saudi Arabia—The Saudi Press Agency reported that authorities in Riyadh arrested a Syrian man and a Filipina for building bombs in the country. “Lady Joy” had sewn explosive belts for the Syrian, Yasser Mohammed Shafiq ­al-Berazi. Police defused bombs at 2 sites.

October 3—Bangladesh—In a morning attack, 2 or 3 masked gunmen on a motorbike fired 3 shots and killed Japanese agriculture researcher Kunio Hoshi, 50 (NHK said he was 66 and hailed from Iwate prefecture), as he passed by on a rickshaw in Mahiganj village in Rangpur district, 185 miles north of Dhaka. Hoshi had started a grass farm in Rangpur. Rezaul Karim, local police chief at Kawnia in Rangpur district, said, “We are questioning 4 people including the rickshaw puller who was carrying him when he was killed. They are not suspects. We are just questioning them for details.” Bangla­deshi Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan doubted a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State, which posted on Twitter, “There will continue to be a series of ongoing security operations against nationals of crusader coalition countries, they will not have safety or a livelihood in Muslim lands.” The government attributed the attack to the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party and its key ally, ­Jamaat-e-Islami. On October 5, police announced the arrests of 2 suspects identified as local businessman Humayun Kabir Hira and opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party activist Rashedunnabi Khan Biplob. AP reported on December 8 that Deputy Inspector General of Police Humayun Kabir said Masud Rana, believed to be a member of Jumatul Mujahedeen Bang­ladesh, told a magistrate that he and his accomplices attacked and killed Hoshi. Kabir said Rana was a regional commander of the group and previously served a jail term because of his involvement with it. Six people including Rana were detained for alleged involvement in the killing. 15100301

October 3—Israel—Muhannad Halabi, 19, a Palestinian from ­al-Bireh, near Ramallah, fatally stabbed a man who was walking with his family in Jerusalem’s Old City and seriously injured the victim’s wife and their toddler before stabbing another man. The terrorist then took a gun from one of the men and fired at police and tourists. A police officer shot and killed the terrorist. Both Israeli men died. Hamas deemed the attack “heroic.” Halabi earlier posted on his Facebook page: “What’s happening to our holy places, what’s happening to our mothers and sisters in ­al-Aqsa mosque? We are not the people who accept humiliation. Our people will revolt.”

October 4—Israel—Police claimed that at dawn, Palestinian bodybuilder Fadi Alloun, 19, stabbed and wounded an Israeli man along the tracks of Jerusa­lem’s light rail, then tried to flee. Several Israelis shouted, “Shoot him! Shoot him!” A police officer arrived in a car and fired 7 shots. Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said Alloun was carrying a knife, ignored warnings to put down the weapon and that the officer’s life was in danger.

October 4—Iraq—UPI and the BBC reported that the Islamic State shot to death 70 members of the Sunni ­al-Bu Nimr tribe in Khanizir village in Anbar Province because they had relatives in the Iraqi security forces. Xinhua reported that the victims’ fathers and brothers had joined army, police and paramilitary units fighting IS in Barwana, near Haditha.

Jordanian parliamentarian Mazen Dalaeen announced that ­IS-linked Dabiq media said the previous week that his son, Mohammed Salaeen, 23, had conducted a suicide attack in Iraq’s Anbar Province, 3 months after dropping out of his third year of medical school and joining the group. Dabiq claimed that 3 suicide car bombers drove into Iraqi army barracks on the northern outskirts of Ramadi. Dala­een recognized his son in one of the photos posted on the IS sites, under the nom de guerre “Abu Baraa, the Jordanian.” He said he last saw his son in Ukraine in June and stayed with him and his Ukrainian Islamic convert wife for a week. Mohammed snuck off to Turkey. On August 20, he told his father via Facebook that he had completed his Islamic studies and would head into battle as a volunteer for “martyrdom operations.”

October 5—Spain/Morocco—Spanish and Moroccan police arrested 10 people on suspicion of recruiting jihadi fighters for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Two men—one a Spanish national of Moroccan ancestry and the other a Portuguese Muslim convert—and 2 Moroccan women were arrested during raids in Badalona, Toledo, and Valencia, Spain. Morocco arrested the other 6 in Casablanca. Investigators seized computer equipment and data.

October 5—Iraq—UPI reported that 63 people died and dozens were injured in car bomb attacks throughout the country.

The BBC reported that a car bomb went off in a market in ­el-Khales in Diyala Province, killing 32–40 people and wounding 58.

A vehicle bomb exploded in ­al-Zubair, near Basra, killing 10 people and injuring 25. IS claimed credit, saying it was targeting Shi’ites.

A bomb in Baghdad’s northeastern Husseiniya neighborhood killed 14 and injured 25.

October 5—India—Two suspected rebels died in a battle with soldiers in the Tral region of Kashmir.

October 5—Niger—Boko Haram was suspected when a suicide bomber set off his explosives when a policeman stopped him and his 3 male colleagues at 8 a.m. in Diffa, killing the officer and at least 6 civilians and wounding 11 people. A responding officer shot to death one of the fleeing trio; police arrested the surviving duo. 15100501

October 5–6—Afghanistan—In an overnight attack, the Taliban hit a police headquarters and other government buildings in Kunduz.

October 6—India—Suspected rebels killed 4 soldiers during a search operation in Hafruda forest near the Line of Control in Kashmir.

In a separate attack, a gunman died in a clash in the Lolab area west of Srinagar.

October 6—Bangladesh—Three men tried to slit the throat of the Reverend Luke Sarker, 52, pastor of Faith Bible Church, when they arrived at his home in the northwestern district of Pabna pretending to want to learn about Christianity. His wife came to his rescue, and he sustained only minor knife wounds. The terrorists fled. They had phoned 2 weeks earlier. Police later found a motorbike outside his home. Police suspected a fundamentalist group. Police arrested a member of the student wing of the ­Jamaat-e Islami party, the country’s largest Islamic political party.

October 6—France—Reuters reported that Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told lawmakers that the government would strip 4 Moroccans and a Turk of their French citizenship for their part in the May 16, 2003, bombing in Casablanca that killed at least 45 people. The individuals were arrested in 2004 and 2005 and had completed their sentences for belonging to a ­France-based logistics cell of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group. They could appeal the decision. They faced expulsion.

October 6—Chad—A Boko Haram attack near the Nigerian border led to the deaths of 11 soldiers and 37 terrorists. 15100601

October 6—Yemen—In the early morning, reports said that either suicide bombers or ­Russian-designed Katyusha rockets hit Aden’s 239-room ­al-Qasr Hotel and Resort, home to officials from the exile government, and 2 buildings used by ­Saudi-led coalition troops, killing 15 people, including 3–4 UAE soldiers, a Saudi, and Yemeni fighters. The ­state-owned National newspaper of Abu Dhabi reported that the buildings were the palace of Sheikh Fareed al-Aulaqi, which Emirati troops and the Emirati Red Crescent had been using, and a nearby coalition military camp. Houthi rebels were blamed, although a new IS affiliate in Aden claimed credit, saying 4 suicide bombers carried out the assault, which saw a truck bomb and a Humvee explode at the hotel, while 2 ­explosives-laden armored vehicles exploded at a Saudi and Emirati military headquarters and an Emirati military administration building. 15100602

October 6—Bosnia-Herzegovina—The Bosnian State Court sentenced 4 men for recruiting and attempting to join the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq. Husein Erdic was sentenced to 3½ years for having organized the trip for Nevad Husidic and Merim Keserovic, who were each sentenced to one year. Midhat Trako was sentenced to 18 months for financing the trip. The 4 were arrested in February.

October 6—Somalia—Al-Shabaab spokesman Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage said on the group’s radio that the group would fight the 70 British troops scheduled to be deployed to the country as peacekeepers. He said ­al-Shabaab would welcome the British troops with bullets and drag beheaded British soldiers through the streets.

October 6–7—Nigeria—In an overnight attack, Boko Haram hit a rural military camp in Goniri in Yobe State. Troops struck back, killing 100 jihadis. Seven troops died and 9 were injured.

October 6–7—Mali—Tuareg separatists in 20 vehicles attacked ­pro-government Tuaregs in Gao village in the late night, killing one person and kidnapping 4.

October 7—Turkey—Police in Gaziantep seized ­coin-making material believed used by the Islamic State and arrested 6 foreigners. Police found the items inside a building and in the suspects’ vehicles.

October 7—Nigeria—At 6 a.m., 2 female suicide bombers killed 13 other people and wounded 12 at a Damaturu mosque during early morning prayers in the compound of a government workers’ Buhari Housing Estate. One bomber entered the mosque. The other was found walking around the compound and set off her explosives when questioned by guards.

In a dawn attack, 2 male suicide bombers killed 10 on a settlement of Fulani herders.

Boko Haram released a video in which an unidentified man ­re-affirmed BH’s fealty to IS and its leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi and denied military reports that 200 terrorists had surrendered.

October 7—Libya—A bomb went off next to the parliament in Tripoli, causing no casualties. The parliamentary session continued. No one claimed credit.

October 7—Philippines—Six gunmen, some armed with rifles, kidnapped Italian restaurant owner and retired Roman Catholic missionary Rolando del Torchio from his pizza restaurant near a college campus, threw him into a van, transferred to 2 motor boats and fled during the night from Dipolog City in Zamboanga del Norte Province. The kidnappers tried to seize 2 Filipino customers who resisted; the gunmen’s leader said they had obtained their primary objective of kidnapping the Italian. Police found the abandoned van on a seaside boulevard. Del Torchio speaks the local Visayan dialect. He had served as a missionary with the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, a Catholic group founded in Italy which has about 500 members in 17 countries. 15100701

October 7—Somalia—Al-Shabaab claimed credit for the ­drive-by shooting deaths of Lisban Osman Ali—the president’s nephew—and government attorney Abdiqadir Mohammed Yabarow in Moga­dishu.

October 7—Czech Republic—Police seized more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of various explosives, including Semtex, 150 kilograms of materials that are used to make explosives, 50 kilograms of unspecified dangerous poisons and highly toxic materials, and more than 1,000 detonators and arrested 4 people who allegedly wanted to sell them on the black market.

October 7—Moldova—AP reported that the FBI and local authorities foiled 4 attempts in the past 5 years by gangs with suspected Russian connections that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, including the IS. In February, a smuggler offered to sell cesium, specifically hoping to attract an IS buyer. In the spring of 2011, AP claimed, a middle man for a group led by “Colonel” Alexandr Agheenco, whom Moldovan authorities believed was a Russian FSB officer, brokered the sale of ­bomb-grade uranium U-235, and blueprints for a dirty bomb to a man from Sudan.

October 7—India—Suspected rebel gunmen shot to death ­sub-inspector Mohammed Altaf as he was leading an operation against terrorists in northwestern Bandipora in ­Indian-controlled Kashmir. He joined the police force in 1998 and earned the president’s gallantry medal. He earned several promotions for his formidable intelligence-gathering skills and success in hunting down top rebel leaders.

October 7—Israel—Authorities fired on a Palestinian motorist who tried to drive through a West Bank checkpoint to hit an officer. The moderately-wounded attacker was hospitalized.

A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli man outside a mall in central Israel.

Police shot dead a man who stabbed a soldier and tried to take his weapon after the soldier got off a bus in Kiryat Gat. The man fled into a residential building, where police shot him.

A Palestinian woman stabbed an Israeli man who then shot and wounded her in the Old City of Jerusalem.

October 8—Israel—A Palestinian teen stabbed in the neck a Jewish seminary student, 25, in Jerusalem’s French Hill neighborhood, seriously wounding him. Police arrested electrician Subhi Abu Khalifeh, 19, of the Shuafat refugee camp in east Jerusalem.

A soldier was moderately wounded when he was stabbed in the northern city of Afula. His Arab attacker was arrested.

A Palestinian stabbed 4 Israelis, including a female soldier, with a screwdriver in Tel Aviv before a soldier shot him to death.

October 8—Tunisia—Gunmen fired 30 bullets from their vehicle at sports magnate and legislator Ridha Charfeddine on a road leading to Sousse. He was not injured. Only 7 bullets hit his car. AP reported that he is a member of the secular Nida Tunis party of President Beji Caid Essebsi, head of the Etoile sportive du Sahel soccer team and a top shareholder in the Attassiaa TV channel.

October 9—Afghanistan—The Taliban ambushed Afghan soldiers conducting a military operation near a mosque in Logar Province’s Baraki Barak district, killing 3 civilians and injuring 4.

October 9—Iraq—Mortar attacks on villages in Diyala Province killed 35 people and injured 45.

October 9—Burkina Faso—In the early morning, 50 gunmen attacked a police station in Samoroguan, 30 miles from the Mali border, killing 3 police officers and seriously injuring 2 civilians. Jihadis were suspected.

October 9—Israel—In a morning attack, an Israeli man stabbed 2 Bedouins and 2 Palestinians in Dimona. Two of the victims worked for City Hall. He told police he was retaliating for recent attacks by Palestinians. Dimona mayor Beni Bitton described the attacker as a “mentally ill man.”

October 9—Mali—Suspected jihadi members of the radical Macina Liberation Movement conducted an afternoon attack on ­Douna-Pene village of Dioungani municipality in central Mali near the Burkina Faso border, shooting to death local official Timote Kodio in front of his wife. She sustained a heart attack and was brought to a health center.

October 10—Chad—Boko Haram was suspected when 2 groups of suicide bombers attacked a market and refugee camp in a village, setting off 5 bombs, killing at least 38 people and injuring at least 53, according to UNICEF. General Banyaman Cossingar, director general of the gendarmerie, said female suicide bombers blew themselves up at a market in Baga Sola, killing 16 people. He said a second group of suicide bombers went to the ­Dar-es-Salam refugee camp, killing at least 22 people. Authorities said the bombers included 2 women, 2 children, and a man. 15101001-02

October 10—Nigeria—Boko Haram released a West Africa Province of the Islamic State video showing them foiling an advance by Nigerian troops in Borno State and beheading a captured soldier, claiming that the video “shows fighters clashing with enemy forces, dead bodies of slain soldiers, and the beheading of one soldier taken captive.”

October 10—Turkey—The Washington Post and NPR reported that 2 bombs went off minutes apart at 10 a.m. about 50 yards apart among peace march­ers in Sihhiye Square near Ankara’s main train station, killing 102 and wounding 248, at least 28 critically and 48 seriously. At least 508 people sought medical treatment. Among the dead was Korkmaz Tedik, 25; Veysel Atilgan, 9, who died with his father; and one Palestinian. A Kurdish group said 128 people died. The bombs contained TNT and ball bearings. Suspects in the morning attack included IS and the PKK. At least 2 suicide bombers were suspected in the attack on the demonstrators, who were organized by the Confederation of Public Sector Trades’ Unions. By October 19, authorities had arrested 4 suspects and identified one of the bombers. Eleven others were released after questioning. Prosecutors said they had discovered a cache of suicide vests, Kalashnikovs and hand grenades.

The Dogan news service said 14 suspected IS members, including a woman, were detained in Konya. Raids in Adan and Kilis netted 9 more IS suspects. At least 45 IS suspects were reported in custody.

On October 26, 2015, AP reported that local media showed photos of fake Turkish ID cards, including one for Omer Deniz Dundar, who had previously been identified by the media as one of the 2 suicide bombers in the train station attack. The second bomber was identified as Yunus Emre Alagoz, brother of the man suspected of carrying out an attack in the mainly Kurdish town of Suruc on the Syrian border in July, which killed 34 people.

On October 28, the Ankara Chief Prosecutor office’s said that a cell of the Islamic State based in Gaziantep, near the Syrian border, which took orders from extremists in Syria, was behind the bombings. The cell was also believed to be responsible for 4 previous attacks in Turkey since May. The office said that there was a “regular flow of money” from IS in Syria to the cell. IS gave the cell “permission” to attack Kurdish rebels and other groups in Turkey. The cell sought IS’s permission for attacks on Turkey’s Jewish and Christian community. 15101003

October 10—Iraq—A sticky bomb exploded inside a microbus in Baghdad’s ­al-Shaab neighborhood, killing 3 and wounding 7.

A roadside bomb went off near a crowded marketplace in Baghdad’s northern Husseiniya neighborhood, killing 2 and wounding 9.

A roadside bomb went off among Sunni tribesmen patrolling Baghdad’s southwestern Arab ­al-Jabour area, killing 2 people.

A roadside bomb hit a military checkpoint in Baghdad’s ­al-Mohshahida neighborhood, killing one person.

October 10—Israel—Palestinians conducted 2 more stabbing attacks in Jerusalem before being shot dead by police. A 16-year-old Arab attacked 2 Israelis who were walking from the Old City toward the city center. The attacker then ran toward police, who shot him to death. Later, 19-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Ali was stopped for an ID check, then stabbed 2 police officers, one in the neck, out-side the Old City. Other police forces shot to death the attacker, but wounded 2 colleagues. Three ­officers were hospitalized, one in serious condi-tion. Ali had dropped out of school years earlier. He had worked in a relative’s butcher shop, and prayed daily at the ­al-Aqsa shrine, which many Muslims believed was slated to be taken over by the Israelis.

During the night, a rocket was fired from Gaza into southern Israel, causing no casualties or damage.

October 11—Ireland—Tony Golden, 36, a police officer, was killed in the border village of Omeath while trying to protect a woman from her abusive partner, Adrian Mackin, 24, who was granted bail in January 2015 on charges of IRA membership. On October 16, thousands of people, including President Michael D. Higgins, Prime Minister Enda Kenny and police commanders from both parts of Ireland joined 4,000 officers at Golden’s state funeral. Mackin shot his partner, Siobhan Phillips, 22, and Golden with an illegally held Glock pistol. He then shot himself to death. Phillips, who had 2 children with Mackin, was hospitalized in critical condition in Dublin with gunshot wounds to the head and body.

October 11—Iraq—Reuters reported that the Iraqi air force struck a convoy of Islamic State caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi in western Anbar Province. His fate was unknown. The military said he was en route to Karbala to attend a meeting with IS commanders.

October 11—Afghanistan—A bomb hit 2 armored vehicles attached to the NATO Resolution Support Mission in Kabul during morning rush hour, injuring 3 Afghan civilians and damaging one of the vehicles. U.S. Army Colonel Brian Tribus said it was a roadside bomb, while the Afghan government and the Tali-ban said it was a suicide car bomber who attacked the British convoy in the Joi Sheer neighborhood. 15101101

October 11—Cameroon—Minister of Communications Issa Tchiroma Bakary said 2 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 carried out suicide bombings in the northern village of Kangeleri near Mora town, killing at least 9 and wounding 29 others. Boko Haram was suspected. 15101102

October 11—Israel—An Israeli Arab stabbed 4 Israelis in Hadera in northern Israel during the evening, seriously injuring a 19-year-old girl before Israeli police apprehended him.

Police ordered a Palestinian woman to pull over after she was seen following a police vehicle on a West Bank highway near Jerusalem. When an officer approached her car, she yelled “God is greatest” and detonated a gas canister, injuring an officer and herself. Police found handwritten letters on her praising Palestinian “martyrs,” and more gas canisters in her car.

A rocket launched from Gaza landed in an open area in southern Israel, causing no injuries.

October 11—Russia—The National ­Anti-Terrorism Committee said it found a device with 5 kilograms of explosives during a raid on a rented Moscow apartment and arrested a group of people who were preparing to carry out an attack on the public transport system in Moscow. Russian authorities announced that 2,400 of its citizens had joined the Islamic State. Authorities said some of those detained had been trained by the IS in Syria. Police said “between 6 and 11 people” frequented the apartment. Authorities later said the cell was comprised of 12 Russian citizens, including one, Aslan Baisultanov, who had been trained in Syria. It identified 3 suspects, all Chechen men in their 20s. A Moscow court ordered them held for 2 months. The FSB said that Baisultanov brought the explosives and detonator to Moscow from Grozny. Also appearing in court were suspects Elman Ashayev and Mokhmad Mezhidov.

October 11—Tunisia—The ­AQIM-linked Oqba Ibnou Nafaa Brigade kidnapped and executed a shepherd it abducted from a mountainous zone near the Algerian border. It said on Twitter that he had informed police about the group’s movements. The group also claimed credit for killing 2 Tunisian soldiers and wounding 3 others who had conducted a sweep of the area following the shepherd’s abduction.

October 12—Philippines—In an afternoon attack, heavily armed gunmen killed Tungawan Mayor Randy Climaco and wounded Tungawan Vice Mayor Abduraup Abison and 3 other people in a van in Tungawan in Zamboanga’s Sibugay Province. The attackers escaped. The convoy were returning home from a village fiesta. Abison was in serious condition after being shot in the head. A cousin who was planning to run in next year’s elections to succeed Climaco was traveling with him but was not hurt.

October 12—Australia—The Victoria State Su­preme Court convicted New Zealand citizen Amin Mohamed, 25, of 3 counts of attempting to enter a foreign state to engage in hostile activities by trying to enter Syria to fight alongside extremists. He had claimed that he was on his way to Denmark to meet his fiancée. He faced up to 10 years in prison on each count. He was stopped in Brisbane in 2013 when trying to board a flight to Turkey. He had been living in Australia on a temporary visa at the time of his arrest.

October 12—Congo—Omar Kavota, a representative of civil society groups in eastern Congo, said that the Allied Defense ­Forces–NALU attacked Congo’s military in Mukoko, killing 4 civilians, then attacked the army in Tenambo, killing 3 civilians and injuring 4.

October 12—Israel—A Palestinian girl, 16, lightly wounded a police officer in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem. The officer shot and wounded the assailant near Israeli police headquarters, between the city’s predominantly Arab eastern district and the predominantly Jewish western district.

Police shot dead Mustafa Khatib, 17, a Palestinian who had attacked an Israeli officer with a knife near the Lion Gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City on the predominantly Arab eastern side of the city. Border police officers had ordered the Palestinian to take his hand out of his pocket. The man then attacked the officer with a knife. The officer was wearing a protective vest and was not injured.

Two Palestinian cousins stabbed a 24-year-old man, seriously wounding him, then attacked a 13-year-old boy who had ridden his bike to a candy store, critically injuring him during afternoon attacks. Police killed Hassan Manasra, 15, from Beit Hanina. Ahmed Manasra, 13, was injured when he was hit by a car. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas erroneously claimed on TV that Israelis had “summarily executed” Ahmed, who was recovering at an Israeli hospital. Social media ran a video of Ahmed lying in the street, his head bloodied, as bystanders cursed him and shout “Die!” in Hebrew. Ahmed’s trial opened on November 10, 2015. He was represented by attorney Lea Tsemel.

An attacker tried to grab the gun of a soldier on a bus near the main entrance to Jerusalem during the evening. Police shot the attacker to death. Passengers fought off the attacker.

October 12–14—Afghanistan—During 2 3-day gun battles, the Taliban killed 29 border police officers in attacks on 2 checkpoints in Helmand Province. The Taliban killed 21 officers and took 8 hos­tages, whom they later murdered. Taliban gunmen made off with vehicles, weapons and ammunition. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi claimed credit.

October 13—Egypt—Three homemade bombs went off before dawn over a kilometer of track along the railway in Muharram Bek, near the city stadium of Alexandria, wounding a husband and wife and breaking the glass of a parked train.

October 13—Mali—Jihadis set off a land mine under a truck carrying gasoline and being escorted by the army, then fired on the convoy, killing 6 civilians and injuring a civilian and a soldier 62 miles west of Gao. Three gas tanks were burned.

October 13—Yemen—AQAP detained 3 journalists and an NGO worker who took part in a 500-person protest against the group’s rule over Mukalla.

October 13—Syria—Abu Mohammed ­al-Jolani, the leader of Jabhat ­al-Nusra, released a 21-minute audio message in which he called for Muslims to conduct retaliatory attacks on civilian and military targets in Russia. “The new Russian invasion is the last arrow in the quiver of the enemies of the Muslims,” who should attack to “distract” Moscow from the conflict in Syria. “If the Russian soldier kills from the masses of [Syria], kill from their masses…. And if they kill from our soldiers, kill from theirs. One for one.” He set a bounty of 3 million euros ($3.4 million) for the killing of Assad and 2 million euros ($2.3 million) for the elimination of Hizballah leader Hasan Nasrallah.

Hour later, 2 mortar shells crashed into the perimeter of the Russian Embassy in Damascus, causing no casualties.

IS spokesman Abu Mohammed ­al-Adnani issued a statement calling President Obama a “dumb mule” and an “idiot” who has extended the war “as we wanted” and “should have made haste and not wasted time by trying solutions.” He predicted that America would “come via land soon” and meet “your destruction and ruin and end.” He eulogized Fadhil Ahmad ­al-Hayali, the No. 2 Islamic State leader who was killed in an airstrike by a U.S.-led coalition in Iraq in August. “We consider that he did not die, for he has raised men and left behind heroes.”

October 13—Israel—Two Palestinian men boarded a No. 78 Egged bus in the Armon Hanatziv Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem and shot and stabbed passengers, killing 2 Israelis, including a man in his 60s, and injuring 3 others in the morning before they were shot dead by authorities. On October 27, 2015, American educator Richard Lakin, 76, a Freedom Rider who marched for civil rights with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the 1960s, died of his wounds. Lakin from Newton, Massachusetts, was the longtime Hopewell elementary school principal in Glastonbury, Connecticut, then moved to Israel in 1984. His son said Lakin was returning from a doctor’s appointment for minor back pain when “he was brutalized by 2 Arabs from east Jerusalem who got on a bus, shot him in the head, then stabbed him in the face, then stabbed him in the head.” 15101301

Twenty minutes later, a third terrorist, Alaa Abu Jamal, crashed his car into a bus station on Malkhei Yisrael Street in east Jerusalem’s Geula area before hacking the victims with a meat cleaver, killing a rabbi and injuring 2 other people before being shot by a security guard. Two attackers were killed.

Two Palestinian stabbing attacks in Raanana injured 5, including one seriously. One attacker was wounded and arrested.

Police shot to death a Palestinian who threw a firebomb at a vehicle in the West Bank.

October 13—Egypt—Before dawn, bombs spread out over a kilometer along the railway in Muharram Bek, near the Alexandria stadium, exploded, wounding a husband and wife and damaging a train.

October 13–14—Nigeria—Three suicide bombs went off in within 3 minutes in Maiduguri’s ­Anilari-Cross suburb, killing 7 people, according to Army Colonel Sani Usman. Gunfire was soon heard. Civilian ­self-defense fighter Abbas Gava said 12 people were killed or wounded. Boko Haram was sus-pected.

Soldiers attacked a BH camp of individuals suspected of the terrorist raid the previous week on a mili­tary camp in Geidam town in Borno State. Soldiers killed 10 terrorists and captured an ­anti-aircraft gun, rifles, submachine guns and an ­all-terrain vehicle.

October 14—U.S.—U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle ruled that North Carolina resident Basit Sheikh could be forcibly injected with ­anti-psychotic drugs to determine whether he was competent to stand trial for trying to join Jabhat ­al-Nusra in Syria.

October 14—Egypt—A court acquitted Mohammed ­al-Zawahiri, younger brother of ­al-Qaeda leader Ayman ­al-Zawahiri of terror charges. Mohammed was arrested at a police checkpoint in August 2013. He led a jihadi Salafist group and was a close ally of former President Mohammed Morsi. He was charged with the formation and leadership of a terrorist organization and with attempting to overthrow the government by force. The court sentenced 10 of ­al-Zawahiri’s 67 ­co-defendants to death and sentenced another 32 to life in prison.

A roadside bomb hit a military convoy in the northern Sinai city of ­el-Arishhas, killing a civilian and a soldier and injuring 6 policemen.

October 14—Australia—Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin told Australian Broad­casting Corporation TV that authorities were investigating a 12-year-old boy for terrorist plotting.

October 14—Germany—Prosecutors said authorities arrested German citizen Aria L., 20, and searched his ­Frankfurt-area apartment on suspicion that he committed war crimes in Syria sometime between ­March-April 2014 by posing next to 2 severed heads spiked on sticks while he was fighting in the Syrian civil war with a rebel group against President Bashar Assad’s army.

October 14—Nigeria/Somalia—Boko Haram released a video in which a BH member called on ­al-Shabaab to pledge allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State group, and abandon ­al-Qaeda. The video said that uniting “is of greater benefit to the struggle on the path of Islam” and will “help in defeating the infi­dels of the world.” Similar messages were sent a fortnight earlier from jihadis in Iraq, Sinai, Syria, and Yemen.

October 14—Israel—An Arab stabbed a woman, moderately wounding her, as she was boarding a bus near Jerusalem’s central bus station. Local authorities shot to death the attacker.

October 14—Pakistan—A pedestrian suicide bomber blew himself up at the election office in Taunsa of Amjad Khosa, a parliamentarian from the ruling party, killing 7 people and wounding 9 others, some critically. Khosa was not in his office. The Pakistan Taliban was suspected.

October 14—Central African Republic—During the night, gunmen attacked the Bangassou compound of Doctors Without Borders in Mbomou Province, seriously injuring a staff member. The group kidnapped 4 staff members, but released them after 30 minutes. 15101401

October 15—U.S./Malaysia—The U.S. Department of Justice charged Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi, who had been detained in Malaysia a month earlier, with stealing the personal data of U.S. service members and passing it to Islamic State British member Junaid Hussain, alias Abu Hussain ­al-Britani. Hussain posted links in August 2015 on Twitter to the names, ­e-mail addresses, passwords, locations and phone numbers of 1,351 U.S. military and other government personnel. He included a warning that Islamic State “soldiers … will strike at your necks in your own lands!” Hussain died in a drone strike in Syria later that month. A prosecution complaint filed in the Eastern District of Virginia charged that in June 2015, Ferizi hacked into a server used by a U.S. online retail company and obtained data on about 100,000 people. Later that summer, he sent the details of about 1,351 military and other government personnel to the Islamic State, “knowing that ISIL would use the [data] against the U.S. personnel, including to target the U.S. personnel for attacks and violence.” Ferizi, whose Twitter account was @Th3Dir3ctorY, led a group of ethnic Albanian hackers from Kosovo who called themselves Kosova Hacker’s Security (KHS), according to an FBI spokesman. Malaysia said they would extradite Ferizi to the U.S.

October 15—Nigeria—Two bombs went off near a mosque in the Mulai suburb of Maiduguri during evening prayer time, killing 30 people and wounding 25. Boko Haram was suspected.

October 15—Germany—Berlin state police arrested Gadzhimurad K., alias Murat A., 30, a Russian imam from Dagestan, Russia, on terrorism charges of trying to recruit members and support for the Islamic State online and obtaining ­night-vision devices, range finders, and other equipment to send to the group in Syria. He was an imam at a mosque in downtown Berlin.

October 15—Syria—AP reported on October 17 that an October 15 airstrike killed Saudi citizen Sanafi ­al-Nasr, true name Abdul Mohsen Adballah Ibrahim ­al-Charekh, believed to be the seniormost member of Khorasan, with another Saudi and a Moroccan member of the Nusra Front, ­al-Qaeda’s local affiliate, in Dana in northern Syria. An Egyptian terrorist escaped. The UN Security Council had imposed sanctions on him in 2014. The U.S. Treasury named him a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. Saudi Arabia listed him as number 49 on its 85 Most Wanted terrorists list. He had served as al-Qaeda’s chief financial officer and was believed to have organized routes for recruits to move from Pakistan via Turkey into Syria. He had moved to Syria in 2013.

October 15—Central African Republic—Fighting between Muslim ­ex-Seleka rebels and the Christian anti–Balaka militia killed 3 people in Bangui’s PK5 neighborhood after an attack on Muslim boys playing soccer. Several other people were wounded and homes were burned during the night.

October 15—U.S.—CNN reported that Caitlin Durkovich, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Infrastructure Protection, said that the Islamic State was so far unsuccessful in trying to hack U.S. electrical power companies.

October 16—Syria—UPI, Reuters, and several other news services reported on October 30, 2015, that an air strike on October 16, 2015, had killed 3 terrorists, including German rapper Deso Dogg, born Denis Cuspert, alias Abu Talla ­al-Almani, 39, who had joined the Islamic State after his conversion to Islam. He had released the album Alle Augen Auf Mich. The U.S. Department of State had designated him as a global terrorist who “appeared to serve as an ISIL recruiter with special emphasis on recruiting German speakers to ISIL.” He was involved in the German IS support group Millatu Ibrahim and joined IS in 2012. The airstrike hit his pickup truck in Raqqa. Defense Department spokeswoman Elissa Smith said, “Cuspert was a foreign terrorist fighter and operative for ISIL who used social media to take advantage of disaffected youth and potential Western recruits. He publicly threatened the president of the United States and German citizens. He also encouraged Western Muslims to conduct attacks.” Reuters added that in a November 2014 propaganda video, he held the severed head of a man he claimed was executed for opposing IS.

October 16—Saudi Arabia—A gunman wearing an explosive belt fired on Shi’ite worshippers at a prayer hall during evening prayers in Saihat in the eastern ­al-Qatif region, killing 5 people, including a woman, and injuring 9. Authorities shot him to death before he could set off his vest. A previously-unknown IS branch with links to Bahrain claimed credit. The Bahrain Province of the Islamic State posted that gunman Shuja ­al-Dosari fired a Kalashnikov rifle as “they finished their polytheist rituals” and called them rafida—those who reject the Sunni path. It said “infidels will not be safe in the island of Mohammed.”

October 16—Nigeria—Soldiers stopped 4 women at a checkpoint at Maiduguri. The women set off their explosives, killing 18 people and themselves.

October 16—Switzerland—Attorney General Mi­chael Lauber charged 4 Iraqis linked to the Islamic State of plotting terror attacks in Europe. His office said that 3 suspects helped smuggle other IS followers to Europe, spread propaganda and provided unspecified “operative advice.” They were detained in northeastern Switzerland in March and April 2014. On July 17, 2015, prosecutors added a fourth individual who allegedly traveled to Syria to deliver radio equipment to Islamic State. He was accused of deleting information on Facebook relevant to the case involving a “high-ranking member of the criminal organization.”

October 16—Lebanon—Hizballah’s al-Manar TV said it had shelled IS positions on the outskirts of Ras Baalbek, an area near the Syrian border where the Nusra Front and IS were active, killing 5.

October 16—Israel—Just before dawn, dozens of Palestinians firebombed the Jewish shrine Tomb of the Prophet Joseph on the outskirts of Nablus in the West Bank during a Day of Rage called by Hamas.

Eyad Awawdeh, 26, a Palestinian laborer wearing a ­T-shirt with “press” written on it to pose as a journalist, stabbed an Israeli soldier in the back and chest during a clash between Palestinian ­stone-throwers and Israeli troops in Hebron. Authorities shot dead the attacker.

October 17—Germany—An individual stabbed in the neck Henriette Reker, 58, an independent Co­logne mayoral candidate supported by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats and 2 other parties, a day before the election. The morning at-tack occurred at a market. Four other people were wounded—one woman was seriously wounded—when they jumped the 44-year-old man, who was arrested. Reker had run Cologne’s social affairs and integration department since 2010 and was responsible for refugee housing. The German national and Cologne resident had ­anti-foreigner motives and said he had been unemployed for several years. He had no police record but told interrogators that he had a background in the ­far-right scene. Psychologists said he could be held criminally responsible. He was held on suspicion of attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.

October 17—Israel—Palestinians conducted 5 more stabbings in Jerusalem and the West Bank. Four attackers were killed.

In the morning in Jerusalem, a Palestinian, 16, pulled a knife on officers who requested identification after a witness said he was behaving suspiciously. He tried to stab the officers, who shot him to death at one of the newly-erected checkpoints deployed to cordon Arab East Jerusalem from Jewish West Jeru­salem.

An attacker tried to stab a policeman in the Jeru­salem suburbs, but only hit his bulletproof vest. The attacker was wounded by gunfire. He pulled out a second knife and tried to attack a first responder. Another officer shot the stabber to death.

In Hebron, West Bank, a Palestinian was shot and killed by an Israeli pedestrian after trying to stab him. A Palestinian woman stabbed a female officer in the hand at a Hebron border police base near the Cave of the Patriarchs, lightly injuring her; a border police officer shot to death the attacker. During the night, a paramilitary soldier was moderately wounded in a knife attack before the ­knife-wielder was shot at the Qalandia crossing between the city and the West Bank.

October 18—Israel—In a nighttime attack, Mohannad ­al-Oqbi, variant Okbi, 21, a Bedouin man from Hura carrying a pistol and a knife, fired inside the central Beersheba bus station, killing an Israeli soldier, Sergeant Omri Levi, 19, and wounding 10 people, including 5 police officers and 5 civilians. The terrorist grabbed an M-16 weapon from the dead soldier and fired on the crowd. The attacker was shot to death. Police shot Abtom Zarhom, variant Mulu Habtom Zerhoma, 29, an Eritrean migrant residing in Israel, mistaking him for the gunman, who himself was an Israeli citizen. A mob then beat the Eritrean to death. Zerhom was in Beersheba to renew his visa. He worked at a plant nursery. Authorities arrested a member of ­al-Oqbi’s family on suspicion of helping him. Shin Bet said ­al-Oqbi had no record of militant activity. 15101801

October 18—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that ­pre-dawn police raids on 17 locations in Istanbul netted 50 foreigners with suspected ties to the Islamic State who planned to travel to conflict zones in Syria and Iraq.

October 19—Afghanistan—The Taliban took over a remote district in northwestern Faryab Province. The Ghormach district police chief, Abdul Majeed Gilimbafi, and 17 of his officers were missing. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi said the group detained the chief, who was wounded, along with 13 police. The New York Times reported on October 21, 2015, that the Taliban killed at least 22 and as many as 37 police officers after the defending forces ran out of ammunition. The Taliban postponed its earlier threat to execute Gilimbafi.

October 19—Israel—The Islamic State released a video in which it called on Palestinians to continue attacking Israeli soldiers and civilians using every means at their disposal, including knives, vehicles, poison and explosives. A masked terrorist hailed “lone wolves who refused to be subdued and spread fear among the sons of Zion.”

October 19—Pakistan—A timebomb exploded on a passenger bus traveling from Quetta to Saryab, killing 11 and wounding 23.

October 19—Nigeria—Self-defense militia and the military claimed that a nighttime assault killed 150 Boko Haram terrorists and rescued 36 child and women captives in the Madagali and Gwoza areas. The victors recovered guns and explosives.

October 19—Russia—The FSB intelligence agency said that during the previous week, it had arrested a Russian assistant train driver in Krasnodar who ran a “terrorist-leaning” social media group who planned to blow up a train in southern Russia before going to Syria to fight.

October 20—Russia—President Vladimir Putin announced that the FSB intelligence agency in 2015 had foiled 20 terrorist plots, arrested 560 terrorists, and killed 112 others in the North Caucasus. Hours later, police detained 20 members of a banned Islamic organization in the Moscow region. The Interior Ministry said that authorities “destroyed a cell” of the banned Islamic organization Hizb ­ut-Tahrir in the Moscow region. The ministry said 97 people were being questioned in a “large-scale operation” involving police and intelligence services with 20 of them already detained. Officials said the Hizb ­ut-Tahrir “secret cell” was raising funds for jihadis and recruiting new members. On October 26, Radio Free Europe reported that 12 suspects were arrested and 3 were remanded into custody until December. Among those arrested were Obidzhon Dzhurabayev and Abdukayum Makmudov, suspected of recruiting for Hizb ­ut-Tahrir.

October 20—Israel—During demonstrations near the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba in the West Bank, an Israeli man got out of his car after Palestinians threw stones at it. He swung at Palestinian cars with a large stick, hit a truck with the stick, then died when he was run over by the truck. The truck driver turned himself in, saying it was an accident and that he was trying to swerve out of the way.

A Palestinian man stabbed and lightly wounded a military officer in Beit Awwa in the West Bank. Israeli forces shot and killed the attacker.

October 20—Bangladesh—Authorities said they were investigating ­e-mails signed by the Ansarullah Bangla Team and sent to various media organizations threatening to topple “towering buildings” and telling the media not to run anything that goes against jihad. The emails included a ­6-point directive that included telling women to stay at home, calling on businesses to fire any female employees, and deeming working outside of the home to be a “punishable offense” according to Shariah. The group threatened to kill additional atheist bloggers, naming 6 in Bangladesh and 9 others living abroad to be targeted as soon as they returned to the South Asian country. It said the list was not final, warning that anyone who attempts to degrade Islam would face serious consequences and anyone supporting the atheist bloggers will not “be spared.” The email was signed Abdullah bin Salim, who said he is an Ansarullah spokesman. Authorities determined it had been sent from a computer in Chittagong. The Bangla­deshi news service bdnews24.com copy of the email said, “Our directives will be the law for you from today…. The consequences will be severe if you do not walk the path of Islam. Towering buildings will crumble to the ground, your heads will roll at the feet of the soldiers of Islam…. If your freedom of expression breaks the limit we have set, every news media unit should be prepared to face (the consequences) of our freedom to vent our anger.” Working for news media that condemned “jihadis” for attacks “will be considered to be abettors of atheists and atheism, and they would be fully uprooted.”

October 20—Israel—The military shot and killed 2 Palestinians after they tried to knife soldiers in the West Bank. One soldier was lightly wounded.

A Palestinian was shot and killed after he drove into a group of Israelis standing on the side of the road at a junction near Jerusalem in the West Bank, injuring a soldier and a civilian. The attacker jumped out of the vehicle and stabbed people with a knife before he was killed.

October 21—Pakistan—Senior police officer Mohammad Sajjad said security forces raided a terrorist safehouse in Swabi, 60 miles northeast of Peshawar, kicking off a clash in which 4 suspected terrorists died. Another 32 suspects from around Swabi were arrested.

October 21—Northern Ireland—Director of public prosecutions Barra McGrory announced that authorities would investigate Fred Scappaticci, alias “Stake­knife,” a British Army informer who worked inside the Irish Republican Army, for his alleged role in at least 2 dozen killings. Scappaticci allegedly ran the IRA’s internal affairs unit responsible for identifying, interrogating and killing spies and informers. In 2003, Scappaticci was publicly identified as a Cath­o­lic west Belfast native of Sicilian background.

October 21—Philippines—A Chinese attacker armed with a Colt .45 pistol killed Deputy ­Consul-General Sun Shan and finance officer Hui Li of the Chinese Consulate and wounded ­Consul-General Song Ronghua during a birthday celebration at the Lighthouse Restaurant in central Cebu City. Police arrested the attacker and his wife, who worked at the consulate and claimed diplomatic immunity. The next day, Beijing claimed diplomatic immunity for the couple and said it would take custody of them. A similar gun with the same serial number and an expired license as the murder weapon had been seized from a Filipino owner in metropolitan Manila. The duo were taken back to Xiamen, China for trial on October 24. Police Senior Superintendent Rey Lyndon Lawas said a restaurant staffer heard arguments “over financial matters” before shots were fired.

October 21–22—Israel—An Israeli soldier shot and killed a Jewish Israeli he mistook for a Palestinian attacker. Soldiers in Jerusalem demanded that the man show them his ID. He refused, saying “I am ISIS,” and tried to grab one of their weapons. A private security guard nearby shot the 28-year-old Jerusalem resident, and a soldier also opened fire. A friend said the individual came from Dagestan, Russia, had worked as a security guard, but was unstable.

Two 20-something Palestinians with records of militant activity stabbed an Israeli at a bus stop after they tried to enter a bus taking children to school. Police shot the 2 men, one of whom later died while the other was seriously wounded. The Israeli man was moderately wounded. One Palestinian was a Hamas member; the other was jailed for 2 years after he was caught carrying a knife at a West Bank holy site.

October 22—Sweden—Anton Lundin Pettersson, 21, wearing a military helmet and black Darth Vader mask, posed with 2 students at the Kronan pri-mary and middle school before stabbing 4 people with a sword, killing a teacher and a student before being shot to death by police, who hit him with 2 shots to the lower chest. Initial reports indicated that 2 boys, aged 11 and 15, and a 41-year-old male teacher were seriously injured; one of the students later died. Pettersson rampaged through the halls, knocking on the doors of 2 classrooms and slashing those who opened the doors. The school served a large immigrant community in Trollhattan. Police spokesman Thomas Fuxborg said that an alarm called in after 10 a.m. indicated “that a masked man in his 20s had entered the school … carrying ­knife-like weapons in his hands, attacking students and adults at the school. We fired 2 shots, one of which hit and incapacitated the man so that we could arrest him.” Police spokeswoman Jenny Widen said officers were looking into the “attacker’s possible links to ­right-wing organizations.” She said the 2 people killed were both men. One was born in 1995; the other in 1998. The attacker was born in 1994. Investigator Thord Haraldsson said police have “found evidence that the incident was planned” by the lone attacker, and that police found “a kind of suicide note” in his apartment. Trollhattan police chief Niclas Hallgren cited “his way of marching points to Nazism…. He chose ­dark-skinned people, not white. We are convinced it was a hate crime with a racist perspective.” Investigator Thord Haraldsson added that officers found the sword’s holster inside a car parked near the school. Local newspaper GT quoted relatives as saying the victims were Lavin Eskandar, 20, a mentor at the school, and Ahmed Hassan, 15, a student. The New York Daily News reported that Pettersson posted videos on social media that glorified the Nazis, and had recently volunteered for a campaign organized by the ­anti-immigration Sweden Democrats for referendum that would stop refugees from entering Sweden. On October 30, AP quoted Swed­ish police saying that Pettersson injured a fifth person, a student, when he hit him on the arm with the back of his sword. On December 3, 2015, AP reported that Swedish teacher Nazir Amso, 42, died of her wounds from the October 22 sword attack in Trollhattan.

October 22—Iraq—U.S. Army Master Sergeant Joshua L. Wheeler, 39, was killed by ­small-arms fire in a 2-hour overnight helicopter assault by dozens of U.S. special operations troops and Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces of an Islamic State compound near Kirkuk, freeing 69 Iraqi prisoners about to be executed by the IS. Wheeler, of Roland, Oklahoma, and assigned to the U.S. Army Special Operations Command in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, was the first American killed in ground combat against the Islamic State in Iraq since the beginning of Operation Inherent Resolve in 2014. The rescuers killed more than 20 IS terrorists and captured 6 terrorists at a prison 7 kilometers north of Hawija. The Kurdish Regional Government had requested the U.S. assistance. Some freed hostages said that others had been killed at the prison recently and had been told that they would be killed after morning prayers. CNN reported that the armed forces’ surveillance had spotted mass graves dug inside the compound. A U.S. official told Reuters that none of the hostages were Kurdish; all were Arabs, including local residents, 20 members of Iraqi security forces, and Islamic State fighters held as suspected spies. CNN reported that 30 Delta Force troops on an “advise and assist role” participated in the raid. Four Peshmerga soldiers were wounded.

Wheeler had served in the military for 20 years after graduating from a high school in Muldrow, Oklahoma in 1994.

On October 24, the pro–IS news agency Aamaq released a video showing the aftermath of the raid.

October 22—Morocco—Former Guantanamo detainee Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who was released in September 2015 after 13 years in detention, was to remain jailed in Morocco, pending a hearing on November 4 to determine whether he had founded the Moroccan jihadi GICM.

October 22—Worldwide—The IHS Terrorism and Insurgency Center reported that from July through September 2015, the Islamic State claimed 1,086 attacks worldwide, with a 42 percent increase in the average daily number of attacks by the group compared to the previous 3 months.

October 22—Pakistan—Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside a Shi’ite mosque in Baluchistan Province’s Sibi District that killed 10 people, including 6 children, and wounded several others during the Shi’ite celebration of Ashura and threatened more violence against Shi’ites. The bomber was disguised in a woman’s ­head-to-toe burqa dress.

October 23—Israel—The Huffington Post reported that a suspected masked Jewish extremist attacked Rabbi Arik Ascherman, president of the ­Jerusalem-based Rabbis for Human Rights, with a rock and a knife during a Palestinian olive harvest near Itamar, a Jewish West Bank settlement.

Palestinians threw a firebomb at a passing car in the West Bank, injuring an Israeli woman and her 2 daughters. A 4-year-old girl was burned on 35 percent of her body.

A Palestinian man who stabbed a soldier in the West Bank was shot and wounded by soldiers.

October 23—Pakistan—A suicide bomber hit an early evening procession marking the Shi’ite holiday of Ashura, killing 18 people, including 2 children, and wounding 35 near a park in the Jacobabad district of Sindh Province. ­Lashkar-e-Jhangvi spokes­man Usman Saifullah Kurd told local newspapers that the group would “carry out suicide and other attacks, even on Ashura day.” Regional police chief Allah Rakhio Mirani said 8 children, aged 8 to 15, were killed and another 6 or 7 children were in critical condition.

October 23—Egypt—A roadside bomb hit an armored car en route to a security checkpoint in ­el-Arish, killing a police officer and wounding 3 conscripts.

October 23—Libya—Jihadis fired mortar rounds at nearly 1,000 protesters at an anti–Islamist demonstration in Benghazi, killing 9 civilians and wounding 25.

October 23—Israel—The Islamic State released a video showing a masked terrorist speaking correct Hebrew, praising recent Palestinian attacks on Israelis and threatening to kill all Jews in the Holy Land. He predicted “not one Jew will be left in Jerusalem or around it. We will continue until we eradicate this disease from the world.” The jihad against Israel and Jews “hasn’t started yet, and what has happened to you in the past is child’s play in comparison with what will happen to you in the near future, God willing.” He added, “The Sykes–Picot borders won’t protect you, God willing. As we removed it between Iraq and Syria, we will remove it between Syria and Jordan and Syria and Palestine.”

October 23—Nigeria—At 5 a.m., a suicide bomber set off a bomb at a mosque in the Jiddari Polo area of Maiduguri, killing 18 people.

A bomb in Yola killed 27 and wounded 96 during afternoon prayers inaugurating a new mosque.

Nigeria’s police chief, Inspector General Solomon E. Arase, warned earlier in the week that Boko Haram was building bombs in iPads, laptops and cellphones and leaving them for people to pick up.

October 23—Syria—CNN ran a video purportedly made by Lukas Kinney, alias Abu Basir ­al-Britani, a British ­al-Nusra Front member who was the son of Hollywood director Patrick Kinney. The individual excoriated the rival Islamic State for destroying a northern Syria village. Patrick Kinney was an assistant director who worked on Braveheart, Rambo: First Blood Part II, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Lukas had attended schools in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UK. His parents are divorced. He had played in the rock band Hannah’s Got Herpes.

October 24—Yemen—AQAP gunmen were suspected in the nighttime storming of Aden’s central prison. The terrorists freed an individual blamed for an August 2015 ­rocket-propelled grenade attack on the compound of the city’s former governor. The grenades killed 4 people, but the former governor and other officials who were present at the time were not hurt.

October 24—Egypt—A bomb hit a police armored vehicle in ­el-Arish, killing an Egyptian first lieutenant and 2 soldiers and injuring another 8 soldiers.

October 24—Bangladesh—Terrorists threw 5 ­home-made bombs at 40,000 Shi’ites in procession to the Huseni Dalan shrine in Dhaka, killing Sajjad Hossain Sanju, 16, and injuring 104 people. Three bombs exploded in the morning attack; 2 were recovered. The Islamic State claimed credit, saying “soldiers of the Caliphate in Bangladesh” set off the bombs during “polytheist rituals.” Interior Minister Asaduzzaman Khan demurred, saying, “This is not a militant attack, rather it is a planned and destructive attack aiming only to destabilize the situation of the country.” Police arrested 4 suspects. The New York Times reported that it was the first time Shi’ites had been attacked by terrorists in Bangladesh. AP reported on November 27 that police arrested 6 members of the banned Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh in connection with the bombing. On November 26, security officials killed the alleged mastermind of the attack, al-Bani, during a gunfight in a Dhaka suburb. Police said al-Bani was the military commander of the group, and that he and his accomplices opened fire on security forces as they were preparing to conduct a raid.

October 24—Nigeria—Civilian guards prevented 4 female suicide bombers from entering Maiduguri during the morning. The women set off their explosives when they were stopped for a body search, killing another person and wounding 10. Boko Haram was suspected.

October 24—Egypt—Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Mostafa ­Abdel-Rahman, secretary of the country’s leading ultraconservative Islamist party, the Salafi ­al-Nour Party. He was a parliamentary candidate in ­el-Arish in the northern Sinai. He was shot in front of his home as he headed out to a mosque for afternoon prayers.

October 24—Israel—Authorities shot to death a ­knife-wielding Palestinian as he ran toward a crossing between Israel and the West Bank and tried to stab security personnel at the site.

October 25—Somalia—Kenyan military spokes­man Colonel David Obonyo said that Kenyan troops under the African Union mission in Somalia in a dawn attack destroyed an ­al-Shabaab base at Yantooy by Jubba River in southern Somalia, destroyed 2 boats the terrorists used to cross the river, and killed 15 terrorists.

October 25—Israel—A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli who had pulled over and exited his car, which Palestinians were pelting with rocks, near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank, causing serious injuries. The attacker fled.

Israeli authorities said Palestinian Dania Irshaid, 17, pulled a knife while approaching a police checkpoint near the shrine known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank. Police shot her to death. No Israeli forces were harmed.

On November 12, CNN reported that undercover Israeli authorities raided the hospital room of Azam Shalaldeh, 27, a Palestinian man who was being treated at the ­al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron for wounds received while he was allegedly conducting a terrorist attack. The Israel Defense Forces said that the military, the Israel Securities Authority (Shin Bet) and the Israeli police were there to arrest the man they said was involved in an attack on October 25 in the Jewish settlement of Gush Etzion, in the West Bank. The Israeli military said Shalaldeh’s relatives were Hamas operatives. During the arrest, one of Shalaldeh’s relatives, Abdallah, attacked Israeli authorities and was shot to death.

October 25—Yemen—Thirty jihadis in 4 pickup trucks attacked Aden’s Zamaran supermarket in the afternoon, firing into the air and briefly taking hos­tages. The gunmen freed the hostages and left within an hour. Some shoppers were hurt when the terrorists kicked and punched them. The gunmen were protesting the mingling of men and women in the supermarket and demanded that female employees cover their faces.

October 25—Egypt—Security forces killed 3 gunmen who were hiding in a field in Ismailia Province. The Ministry of Interior said the terrorists had carried out attacks against police, the military and vital facilities, and were preparing other operations. The gunmen opened fire and threw explosives as security forces approached, wounding 2 officers and a sol-dier.

October 25—Syria—AFP reported that Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said that the Islamic State tied 3 people to historic columns in the ruins of the ancient city of Palmyra and set off explosives, executing them.

October 26—South Sudan—Some 100 rebels kidnapped 18 UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) peacekeepers from a UN barge carrying fuel on the Nile river north of Malakal. The gunmen, who were affiliated with the ­SPLA-in Opposition, blocked the barge in Kaka, kidnapped the crew and Bangladeshi peacekeepers, and stole 55,000 liters of fuel, communications equipment, an inflatable boat, and 7 weapons. The UN reported on October 29 that all of the UN peacekeepers were released, but that the group was still holding 13 UN contractors. The UN called on rebel leader Riek Machar to release the South Sudanese crew “unharmed and unhurt” and return the barge and weapons and equipment belonging to the peacekeepers, saying such attacks can constitute war crimes. On November 1, AFP reported that 13 UN workers—all South Sudanese nationals—were freed. 15102601

October 26—Turkey—AFP reported that during raids on suspected terrorist safehouses in Diyarbakir, 7 suspected Islamic State gunmen and 2 Turkish police officers were killed. The Anatolia news agency reported that booby traps planted around one of the houses exploded, killing the police officers and injuring another 5 police officers. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said that a dozen suspects were arrested after a ­2-hour gun battle. Anatolia reported that police had been searching during the weekend for a suspected IS cell, which included a ­Kazakhstan-born woman carrying a German passport, allegedly plotting to carry out other attacks, “such as hijacking a plane or a vessel or detonating suicide bombs in a crowded location.” Local media showed photos of fake Turkish ID cards used by the wanted suspects, including one for Omer Deniz Dundar, who had previously been identified by the media as one of the 2 suicide bombers in the October 10, 2015, bombing in Ankara’s main train station that killed 102 and wounded 248.

October 26—Belgium—A man in his thirties tried to crash a car through the gates of the army barracks of the 2nd Commando Battalion in the suburb of Flawinne near the ­French-speaking town of Namur, south of Brussels. Police detained a suspect who fled in the vehicle after the military fired 10 warning shots. He was found after a ­3-hour search that involved helicopters surveying the scene. Police did not confirm media reports of explosives found in the attacker’s Ford. A police spokesman said, “It was more a man on the run than a threatening man. It is someone who was not on any of our radical lists, he is unknown by our security services, and I want to add that for the moment nothing can let us say that we are facing a terror lead.”

The U.N. Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries estimated 500 people had been recruited from Belgium to fight in Iraq and Syria.

October 26—Yemen—A suicide bomber set off his suicide belt at a checkpoint in Aden’s Mansoura neighborhood, killing 2 ­anti-rebel militiamen.

October 26—Congo—AP reported that the watchdog group Enough Project announced that Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army rebels were killing elephants for their ivory in Congo’s Garamba National Park to trade for food, uniforms and ammunition in the ­Sudanese-controlled Kafia Kingi enclave.

October 26—Kenya—The Kenyan government, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims and the International Organization for Migration said 700 Kenyans who had joined the ­al-Shabaab group had returned to Kenya for rehabilitation.

October 26—Saudi Arabia—A suicide bomber set off his suicide belt among worshippers leaving from evening prayers at the ­al-Mashad mosque in Najran’s Dahza neighborhood on the Yemeni border, killing one person and wounding 16, according to the al-Ekhbariya Saudi news channel and al-Jazeera. Interior Ministry spokesman Major General Mansour ­al-Turki said the bomber was Saad Saeed Saad ­al-Harthy, 34, a Saudi. The Islamic State’s Hijaz Province claimed the attack targeted “the rejectionist Ismailis.” Saudi state television reported that the suspect’s car contained a note to the bomber’s parents regarding his plan to attack the mosque.

October 26—Iraq—A suicide bomber set off his explosive belt inside a tent serving refreshments to pilgrims observing the annual Shi’ite Muharrem ritual in Baghdad’s eastern ­al-Shaab neighborhood, killing at least 7 people, including 2 police officers, and wounding 19 people.

A roadside bomb exploded outside a strip of ­res­taurants in Baghdad’s southeastern Madain ­neighborhood, killing 2 people and wounding at least 11.

A bomb went off near a passing military vehicle in Baghdad’s southern Latifiyah neighborhood, killing one soldier and wounding 5.

October 26—Afghanistan—A roadside bomb hit a vehicle in Jalalabad, Nangarhar Province, killing 2 employees of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and injuring 6 other employees in a morning attack as they were going from their homes to the office. The Taliban were suspected.

October 26—Israel—AP reported that Israeli army soldiers shot and wounded a Palestinian man who tried to stab an Israeli soldier near a site known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron, West Bank.

A Palestinian severely wounded an Israeli soldier by stabbing him in the neck near Hebron before being shot and killed by soldiers.

Gaza militants fired a rocket at southern Israel, causing no injuries.

October 26—Colombia—Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas blamed the National Liberation Army (ELN) for ambushing election workers transporting 130 ballots from the U’wa indigenous reservation in Boyaca Province in the Andean highlands, killing 12 security forces, including 11 soldiers and a police officer, and wounding 3 soldiers. Six people were missing, including 2 poll workers, 2 soldiers, a police ­patrolman and an indigenous U’wa guide. The elections were for governors, mayors and other local officials. The attack took place in the mountainous Guican municipality.

October 27—UK—A court sentenced Libyan citizen Abdurraouf Eshati, 29, to 6 years for terrorism offenses, staying in the UK in violation of the Immigration Act, and other charges related to a failed plan to send ammunition to militias operating inside Libya. He earlier had pleaded guilty to having documents linking him to a $28.5 million arms deal to send 1,100 tons of ammunition to Libya via Italy in contravention of a U.N.-imposed arms embargo. Police had arrested him on November 30, 2014, in Wales.

October 27—Libya—Gunmen near the coastal Almaya area shot down a helicopter carrying 2 senior officers allied to Libya’s ­Islamist-backed Tripoli government, killing at least 19 of its 23 passengers. The helicopter left at noon with salaries to deliver to the town of Surman. The dead included Colonel Salem Saqr, military commander of Libya’s western region, and Colonel Hussein Abudaia, head of the same region’s operations room. They were accompanied by civilian staff and soldiers.

October 27—Nigeria—The military said it killed 30 Boko Haram terrorists in attacks on 2 camps on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest and rescued 338 captives, almost all children and women. In a separate ambush, troops killed 4 suspects on a bombing mission in northeastern Adamawa State.

October 28—Guantanamo Bay—The Pentagon repatriated a Mauritanian detainee.

October 28—Yemen—Terrorists on a motorcycle threw a bomb onto the campus of the University of Aden, shattering windows at the College of Commerce and Economics. Jihadis had earlier threatened to attack the school if it did not ­gender-segregate classes.

October 28—Russia—Radio Free Europe reported that Moscow’s Lefortovsky District court ordered the arrest of Varvara Karaulova, 19, a Moscow State University student, on charges of attempting to recruit people to join the Islamic State. She was detained in Turkey in June while trying to cross into Syria. Thirteen other Russians and 4 Azerbaijanis were captured with her. She was returned to Russia on June 12, when her father said that she had decided to join IS after falling in love with a suspected IS recruiter over the Internet. Russian TV said she legally changed her name to Aleksandra Ivanova.

October 28—Israel—The military said a Palestinian pulled a knife at an army post in Hebron in the West Bank before being shot.

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli woman outside a West Bank supermarket, wounding her moderately. The attacker was detained at the scene.

October 29—Myanmar—CNN reported that in a nighttime attack, 5 men armed with swords seriously wounded parliamentary candidate Naing Ngan Lin and several supporters of the Aung San Suu ­Kyi-led National League for Democracy Party (NLD) in Thaketa Township in Yangon, the country’s commercial capital. The election was scheduled for November 8.

October 29—Pakistan—A roadside bomb exploded during the night, killing local tribal elder Mir Gul Khan and 6 others traveling in a convoy near Quetta.

October 29—Iraq—At least 16 rockets hit Camp Liberty, the former U.S. base near Baghdad International Airport that now houses refugees affiliated with the exiled Iranian opposition ­Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, killing 3 Iraqi soldiers and wounding 16 soldiers guarding the camp. MeK said 23 of its members, including a woman, died and dozens were wounded. The rockets were fired from the Bakriya neighborhood, 4 miles away. 15102901

October 29—Israel—Israeli forces shot and killed 2 Palestinians, including a 23-year-old Palestinian man who stabbed a soldier in the head, wounding him lightly, and then attempted to stab another security officer, in Hebron. The ­knife-wielder approached soldiers at a checkpoint near a disputed shrine known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs and to Muslims as the ­al-Ibrahimi Mosque. Israeli authorities said the second dead Palestinian had attempted to stab an Israeli soldier, a claim disputed by a Palestinian community activist.

Israel’s Justice Ministry said an Arab woman, Asraa Abed, 29, who was shot after pulling a knife at a busy bus station earlier in the month, did not intend to carry out an attack, but was mentally unstable and hoped to engage in suicide by cop. She was indicted on October 29 for carrying a knife.

October 29—France—On November 10, 2015, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that authorities on October 29 arrested a “radicalized” person suspected of planning an attack against marines at a naval base in Toulon. The person had publicly supported jihadi views and had been under surveillance.

October 30—Syria—CNN reported that the Islamic State released a 15-minute video showing the beheading of 4 Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in retaliation for the raid by U.S.-led coalition forces the previous week in which 70 hostages were rescued. A masked ­English-speaking man warned U.S. President Barack Obama before murdering a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit. The screen showed Arabic text that translates as “Peshmerga soldiers that Americans came down to rescue.”

October 30—Sweden—The Prosecution Authority charged a man with encouraging, recruiting and training others to commit terror by giving instructions to his son, then in Syria, on how to blow up a prison wall in Aleppo. Police said the coaching occurred between December 2013 and January 2014 in Jarfalla, west of Stockholm. Prosecutor Ronnie Jacobsson told Swedish TT news agency that the son later died in Syria. The father faced 2 years in jail.

October 30—Israel—A Palestinian resident of the West Bank, Mahmoud Sabaaneh, 18, stabbed and critically wounded an American male tourist at a light rail station in Jerusalem. He tried to stab another person, but police and transport security guards opened fire, seriously wounding him and hitting an Israeli civilian in the leg. Sabaaneh later died in the hospital. 15103001

Two Palestinians with knives in their hands ran toward at a West Bank checkpoint. Authorities fired on them, killing one and wounding the second. An Israeli paramilitary border police officer was lightly wounded. The duo had arrived on a motorcycle.

October 30—Guantanamo Bay—The U.S. sent to the UK the final individual with substantial British ties being held in Guantanamo Bay, ­Saudi-born Shaker Aamer, 46, who had been held for nearly 14 years. He was to join his family, including 4 children, in London, where he worked as a translator for a law firm from 1994 to 2001. Aamer had conducted several hunger strikes. He claimed he had run a girls’ school in Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance captured him and turned him over to the U.S. He arrived in Gitmo in February 2002. The Pentagon said he had met with ­would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid; had trained with ­al-Qaeda in explosives and missiles; and received a stipend from Osama bin Laden. He served on a ­short-lived prisoner council formed in the summer of 2005 to address detainee complaints. He was suspected by law enforcement officials of playing a role in the suicides at Gitmo of 3 Yemenis in 2006, which his attorney denied. The Washington Post added that he arrived at London’s Biggin Hill airport at 1 p.m. on October 30, 2015. He had been represented by Ramzi Kassem, a law professor at the City University of New York.

Aamer was born in Medina, Saudi Arabia, in 1966 and attended college in Jeddah. He later trained to be a nurse at a military hospital. He lived in Atlanta in 1989, then moved to Gaithersburg, Maryland. He became a translator for the U.S. military in Saudi Arabia in 1990.

October 30—Turkey—The human rights group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the Islamic State beheaded 2 of its affiliates, Ibrahim ­Abdul-Qadir, 22, and Fares Hamadi, 20, in Sanliurfa in southern Turkey. CNN reported that their bodies were found in an apartment in the morning. They had been stabbed multiple times. NBC News reported Ibrahim’s brother, Ahmed, as saying that an acquaintance, Tlas Surur, had claimed to be an IS defector, but arranged for the attack. During an interview with the news service, Ahmed received a text from Surur which read, “We killed Ibrahim to break your hearts and we will come after you with another knife.” Ahmed believed Surur was back in Syria with IS. NBC News reported that it had interviewed Ibrahim a year earlier in Sanliurfa in which he said IS had “put a ransom on my head for anyone who kills me.” 15103001

October 31—Israel—Authorities shot to death a Palestinian after he ran toward the Gilboa crossing between the northern West Bank and Israel and tried to stab guards. No Israelis were harmed.

October 31—Bangladesh—Three men entered the Dhaka office of the Shudhdhoswar publishing house and stabbed and shot 2 writers and a publisher. The terrorists locked the wounded men inside the office before escaping. Publisher Ahmed Rahim Tutul was a close friend and book publisher of ­Bangladeshi-American blogger and writer Avijit Roy, who was hacked to death in February. The 2 writers were Ranadeep Basu and Tareque Rahim. The trio were hospitalized; Tutal was in critical condition. Ansar ­al-Islam, the local affiliate of al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, claimed credit, saying the “secular and atheist publishers” issued books by blasphemers that dishonored the Prophet Muhammad, threatening further attacks.

In a separate attack, the slaughtered body of Faisal Abedin Deepan of the Jagriti Prokashoni secular publishing house, which had published some of Roy’s books, was found inside his office.

October 31—Egypt—The Washington Post reported that Russian Metrojet flight 7K9268, an Airbus A321–200 carrying 217 passengers—including 3 Ukrainians, 221 Russians, 138 women, 62 men and 17 children—and 7 crew members, crashed in the Sinai Peninsula 25 minutes after taking off at 5:51 a.m. from Sharm ­al-Sheikh en route to St. Petersburg in the morning. The Russian Embassy said there were no survivors. The Islamic State claimed credit, but Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov doubted the claim. The plane, piloted by Valery Nemov, was flying at 31,000 feet, generally outside the range of ­shoulder-fired missiles, when it lost contact with air traffic controllers. The plane was built in 1997 and had flown for 56,000 hours in nearly 21,000 flights. Metrojet acquired it in 2012. The flight, chartered by the St. ­Petersburg-based Brisco tour company, crashed near ­al-Hasana, south of ­al-Arish. Lufthansa and Air France/KLM announced they would not fly across the area. Among the dead were Russian newlywed couple Elena Rodina and Alexander Krotov, both age 33.

AP reported on November 3, 2015, that Yelena Domashnyaya, 24, and Kseniya Ogorodova, 33, were among the 224 people who died. Alexei Gromov and his wife Tatyana were also killed. CNN reported that IS released a confessor video, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “pig” and saying he would pay a high price for his actions in conducting air strikes in Syria. On November 5, the Los Angeles Times reported that American and British officials were suggesting that a bomb was involved. Russian and Egyptian officials denied that a bomb was the cause, but Russia on November 6 suspended flights. A joint investigating team said a noise was heard in the last second of the cockpit voice recording; the press speculated that it could have been a bomb exploding. FSB director Alexander Bortnikov announced that a ­one-kilogram homemade TNT bomb went off in the air. On November 17, Yahoo! reported that Russia’s FSB offered a $50 million reward for the arrest of the bombers. Reuters reported the same day that Egyptian authorities were interrogating 2 ground crew employees of Sharm ­al-Sheikh airport. A security official said, “Seventeen people are being held, 2 of them are suspected of helping whoever planted the bomb on the plane at Sharm ­al-Sheikh airport.” CCTV showed a baggage handler carrying a suitcase from an airport building to a man loading luggage onto the plane. Security forces were searching for 2 employees suspected of leaving unattended a ­baggage-scanning machine while passengers were boarding flight 9268. Reuters quoted Kommersant on November 18 saying that the bomb was in the rear of the main cabin, not the cargo hold. “According to a preliminary version, the bomb could have been laid under the passenger seat by the window. Its operation has led to the destruction of the frame and depressurisation of the cabin, which had an explosive character.” The Washington Post reported on November 18 that IS’s Dabiq magazine ran a photo with the caption, “EXCLUSIVE—Image of the IED used to bring down the Russian airliner.” The photo showed a yellow can of Schweppes Gold and other plastic and metal bomb components. Dabiq also ran a photo of passports of the victims. 15103101

October 31—Nigeria—The army posted a photo collage of 100 wanted Boko Haram terrorists, including one of leader Abubakar Shekau holding an AK-47, plus elderly men and teen boys. No names were included.

November 1—Nigeria—The army drove Boko Haram from an abandoned northeastern primary school in a ­shoot-out that killed 4 terrorists.

November 1—Pakistan—A bomb exploded on a railway track under a train en route to Rawalpindi, killing 3 passengers and wounding 7 in Baluchistan Province. The bomb damaged the first car and part of the track, which was quickly restored.

November 1—Somalia—Al-Shabaab attacked Mogadishu’s Sahafi Hotel at dawn, killing 15 people, mostly civilians, and injuring 10, including photographer Feisal Omar. A suicide car bomb crashed into the gate. Gunmen ran into the hotel and shot at people, killing the owner of the hotel, a former military general, other officials, and a photographer before taking hostages. A second suicide bomber attacked outside the hotel. Authorities believed a third bomb was remotely detonated. Sheikh Abdiaziz ­Abu-Musab, ­al-Shabaab’s military spokesman, took credit via radio Andulus.

Gunmen kidnapped 2 French security advisers from the hotel in 2009.

November 1—Germany—Explosives were thrown against the window of the room of a 26-year-old Syrian man in an asylum shelter in Freital in Saxony. He was injured by flying glass. 15110101

Police detained a 43-year-old man in Sehnde near Hannover for allegedly committing an arson attack on a home of an asylum seeker family from Montenegro in the morning. No one was harmed. 15110102

Arson attacks against future asylum shelters were reported across the country, including at an empty hotel in Dresden and a former youth club in ­Castrop-Rauxel. 15110103–04

November 1—Chad—Three suicide bombers attacked the army’s headquarters in Bohama. Terrorists simultaneously attacked an army station in Kaiga Kidjiria. The attacks killed 3 soldiers and 16 jihadis and wounded 14 soldiers. Boko Haram was suspected. 15110105–06

November 1—Middle East—Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and ­al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a 26-minute video calling the Islamic State’s caliphate illegitimate, dismissively referring to IS as “Baghdadi’s’ group,” a reference to its leader, Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. AQAP official Khalid Batarfi read the statement in Arabic, with English subtitles. It was only the second joint statement by the 2 groups, who accused the Islamic State of “deviation and misguidance” for aiming their fight against fellow Muslims when they should be fighting Jews and Christians. “The manhaj [method] of destruction, sowing and stirring dissension and corruptions, confusing efforts, making takfir [branding as an infidel] upon those who disagree with them, then this is a manhaj of a feeble and failure [person] who has no perfection except ruin.” Pledges of allegiance to IS were null because Baghdadi’s caliphate was formed through force and violence rather than consultation and mutual consent.

IS spokesman ­al-Adnani had denigrated ­al-Qaeda leader ­al-Zawahiri, saying IS opponents were “tricked by the fatwas of the donkeys and mules of knowledge.” The ­AQAP-AQIM said abuse and insult were “a stratagem of the weak and an approach of the ignorant.”

November 1—Middle East—Al-Qaeda leader Ay­man ­al-Zawahiri released a message that underscored that that ­inter–Muslim group “hostilities” needed to end for the greater good of the jihadi cause. He called on jihadis to join together to battle the West and Russia in Syria and Iraq. He complained that “The Americans, Russians, Iranians, Alawites, and Hizballah are coordinating their war against us—are we not capable of stopping the fighting amongst ourselves so we can direct all our efforts against them?” AFP added that he praised Palestinian attacks against Israelis. “The first matter is striking the West and specifically America in its own home, and attacking their interests that are spread everywhere…. The supporters of Israel must pay with their blood and their economy.” He mentioned the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

November 2—Maldives—Home Minister Umar Naseer said a bomb was found in a vehicle parked near the president’s official residence in Male. Security forces defused a stick of dynamite attached to a remote detonator. On November 4, CNN reported that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced a 30-day state of emergency. AP reported on November 5 that the Parliament voted 61–0 to impeach Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, who was to be charged with terrorism. The opposition Maldivian Democratic Party abstained. Adeeb faced 25 years in jail.

November 2—Switzerland—The Swiss Federal Council announced that police and intelligence services were handling about 70 cases involving “jihadi-motivated terrorism.” The council federal prosecutor opened criminal proceedings into about 20 cases.

November 2—Somalia—Al-Shabaab ambushed an army convoy near Walaweyn in the Lower Shabelle region, killing 15 soldiers and stealing 3 military vehicles. The group’s Radio Andalus said 30 soldiers died.

November 2—Israel—AFP reported that 4 Israelis were stabbed in separate attacks, the first outside Jerusalem and the West Bank since October 22.

A 19-year-old Palestinian from Hebron stabbed 2 Israelis on the pavement and a third in a clothes store near the central bus station in Rishon LeZion, 6 miles south of Tel Aviv. One of the victims was an 80-year-old woman who was stabbed in the back and waist, sustaining damage to blood vessels and a fracture to her hip. A man, 40, was stabbed several times in the chest. Those 2 victims were in severe condition. The third person was lightly wounded. Security forces arrested the terrorist.

A Palestinian stabbed and seriously injured an Israeli in his 70s. Police said the attack in Netanya was “neutralized.”

Palestinian Ahmed Abu ­el-Rob, 16, tried to stab a soldier near a gas station at a border crossing in the northern West Bank but was shot dead. A Palestinian accomplice was arrested; the Palestinian news agency Wafa said the accomplice was wounded.

Police found a bomb during a search of a car near Hebron.

November 2—Ukraine—UPI and the BBC reported that Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s survived a failed assassination attempt after a sniper fired 3 shots at his office in Kiev. The shots hit ­bullet-proof glass. No one was injured. No one claimed credit.

November 2—Turkey—Police in Gaziantep Province detained 9 alleged IS terrorists planning suicide bombings against a political party’s office in Istanbul and the offices of a newspaper in Istanbul and An­kara. Police arrested 2 suspects who threw hand grenades at them during a car chase. Police raids netted the other 7.

November 2—Nigeria—Boko Haram released a video in which it showed its members using a cleaver to cut off the right hands of 2 men alleged to have stolen money. A spokesman told villagers it was God’s “prescribed punishment.”

November 3—Guantanamo Bay—The Miami Herald reported that the Guantanamo parole board cleared another “forever prisoner,” Yemeni citizen Mansoor Abdul Rahman ­al-Dayfi, in his mid–30s. He was part of Gitmo’s “Milk & Honey project” designed to show ambition to settle into a peaceful life. He arrived at Gitmo on February 9, 2002. The ­6-member Periodic Review Board ruled on October 28 that a consensus concluded his “law of war detention … is no longer necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States.”

November 3—Egypt—In a morning attack, an Islamic State suicide truck bomber hit the main gate of a police club in ­el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 3 police and wounding 5 civilians and 5 police. The Interior Ministry said he was stopped by a concrete security barrier. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State said it was retaliating for the “government’s arrest of women from the tribes of Sinai” and claimed that bomber Abu Aisha ­el-Masry killed “dozens” at the officers’ club.

November 3—UK—Prosecutor Robin Sellars told the Central Criminal Court that Ukrainian citizen Vadim Bezkorovainiy, 35, planned a terrorist attack against the Russian Embassy in London and conducted extensive research online to promote “his political motive.” Authorities said he ran surveillance on the Embassy 3 times. Prosecutors said he was radicalized by the conflict in the eastern Ukraine. Police found images and video files in his home in Luton that suggested he was planning terrorism and charged him with preparation for acts of terrorism between January and March 2014. He denied the charges. On November 13, a jury acquitted him of preparing an act of terrorism.

November 3—Pakistan—UPI reported that 2 ­motorcycle-riding gunmen killed local journalist Muhammad Zaman Mehsud in Khyber Pakhtun­khwa Province’s Tank District. He was a senior journalist for Umaat, an Urdu daily newspaper, and was president and secretary general of the Tribal Union of Journalists in South Waziristan, where he lived.

November 3—Bahrain—Counterterrorism authorities announced the arrests of 47 suspects and seizure of explosives, claiming the detainees “hold strong connections with terrorist organizations in Iran.”

November 3—Spain—Authorities in Madrid and a suburb arrested 3 Moroccan residents of Spain, aged between 26 and 29, with suspected IS ties who were believed preparing to conduct an attack in Spain.

November 4—Spain—Police arrested 2 people of Moroccan origin in Cornella de Llobregat on suspicion of recruiting terrorists for the Islamic State.

November 4—Israel—Police shot and killed a Pal­es­tinian who seriously wounded a police officer when he rammed his vehicle into him in the West Bank.

November 4—Afghanistan—The BBC reported that a breakaway Afghan Taliban faction appointed Mullah Mohammad Rasool to lead the splinter group at a meeting in western Farah Province. The group said new Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor hijacked the movement because of personal greed. Abdul Manan Niazi, Mansoor Dadullah and Shir Mohammad Akhundzada were appointed as deputies on military affairs and Mullah Baz Mohammad Haris was appointed as deputy for political affairs. During Taliban rule, Mullah Rasool was governor of Nimroz Province. Reuters reported that he was not a religious scholar. On November 14, AP reported that faction spokesman Manan Nizai said that Mullah Mansoor Dadullah was “seriously wounded” but still alive after ­inter–Taliban skirmishes in the ­Khak-e-Afghan district of Zabul Province. Niazi said Dadullah helped broker an alliance between their faction and local Islamic State terrorists. “Until our group was formed, they had no option but to join with Daesh. Once we were established they said they would follow us.” Niazi also denied that Akmal Ghazi, a commander in the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan who had pledged loyalty to IS, had been killed.

November 5—Germany—Police arrested V.V., a 51-year-old man, near the ­German-Austrian border. Undercover police found an automatic rifle, hand grenades, and a kilogram of TNT hidden inside his VW Golf. Public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk said that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was arrested. The governor of Bavaria suggested on November 14 that he might be linked to the Paris attacks of the previous day in which 132 people were killed. Focus Online said he was from Montenegro and that he refused to speak in prison and not hired a defense lawyer. The VW was registered in Podgorica, Montenegro. Police spokeswoman Tamara Popvic said he was not known to the police as a “perpetrator of serious crimes or violations of public order.” He belonged to the Orthodox religion. German police had not told their Montenegrin counterparts of any links to terrorism or organized crime in the case.

November 5—Bosnia-Herzegovina—Judge Amela Huskic sentenced Islamic State supporter Husein Bosnic to 7 years for encouraging, organizing and recruiting volunteers for extremist activities in Syria. She said he claimed to be a religious authority and used “skillful oral manipulation” to lure believers into joining IS. At least 6 of his recruits died on battlefields in Syria. He was one of more than a dozen suspects arrested in 2014 during a police crackdown on IS supporters. He was represented by attorney Adil Lozo, who said he would appeal.

November 5—Lebanon—A suicide bomber arrived on a motorcycle and walked into a meeting of Syria clerics near the office of the Qalamoun Clerics Association that is active in helping refugees in Arsal, near the Syrian border, killing 5 and wounding 6 people. The ­state-run National News Agency said the dead included the head of the group, Syrian cleric Sheikh Osman Mansour and the group’s deputy, Omar ­al-Halabi. 15110501

November 5—Turkey—Authorities detained 40 Moroccans and a Syrian who flew in to Istanbul airport from Casablanca, on suspicion that they aimed to use the Turkish territory to cross into Syria to join the IS. Half of them were deported.

November 6—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that police raids had detained 20 people, including 2 Russians, suspected of links to the Islamic State ahead of a G-20 summit near Antalya.

November 6—Iraq—Three bombings in Baghdad killed 6 people and wounded 18.

A roadside bomb in a residential area in north Baghdad’s Saba ­al-Boor neighborhood killed 3 and wounded 9.

A bomb exploded in a meat market in south Baghdad’s Madain area, killing 2 and wounding 5.

A bomb went off next to an Iraqi military vehicle in north Baghdad’s Tarmiya neighborhood, killing a soldier and wounding 4.

November 6—Germany—Authorities at Munich Airport arrested Ali R., 31, a German citizen from the Berlin area, on suspicion that he had been returning to Germany after joining the Islamic State after traveling to Syria in December 2014. He was charged with membership in a foreign terrorist organization. He allegedly was an administrator who handled the arrival of new recruits until May 2015. Prosecutors believed he helped make booby traps and was part of an armed escort guarding a supply convoy in August 2015.

November 6—Spain—Police arrested a Spanish woman at Malaga’s airport on suspicion that she tried to join the Islamic State. She was returning from Turkey, where she had gone with her family.

November 6—Israel—Palestinian woman Tharwat Sharawi, 73, slowed her car down, then drove toward Israeli soldiers, who jumped out of the way and shot and wounded her. She was taken to a hospital in Hebron, West Bank. The incident took place at a gas station.

Two Palestinian shootings in Hebron wounded 3 Israelis, 2 of them seriously. The wounded were teens between the ages of 16 and 19. During the afternoon, someone fired at Jewish worshippers leaving a major shrine in the ­Israeli-controlled downtown Hebron area, wounding 2 people. A 16-year-old was seriously wounded and an 18-year-old was lightly hurt.

Later that day in Hebron, a ­drive-by gunman shot an Israeli, 19, in the head, critically injuring him.

A Palestinian stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli man standing outside an ­Israeli-run supermarket in the West Bank.

November 6—Senegal—Investigating Judge Samba Sall charged 4 imams and 3 women with criminal conspiracy, money laundering and financing terrorism. He said the suspects were arrested in October following investigations by Senegalese security forces. The media said police determined that the suspects were in contact with a Nigerian with ties to Boko Haram.

November 6—Saudi Arabia—A shell fired from Yemen hit a house in Saudi Arabia’s Najran border region, killing a Saudi woman and a ­3-month-old child. 15110601

November 7—Afghanistan—The headless bodies of 4 men, 2 women, and a child, all members of the Hazara minority, were found in Zabul Province’s Arghandab District. They had been abducted earlier. Zabul provincial governor Mohammad Anwar Ishaq­zai blamed the Islamic State. He said the victims were kidnapped in neighboring Ghazni Province over the previous 6 months. On November 10, the National Directorate of Security freed 8 kidnapped Hazaras, including 5 men, 2 women, and a teen. In February, 31 Hazaras were abducted from buses in Ghazni Province. In May, 19 were freed. The Islamic State was suspected.

November 7—Burundi—Gunmen ordered those seated at a bar’s terrace in southern Bujumbura’s Kanyosha area to move inside, then fired indiscriminately, killing 9 people, including the bar’s owner, his nephew, and an employee. Seven bodies were found on the floor of the bar during the night. Two other victims who fled died in a hospital. The bar’s owner thought this was a robbery, and asked his customers to hand over cash and valuables. After they did, a gunman fired. The other gunmen fired on those trying to escape.

November 7—Turkey—Authorities in Adana detained 7 foreigners on suspicion of planning to join the Islamic State.

November 8—Turkey—The Army reported the detention of 12 suspects in Karkamis believed to have terrorist ties.

November 8—Israel—A Palestinian crashed his vehicle into a group of Israelis standing at a hitchhiking station in the West Bank, wounding 4. Two were moderately wounded. Paramilitary officers shot the attacker dead.

A Palestinian woman stabbed and lightly wounded a security guard at the entrance to a West Bank settlement. The guard shot and wounded the attacker.

November 8—Chad—Two female suicide bombers hit Bouboua village near Lake Chad, killing 3, including a girl and a boy, and injuring 14, 4 of them ­seriously. One bomb went off near a water tap; the second near a mill. Boko Haram was suspected. 15110801

November 8—Libya—Gunmen crashed into the convoy of the Serbian Ambassador to Tunisia, then kidnapped 2 other embassy employees—communications officer Sladjana Stankovic and driver Jovica Stepic, in Sabratha. 15110802

November 8—Nigeria—UPI reported that the Nigerian military said it arrested Boko Haram member Chindo Bello, who was on the government’s 100 ­most-wanted list, as he attempted to board a flight in Abuja.

November 8—U.S.—CNN reported that the FBI arrested Virginia white supremacists Robert Curtis Doyle and Ronald Beasley Chaney, III, for plotting to bomb black churches and synagogues as part of a race and hate war. An FBI undercover agent posed as an illegal arms dealer selling weapons and explosives. The duo planned to rob businessmen, such as a jeweler and a gun store owner, to prepare for a race war. They would then buy weapons and begin paramilitary training. Charles Daniel Halderman was arrested on accusations that he was going to help Doyle and Chaney in robbing and killing a ­silver-jewelry dealer.

The FBI learned in September that Doyle would meet in his Chesterfield County home, southwest of Richmond, Virginia, with other people “to discuss acting out in furtherance of their extremist beliefs by shooting or bombing the occupants of black churches and Jewish synagogues, conducting acts of violence against persons of the Jewish faith and doing harm to a gun store owner in the state of Oklahoma,” according to court papers. Surveillance established that people met there September 27 and that Cha­ney’s vehicle was present. The FBI said Doyle and Chaney met with the undercover FBI agent in late October. Doyle allegedly looked at silencers and placed an order for automatic weapons, explosives and a pistol with a silencer, to be delivered and purchased on November 8, according to the indictment. The FBI arrested Chaney after he paid for 2 firearms, silencers and explosives. Doyle was arrested later. The FBI found 30 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition from a black backpack in the rear seat of Doyle’s Toyota Tundra at his home. A federal court hearing was scheduled for Doyle and Chaney for November 12 and for Halderman on November 13. Doyle had been convicted of 7 felonies, including possession and distribution of a controlled substances, embezzlement, and grand larceny. Chaney had been convicted of violent and other felonies. Halderman had 17 felony convictions.

November 9—Cameroon—Two female suicide bombers killed 3 Nigerians in Cameroon’s far north region. Boko Haram was suspected. 15110901

November 9—Senegal—Officials arrested 5 suspects with ties to Boko Haram.

November 9—Israel—Soldiers shot and killed Palestinian Rasha Owaisi, 23, from the West Bank town of QalQilya, when she pulled a knife on guards at a checkpoint near the Alfei Menashe settlement in the northern West Bank. She ignored warning shots. Troops were looking for a suspected accomplice. She left behind a note in which she pledged to “defend the homeland” and begged her parents and sisters for forgiveness.

November 9—Jordan—Jordanian police captain Anwar Abu Zaid, 29, fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle on foreign trainers at a police compound’s canteen, killing 2 Americans working for DynCorp International, a South African contractor, and 2 Jordanian translators, including a civilian employee, and wounding 7 people, including 2 American civilians, a Lebanese, and 3 Jordanians, before he was shot dead. One of the wounded was in critical condition. The gunman was a trainer at the facility who joined the security forces at age 18. He was married with 2 children. The American civilians were part of a State Department Bureau of Diplomatic Security and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement police training program. The translators included Awni ­al-Akrabawi, 44, who had worked at the center for 3 years. The father of 4 had lived in the U.S. for more than a decade and spoke fluent English. On November 14, Jordanian authorities said Abu Zaid was troubled, and had no ties to extremist groups. They said he first fired on a vehicle carrying foreigners, then attacked the canteen. He was killed during a chase. 15110902

November 9—Egypt—CNN and the Middle East News Agency quoted the Interior Ministry as saying that Ashraf Ali Hassanein ­al-Gharabali, a leader of the ­IS-affiliated Ansar Beit ­al-Maqdis, was killed in a ­shoot-out with security forces at a checkpoint in Cairo. Police were approaching his vehicle when Gharabali fired a pistol while attempting to escape. MENA said he was allegedly involved in the attempted assassination of Egypt’s former interior minister in September 2013. NBC News said he was behind the kidnap and murder of American oil worker William Henderson in August 2014 and the kidnap/beheading of a Croatian citizen. The Interior Ministry said he was the “planner and main executor” of a bombing at the Italian consulate and an attempted attack targeting tourists at the Karnak Temple in Luxor in June 2015.

November 9—Turkey—AFP reported that Turkish ­anti-terrorist police in Adana Province detained 38 foreigners, including 10 women and 15 children, who were reportedly seeking to join the Islamic State in Syria. The Anatolia news agency said detainees included citizens of Iraq, Iran, Indonesia and several central Asian nations. Two Turks were held for helping the group.

November 10—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber accidentally set off his explosives in the Khaki Afghan District of Zabul Province, killing 22 Islamic State terrorists and wounding another 10.

An hour later, a suicide bomber attacked Taliban terrorists loyal to Mansoor, killing Taliban shadow provincial governor Mullah Matiullah and the group’s head of provincial military affairs Peer Agha.

November 10—Bangladesh/India—Bangladesh expelled to India Anup Chetia, a leader of the banned separatist group United Liberation Front of Assam. He and 2 associates were arrested in Dhaka in 1997. They were convicted of illegally staying in Bangla­desh and possessing fake passports, unauthorized foreign currencies and a satellite phone. Chetia completed his prison term of 7 years, but he was kept in a prison as his request for asylum was pending with the Bangladesh government. Bangladesh’s Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said, “Yes, we have handed him over to India as per his wish that he wants to go home after completing his jail term here.” The Press Trust of India reported that Chetia was wanted for killings, abductions, bank robberies and extortion in India. He fled India in the early 1990s and was living in Bangladesh where his group had a base.

November 10—Iraq—A bomb exploded in the morning in an outdoor market in Baghdad’s northern Sabi ­al-Bore neighborhood, killing 3 shoppers and wounding 8.

A bomb went off in Baghdad’s eastern Hussainiyah suburb, killing 3 civilians and wounding 7.

A bomb hit a parking lot in Baghdad’s northern Shaab neighborhood, killing 2 civilians and wounding 7.

Drive-by shooters in Baghdad’s southern Dora neighborhood killed 2 merchants.

November 10—Turkey—The PKK was suspected when rebels set off a bomb on a road near Silvan, wounding 6 soldiers riding inside an armored military vehicle.

The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that Kurdish rebels fired on a military convoy in Hakkari Province, killing one soldier.

November 10—Israel—Two Palestinian boy relatives, believed to be about 12 and 13 years old, stabbed and moderately wounded a security guard on a train in east Jerusalem. The guard shot the younger boy. Passengers subdued the elder.

Security forces killed a 37-year-old Palestinian man outside the Old City as he allegedly chased guards while wielding a knife.

Police foiled an attack in Abu Dis, an Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, when a Palestinian tried to stab forces at a checkpoint before he was shot dead.

November 10—Somalia—The U.S. State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced rewards for the location of ­al-Shabaab leaders. “The U.S. Secretary of State has authorized rewards of up to $6 million for information on the whereabouts of Abu Ubaidah (Direye); up to $5 million each for information on Mahad Karate, Ma’alim Daud and Hassan Afgooye; and up to $3 million each for information on Maalim Salman and Ahmed Iman Ali.”

November 10—Italy—The Italian government announced that Mehdi Ben Nasr had arrived on a migrant boat in Lampedusa, Sicily, on October 4 and was expelled a week later. The Tunisian had been earlier expelled to Tunisia after serving a ­7-year prison term in Italy on terrorism charges of being part of a network of Islamic extremists who recruited fighters to go to Iraq. He had completed his sentence in April 2014.

November 10—Nigeria—UPI and Xinhua reported that the Nigerian military said it arrested Boko Haram member Ishaku Wardifen, a Cameroonian, at a military checkpoint in Maliha in northwestern Adamawa State. He was #22 on the government’s 100 ­most-wanted list.

November 10—Turkey—The PKK set off a bomb on a road near Silopi in Sirnak Province, killing 3 policemen.

November 11—Turkey—The PKK set off a car bomb that hit an armored police vehicle on a road in Dargecit in Mardin Province, killing a ­road-sweeper and wounding a police officer.

A soldier died in a gun battle with Kurds in Silvan in Diyarbakir Province.

November 11—Libya—Land mines killed 13 soldiers in Benghazi.

November 12—U.S.—FOX8News in Cleveland reported that Terrence J. McNeil, 25, of Akron, Ohio was arrested in the morning and charged with one count of solicitation of a crime of violence. He appeared in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio in Akron. Federal authorities said he posted several images on Tumblr on September 25 supporting the Islamic State. A .gif file read, “O Brothers in America, know that the jihad against the crusaders is not limited to the lands of the Khilafah, it is a ­world-wide jihad and their war is not just a war against the Islamic State, it is a war against Islam…. Know that it is wajib [necessary] for you to kill these kuffar! and now we have made it easy for you by giving you addresses, all you need to do is take the final step, so what are you waiting for? Kill them in their own lands, behead them in their own homes, stab them to death as they walk their streets thinking that they are safe…” A video showed U.S. military members, a handgun and the words, “Kill them wherever you find them.” FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony said the defendant reposted “names and addresses of 100 U.S. service members, all with the intent to have them killed.” McNeil was remanded into the custody of U.S. Marshals.

November 12—Egypt—MENA reported that 3 gunmen fired from their motorcycle at police guarding an evangelical church near the Giza pyramids outside Cairo. No one was killed in the ensuing gun battle, and the guards sustained scrapes and bruises.

November 12—Italy—A man stabbed 7 times Nathan Graff, 40, an Orthodox Jew, in front of a Kosher pizzeria in Milan during the evening. Graff sustained 3 wounds to the back, 3 around the face and one to the arm.

November 12—Syria—The Washington Post reported that shortly before midnight, a U.S. military drone launched a Hellfire missile near Raqqa against a vehicle carrying British Islamic State killer Mohammed Emwazi, alias Jihadi John, and another member of the “Beatles”—British terrorists involved with IS. He was believed to have participated in the executions of Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and ­Abdul-Rahman Kassig; Britons David Haines and Alan Henning; and Japanese journalist Kenji Goto. The next day, U.S. military spokesman Steve Warren said officials were reasonably sure Emwazi was killed, although authorities were still attempting to confirm his death.

The next day, Turkish officials detained a man suspected of links to Emwazi. They believed that he was Aine Lesley Davis, who was picked up in Istanbul.

November 12—Lebanon—The Islamic State took credit for 2 suicide bombings that occurred minutes apart that killed 45 people and wounded 239 during rush hour in the Burj ­al-Barajneh Shi’ite suburb and Hizballah stronghold in southern Beirut. The men walked in front of a shopping center and set off suicide vests at 6 p.m. The first suicide bomber hit a coffee shop near a Shi’ite mosque, the second got inside a bakery. A third suicide bomber’s legless body was found. He apparently was hit by the second blast before he could set off his explosive belt. IS said on social media that the bombings were intended to kill Shi’ites.

On November 13, UPI reported that a Lebanese man who was arrested said the IS sent him and the other 3 into southern Beirut from Syria 2 days earlier.

Authorities said on November 16 that 7 Syrians and 2 Lebanese were arrested.

The Washington Post reported on November 16 that Adel Termos, with his young daughter watching, sacrificed himself to save others. He spotted the second bomber and tackled him to the ground. The bomb went off, killing Termos, but saving many others, including his daughter.

On November 26, CNN and Hizballah’s ­al-Manar TV reported that Hizballah and Syrian security agents killed IS member ­Abdul-Salam Hendawi, alias Abu Abdo, in an ambush in an ­IS-held area in Syria’s Homs Province. He was believed to have brought the 2 suicide bombers into Lebanon. 115111201

November 12—U.S./Canada—CNN reported that the FAA said 3 commercial planes in Dallas and 2 news helicopters in New York were hit with lasers while in flight. The FAA later said more than 20 planes were hit in 10 states, Puerto Rico, and On-tario, Canada. At least one plane was hit in Los Angeles. No pilots were injured. The FAA said that as of October 16, there were 5,352 laser strikes in the U.S., up from 3,894 in 2014 and 283 in 2005. The media reported that 2 men were taken into custody.

November 12—Europe—European law enforcement authorities arrested 18 members of a ­Norway-based Iraqi Kurdish ring that found recruits via the Internet and sent them to fight in Iraq and Syria for the Islamic State. Italy said arrest warrants were issued against 17 people—16 Kurds and a Kosovan—but one of them was killed in Iraq in 2014. Seven were arrested in Italy, 4 in the UK, 3 in Norway, and one in Finland. The network extended to Switzerland and Germany. Police searched 26 properties and seized electronic devices and documents.

Prosecutors said the group planned an attack against Norwegian and UK diplomats in the Middle East and plotted to kidnap other envoys in a bid to free their imprisoned leader. Italian authorities said the group’s ideological leader was Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad, alias Mullah Krekar, who was in prison in Norway. He had founded the ­now-defunct Ansar ­al-Islam insurgent group of Sunni Kurds, which aimed to install an Islamic caliphate in Iraqi Kurdistan. Ansar ­al-Islam merged with IS in 2014. While in Norwegian exile, Krekar formed the Rawti Shax, alias Didi Nwe (“the new course” or “toward the mountain”) to recruit Iraqi Kurds in Europe to overthrow the Kurdish government and replace it with a caliphate, according to the Italian police. They monitored his Internet chats on the dark web. Italian officials said Rawti Shax sent 6 people to fight for IS; 2 died in the Syria/Iraq area. The suspects were accused of international terrorism association. Police said a Rawti Shax secret committee discussed attacks against Norwegian diplomats and lawmakers to negotiate Krekar’s freedom.

Norway sentenced Krekar in October 2015 to 18 months in jail for praising the slaying of cartoonists at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in January 2015, and of urging others to kill a Kurdish immigrant in Norway. Krekar was represented by attorney Brynjar Meling.

The suspects in Norway were scheduled for a court appearance on November 13 in Oslo, pending a possible deportation to Italy.

Italian police asked the Swiss to arrest another suspect living in Switzerland.

November 12—Russia—Reuters reported that IS’s ­al-Hayat Media Center released a Russian language video threatening attacks in Russia “very soon … the blood will spill like an ocean.”

November 12—Turkey—AFP and the Dogan news agency reported that at dawn, Turkish police in Izmir arrested Mehdibend Said, a Frenchman suspected of IS membership after he had a hair transplant procedure at a beauty salon. He had been under surveillance after entering the country from Syria, and was believed to be plotting a terrorist attack on Turkish soil.

November 13—Israel—A Palestinian man shot to death 2 Israelis and wounded a third as they were driving near Hebron in the West Bank during the afternoon. The man got out of his car and fired on the car carrying an Israeli family. The shooter fled.

November 13—UK—Authorities evacuated a terminal at Gatwick airport after a suspicious package was found.

November 13—Internet—France24 reported that hours before the Paris attacks, the ­al-Hayat Media Center of IS released a video threatening attacks against French interests. Abu Maryam the Frenchman said, “As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear traveling to the market.” Apparent French nationals were seen sitting in a group wearing fatigues and holding weapons. The terrorists burned their passports in the video. Another speaker, Abu Salman the Frenchman, said: “Even poison is available, so poison the water and food of at least one of the enemies of Allah…. Terrorize them and do not allow them to sleep due to fear and horror.”

November 13—France—The German soccer team, in town for a friendly match with France at the Stade de France later in the day, was evacuated from its Paris hotel after a bomb threat. 15111301

November 13—France—Eight Islamic State terrorists in 3 groups attacked 6 locations in Paris during the evening, conducting suicide bombings, bombings, shootings, and a ­hostage-taking that killed at least 130 people, including an American, and injured 368. Some 99 were critically injured. Americans were among the injured. On November 18, Minister of Health Marisol Touraine told Parliament that 195 remained hospitalized; 3 were in critical condition and 41 were in intensive care.

At 9:17 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and 9:53 p.m., bombs went off at 2 stadium entrances and outside a McDonald’s near the Stade de France, which went into lockdown. President Francois Hollande was there, watching with 79,000 other fans while France played world soccer champion Germany, but he left to go to the Interior Ministry. 60 Minutes reported that a suicide bomber who wanted to bring in a propane tank ringed with nails was unable to get inside the stadium and set off his explosives. A body consistent with a suicide attack was found nearby. Four people were reported dead, including the 3 terrorists. Several dozen people were injured. People stayed inside the stadium, many clustering on the field, to wait out the siege.

A group conducted ­drive-by shootings, hitting the Casa Nostra and nearby Bonne Biere (5 dead), Comp­toir Voltaire (one terrorist killed), the sidewalk terrace of La Belle Equipe on Rue de Charonne (19 dead), Le Petit Cambodge restaurant and nearby Le Carillon ­bar-cafe at the junction of Rue Bichat and Rue Alibert (killing 14 and gravely injuring 10 others) near the Stade de France in the city’s 10th arrondissement. BBC News said one gunman fired an automatic weapon; some witnesses saw 2 gunmen. BFMTV and the Washington Post said at least 11 people were killed.

BFMTV said at 9:49 p.m., gunmen attacked the 19th-century Bataclan concert hall at the intersection of Boulevard ­Richard-Lenoir and Boulevard Voltaire, where the ­California-based American rock band Eagles of Death Metal was playing to an audience of 1,000 fans. The gunmen fired on cafes outside the hall, then fired on the audience. The terrorists took hundreds of hostages and ultimately killed 87 people (original reports said 118 were killed), throwing explosives and shooting. Security forces stormed the building, rescuing 100 hostages. Three ­black-clad terrorists set off their explosive vests. Police shot the fourth one, whose explosives went off as he fell. The hall is 20 yards from the former Charlie Hebdo office that was hit by terrorists in January 2015. Police on November 18 said a phone thrown into a garbage can contained a text message saying the attack was imminent, according to CNN.

France declared a state of emergency and sealed its borders. President Hollande said IS had conducted an act of war against the country. On November 15, French planes dropped 20 bombs on IS targets in Raqqa, Syria.

During the attacks, the Vocativ website reported that Islamic State supporters created hashtags hailing “Paris in flames” and declaring that “ISIS is attacking Paris.” One pro–IS tweet in Arabic said, “O crusaders we are coming to you with bombs and rifles. Wait for us.” The Washington Post reported the next day the IS called Paris the capital of a country that “carries the cross in Europe” and said the attack aimed to “cast terror into the hearts” of the West in “their very own homeland.” An online IS statement said “8 brothers wearing explosive belts and carrying assault rifles” conducted a “blessed attack on … the Crusader France.” The Voice of America added that the video said of French leaders, “The stench of death will not leave their noses as long as they remain at the forefront of the Crusaders’ campaign, dare to curse our prophet, boast of a war with Islam in France, and strike Muslims in the lands of the caliphate with warplanes that were of no use to them in the streets and rotten alleys of Paris.” IS said its “soldiers” targeted the “capital of prostitution and obscenity” and warned it was “the first of the storm…. Let France and all nations following its path know that they will continue to be at the top of the target list of the Islamic State.” IS claimed, “8 brothers wrapped in explosive belts and armed with machine rifles, targeted sites that were accurately chosen in the heart of the capital of France, including the Stade de France during the match between the Crusader German and French teams, where the fool of France, Francois Hollande, was present.”

By November 15, police said that 7 of the attackers had died, but that one escaped. Police found a getaway car with several rifles inside.

President Hollande said that the dead were from 19 countries. CNN reported that they included:

Algeria

• Keireddine Sahbi, nicknamed Didine, 29, an Algerian violinist working on his masters of ethnomusicology at the Sorbonne, according to Mashable. He was involved in the Sorbonne’s traditional music ensemble. He died while returning home in the 10th arrondissement when terrorists attacked a restaurant. He was born on the outskirts of Algiers.

Belgium

• Elif Dogan, 26, and Milko Jovic, variant Jozic, 47 (as reported by AP), a married couple who had recently moved from Belgium to the Boulevard Voltaire in Paris, on the same street as the concert hall. Elif had dual ­Turkish-Belgian nationality and had been in Paris only a short time. He was a Belgian citizen who worked as an engineer.

Burkina Faso

• Hyacinthe Koma, 37, was at La Belle Equipe café, celebrating a friend’s birthday. He worked as a server at Les Chics Types in Paris.

Chile

• Chilean exile Patricia San Martin Nunez, 61, and her daughter, Elsa Veronique Delplace San Martin, 35, who died at the concert after being taken hostage. Elsa’s 5-year-old son survived. Elsa was born in France. They were the niece and grandniece of Chile’s Ambassador to Mexico, Ricardo Nunez. Delplace worked at the management consultancy group Manegere, which hired her permanently earlier in the week after a 2-month trial period. Patricia was a staff member for the mayor of Sevran, a commune in the Paris suburbs.

• Chilean-born Paris resident Luis Felip Zschoche Valle, 33, who had lived in Paris for 8 years with his French wife. He was killed at the concert. He was the manager, singer and guitarist for the ­Paris-based rock group Captain Americano.

Egypt

• Salah Emad ­al-Jabali, variant Gebali, variant Gebaly, 28, an Egyptian. He was believed to have died at the concert.

• Lamia Mondegeur, 30, a dual ­French-Egyptian national who lived in Paris, died at a restaurant on Rue de Charonne in the 11th arrondissement. She studied cinema and worked as a communications manager at Studio Noma talent agency. She was with her boyfriend, Roman Didier, who also died.

France

• Stephane Albertini, 40, was at the concert with cousin Pierre Innocenti, who also died. The 2, with Innocenti’s younger brother Charles, ­managed a popular Italian restaurant in ­Neuilly-sur-Seine that had been in the family for 3 generations. He left behind a wife, Marie, and son, Leon, 4.

• Jean-Jacques Amiot, 68, died at the concert. The retired photographer and his wife worked at a Paris ­silk-screen shop, where he hung photos of Jimi Hendrix, according to the Telegramme. Amiot had 2 daughters and several grandchildren.

• Thomas Ayad, 32, a resident of Amiens and an international producer/manager for Mercury Music Group, which manages Eagles of Death Metal and is part of Universal Music Group. He died at the concert hall.

• Chloe Boissinot, 25, who lived in Paris, died at the Cambodian restaurant.

• Emmanuel Bonnet, 47, was a trainer with the ­state-owned Regie Autonome des Transports Parisiens company. He died at the concert.

• Maxime Bouffard, 26, a film director active in television production, died in a college friend’s arms at the concert. He earlier played rugby with the ­Saint-Cyprien athletic club. He had been scheduled to dine with his girlfriend, his sister and her friends at a restaurant before remembering that he had Bataclan tickets. He played rugby and directed music videos for bands, including the Parisian pop group Le Dernier Métro. He was from Dordogne in southwest France.

• Quentin Boulenger, 29, born in Reims, had lived in Paris for the last 7 years. He graduated from the Audencia management school based in Nantes. He died at the concert.

• Ludovic “Ludo” Boumbas, 40, died at La Belle Equipe after he used his body to shield his friend from the bullets. He was born in Lille to a Congolese family. He lived in Paris.

• Elodie Breuil, 23, a design student at Ecole de Conde, attended the concert with friends. She marched with her mother in the rally that followed the Charlie Hebdo attack.

• Claire Scesa Camax, 35, an illustrator and graphic artist who had 2 children. She designed the joliejardiniere.com website. She lived in Houilles. She became separated from her friends at the concert.

• Nicolas Catinat, 37, died while protecting his friends at the concert. He worked as a carpenter in Domont, where a town square will be named for him, according to Le Parisien.

• Baptiste Chevreau, 24, grew up in Ville de Tonnere. The aspiring musician died at the concert.

• Nicolas Classeau, 43, French director of the Institut Universitaire de Technologie, in ­Marne-la-Vallée, died at the Bataclan. He was the father of 3 boys.

• Aurélie de Peretti, 33, from San Tropez, who went to Le Bataclan as part of a weekend trip to the capital to see live music. She played the guitar and piano. She was fond of music and culture, and loved to draw ever since she was a child, according to her sister, Delphine.

• Guillame ­Barreau-Decherf, 43, a rock music writer for Les Inrocks who had written about the band’s first album and new album, Zipper Down, died at the concert hall. He had 2 daughters.

• Alban Denuit, 32, an artist and teacher of visual arts at the University of Bordeaux–Montaigne, where he earned his doctorate in July. He was from Marmande. His artwork was displayed in galleries across France, including the Eponyme Galerie in Bordeaux. He was at the concert with his girlfriend.

• Vincent Detoc, 38, grew up in L’Hay-les-Roses and lived in Gentilly, France. He left behind a wife and 2 children. He played guitar. He died at the concert.

• Romain Didier, 32, was with his girlfriend, Lamia Mondegeur, who also died. He lived in Paris, and was affiliated with the amateur Crocodiles Rugby team.

• Fabrice Dubois, 46, ­award-winning design editor at the ad agency Publicis Conseil, died at the concert hall. He collected movie posters and liked grunge music. He left behind a wife, son, and daughter.

• Romain Dunay, 28, a singer and guitarist, died at the concert.

• Thomas Duperron, 30, lived in Alencon and worked in communications at La Maroquinerie concert hall in Paris. He died at the concert.

• Mathias Dymarski, 22, a fan of BMX bikes, was at the concert with his girlfriend, Marie Lausch, who also died. The engineer grew up in Metz, France and lived in Paris. The couple was celebrating their 5th anniversary.

• Germain Ferey, 36, born in Normandy and native of ­Vienne-en-Bessin, was a photographer and audiovisual illustrator in Paris who helped produce videos for the Paris Burlesque Festival. He loved rock music and died at the concert with his partner, with whom he had a 17-month-old daughter. They became separated after he shouted for his partner to run. His sister suggested, “he wanted her to protect herself for the sake of the little one.” His partner was unhurt.

• Gregory Fosse, 28, grew up in Gambais and worked as a music programmer at D17. He died at the concert.

• Suzon Garrigues, 21, studied literature at the Sorbonne and lived in Paris. She died at the concert.

• Matthieu Giroud, 38, an associate professor of geography at the Universite ­Paris-Est ­Marne-la-Vallee, died at the concert. He lived in Jarrie. He specialized in urban social change. He left behind a 3-year-old son and his wife, Aurelie, who was expecting.

• Cedric Gomet, 30, had worked for TV5 Monde for 5 years. He loved rock music and played in a band.

• Anne (Cornet), 29, and ­Pierre-Yves, 43, Guyomard, married in 2013 in ­Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a Paris suburb. They died at the concert. He taught film scoring and sound engineering at the ESRA technical institute, where he was a professor. He did sound engineering for several bands. She studied music then worked at a ­child-care center. They earlier lived on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

• Pierre-Antoine Henry, 36, a 2002 alum of Paris’s L’Ecole de L’Innovation Technologique (ESIEE), was a professional engineer who worked in communications in a Paris firm that designed military systems. He left behind a girlfriend and partner of 14 years and 2 daughters, aged 2 and 5, in Versailles. He was a Pearl Jam fan who died at the concert.

• Mathieu Hoche, 38, a cameraman for France24 channel 7, died at the concert. He had custody of his 9-year-old son every other weekend. He loved rock music.

• Djamila Houd, variant Hud, 41, a Parisian originally from Dreux, who was killed while attending a birthday party for a waitress at the Belle Equipe café on the rue de Charrone, according to Le Echo Republicain. She worked for the ­ready-to-wear fashion design house Isabel Marant. She died in the arms of her ­ex-husband, father to their child, and owner of the restaurant. The couple was of Algerian descent, but 100 percent French, according to her sister, Claire.

• Pierre Innocenti, 40, who ran the Chez Livio Italian restaurant in the Paris suburb ­Neuilly-sur-Seine with his brother, Charles, for 4 years. The restaurant was started by their grandfather in 1964. Pierro and his cousin Stephane Albertini died at the concert.

• Nathalie Jardin, 31, lived in ­Marcq-en-Baroeul and worked as a lighting technician at the Bataclan.

• Marion Jouanneau, 24, died at the concert. Her boyfriend, Loic, survived. She lived in Chartres.

• Marie Lausch, 23, worked in public relations for Coty, the beauty products manufacturer. She was at the concert with her boyfriend, Mathias Dymarski, who also died. They were celebrating their 5-year anniversary. She attended NEOMA Business School and grew up in Metz, France. She lived in Paris.

• Guillaume Le Dramp, 33, a waiter who wanted to become an elementary school teacher. He was attending a friend’s birthday party on a terrace at La Belle Equipe bistro.

• Gilles Leclerc, 32, was with his girlfriend, Marianne, at the concert. She survived. He had lived in Paris.

• Christophe Lellouche, known by his friends as Moke and Mad Professor, 33, ­co-composed music for Yung Forever, a film directed by ­Jean-Sebastien Lopez. He was an only child who grew up in Normandy. He died at the concert.

• Anna ­Petard-Leiffrig, a former student in communication at l’École Sup de Pub and her sister, Marion ­Leiffrig-Petard, who was studying music at the Sorbonne. She recently returned to Paris after studying in Barcelona for a year. She loved traveling to learn about Mediterranean music. They died at a restaurant.

• Cedric Mauduit, 41, was a member of a local council in the Calvados region of Normandy. He was director of modernization of the French department of Calvados. He died at the concert, where he had gone with friends.

• Twins Charlotte and Emilie Meaud, 30, grew up in ­Aixe-sur-Vienne and died at Le Carillon, according to Le Populaire. Emilie was an architect at Chartier Dalix. She graduated from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Charlotte worked at Scientipôle Initiative, a company that helps innovative ­start-ups. She had studied at the Université de Strasbourg and the Université Claude Bernard in Lyon. They had lived in Paris.

• Fanny Minot, 29, an editor at the TV newsmagazine Canal + Supplement. She was a music fan who died at the concert. She also made indie movies. She earlier worked at Le Petit Journal. She lived in Paris.

• Yannick Minvielle, 39, a creative director, like Fabrice Dugois, at Publicis Conseil, also taught at l’École Sup de Pub a Bordeaux. He died at the concert.

• Cecile Misse, 32, died at the concert. She was head of production for 6 years at the Theatre ­Jean-Vilar de Suresnes. She graduated from the Ecole D’art de Culture in 2008. She lived with her boyfriend, Luis Felipe Zschoche, who also died at the concert.

• Marie Mosser, 24, from Nancy, worked in digital marketing and communication for Universal Music. Her father was a manager in the Nancy city government. She died at the concert. She had studied at l’École Sup de Pub.

• Justine Moulin, 23, died at Le Petit Cambodge restaurant. She was studying for her Master’s degree at SKEMA Business School in Paris. She was scheduled to study at the college’s campus in Raleigh, North Carolina.

• Quentin Mourier, 29, an architect and member of the urban farming organization Vergers Urbains, died at the concert. He graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Versailles. He wrote a thesis in Detroit on hospitality and urban agriculture in 2013.

• Helene ­Muyal-Leiris, 35, a hair and makeup artist, and mother to a young son, died at the concert. She had lived in Paris. The Huffington Post reported that her husband, Antoine Leiris, wrote a tribute that had 150,000 hits. HuffPost’s translation read, “Friday night, you took an exceptional life—the love of my life, the mother of my son—but you will not have my hatred. I don’t know who you are and I don’t want to know, you are dead souls. If this God, for whom you kill blindly, made us in his image, every bullet in the body of my wife would have been one more wound in his heart. So, no, I will not grant you the gift of my hatred. You’re asking for it, but responding to hatred with anger is falling victim to the same ignorance that has made you what you are. You want me to be scared, to view my countrymen with mistrust, to sacrifice my liberty for my security. You lost. I saw her this morning. Finally, after nights and days of waiting. She was just as beautiful as when she left on Friday night, just as beautiful as when I fell hopelessly in love over 12 years ago. Of course I am devastated by this pain, I give you this little victory, but the pain will be ­short-lived. I know that she will be with us every day and that we will find ourselves again in this paradise of free love to which you have no access. We are just 2, my son and me, but we are stronger than all the armies in the world. I don’t have any more time to devote to you, I have to join Melvil who is waking up from his nap. He is barely 17 months old. He will eat his meals as usual, and then we are going to play as usual, and for his whole life this little boy will threaten you by being happy and free. Because no, you will not have his hatred either.”

• David Perchirin, 41, died at the concert with longtime friend Cedric Mauduit, who had attended l’Institut d’Edutes Politiques with him. He was married with 2 children. He lived in ­Seine-Saint Denise.

• Sebastien Proisy, 38, was shot in the back and died at the Bar le Carillon restaurant on Bichet Street. He had begun a career in international business consulting for Airbus Group, and had been an executive for a firm promoting French agribusiness aboard and another doing market research in Iran and Central Asia. He had studied political science, graduating from ­Science-Po in 2003. He also earned an MBA in Strategic Intelligence from the Ecole de Guerre Economique. He and his Bulgarian wife and son visited Florida and later settled in ­Noisy-Le-Grand in the Paris suburbs. He worked in staff positions at the European parliament in Brussels.

• Caroline Prenat, 24, a former student at the Ecole de Conde in Nice and the Mastere SCI de l’Ecole de Conde Paris, was one of the first to die at the concert. She worked at the Pathe Beaugrenelle. She grew up in Lyon.

• Valentin Ribet, 26, a lawyer with the Paris office of the international law firm Hogan Lovelles, died at the concert. He earned a master of laws degree from the London School of Economics in 2014, where he studied international business law. He earlier did postgraduate work at the Sorbonne. He worked on the litigation team, specializing in white collar crime.

• Estelle Rouat, 25, taught English at the College Gay Lussac de Colombes. She had studied at the Universite Bordeaux Montaigne and at Saint Joseph school. She died at the concert.

• Hugo Sarrade, 23, studied computer science at Faculte des Sciences Montpellier and was working on a master’s degree in artificial intelligence. He participated in a Charlie Hebdo solidarity march near his home in Montpellier. He was in Paris to visit his father for the weekend. He was a guitarist who attended European music festivals. He died at the concert.

• Ariane Theiller, 24, an intern at French publisher Urban Comics, a partner of DC Comics, who was working on a master’s degree in publishing from the University of Strasbourg, where she earned a degree in literature. She died at the concert.

• Eric Thome, 39, was a photographer and an art director of the Paris graphic design firm We Are Ted he ran with a business partner. He died at the concert. He had a 5-year-old daughter. His girlfriend was due with his second child in early December, according to his partner of 15 years, Laurent Duvoux, 38, who escaped from the concert with his own girlfriend. He lived in suburban Clichy. He had worked in advertising for several years.

• Olivier Vernadal, 44, worked for the French Public Finance Department. He died at the concert. He lived in Paris.

Germany

• Raphael Hilz, 28, an architect from ­Garmisch-Partenkirchen, died sitting on the terrace of the Petit Cambodge café near his office. He had worked for 6 months in Paris for Renzo Piano, according to Bild and the German Foreign Office.

• Fabian Stech, 51, was born in Hannover, Germany. He had lived in France since 1994. He taught at a private art school in Dijon and worked for the German art magazine Kunstforum International. He died at the concert. He left behind a wife and 2 children.

Italy

• Valeria Solesin, 28, a Venice, ­Italy-born Sorbonne doctoral student in demography, had lived in Paris for 6 years. She became separated from her Italian boyfriend, his sister, and the sister’s boyfriend at the concert as they tried to escape. Her friends were rescued. They were at the entrance when the gunmen came in. She had worked as a volunteer for the Italian humanitarian aid group Emergency. She was from Venice. She was researching women trying to achieve work/life balance and was interested in sociological compari­sons between France and Italy, according to ANSA.

Mexico

• Michelli Gil Jaimez, 27, of Tuxpan in Veracruz, Mexico, had studied at a Lyons business school and lived in Paris. She was also a Spanish citizen. She briefly attended school in Texas. She moved to France 8 years ago after winning a beauty pageant. She was engaged to her Italian boyfriend in October. Her father was a rancher in Mexico. She died at a café.

Morocco

• Mohamed Amine Ibnolmobarak, 29, a Muslim newlywed architect and teacher at the ENSA ­Paris-Malaquais architecture school. His wife, Maya Nemeta, was shot 3 times and was in critical condition. He was born in Rabat, Morocco. He died at Le Carillon restaurant. His diploma thesis focused on the hajj. He had ­co-founded New South, a cultural association focused on cities. In November, his work was shown at the Galerie du CROUS in Paris.

Portugal

• Manuel Colaco Dias, 63, died outside the Stade de France, according to the Portuguese state news agency Lusa. Expresso reported that he worked for a transportation and tourism company as a bus driver. The paper said he drove a shuttle van to the stadium. He was a fan of the ­Lisbon-based soccer club Sporting Clube de Portugal.

• Precilia Jessy Correia, 35, was born in France and had dual ­French-Portuguese nationality. She lived in Paris. She died at the concert with boyfriend Manu Perez.

Romania

• A Romanian couple, elevator repairman Ciprian Calciu, 32, and Mariana Lacramioara Pop, 29, were celebrating a friend’s birthday at the Belle Equipe restaurant. They left behind an 18-month-old son, Kevin. Pop, who came from the northwestern Romanian village of Coas, had an 11-year-old daughter from a previous relationship.

Russia

• Nathalie Lauraine, 39, a dual ­French-Russian citizen, died at the concert after becoming separated from her husband, Serge. They had stayed on the floor, playing dead for 90 minutes, he told Sputnik France. She had lived in Paris. He was wounded by gunfire.

Spain

• Juan Alberto Gonzalez Garrido, 29, of Madrid, a nuclear energy engineer from Granada who had lived in Paris for 2 years with his wife, Angela King, also an engineer. They were married last summer. They were separated at the concert; he died, she escaped. He had worked for the French electricity company EDF.

Sweden

• A Swedish citizen, according to Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. There were reports of a wounded Swede as well.

Tunisia

• Halima Saadi, 36, and Houda Saadi, variant Hodda, 35, 2 Tunisian sisters celebrating a friend’s birthday at a café on Rue de Charonne. Their brother had been with them, and survived. Halima was listed by AP as being Senegalese.

UK

• Nick Alexander, 36, of Colchester, was manager for the Eagles of Death Metal rock band. He was manning the merchandise booth at the concert hall. His friend, American expatriate Helen Wilson, was shot in both legs.

USA

• Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, a senior (or junior—reports conflicted) at California State University, Long Beach. She hailed from El Monte, California. The daughter of Mexican immigrants was a student at Strate College of Design in Paris during a semester abroad program. She was in the Petit Cambodge restaurant with another Long Beach State student when she was fatally shot. She and her friend who was wounded in the arm were put into an ambulance; Gonzalez died en route to the hospital. Gonzalez was one of 18 international exchange students from ­CSU-Long Beach studying in Paris. She and 3 fellow students finished second in a global contest to find solutions to food sus­tainability issues. The team created the Polli Snak, a biodegradable ­snack-pack that contained soil and seeds to be planted after the snack was eaten.

Venezuela

• Sven Alejandro Silva Perugini, 29, died at the concert.

Unknown Nationality

• Armelle Pumir Anticevic, 46, worked for the Logic Design Agency for 9 years, recently becoming its print production manager. She died at the concert; her husband survived. They had 2 children—Shana and Milan, aged 9 and 11. Her husband, Joseph, runs romantic boat cruises on the Seine River. They had been together for 25 years. Joseph said the terrorists yelled, “it was for their brothers in Syria and Iraq.” The couple dropped to the ground, then when the terrorists went up a stairway, they ran for the main exit, but she was shot from behind. The couple had a vacation home in the southern mountains.

• Anne-Laure Arruebo, 36, and Cecile Coudon Peccadeau de L’isle, 37, were close friends and customs inspectors in the same office who died at the outdoor terrace of a bar on the Rue de Charonne.

• Veronique Geoffroy de Bourgies, 54, lived in Paris.

• Marie-Aimee Dalloz, 35, an asset recovery specialist at a bank, was celebrating her birthday with boyfriend Thierry “Titi” Hardouin, 41, a 15-year Bobigny police veteran, at La Belle Equipe. They both died in the adjacent Rue de Charonne. Hardouin was assigned to transporting prisoners to and from court appearances. He enjoyed guitars, cigars and traveling. He left behind 3 children.

• Nicolas Degenhardt, 37, lived in Paris.

• Asta Diakite, female cousin of French midfielder Lassana Diarra who played at the soccer match in the Stade de France, died in a restaurant.

• Lucie Dietrich, 37, graduated from IESA Multimedia in 2013 and was a graphic designer for the French magazine L’Etudiant.

• Romain Dunet lived in Paris.

• Justine Dupont, 34.

• Romain Feuillade, 31.

• Christophe Foultier, 39, worked for d’Havas Life Paris and Sacem (an artists union/organization). He was the author and ­co-manager of Shiny Shoes Records. He was married with children. He lived in Courbevoie. He died at the concert.

• Julien Galisson, 32, died at the concert while shielding his friend from gunfire. He worked at the Polish staffing agency AKCJA JOB. The French newspaper Presse Ocean said he was a world traveler from Nantes who played the saxophone. His friends called him “the man in the hat” because he wore a colorful hat he received as a gift in Thailand.

• Mayeul Gaubert, 30, a business lawyer working for a professional training and continuing education company in Paris, died in the hospital from his wounds at the concert. He grew up in ­Saone-et-Loire. He had studied at the Universite de Bourgogne in Burgundy. His master’s dissertation was on intellectual property. He graduated in 2009.

• Cedric Ginestou, 27, grew up in Laval and had begun work a few months earlier at Bengs, a ­Paris-based management consulting company. He graduated from a Bordeaux business school. He died on the terrace of La Belle Equipe.

• Stephane Gregoire, 46, a commercial music promoter, became the 130th person to die, on November 19, when he succumbed to his wounds from the concert. His 4 friends also died. He was hospitalized at Paris’ ­Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, where Princess Diana died in 1997. He left behind a wife and daughter. They lived in Nucourt.

• Stephane Hache, 52.

• Olivier Hauducoeur 44.

• Frederic Henninot, 45, worked at the Banque de France’s branch in Cergy in the Paris suburbs, and died at the concert, where his girlfriend and 2 ­co-workers were wounded. He left behind 2 children, according to Le Parisien. The bank lost a member of its General Council, economist and journalist Bernard Maris, in the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack.

• Jean-Jacques Kircheim, 44.

• Thibault Rousse Lacordaire, 37, was an investment banker and financial controller with Colony Capital, an equity management company in Paris. He volunteered for a city food pantry and soup kitchen. He studied at a Catholic school in a Paris suburb, economics and management at the University Paris Dauphine, and earned an advanced degree in finance at Paris University ­Val-de-Marne. He died at the concert.

• Renaud Le Guen, 29.

• Antoine Mary, 34, lived in Paris.

• Isabelle Merlin, 44, lived in Paris.

• Victor Munoz, 25, attended the Paris School of Business.

• Christophe Mutez.

• Bertrand Navarret, 37, lived in Capbreton near the Spanish border and was visiting friends in Paris. He died at the concert. He had earlier begun a career in law, but shifted to woodworking in Canada, becoming a carpenter. He was an avid snowboarder.

• Christopher ­Neuet-Shalter, 39, lived in Paris.

• Lola Ouzounian, 17, became separated from her father, Eric, at the concert and died. He survived, according to the Armenian news site News.am.

• Manu Perez, variant Manuel Perez, 40, who worked in marketing and earlier worked for Universal. He died at the concert with his girlfriend, Precilia Jessy Correia. He lived in Paris.

• Franck Pitiot, 33, died at the concert.

• Richard Rammant, 53, of ­Cergy-Pontoise, threw his body over his wife, saving her from the bullets at the concert. He loved music and motorcycles and volunteered at Cahors Blues Festival. He was a member of the Showtime Riders of the Harley Davidson Club.

• Matthieu de Rorthais, 32, worked in the music section of an electronics shop and died at the rock concert. He lived in Le ­Perreux-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb. He studied history at Paris University XII, and later studied at MJM Graphic Design school. He was a moderator for a website of anime fans. He designed some DVD jackets. He was a cancer survivor.

• Raphael “Rapf” Ruiz, 37, editor at a ­Paris-based company that provided translation and event services, died at the concert. He loved detective stories, comic books, movies, U2, rock and pop music and played guitar in a rock band in Paris. He had studied at the Grenoble Institute of Political Studies and earned a doctorate in political science. His dissertation was on the role of the news media in the Northern Ireland conflict.

• Madeleine Sadin, 30.

• Lola Salines, 28, who was an editor at Editions ­First-Grund and worked with La Boucherie de Paris, a roller derby team. Her team name was Josie Ozzbourne, #109. She died at the concert.

• Djalal-Eddin Sebaa, 33.

• Claire ­Maitrot-Tapprest, 23, was pursuing degrees in business and philosophy at Reims’ Neoma Business School and the University of Reims, respectively. She was president of a ­business-student group that organized events to promote local bands in Reims. She died at the concert with fellow Neoma student Marie Lausch.

• A plainclothes police officer was killed at Charonne, according to Le Monde.

• Stella Verry, 37, a ­Paris-born doctor known for being close to her patients, died at Le Petit Cambodge restaurant, according to Le Quotidien and her companion, Quentin Savoyen. She studied at a Paris university and worked at the Pole de Sante Les Eiders health center. On weekends, she worked at the SAMU de Paris, an urgent care hub. She earned a doctor of pharmacy degree and a specialized diploma in general medicine. She enjoyed the theater, took cooking classes, visited museums, and bicycled.

The injured included:

• U.S. citizen Helen Jane Wilson, shot in the leg at the concert, who went into surgery at L’hopital ­Saint-Antoine. She lived in New Orleans before moving to Paris, where she runs the Rock en Bol catering company. She is originally from Los Angeles.

• Emma Parkinson, 19, from Hobart, Australia, who was at the concert. She was shot in the hip. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said she underwent surgery and was expected to make a full recovery.

• Maud Serrault, 37, lived in Paris and died at the concert

• A Swedish citizen.

• A Romanian citizen.

• A police commissioner, 38, from Normandy who was not on duty was wounded at Bataclan. The father of 2 had a black belt in judo. A bullet hit his spine.

• The Mexican Foreign Ministry said a ­Mexican-Austrian man was wounded at one of the Paris restaurants. His operation went “satisfactorily.”

• Waleed Abdel Razzak, 27, an Egyptian who was severely wounded by a bomb at the stadium. His passport did not make it into the ambulance, and the French newspaper Le Point initially claimed that he was an attacker when the passport was found at the scene. He had come to France to support his brother in his cancer treatments in Paris.

• Italian consul Andrea Cavallari said an Italian woman was recovering after surgery.

• Francois-Xavier Prevost, 26, originally from Lambersart, was head of advertising at the French ad agency Local Media, and earlier worked for the communications company Havas Media Group. He had been an exchange student at the University of North Texas in the fall of 2007. He interned with the Pittsburgh Riverhounds, a pro soccer team, in the summer of 2009. He died at the concert.

• Two colleagues from the Paris international architectural firm Renzo Piano, from Mexico and Ireland.

• Muslim security guard Zouheir who stopped a suicide bomber from entering the stadium, but was wounded when the bomb went off.

• British Prime Minister David Cameron said on November 18 that 3 Britons had been released from the hospital and returned to the UK, but another 15 were being treated for trauma by the Red Cross and Foreign Office.

• Amandine Andretto, 32, an attorney who was at the concert. One bullet hit her right leg, shattering her tibia. Another bullet hit her arm.

• A pregnant woman at the concert was hit in the ankle. The bullet went up her calf and went out through her knee, according to the Rev. Tristan de Salmiech, her priest in the Paris suburb of ­Aulnay-sous-Bois. She would require a skin graft. Her baby appeared unharmed. Her husband was shot through the stomach, but the bullet did not hit any organs.

• A concert promoter was placed into a medically induced coma. A bullet pierced a lung and shattered his ribs.

• An amateur drummer from Domont north of Paris sustained serious gunshot wounds.

Officials believed up to 20 people were involved, and began a ­Europe-wide search. French officials recovered fingerprints from 4 terrorists. Some of the attackers used a rented Volkswagen Polo with Belgian license plates and a black Spanish SEAT León hatchback. French police found the SEAT in Montreuil with handguns and 3 Kalashnikovs inside. Authorities worried that this suggested that a terrorist remained at large. A black SEAT was used in the attacks on the Le Carillon bar and the Le Petit Cambodge restaurant in Rue Alibert in the city’s 10th district.

Belgian authorities arrested 10 suspects, including a French national, in Brussels. French police had ­earlier stopped 3 of them at Cambrai, but let them pass.

Police found a Syrian passport on the body of one of the suicide bombers at the stadium. A French senator suggested that the individual had entered France posing as a refugee. SkyNews quoted a Greek official who said the passport was fake. CBS reported that the passport had the wrong number of digits and that the name did not match the photo. The passport’s owner was 25 years old and born in Idlib, Syria. Nikos Toscas, Greek Citizen Protection deputy minister in charge of police, said the passport was carried by a man who passed through the island of Leros on October 3. The Washington Post quoted the Serbian Interior Ministry as saying the individual transited Macedonia and entered Serbia on October 7. At Presevo, he officially sought asylum. There were no outstanding international warrants under the name Ahmad Almohammad.

Paris police on November 15 detained 7 family members of Ismael Omar Mostefai, an attacker who was a Frenchman born in the Paris suburbs. Mostefai’s brother, 34, surrendered for questioning in a southeastern suburb of Paris. He said he had broken off all ties with his brother years ago. Mostefai had moved back to Algeria with his young daughter. Police raided the ­Romilly-sur-Seine and Bondoufle homes of Mostefai’s father and of the brother. French SWAT teams searched the homes for 3 hours, according to RTL radio.

NPR reported on November 16 that French police raided 160 locations throughout the country. Authorities arrested 23 people, including 3 near Toulouse and several near Lyon, seizing a rocket launcher and automatic rifles. Another 100 people were under house arrest.

The terrorists, including the attack and logistics squads, were believed to have included:

The mastermind:

• Abdelhamid Abaaoud, alias Abu Omar ­al-Baljiki, alias Abu Omar ­al-Soussi, alias Abu Omar ­al-Belgiki, a Belgian national in his late 20s born to Moroccan immigrants. He grew up in the ­Molenbeek-Saint-Jean neighborhood of Brussels. He had studied at one of Brussels’s most prestigious high schools, ­Saint-Pierre d’Uccle. The Washington Post reported that French authorities deemed him the attacks’ mastermind. He was believed to have joined IS in 2014. He said in a 2014 video, “All my life, I have seen the blood of Muslims flow. I pray that Allah will break the backs of those who oppose him, his soldiers and his admirers, and that he will exterminate them.” In 2014, he was seen in an IS video loading a pickup and trailer with bloodied corpses. He said, “Before we towed jet skis, motorcycles, quad bikes, big trailers filled with gifts for vacation in Morocco. Now, thank God, following God’s path, we’re towing apostates.” In February 2015, IS’s online Dabiq magazine quoted him as saying he fled to Syria after Belgium broke up a terrorist cell in Verviers on January 15. CNN said he was close to IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. He was believed tied to the gunmen who was foiled by 3 American travelers from attacking passengers on an ­Amsterdam-to-Paris train on August 21, and to a foiled attack against a church in the Paris suburbs on April 19. He was believed to be the older brother of Younes Abaaoud, 13, the youngest Belgian accused of traveling to Syria to fight for IS. Abdelhamid died in a 7-hour police ­shoot-out in St. Denis on November 18 during which Hasna Ait Boulahcen, his cousin, was initially reported to have set off her suicide vest. NPR reported on November 20 that a man set off the vest, killing her. Abaaoud was earlier tried in absentia by a Belgian court and sentenced to 20 years for recruiting for IS. He was targeted in French airstrikes in Syria in October. Belgian counterterrorism officials believed he faked his death so he could travel more easily to Europe to coordinate the plot.

The Bataclan killers

• Ismael Omar Mostefai, 8 days shy of his 29th birthday, a French citizen of Algerian descent charged in a terrorism investigation in 2012. He was born on November 21, 2015 in the Paris suburb of Courcouronnes. He was the father of a 5-year-old girl. During 2004–2010, he was stopped for 8 minor offenses, including driving without a license, but served no jail time. In 2010, police discovered his associations with radical Islamists at the Anoussra Mosque in Luce, near Chartres, southwest of Paris. Le Monde and al-Jazeera said he was suspected of having traveled to Syria via Turkey for a few months during the winter of 2013–2014. He was a baker who played soccer, according to Islamic association leader Ben Bammou. He was identified by the print from one of his fingers that was severed when his suicide vest exploded at the concert.

• Samy Amimour, 28, who blew himself up at the Bataclan, had been placed under judicial supervision. He was interrogated by French officials on October 19, 2012 regarding ties to terrorist sympathizers and an aborted trip to Yemen. An international arrest warrant was issued in the fall of 2013 after he failed to comply with bail conditions. He apparently had joined the IS in 2014, according to Le Monde. Le Monde reported that his 60ish father had traveled to Syria in June 2014 to try to pry him from the Islamic State; his father found him carrying crutches. He had lived at home and worked as a bus driver. Three of his relatives were placed under police custody on November 16.

• A third theater attacker was unidentified as of November 16, 2015.

The Stadium killers

• Ahmad ­al-Mohammed, 20, a French national living in Belgium, who blew himself up near the stadium. The Washington Post said he was found with the Syrian passport for Ahmad Almohammad, 25. The prosecutor’s office said his fingerprints matched those of someone who passed through Greece in early October. Authorities were asking the public’s help in determining his true name.

• Bilal Hadfi, 20 (or 29 or 30, reports conflicted), a French national who had lived in Belgium. Investigators said he had fought alongside the Islamic State in Syria. Belgian authorities arrested 6 people linked to him.

• A third stadium attacker was unidentified as of November 16, 2015.

The café killers

• Ibrahim Abdeslam, variant Brahim, 30 or 31, a French national living in Belgium, who set off his suicide vest at the café Comptoir Voltaire on Boulevard Voltaire. He was the brother of Salah Abdeslam (see below). Brussels Mayor Francoise Schepmans said a bar registered to Brahim was shut down for ­drug-related offenses 8 days before the attacks.

As of November 16, police were still sorting out which terrorists were involved in attacking which other locations. Among the suspects were:

• An 18-year-old Belgian who had fought in Syria.

The 8th and 9th terrorists

• French police questioned and released ­Belgian-born Salah Abdeslam, 26, a suspected 8th attacker, who was traveling in a car with 2 other people on November 14. He became the subject of an international manhunt, according to the Cox Media Group. French police said he was born on September 15, 1989, in Brussels. He was ­5’9” tall with brown eyes. He reportedly rented the ­Belgian-registered VW Polo used in the attacks. Another car containing automatic weapons was used to trace the brothers. A third brother, Mohammed, was arrested in Molenbeek, Brussels, according to the BBC, but freed without charge. An international arrest warrant was issued for one of the brothers. On November 16, Belgian police raided Salah’s suspected hideout in Brussels’s Molenbeek district but did not find him. On November 17, AP reported that Abdeslam had rented a third car, a black Renault Clio with Belgian plates found in the 18th Arrondissement. Le Point said he rented 2 hotel rooms in Alfortville before the attacks. Police found DNA traces of the guests, a batch of syringes, a set of short needles, and plastic tubes, and confiscated the hard drive from the hotel reception computer. On September 9, Austrian police stopped him during a routine traffic check as he was entering from Germany. He said he was going to vacation in Vienna with the 2 people with him. NPR reported that he appeared to have been killed in a police raid in St. Denis on November 18 in which a woman set off her suicide vest; the report proved inaccurate.

• French police reported on November 17 that they were seeking another terrorist believed to be at large. AP reported that surveillance video showed 3 attackers conducting the café murders at La Fontaine on Roi Street, but only 2 had died.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim ­al-Jaafari said his country’s intelligence services had shared information on November 12 indicating that France, the U.S. and Iran were among countries at risk of an attack after IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi had ordered an attack on coalition countries fighting against them in Iraq and Syria, as well as on Iran and Russia. The Iraqi service said that the attacks were planned in Raqqa, where the attackers were trained for the operation. AP reported that a ­France-based sleeper cell then helped the attackers execute the plan. AP reported that there were 19 attackers and 5 people involved with logistics and planning.

The Washington Post quoted Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins on November 15 that the suicide vests contained TATP.

The Washington Post reported on November 16 that authorities were searching for a Belgian, apparently now in Syria, who was possibly linked to the failed attack on a ­high-speech ­Paris-bound train in August.

AP, CNN and the German DPA news agency reported on November 17 that police arrested 3 foreigners—2 women and a man—in Aachen and later arrested 2 more people in nearby Alsdorf in connection with the case.

Reuters reported on November 17 that French citizen Fabien Clain, 36, from Toulouse was identified as the individual who claimed credit for the IS in a 6-minute audio. He was believed to be in Syria. He called for Muslims to “move forward” to fight the infidels “without ever capitulating.” Le Monde said he was suspected of setting up the foiled attack on a French church in April, and was a close friend of gunman Mohammed Merah, who killed 7 people in March 2012. Clain was sentenced to 5 years in prison in 2009 for having led a recruitment network to send fighters to Iraq and left France after his release.

AP reported on November 17 that Belgian lawyers for 2 suspects said their clients admitted going to France on November 14 to pick up Abdeslam in the Volkswagen Golf. The Guardian reported that they picked him up in Paris’s Barbès neighborhood at 5 a.m., then drove to Brussels. The duo were charged with terrorist murder and conspiracy. Xavier Carrette represented ­Moroccan-born Mohammed Amri, 27. Carine Couquelet represented Hamza Attou, 21. Local media reported that the suspects were under investigation as potential suppliers of the suicide bombs—ammonium nitrate was found in their residence. They had been detained with 5 others who were soon released.

During the night, police conducted 118 searches, took 25 people into custody, seized 34 weapons, and found narcotics at 16 locations.

On November 18, the Spanish news site El Español reported that French authorities had issued a ­pan-European bulletin asking people to watch for a Citroen Xsara car that could be carrying Salah Abdeslam.

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said Saleh Abdelsalm and Abaaoud were convicted in 2011 of the same theft and each served a month in jail.

At least 27 U.S. state governors said they would not accept Syrian refugees.

Le Monde reported that a French IS recruit detained in August told police that Abaaoud had told him to attack a French concert hall, but he had declined.

On November 18, at 4:20 a.m., more than 100 soldiers and police raided 2 suspected terrorist apartments and a church in ­Saint-Denis, arresting 7 men and a woman. During a 7-hour ­shoot-out, Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the apartment’s renter, died when a male terrorist set off a suicide vest, killing her and her cousin, Abelhamid Abaaoud, according to Belgian state broadcaster RTBF. (Other reports credited a French police sniper and/or grenades for taking out Abaaoud.) A police officer asked her, “Where is your boyfriend?” Her last words were, “He’s not my boyfriend!” Police said the suspects were “about to move on some kind of operation.” Police said they fired 5,000 rounds, and used munitions that resulted in the collapse of a floor of the building on rue du Cornillon. Two suspects required surgery at a Bobigny hospital for arm injuries. Five police officers were injured and Diesel, a 7-year-old Belgian Malinois police SWAT assault dog, was killed by the terrorists. Two people were grabbed while trying to hide in the rubble. Police arrested the man who had provided the apartment, and one of his acquaintances.

Paris-born Hasna Ait Boulahcen attended Paul Verlaine University of Metz before working as a manager for Beko Construction, a suburban Paris firm that folded in 2014. Neighbors said she wore cowboy hats. She was the daughter of Moroccan parents who came to France years earlier. She was a ­French-Moroccan dual citizen. Police searched her mother’s home in ­Aulnay-sous-Bois in northeastern Paris.

ABC News reported that by November 18, French police had conducted 414 raids, arrested 60 people, placed 118 people under house arrest, and seized 75 weapons, including 11 ­military-style firearms, 33 rifles and 31 handguns.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Abaaoud apparently was involved in 4 of 6 foiled terrorist attacks since spring. Investigators determined that Abaaoud had extensive connections with other IS members involved in previous attacks. They included:

• Mehdi Nemmouche, who killed 4 people when he attacked a Jewish museum in Brussels in May 2014.

• Sid Ahmed Ghlam, suspected of planning an attack on a church in Villejuif, France, in April 2015.

• Ayoud ­el-Khazzani, accused in the gun attack aboard a train between Brussels and Paris in August 2015.

• Sofiane Amghar and Khalid Ben Larbi, 2 terrorists who died in a Belgian raid in January 2015 on IS members in Verviers who had returned from Syria and were planning to attack police, and Marouane ­el-Bali, the group’s quartermaster, who was charged with “participation in a terrorist organization, participation possession of explosives with intent to commit a criminal attack and prohibited possession of weapons.” ­El-Bali was represented by attorney Didier De Quévy. El-Bali and 2 others charged with terrorist offenses in the plot remained in custody as of November. The 3 terrorists were in phone contact with Abaaoud.

• An Algerian extradited to Belgium after being arrested in Greece.

Prosecutor Francois Molins said Abaaoud was believed to have been planning a suicide attack on Paris’s La Defense business district on November 18 or 19.

Abaaoud apparently used social media to recruit Spanish citizens, mostly women, according to Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez in an interview with Spanish Antena 3 TV.

Prosecutor Molins said that Abaaoud returned to the Bataclan concert hall while police were still there.

On November 18, Jawad Bendaoud, 29, who was detained in a raid on an apartment in ­Saint-Denis by SWAT troops, told BFMTV he had let the attackers stay there as a favor and “didn’t know they’re terrorists.” His attorney said his client had been sentenced to 8 years for killing his best friend in a 2006 fight. French authorities questioned him and transferred him to an ­anti-terrorism judge in Paris on November 24. He was charged with terrorism offenses, including criminal association and detention of incendiary or explosive substances linked to a terrorist enterprise.

On November 19, CNN reported that French police searched a home in ­Charleville-Mezieres, after blowing up a door to enter the house.

On November 19, CNN reported that Morocco’s intelligence agency had tipped the French that Abaaoud was in France after the attacks.

Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said French officials were told that Abaaoud had been spotted in Greece at some point. The next day, a senior Greek security official said there was no record of Abaaoud passing through the country, but could not rule out that he might have used a fake passport. Paris prosecutors said that 2 of the 3 stadium bombers had passed through Greece on October 3.

On November 19, Rotterdam police detained 3 people who were near a parked car with Belgian license plates.

Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said a suspect in the Paris attacks traveled though Czech territory twice.

On November 19, AP reported that a Belgian official said that 9 raids netted 9 suspects linked to a Paris suicide bomber. Seven were held following 6 raids in ­Sint-Jans-Molenbeek, Ukkel, Brussels, Laeken and Jette regarding Bilal Hadfi, who attacked the stadium. Seven were released, but 2 were kept for questioning.

On November 20, a French security official said Abaaoud was seen on a surveillance camera at the Croix de Chavaux metro station in the suburb of Montreuil at 10:14 p.m. on November 13. The SEAT car had been found nearby.

Belgium filed terrorism charges against a third suspect who was arrested on November 19. Charges including participation in terrorist attacks and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. Two other suspects were already held on similar charges.

By November 20, French authorities had conducted 793 raids. The previous night, police performed 182 raids, detaining 17 people and seizing 76 weapons plus drugs. Police were holding 90 people, placed 164 people under house arrest, and had seized 250,000 euros and 174 weapons, including 18 ­military-style firearms, 84 rifles and 68 handguns.

On November 21, UPI reported that Turkish authorities arrested Ahmet Dahmani, 26, a Belgian national of Moroccan descent, at a hotel in Antalya on suspicion that he scouted targets for IS. Police also arrested Syrian citizens Ahmet Tahir, 29, and Mohammed Verd, 23, on suspicion that they were going to transport him to Syria. The men had fake passports. Dahmani arrived in Turkey from Amsterdam on November 14. No country had flagged him to the Turks.

On November 21, police in Molenbeek, Belgium arrested a person in the case. Police searched a home and found a few weapons but no explosives.

On November 23, a street cleaner found an explosive belt without a detonator in a pile of rubble in the southern suburb of Montrouge, near where Saleh Abdeslam’s cell phone was found. The vest had bolts and TATP—the same explosives used in the attacks. Commentators speculated that he had aborted his mission.

On November 23, Belgian authorities charged a 4th suspect with “participation in the activities of a terrorist group and a terrorist attack.” The Belgians had arrested 21 people in the previous 24 hours, but released 15 of them.

By November 24, Belgium had charged 4 people with terrorism regarding the case. They also issued an international arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, who was seen with Salah Abdeslam at a gas station in Ressons on the highway to Paris on November 11. Abrini was driving the Renault Clio that was used in the Paris attacks. Police believed he dropped off one of the stadium bombers. NBC News reported that Belgian authorities said a French national, Ali Oulkadi, 31, from Molenbeek, Brussels, gave Salah Abdeslam a ride after the November 13 multiple attacks. Oulkadi and another man were charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group and terrorist murders in connection with the November 13, 2015, ­multi-site attacks in Paris in which 130 people died. On November 28, a Brussels court ordered the duo remanded for another month. He was represented by attorney Olivier Martins. The Belgian prosecutor’s office also arrested Lazez Abrimi, 39, a Moroccan from Molenbeek; investigators found 2 guns and “traces of blood” in his car. The detainees were charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist group and terrorist murders.

The same day, 70 police raided a home in Artigat in the Pyrenees and arrested radical Muslim preacher Olivier Corel for illegal detention of a hunting rifle. Authorities believed he lodged Fabien Clain, reportedly the voice on the IS audio claiming credit. Corel was also believed connected to Mohammed Merah, who killed 7 people in Paris in 2012.

Also on November 24, police in Bielefeld, Germany, investigated a tip that Salah Abdeslam was hiding at a specific address in rural ­Minden-Luebbecke area near Hanover, but said that there was no sign he had been there. Italian Interior Minster Angelino Alfano confirmed that Abdeslam and Ahmad Dahmani traveled through Italy on August 1, taking the ferry from Bari into Greece. The duo returned to Bari from Greece on August 5, then drove through Italy by car before crossing into France on August 6.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that after 1,230 searches, police had charged 124 people and seized 230 arms.

AP reported on November 27 that Milojko Brzakovic, director of the Zastava arms factory in Kragujevac in central Serbia said several weapons used by the terrorists were produced by his company in the early 1990s, according to serial numbers on the weapons.

CNN reported on November 30 that Salah Abdeslam had purchased 10 detonators at the ­Saint-Ouen l’Aumone shop, Les Magiciens du Feu (Fire Magicians) fireworks shop in the Paris suburbs before the attacks. Each detonator cost 10 euros ($10.60). The media widely reported that he had escaped to Syria.

AP reported on December 1 that Paris police detained a 25-year-old suspected intermediary with Jawad Bendaoud, 25, who was suspected of obtaining a hideout for Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

On December 1, police in ­Saint-Denis arrested a female partner of an intermediary, 25, to Jawad Bendaoud, the only man charged in connection the Paris attacks. The intermediary was arrested earlier that day in his home in Malakoff, south of Paris. The intermediary, known by the police only for drug trafficking, was in contact with Abaaoud’s cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen.

On December 3, 2015, AP reported that Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said that the Hungarian secret services had confirmed that Salah Abdeslam was in the Budapest Keleti Railway terminal before mid–September and left with men who had been traveling amid a wave of ­asylum-seekers trying to enter Europe. Abdeslam recruited young men who were refusing to register with Hungarian authorities and he left the country with them.

AFP added on December 3 that Belgian authorities had charged 2 more suspects, who had been arrested on November 29, in the Paris case. Flemish public television VRT said one of the suspects, a 20-year-old Frenchman who was arrested at Zaventem Airport while boarding a flight to Morocco, knew Bilal Hadfi. A 28-year-old Belgian was arrested in Molenbeek, Brussels.

Reuters and the Wall Street Journal reported on December 4 that Western officials said the terrorists had links in the UK. Some of them were of Moroccan heritage and lived in the Birmingham area. Britain’s Mirror newspaper reported that British police were investigating claims a Paris terrorist made several phone calls to Birmingham just before the attacks.

UPI reported on December 4 that Belgian police were searching for 2 more suspects linked to Salah Abdeslam identified as Soufiane Kayal and Samir Bouzid. Officials said they used fake Belgian identification documents. Investigators said Bouzid’s ID was used to send money to Hasna Ait Boulahcen, cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 4 days after the Paris attacks. Kayal’s ID was used to rent a residence in Belgium that police raided on November 26. The BBC said they might have helped Abdeslam travel to Hungary.

On December 9, CNN, BFMTV and France 2 reported that the third Bataclan attacker was Foued ­Mohamed-Aggad, 23, from a small town near Strasbourg. He traveled from eastern France to Syria in 2013. He was close to France jihadi recruiter Mourad Fares, also under arrest. He had a police record in Strasbourg. His brother had returned from Syria, disaffected by what he had seen. Foued’s mother had given police a DNA sample, which let them identify him. He had told his family months earlier that he was going to be a suicide bomber in Iraq.

Samy Amimour, had fought in Yemen, and Omar Ismail Mostefai, from Courcouronnes, a Paris suburb, traveled to Syria in 2013.

On December 10, AP reported that German prosecutors determined that a 24-year-old man from Magstadt in custody on suspicion of violating weapons trafficking laws did not supply the assault rifles used in the Paris attacks.

On December 11, AFP reported that Belgian authorities extended the detention of Ali Oulkadi and Abdeilah Chouaa for another month.

CNN reported on December 15, 2015, that French police arrested a 29-year-old man in connection with the case. He was later released

AP reported on December 16 that Austrian authorities arrested 2 men several days earlier and were investigating their possible links to the Paris attacks. The duo were arrested over the weekend of December 12–13 in a migrants’ shelter in Salzburg and were suspected of “participation in a terrorist organi­zation.” The 2 arrived in Europe from the Middle East.

AP reported on December 20 that Belgian authorities searched a Brussels house and detained one person for questioning. That evening, police searched a Brussels house and detained 2 brothers and a friend. By December 21, police had detained 5 people, following a house search in the Laeken district of Brussels. Police found no weapons or explosives. The 5 were released on December 21. Brussels police arrested a 9th man, Abdoullah C., a Belgian born in 1985, on December 22, 2015, saying he was believed to have been in contact with Hasna Ait Boulahcen. He was charged with taking part in a terrorist group and terrorist murders.

AP reported on December 24 that a 23-year-old Islamic convert and her 35-year-old husband went before a judge after police searched their apartment in Montpellier and found a prosthetic belly intended to mimic pregnancy that was covered in foil. The Paris prosecutor’s office says the 2 faced ­terrorism-related charges, with the woman facing a charge of planning an attack. She said the prosthetic was for shoplifting.

AP, UPI, and CNN reported on December 30 that Belgian police arrested a 10th suspect, Belgian citizen Ayoub B., 22, in the Molenbeek area on charges of terrorist murder and participation in the activities of a terrorist organization. Authorities seized 10 cell phones but no weapons or explosives. 15111302

November 13—Turkey—The Press Trust of India reported on November 16 that Turkish authorities foiled a plan to conduct a major terrorist attack in Istanbul on November 15, detaining 5 people, including a suspected close associate of Mohammed Emwazi, the ­now-deceased IS spokesman/murderer. CNN and Hurriyet reported on November 17 that Aine Lesley Davis was arrested en route to Europe to deliver orders on a planned terror attack. Davis, a former drug offender from West London who joined IS, reportedly disappeared in Syria in 2013 to fight with ISIS, officials said.

November 13—Iraq—Iraqi officials said that a suicide bomber set off his explosive vest at a Shi’ite memorial service in Baghdad’s southwestern Hay ­al-Amal suburb for a Shi’ite militiaman who died fighting the IS in Anbar Province, killing 21 and wounding 46.

A roadside bomb went off at a Shi’ite shrine in Baghdad’s Sadr City, killing 5 people.

The Islamic State group claimed credit for both attacks, which were “revenge for our monotheist brothers in ­al-Fallujah, ­al-Anbar, and Salahaldin.”

November 13—Finland—Police detained ­Jebbar-Salman Ammar, 29. The Pirkanmaa Regional Court said on November 16 that the Iraqi citizen was being held in custody on suspicion of war crimes in Iraq in June 2014.

November 13—Thailand—UPI reported that separatist rebels set off a ­radio-detonated bomb under a chair at a checkpoint in Khko Pho district of Pattani Province, killing 4 village defense volunteers and injuring several other people. A second bomb exploded in neighboring Narathiwat Province, injuring 2 Thai military personnel.

November 13—U.S.—The ­Hartford-Courant reported that 4 bullets were found in the walls of the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden, Connecticut, hours after the Paris attacks. One bullet had pierced both exterior walls and an interior partition.

November 14—Hungary—Police in the east detained 2 British men on a train heading for Bucha­rest, Romania. The men had spent time in prison for financing acts of terror, were released in 2009 and were not allowed to leave the UK without permission for a decade. Simon Jonathan K., 44, had a valid UK driver’s license. Trevor B., 40, gave police a Koran when asked for ID. British police had issued ar-rest warrants for the duo. They were held in ­pre-deportation detention.

On November 19, 2015, a Budapest city court ruled in 2 cases that Simon Keeler and Trevor Brooks, alias Omar Brooks, alias Abu Izzadeen, 2 UK citizens who had been in prison for several years for funding acts of terror, should be deported to the UK. Keeler said he was a Londoner who hoped to join his wife and children in Turkey.

November 14—Albania—Interior Minister Saimir Tahiri received a threatening ­Albanian-language ­e-mail that said, “Now it’s your turn! The sacred war against those included in the war against the Islamic State has started!”

November 14—Turkey—The army shot dead 4 suspected IS militants traveling by car when they approached a military checkpoint in Gaziantep.

The ­state-run Anatolia news agency reported that police arrested 7 suspected IS members in An­kara.

November 14—Netherlands—Air France flight 1741 from Amsterdam to Paris was evacuated at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport after authorities received a threatening tweet. The Airbus A320 was scheduled to take off at 2:45 p.m., but evacuated before it could take off with its 85 passengers and 6 crew members. 15111401

November 14—UK—UPI reported that at 9:30 a.m., police at Gatwick Airport arrested a 41-year-old man from Vendome, France, who was seen throwing away what appeared to be a firearm. The airport’s north terminal was evacuated for several hours.

November 14—Guantanamo Bay—The Washington Post reported that the Pentagon transferred 5 Yemeni Gitmo detainees to the United Arab Emirates on ­November 14. The 5, originally suspected of al-Qaeda ties, were captured in 2001 by Pakistani and Afghan forces and turned over to the United States. They were identified as Adil Said ­al-Busayss, 42, Khalid Abd ­al-Qadasi, 46, Ali Ahmad Muhammad ­al-Rahizi, 36, Sulaiman ­al-Nahdi, 40, and Fahmi ­al-Sani, 38.

November 14—Canada—At 11 p.m., the Masjid ­al-Salaam mosque in Peterborough, Ontario was torched, 30 minutes after members of Kawartha Muslim Religious Association had celebrated the birth of a baby. No one was injured, but the building was unusable. Police were treating the fire as a hate crime.

November 14—Libya—The Washington Post reported that a U.S. air strike apparently killed Wisam ­al-Zubaidi, alias Abu Nabil ­al-Anbari, believed to be the leader of the Islamic State’s Libya branch. The former Iraqi police officer was sent to Libya in 2014 by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

November 15—Iraq—Four bombings killed 7 and injured 15 in Baghdad.

A bomb went off on central Baghdad’s ­al-Kifah Street, killing 1 and injuring 8.

A bomb hit shops in central Baghdad’s Allawi area, killing 2 and injuring 7.

A roadside bomb exploded as a military patrol passed by in the southern Baghdad suburb of Arab Jabour, killing 2 soldiers and injuring another 2.

A bomb hidden beneath a car exploded in southern Baghdad’s ­al-Mahmoudiyah district, killing 2 men in a passing car.

Xinhua reported that Iraqi troops and allied Shia paramilitary fighters used ­anti-tank guided missiles to kill 2 suicide car bombers in the Albu Farraj area north of Ramadi. Xinhua also reported that coalition airstrikes killed 2 car bombers en route to attack positions in Anbar’s Jeraishi area.

November 15—Turkey—AFP reported that police raided a suspected jihadi apartment hideout in Gaziantep. A suspected IS member blew himself up during the raid, injuring 5 officers, one seriously. Police found a suicide vest, assault rifles, ammunition and other explosive devices.

November 15—Nigeria—UPI and Xinhua reported that authorities in Maiduguri arrested Danladi Abdullahi, a suspected Boko Haram terrorist who was No. 26 on a recently-distributed 100 ­most-wanted list.

November 15—Poland—TVN24 said Norway extradited to Poland Dawid L., 23, a Pole who had been arrested in September on suspicion of fighting for the Islamic State in Syria between January 2014 and April 2015. On November 16, he was charged with suspicion of participation in an armed group that has terrorist goals and is active in Syria. He had lived in Norway for several years. Jaroslaw Szubert, spokes­man for the prosecutors in the city of Lodz, said the man took part in training and war activity and traveled secretly between Syria, Turkey, Norway and Poland. He said the group is not linked to the Islamic State. The defendant faced 8 years in prison.

November 15—Bahrain—The higher criminal court sentenced 12 Shi’ites to life in prison and stripped them of their citizenship for forming a terrorist group and targeting police with explosive devices in 2013 and 2014.

November 15—Australia—On December 23, AP reported that Melbourne Airport officials stopped a Frenchman who had traveled from the Middle East and was carrying 3 cans of mace along with extremist material on his mobile devices. He was deported to France.

November 15—Tunisia—UPI and Xinhua reported that Tunisians soldiers raided a terrorist hideout in the Mount Mghila area near Sidi Bouzid after terrorists beheaded a 16-year-old shepherd and forced the boy’s friend to watch and then carry the severed head, wrapped in plastic, to the victim’s family. Five terrorists and a soldier died in the firefight.

November 16—Tunisia—The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of 7 women suspected of belonging to the media wing of the Jund ­al-Khilafa IS affiliate in Tunisia.

November 16—U.S.—The Islamic State released an 11-minute Internet video threatening the U.S. The group praised the Paris shootings and said something similar could occur in Washington, D.C. The video was allegedly made by Wilayat Kirkuk, a group based in Salahuddin Province, north of Baghdad and featured ­al-Karar the Iraqi as one of the speakers who threatened “crusader” nations in the coalition against the Islamic State. “We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France’s and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington.” A second speaker, ­al-Ghareeb the Algerian, added, “I say to the European countries that we are coming—coming with booby traps and explosives, coming with explosive belts and [gun] silencers and you will be unable to stop us because today we are much stronger than before.”

The Washington Times added that in a “message to the crusaders” posted on social media, IS spokesman Abu Ibrahim al-Ameriki threatened attacks in California, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois and Michigan. It claimed it had 71 “trained soldiers” already in the United States and said 23 have signed up for “missions like Sunday”—when 2 gunmen clad in body armor fired assault rifles at an anti–Muslim event before police officers shot them dead. He said, “To our brothers and sisters fighting for the Sake of Allah, we make dua for you and ask Allah to guide your bullets, terrify your enemies, and establish you in the Land. As our noble brother in the Philippines said in his bayah, ‘This is the Golden Era, everyone who believes … is running for Shaheed.’ The attack by the Islamic State in America is only the beginning of our efforts to establish a wiliyah in the heart of our enemy. Our aim was the khanzeer Pamela Geller and to show her that we don’t care what land she hides in or what sky shields her; we will send all our Lions to achieve her slaughter. This will heal the hearts of our brothers and disperse the ones behind her. To those who protect her: this will be your only warning of housing this woman and her circus show. Everyone who houses her events, gives her a platform to spill her filth are legitimate targets. We have been watching closely who was present at this event and the shooter of our brothers. We knew that the target was protected. Our intention was to show how easy we give our lives for the Sake of Allah. We have 71 trained soldiers in 15 different states ready at our word to attack any target we desire. Out of the 71 trained soldiers 23 have signed up for missions like Sunday, We are increasing in number bithnillah. Of the 15 states, 5 we will name…. Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, California, and Michigan. The disbelievers who shot our brothers think that you killed someone untrained, nay, they gave you their bodies in plain view because we were watching. The next 6 months will be interesting. To our Amir al-Mu’mineen make dua for us and continue your reign, May Allah enoble your face. May Allah send His peace and blessings upon our Prophet Muhummad and all those who follow until the last Day.”—Abu Ibrahim al-Ameriki.

November 16—Internet—Reuters reported that the Anonymous hackers network announced in a You­Tube video that it would conduct cyberattacks on the Islamic State. A ­French-speaking man wearing a Guy Fawkes mask called IS “vermin” and that “These attacks cannot remain unpunished…. We are going to launch the biggest operation ever against you. Expect many cyberattacks. War has been declared. Get ready. We don’t forgive and we don’t forget.”

November 16—UK—AFP reported that Prime Minister David Cameron told BBC Radio 4 from Turkey that British security services had foiled around 7 terror attacks since June, “albeit attacks planned on a smaller scale” than the attacks in Paris. “We have been aware of these cells operating in Syria that are radicalising people in our own countries, potentially sending people back to carry out attacks. It was the sort of thing we were warned about…. You can’t deal with ­so-called Islamic State unless you get a political settlement in Syria that enables you then to permanently degrade and destroy that organization.”

November 16—Israel—NPR reported that Israeli troops shot to death 2 Palestinians who fired on them.

November 16—Uzbekistan—Al-Jazeera reported that at least 200 Muslims were arrested for allegedly planning to join the Islamic State or being sympathetic to the armed group. The Group of Independent Rights Defenders said the arrests began in early October in the Tashkent area. Most detainees were migrant workers who had returned from Russia, Turkey or Western Europe.

November 16—Nigeria—The military announced it had foiled Boko Haram bomb and rifle attacks in Maiduguri, arresting 9 BH suspects. Authorities seized ­rocket-making materials in a facility in Bama as part of Operation Lafiya Dole. The terrorists were using Toyota Hilux trucks, AK-47s, and 20 bombs that were “meant to be detonated at some selected targets in the city.” Army spokesman Colonel Tukur Gusau said the plot unraveled after troops interrogated John Trankil, a suspected Boko Haram commander.

November 16—Burundi—Doctors Without Borders treated 60 people injured in grenade explosions in different parts of Burundi’s capital.

November 17—UK—Reuters reported that Finance Minister George Osborne announced a doubling of spending for cyber security to a total of 1.9 billion pounds through 2020, in part because the Islamic State was attempting to develop cyber attacks on the country’s infrastructure. “ISIL are already using the Internet for hideous propaganda purposes; for radicalization, for operational planning too…. They have not been able to use it to kill people yet by attacking our infrastructure through cyber attack…. But we know they want it and are doing their best to build it…. The stakes could hardly be higher—if our electricity supply, or our air traffic control, or our hospitals were successfully attacked online, the impact could be measured not just in terms of economic damage but of lives lost.”

November 17—Cameroon—The government detained 19 Boko Haram suspects in the Far North Region. 15111701

November 17—UK—The trial began of Moham­med Rehman, 25, and his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, accused of preparing terrorist acts by plotting to attack the London subway network or a large shopping mall with a bomb earlier in 2015. He allegedly asked his Twitter followers for advice on target choice. Prosecutor Tony Badenoch says police found substantial quantities of chemicals and ­bomb-making equipment at Rehman’s home during the May arrest.

November 17—India—UPI reported that Indian Colonel Santosh Mahadik, 37, was seriously injured and later died when gunmen ambushed a search party he was leading near the Line of Control in the Kupwara district of ­Indian-administered Kashmir. Another soldier was also injured. Mahadik was commanding officer of the 41 Rashtriya Rifles, a husband and a father of 2. The Hindustan Times reported the attackers were suspected of belonging to the ­Pakistan-based ­Lashkar-e-Taiba, which later claimed credit.

November 17—Tunisia—UPI reported that the Interior Ministry and security forces arrested more than a dozen jihadis suspected of training in Iraq and Syria who were planning to attack security centers, politicians and a beach resort in Sousse.

November 17—U.S.—CNN reported that ­Paris-bound Air France flights 55 and 65 were diverted after receipt of bomb threats after they had departed. The Washington Post added that the B-777 flight 55 carrying 298 passengers and crew from Dulles to Paris was diverted to an airport in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Flight 65 was en route from Los Angeles to Paris when it was diverted to Salt Lake City. No bombs were found. 15111702–03

November 17—Germany/Belgium—The 2 coun­tries canceled international soccer matches after receiving bomb threats, evacuating stadiums in Hann­over and Brussels. German Chancellor Angela Mer­kel had planned to attend the match between Germany and the Netherlands. Hannover Police Chief Volker Kluwe told NDR: “We received a concrete tip that an explosives attack was planned against this international match in the stadium … key warning reached us about 15 minutes before the gates opened.” The terrorists would have used a truck bomb disguised as an ambulance. Brussels cancelled a match between Belgium and Spain.

November 17—Turkey—Anatolia reported that police in Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport detained 8 alleged Moroccan IS members who flew in from Casablanca. The group was suspected of planning to get inside Europe by posing as refugees. One of the suspects had a handwritten note outlining a route from Istanbul to Germany via Greece, Serbia and Hungary, including smuggler boats across the Mediterranean Sea, plus several train and bus journeys. The 8 claimed to be tourists who had booked rooms at a hotel. Their names were not found in the reservations database. They were deported back to Casa­blanca, according to CNN.

Soldiers killed a suspected IS member who was trying to illegally cross into Kilis Province from Syria. Another 21 were detained, including 9 children.

November 17—Kenya—A suspected jihadi grabbed a rifle from an officer and attempted to shoot his way out of a Garissa military camp where he was being held. Hundreds of officers surrounded him and arrested him when he ran out of bullets. He was injured and was hospitalized.

November 17—Canada—During the evening, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Parliamentary Protective Services arrested a man carrying a concealed knife outside Centre Block, the main building on Parliament Hill that houses the Senate and the House of Commons on Parliament Hill. Charges were pending.

November 17—Nigeria—Boko Haram was blamed when a 7:48 p.m. suicide bomber killed 37 and wounded 80, including 6 women and 8 children, at the crowded Tipper Garage at a truck stop in a market in Yola’s Jambutu area, capital of Adamawa State. Most victims were vendors and ­passers-by. The area has a livestock market, an ­open-air restaurant and a mosque. The explosion happened as traders were leaving the mosque and others were eating at the restaurant. Among the dead were 8 children and Kamal Adamu, brother of Musa Adamu, and his uncle.

November 18—Bangladesh—Three men on a motorbike fired from behind at Italian priest Piero Arolari, 57, as he was riding his bicycle to church in Dinajpur, then fled. Arolari, who is also a doctor at St. Vincent hospital, was hit in the neck by a bullet. The attack took place near a bus stop. He was in ­critical condition. Several Protestant pastors in Dhaka had recently received death threats from jihadis. Arolari had lived in Dinajpur for 35 years, treating pool people. The Islamic State took credit on November 20, saying a ­silencer-equipped pistol was used. IS accused Arolari of “Christianizing campaigns.” 15111801

November 18—Moldova—Border police detained 2 Moldovan citizens who were trying to illegally enter Romania and travel on to France. Police fired 3 warning shots near Cahul after the men, aged 19 and 26, tried to flee. Police said the men were carrying Islamic objects and a ­Russian-language version of the book “The Fortress of the Muslim.” One had been convicted of murder and had converted to Islam in prison.

November 18—France—CNN reported that 3 young men on scooters, one wearing a ­T-shirt with an IS symbol, stabbed a Jewish teacher in Marseille before fleeing during the evening. They insulted the teacher, threatened to kill him, then stabbed him in the stomach, arms and legs. Prosecutor Brice Robin said they carried a phone with a photo of Moham­med Merah, who conducted attacks in 2012 on soldiers and children in Toulouse and Montauban.

November 18—Syria—The Islamic State’s ­English-language Dabiq magazine said on its penultimate page that the group had killed Norwegian hostage Ole Johan ­Grimsgaard-Ofstad and Chinese captive Fan Jinghui, 50, after earlier demanding ransoms for the 2 men. IS said they were “executed after being abandoned by kafir nations and organizations.” They apparently were shot to death, wearing yellow jumpsuits. ­Grimsgaard-Ofstad, 48, was a graduate student in political philosophy from Porsgrunn, south of Oslo. Fan was a ­self-described “wanderer” from Beijing who once taught middle school. An earlier edition of Dabiq did not say when/where the kidnapping took place when it announced their captivity. ­Grimsgaard-Ofstad’s last Facebook posting, on January 24, 2015, said he had arrived in Idlib, Syria, on his way to Hama. Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg in September rejected paying a ransom. 15111802–03

November 18—Canada—In a morning raid, Montreal police arrested a 24-year-old man in connection with a video posted on YouTube showing someone threatening to kill an Arab person in Quebec every week. The man in the video showed a pistol and talked about the Paris attacks. Police confiscated a weapon with compressed air. The video followed an attack on a Muslim woman in Toronto that police said appeared to be “motivated by hate.”

November 18—Bosnia-Herzegovina—A gunman fired an automatic rifle at a betting shop and public bus driving by in Rajlovac, a Sarajevo suburb, killing 2 soldiers and injuring 3 civilians—the driver and 2 passengers, one of whom was also a soldier. The gunman fled to his nearby home and blew himself up with a hand grenade. A witness said the man was wearing a headband with Arabic letters. State prosecution office spokesman Boris Grubesic said the attack “has been qualified as an act of terrorism.” Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic said it was “an attack on the state.” One dead soldier was a Muslim Bosnian; the other was a Bosnian Serb. Security Minister Dragan Mektic said the gunman was Enes Omeragic, 34, a “known drug addict who committed serious robberies before” who praised the Islamic State in his diary. One of the victims was a friend of the gunman; they served in the army together years ago, according to Omeragic’s father. His ­brother-in-law was arrested a few years ago for planning a terrorist attack but was released for lack of evidence.

November 18—U.S.—USA Today and CNN reported that an Islamic State video threatened attacks on New York City. The video showed bombs and suicide bombers preparing for an attack, along with stock footage of Herald Square and Times Square. An earlier IS video threatened Washington, D.C.

November 18—Nigeria—At 4 p.m., 2 female suicide bombers, aged 11 and 18, hit Kano after arriving at a mobile phone market via a minibus, killing 15 and injuring 123. Kano police spokesman Musa Magaji Majia said, “One went inside the market, the other stayed outside, then they exploded, killing themselves and others nearby. The victims were taken to hospital and it was later confirmed that 15 people died, not including the suicide bombers.” Four other suspected child suicide bombers were on the minivan. Boko Haram was suspected.

November 19—Israel—Two Israeli men, aged 20 and 50, were killed and 2 others wounded in a stabbing attack during afternoon prayers at a room used as a synagogue in a commercial building in Tel Aviv. Raed Khalil bin Mahmoud, 36, a Palestinian father of 5 from the West Bank village of Dura, near the West Bank city of Hebron, was injured and apprehended by onlookers.

Reuters reported that a Palestinian drove along the shoulder of a main road near the Gush Etzion settlement in the West Bank, shooting at stopped traffic. He then crashed into a group of pedestrians. He killed 3 people, including American Ezra Schwartz, 18, of Sharon, Massachusetts; an Israeli; and a Palestinian man; and wounded other people, including Americans. Soldiers shot and arrested the killer. Schwartz graduated from Maimonides School in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 2015 and was studying in Israel. 15111901

November 19—Kuwait—Authorities broke up an IS support cell. Police arrested 6 people of various nationalities, including an Egyptian IS member, a Kuwaiti handling logistical support, 3 Syrians—one an arms dealer, one in charge of finances and communications—and Lebanese citizen Osama Khayat, described by the Interior Ministry as leader of a jihadi cell helping the IS recruit fighters, fundraise, and broker arms deals. The official Kuwait News Agency said Khayat admitted to helping IS recruit fighters and raise money that was sent to ­IS-related bank accounts in Turkey. The Interior Ministry said he admitted to closing weapons deals in Ukraine and using Turkey as a route to send weapons to IS in Syria. Two Syrians and 2 ­Australian-Lebanese dual nationals were still at large.

November 19—Sweden—Reuters reported that Security police (SAPO) chief Anders Thornberg raised the terrorist threat assessment to 4 on a scale of 5, its highest level ever. Authorities were hunting a suspect and had “concrete information” of a possible attack. The “4” level entails a high probability that “persons have the intent and ability to carry out an attack.” Swedish news agency Six said an Iraqi man who had received military training in Syria entered Sweden the previous day, intending to conduct an attack. By that evening, Sweden had the man in custody on “suspicion of preparing to commit terrorist offenses.”

November 19—Poland—A hoax bomb threat was made against an Airbus A320 chartered by Lithuanian charter airline Small Planet with 161 tourists en route from Warsaw to Hurghada resort in Egypt. The plane landed in Burgas, Bulgaria at 5:48 a.m., where it was searched. No explosives were found. A 67-year-old Polish passenger had said there was a bomb on the plane. Some reports speculated that he had been drinking.

November 19—Iraq/U.S.—Yahoo! reported that the Islamic State in Dijlah Province, Iraq, released a 6-minute video threatening to blow up the White House and conduct additional attacks in Paris. Two fighters said “What do they expect from the nation of Islam other than more of these strikes? We bring Hollande and the people around him the good tidings as we bring Obama and the people around him the good tidings of more of these strikes…. We should follow them wherever they may go and Allah willing we should lead them like slaves, like dogs. Allah willing, we shall roast them with [explosive] belts and car bombs.” In a segment titled “Paris Before Rome,” an IS member said, “Oh Crusader France, Allah willing we shall pulverize your palaces. Allah willing, you shall know no happiness, and will not live for long…. We started with you and we shall finish with the false White House which we shall render black with our fire, Allah willing. We shall blow it up like we blew up the false idols in this good land.”

November 19—Italy—The Washington Post reported that Italian security forces were trying to identify 5 people “who may be planning possible attacks on the St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Milan’s Duomo cathedral or the La Scala Opera house.” The State Department issued a warning that in addition to those sites, churches, synagogues, restaurants, theaters and hotels had been identified as “potential targets.”

November 19—Sweden—Authorities at a refugee center in arctic Boliden jailed Moder Mothama Magid, 22, on suspicion of preparing “terrorist” attacks against unknown targets. Sweden had raised its terror alert to the ­second-highest level. On November 22, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Hans Ihrman said Magid should be released because he was no longer suspected of any crime.

November 19—U.S.—The Falls Church ­News-Press reported that the Fairfax County Police Department arrested Chester H. Gore, 27, for planting a fake bomb at the Dar ­al-Hijrah mosque in Falls Church, Virginia at 3 a.m. Members of the mosque said he threw Molotov cocktails into the facility’s parking lot.

November 20—Yemen—The Islamic State claimed credit for 2 attacks in the country’s largest province that killed 15 and wounded 30.

November 20—Iraq—Bombs in southern Baghdad killed 15 people.

A roadside bomb went off on a street outside a Shi’ite mosque in the Nahiyet ­al-Rasheed neighborhood as prayers were finishing. A suicide bomber inside the mosque set off an explosives vest minutes later, killing 10 and wounding 28.

Two roadside bombs went off in commercial areas of southeastern Baghdad, killing 5 and wounding 9.

November 20—Pakistan—Gunmen on motorcycles shot to death 4 paramilitary rangers who were inside a vehicle parked outside a Karachi mosque.

November 20—Mali—NPR reported that at 7 a.m., between 2 and 10 gunmen armed with AK-47s arrived in vehicles with diplomatic plates, walked into Bamako’s Radisson Blu Hotel, yelled “God is great” in Arabic, fired on and threw grenades at the 5 hotel guards, and took 170 hostages, including 140 guests and 30 employees. They included visitors from France, Belgium, Germany, China, India, Canada, Ivory Coast and Turkey. The attackers made one hostage recite verses from the Koran before allowing him to leave.

Cheick Dabo, one of the guards, said the attackers hit just as the 5 guards had finished their morning prayer and had put their shotgun and 2 pistols away in their vehicle. “We didn’t see the jihadists until they started firing on us. We weren’t concentrating and we didn’t expect it.” Four guards were hit, one fatally. Dabo hid under a car.

The army, backed by U.S. and French National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN) special forces, stormed the hotel, going ­floor-by-floor to free at least 126 hostages, including 6 Americans. Nineteen people, including an American friend of Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, died. Two terrorists were killed during the 7-hour siege.

The Mourabitounes (Sentinels), a group founded in 2013 by former AQIM commander Mokhtar Bel­mokhtar, claimed credit, telling al-Jazeera it wanted fighters freed from Mali’s prisons and an end to attacks against northern Malians. The group said it had coordinated the operation with the Sahara Emirate affiliated with ­al-Qaeda. The group named the attackers as Abdelhakim ­al-Ansari and Moez ­al-Ansari.

On November 22, the Macina Liberation Front, a jihadi group from central Mali, told AFP it had sent 5 terrorists, including “3 who came out safe and sound.” The Macina Liberation Front said it had worked with Ansar Dine in retaliation for Opera-tion Barkhane, the regional French fight against Islamic extremists, according to Radio France Internationale.

Freed hostages included 12 members of an Air France flight crew and 5 from Turkish airlines, along with 20 Indian citizens.

All but one of the 19 dead were hotel guests.

The dead included

• 3 executives of the ­state-owned China Railway Construction Corporation: Zhou Tianxiang, general manager for the corporation’s international group; Wang Xuanshang, a deputy general manager of the international group; and Chang Xuehui, general manager of the group’s West Africa division. Four other Chinese citizens were rescued. All 7 Chinese were in Mali on business.

• Anita Ashok Datar, 41, a former Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, who was in Mali on an international development project. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “I knew Anita as the loving mother of a wonderful ­7-year old boy and the former partner of David Garten, one of my senior policy advisors in the Senate.” Datar was from Maryland and was a senior manager at the Palladium Group.

• Two Malians, including Abdoulaye Magasouba, a military police guard shot dead at the hotel door

• a French citizen

• 6 Russian plane crew from the ­Volga-Dnepr Airlines cargo company, including Aleksandr Kononenko, 52, a navigator; Vladimir V. Kudryashov, 40, a flight radio operator; Konstantin V. Preobrazhensky, 56, a flight engineer; Sergei A. Yurasov, 52, a load master with the cargo company ­Volga-Dnepr Airlines; Stanislav N. Dumansky, 42, an aircraft mechanic; and Pavel A. Kudryavtsev, 27, an aircraft mechanic

• Assane Sall, a Senegalese national.

• Geoffrey Dieudonne, 39, Belgian, a counselor in Belgium’s parliament.

• Shmuel Benalal, 60, Israeli, an education consultant and president of Telos Group Ltd.

Five people, including 2 police officers, were injured.

The ­Brussels-based Rezidor Hotel group operates the hotel.

Authorities were searching for “more than 3” suspects, according to Army Major Modibo Nama Traore. Malian authorities blamed “foreign” gunmen. Guinean singer Sekouba Bambino Diabate told AFP the gunmen spoke English among themselves.

Special forces arrested 2 Malian suspects in Bamako on November 26. 15112001

November 21—Belgium—The government announced it had raised the terrorist threat to 4—the highest, meaning that a “serious and imminent threat” had been detected—and suspended Brussels’s subway service. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said, “We are talking of a threat of several individuals with weapons and explosives, to launch acts, maybe even in several places at once.” The public was advised to avoid public places with large groups, including concerts, sporting events, airports, and train stations. By the next day, authorities had conducted 22 raids and arrested 21 people. Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said 19 raids were carried out in Molenbeek and other boroughs of Brussels and 3 raids were in other cities. No firearms or explosives were found. One arrestee was injured when a car he was in tried to ram police during an attempted getaway. Schools and universities in Brussels were closed. Authorities were searching for Paris terrorist Salah Abdeslam and possibly other jihadis.

November 21—Burundi—During the night, 4 people died in Bujumbura—3 in the Ngagara neighborhood and one in the Kanyosha neighborhood. A military official said there was an explosion inside the building that houses the ­state-run water and electricity company.

November 21—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected when 4 suicide bombers killed 6–9 people and injured 12 in the northern border town of Fotokol.

The New York ­City–based Institute for Economics and Peace released its annual Global Terrorism Index, which reported that Boko Haram killed 6,644 people in terror attacks during 2014, while ISIS killed 6,073.

November 21—Lebanon—Reuters reported that the Lebanese army in a mountainous area near the border town of Hermel arrested 6 Palestinians trying to go to Syria to fight for anti–Assad rebels.

The army announced the arrest of 2 Lebanese men on suspicion of belonging to a “terrorist group.”

November 21—Israel—During the night, a Palestinian, 18, stabbed and wounded 4 Israelis, including a 13-year-old girl, in Kiryat Gat. Police found him in the yard of a nearby home.

November 21—U.S.—A Turkish Airways plane flying 256 people from New York to Istanbul was diverted to Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, after a bomb threat was made at 10:50 p.m. 15112101

November 21—Cyprus—Cypriot authorities detained an Algerian and 5 Turkish men after they were stopped from entering the country amid “suspicions” over the purpose of their trip. Police arrested the ­French-speaking men when they arrived on an evening flight from Basel, Switzerland and told passport control officers they came for a few days on vacation. Interpol told Cypriot authorities that 2 Turks and the Algerian man were “close to” Islamic extremist groups. An official said it was likely that the 6 would be flown back to Switzerland on Novem-ber 23.

November 21—Afghanistan—The New York Times reported that gunmen kidnapped between 14 and 30 Hazara passengers from several buses on a stretch of Highway 1 in Zabul Province. It was not disclosed whether the Taliban or Islamic State was responsible.

November 22—India—UPI and the Hindustan Times reported that Army Lieutenant Colonel K. S. Nath was injured in a clash with suspected Pakistani gunmen during an operation in a dense forested area in the Kupwara district of ­Indian-controlled Kashmir.

The Times of India reported that the Islamic State called ­Lashkar-e-Taiba puppets of the Pakistani military and allies of ­al-Qaeda.

November 22—Israel—A Palestinian stabbed to death an Israeli woman, 21, at the Gush Etzion junction near Jerusalem. Nearby soldiers shot and killed him.

A woman, 16, brandished a knife at the entrance to a military base and began approaching civilians. Local West Bank settler leader Gershon Mesika drove off the road and struck the woman. A soldier then fired at her and killed her. Her father, Taha Qatanani, said his daughter went to school as usual in the morning and that he heard about her death 2 hours later.

A Palestinian cab driver tried to run over Israelis east of Jerusalem. After his car crashed, he pulled a knife and tried to stab people, but was shot dead by a bystander.

November 22—U.S.—Thompson Reuters reported that a bomb threat was made against Singapore Airlines flight SQ001 after it had left San Francisco. It arrived safely at noon at Singapore’s Changi Airport, according to Channel NewsAsia. 15112201

November 22—Russia—The National ­Anti-Terrorist Committee announced that a morning police raid killed 11 IS supporters who threw grenades and fired on officers in a wooded, mountainous area near Nalchik, capital of the ­Kabardino-Balkaria republic in the North Caucasus.

November 23—Japan—A suspicious explosion damaged a public restroom at the controversial Yasukuni shrine, which honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including executed war criminals. No one was injured. Police suspected a “guerrilla” attack. On December 10, UPI and Kyodo News reported that Japanese police said South Korean man Chon ­Chang-han, 27, who was arrested on December 9, confessed but later recanted to setting off the explosive. Police found a digital timer and batteries with Korean lettering at the scene of the explosion. Traces of DNA from a cigarette butt in the restroom were the same as those from items abandoned at a Tokyo hotel room where Chon allegedly stayed. Chon was captured on surveillance footage of the shrine 30 minutes before the explosion. 15112301

November 23—Italy—Interior Minister Angelino Alfano ordered the expulsion of 4 Moroccan men who were investigated for “association for the purpose of terrorism, including international” including one who spread manuals with ­know-how about carrying out attacks and about combat training. Alfano said the 4, who had lived near Bologna, were committed to “the spread of violent extremism.”

November 23—Israel—A Palestinian stabbed in the stomach an Israeli man, who died of his wounds, at a West Bank gas station on the 443 highway from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Police shot and killed the attacker, who also lightly wounded 2 women.

Two Palestinian teenage girls stabbed a Palestinian man, 70, with scissors outside the Mahane Yehuda market in central Jerusalem, apparently mistaking him for an Israeli. Authorities shot one of them, Hadeel Awaad, 16, to death. The other attacker, her cousin, Norham Awwad, 14, was wounded and arrested. A bystander, 27, was lightly wounded by stray gunfire. Witness Akram Ezyy said the teens looked “about 12” and were chasing after 2 elderly women when they were shot while advancing on a police officer.

November 23—Spain—Police arrested a prisoner of Moroccan origin on suspicion of recruiting fellow inmates for the Islamic State. He was serving a sentence for domestic violence. Authorities said he was believed to have concentrated on inmates whose sentences were coming to completion in the prison outside Segovia. Police also said he made threats in the name of IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi.

November 23—Germany—AP and DPA reported that a nighttime arson was suspected at a ­multi-family home in Woldegk housing some asylum seekers. Investigators suggested the fire was set in the basement. Some 35 residents, including 10 asylum seekers, were forced to leave move into temporary shelters. A 76-year-old and a 14-year-old were treated for smoke inhalation.

November 23—U.S.—mic.com reported that ­self-described white supremacists shot 5 people, including one in the stomach, at a Black Lives Matter rally in Minneapolis.

November 24—Pakistan—NBC News reported that fire raced through the Christian cable Gawahi Television station in Karachi, destroying the station’s computers and broadcasting equipment. Karachi has a large Catholic population. Station director Danish Peter, 25, said that the building’s security cameras and footage were missing and its locks had been broken.

November 24—Libya—A suicide car bomber hit a checkpoint in the morning in Msallata, southeast of Tripoli, wounding 17 people, 10 of them critically. Most were civilians. No one claimed credit.

November 24—Greece—A time bomb exploded early in the morning on a narrow street outside the offices of the Federation of Greek Enterprises, only 200 yards from the Parliament building in Syntagma Square in Athens, causing damage but no injuries. Warnings had been phoned in Greek to 2 Ath-ens dailies. No one claimed credit. Anarchists and far ­leftists were suspected. The explosion broke ­windows in a hotel, private apartments, and the Embassy of Cyprus. On December 22, AP reported that an ­envelope found at a central Athens spot indicated by an anonymous caller, containing a memory stick claiming responsibility for the bomb attack. 15112401

November 24—Bosnia-Herzegovina—A bomb was thrown shortly after midnight at the police station in Zavidovici, causing minimal damage and no casualties.

November 24—Bangladesh—The Washington Post reported that 2 men armed with kitchen knives slashed Alok Sen, Hindu secretary general in Faridpur of the ­Hindu-Bouddho-Christian Unity Pari­shad, outside his home in Faridpur. Group members tend to support Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s political party. The attackers fled when his wife arrived.

November 24—Hungary—Police announced the detention the previous week of 6 people in 2 separate cases and the discovery of a “bomb lab” and homemade explosives. On November 20, police arrested 2 people whose car contained machine guns, am­munition, and silencers. On November 21, police in Budapest arrested 2 Hungarians and 2 foreigners whose car contained explosives. Police said the second case had “international ramifications.” The Counterterrorism Center announced ­increased ­security for the president, prime minister, and other senior officials. On November 25, Zsolt Molnar, chairman of Parliament’s national security committee, said he had been told by Janos Hajdu, director of Hungary’s Counterterrorism Center, that the detainees were not jihadis, but were radicals with a confused ideology. On November 27, AP added that Laszlo Tasnadi, secretary of state for law enforcement at the Interior Ministry, said the detained car duo sought to “execute” members of the government.

November 24—France—UPI and The Independent reported that gunmen took hostages in Roubaix, near the border with Belgium. Police said it was not a terrorist attack. Local media said it might have been a failed robbery. Several suspects were arrested.

November 24—Syria—The New York Daily News reported that Samra Kesinovic, 17, an Austrian girl who ran away to Syria in 2014 with friend Sabina Selimovic, 15, to marry an IS fighter, was beaten to death when she had a change of heart and tried to escape from Raqqa, Syria. The News said Selimovic was allegedly killed in 2014. European media reported that one of the 2 girls was killed during a September IS battle. The 2 girls were from Bosnian refugee families and were born in Austria.

November 24—Tunisia—UPI reported that terrorists bombed a bus carrying presidential guards on a busy street near the headquarters of the Democratic Constitutional Rally (RCD party) in central Tunis, killing 13 people, including the terrorist. President Beji Caid Essebsi declared a ­month-long state of emergency, saying Tunisia was in “a state of war,” echoing a declaration by French President Hollande 11 days earlier. The Islamic State claimed credit, saying Abu Abdullah ­al-Tunisi got on the bus and killed around 30 “apostates.” The group warned, “tyrants of Tunis will not have peace and we will not rest until the law of God governs in Tunis.” The Interior Ministry said 22 pounds of military explosives were used, probably hidden in a backpack or explosive belt. On November 26, Tunisian authorities said the bomber was Houssam ben Hedi ben Miled Abdelli, 26, a local street vendor from a working-class neighborhood on the edge of Tunis. Police arrested 30 people.

November 24—Syria—UPI reported that gunmen injured 3 Russian journalists who were visiting the front lines with Syrian government soldiers. An ­anti-tank missile hit a vehicle in a convoy transporting 17 journalists near Daghmashlia village, near the border with Turkey. The journalists were wearing blue helmets to signify their status. The Russian Defense Ministry said Alexander Yelistratov, a correspondent for the Russian news agency TASS, Sargon Khadaya of the Arab language service of the television news channel received light injuries; Roman Kosarev, of RT’s ­English-language service, sustained a concussion. 15112402

November 24—Egypt—Terrorists, including 2 suicide car bombers and a gunman, attacked the Swiss Inn hotel in ­El-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 2 judges, 4 police officers and a bystander and wounding 2 judges, 7 policemen and 5 hotel staff. Troops and policemen fired on the ­explosives-laden car, detonating it before it reached the hotel. Two terrorists snuck into the hotel; one set off his suicide vest in the kitchen, while the second fired in a hotel room. The armed forces said all of the terrorists were killed. Judges who were supervising the second round of parliamentary elections, which had taken place the previous day, were staying at the hotel. The local IS affiliate claimed credit.

November 24—Afghanistan—The Taliban fired on a ­military-contracted helicopter that made an emergency landing in Faryab Province, killing 3 people in a ­shoot-out, capturing 18 others on board, and torching the helicopter. The civilian helicopter was transporting military personnel. Moldovan Interior Minister Oleg Balan said 2 Moldovan pilots and a flight engineer were operating the helicopter, which belonged to a Moldovan company doing a UN peacekeeping mission. The Afghan Defense Ministry said one foreigner died and 2 were among those captured. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said 5 died and 15, mostly military, were “arrested.” The Taliban claimed 2 Americans were captured, although U.S. forces had no record of an American being on the helicopter. 15112403

The Taliban killed a provincial director from the national tax office in Ghazni Province after pulling him from his vehicle as he was on his way to his office.

A pressure cooker full of explosives went off in front of the Kabul Education University in western Kabul as students left for the day, killing 3 civilians, according to Xinhua. Ten minutes later, another bomb killed 3 civilians and wounded 6 in the ­Dasht-e-Barchi area in southwestern Kabul.

November 25—Kosovo—The daily newspaper Koha Ditore reported that the government closed 16 ­non-governmental organizations suspected of having links to and spreading propaganda for extremist networks.

November 25—Czech Republic—Police arrested a Turk, 30, who was traveling in a car east of Prague. He was wanted by Interpol for alleged links to terrorism. Police spokeswoman Ivana Jezkova said he was trying to avoid serving a prison term for an unspecified ­terrorism-related crime in Turkey. A court was exploring extradition.

November 25—Afghanistan—UPI reported that 7 children aged from 10 to 14 died and several other were injured when a rocket tip they were playing with exploded in Kabul. They had wrapped it in a cloth and were throwing it before it exploded.

Gunmen shot Afghan political analyst Ahmad Saeed in Kabul.

November 25—Moldova—Authorities arrested 5 people believed to be part of a paramilitary group that was planning armed attacks on Moldovan institutes, and searched the homes and cars of 11 people in Chisinau and northern Moldova. The suspected ringleader was a Ukrainian from the eastern Donbas region. Police said the suspects had criminal records. A criminal inquiry began on October 27. By the next day, CNN reported that police had detained 13 suspected members of the paramilitary group that planned to attack Chisinau and Balti, a northern city with a majority Russian population, to found a new separatist republic similar to that in eastern Ukraine. The group aimed to attack the prison in Balti and release prisoners they would try to recruit for attacks on private companies and the homes of Balti state officials. Authorities charged 8 people with membership in the paramilitary group. The suspected ringleader hailed from eastern Ukraine and had a criminal record.

November 25—Niger—Boko Haram was suspected of conducting a nighttime raid on a border village in the southeast, killing 16 people, injuring several other people, and looting shops before fleeing on motorbikes. 15112501

November 25—Israel—Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian who stabbed and seriously wounded an Israeli soldier at a junction near Hebron in the West Bank.

November 25—Indonesia—Police announced that the East Indonesian Mujahidin released a 9-minute video during the weekend in which it threatened attacks against the Jakarta police headquarters and other targets. Authorities increased security at airports, the presidential palace, foreign embassies, and shopping centers. Police were trying to determine whether the speaker in the video was Abu Wardah Santoso, who had pledged fealty to the Islamic State.

November 25—Venezuela—Reuters and TV Channel 4 Miami reported that Luis Manuel Diaz, an opposition leader of the Democratic Action party, was assassinated by ­drive-by gunmen while meeting with local residents in Altagracia de Orituco. He was on stage with Lilian Tintori, wife of Venezuela’s ­best-known jailed opposition leader, Leopoldo Lopez. The Democratic Unity coalition was going to contest the December 6 election for the National Assembly. On November 30, police arrested 3 men in their 20s in the case.

November 26—Belgium—CNN reported that Brussels police investigated 10 envelopes containing white powder sent to the grand mosque. A civil protection squad from the Brussels Fire Brigade and Emergency Medical Service decontaminated 11 people. The white powder was flour.

November 26—Germany—Berlin police raided a mosque in the western neighborhood of Charlottenburg after the arrests of 2 people suspected of membership in a jihadi group. CNN added that Ger-man special forces then arrested 2 men in Berlin’s Britz neighborhood for plotting “a significant criminal act against state security,” including planning to transport explosives from Munich for a possible attack in Dortmund. The German newspaper Der Tagesspeigel said that one of them was a Tunisian, 46, and the other a Syrian, 28. Police found “a suspected dangerous object” in a vehicle linked to the suspects. AP reported that the 2 men were freed the next day.

November 26—Belgium—Authorities conducted 3 raids, one in Sambreville, related to the Paris attacks but made no arrests.

November 26—Bangladesh—AP reported that Islamic ­State-Bangladesh took credit when 5 gunmen fired machineguns during evening prayers at a Shi’ite mosque in Haripur village in the Bogra district that killed a mosque official in his 70s who had been leading the prayers and wounded 3 others. Police detained 2 suspects. IS said, “the soldiers of the cali­phate targeted a place of worship for the apostates” built with funds from Iran.

November 26—Denmark—Investigator Jesper Boejgaard Madsen announced that a19-year-old Danish citizen was arrested in Aarhus and ordered held in custody for 3 weeks on suspicion of posting to Facebook a video, purportedly made by Islamic extremists, and comments deemed threatening to others. The video showed people being executed for having spied against the Islamic State. The defendant faced fines and 10 years in prison.

November 27—Burundi—Six gunmen fired at the vehicle of Zenon Ndaruvukanye, an advisor to President Pierre Nkurunziza in Bujumbura’s Kajaga neighborhood in the morning, killing a bodyguard and seriously injuring another. The advisor was unhurt.

November 27—Nigeria—Boko Haram claimed credit when a suicide bomber set off his explosives in the middle of the annual Arbaeen procession by hundreds of Shi’ites, killing 22 people and injuring 29. BH released a photograph identifying the bomber as Abu Suleiman ­al-Ansari. Shi’ites said they captured a second ­would-be bomber.

November 27—Germany—Reuters reported that in the state of ­Baden-Wuerttemberg Stuttgart prosecutors arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of arms dealing. The press suggested that he might have ­provided 2 AK-47s made in China and 2 Zasatva M70s made in the former Yugoslavia used in the ­November 13 Paris attacks. A local newspaper said the 4 assault rifles were sold online on November 7 to a buyer of “Arab descent.” Bild reported that 4 emails on his smartphone indicate that he was in touch with an “Arab in Paris.” DPA reported that he was accused of converting legal starter pistols to fire live ammunition and selling them on the Internet.

November 27—Israel—Soldiers shot to death 2 Palestinians who had rammed their cars into soldiers in separate attacks in the West Bank. Eight Israeli soldiers were injured. In the morning, a Palestinian drove into soldiers at a bus stop at the West Bank, ­injuring 2 soldiers. Later that day, a Palestinian crashed his car into Israeli soldiers near Hebron, injuring 6.

November 27—Burkina Faso—Security forces arrested 13 suspects from Mali and Burkina Faso, seized weapons and bombmaking materials, and foiled a planned “large-scale attack” in the west near Mali’s border. Elections were scheduled for November 29.

November 27—Lebanon—The Lebanese army arrested Syrian citizen Ali Ahmad Laqqis, alias Abu Aisha, a Nusra Front member trying to flee Lebanon on a fake passport. The army said he confessed to killing Mohammad Hamieh, a kidnapped Lebanese soldier, in 2014. The Nusra Front and Islamic State had attacked the border town of Arsal in 2014, kidnapping 20 policemen and soldiers. The terrorists killed 4 of the hostages.

November 27—U.S.—A gunman opened fire at 11:30 a.m. at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic on Centennial Boulevard. During a ­6-hour standoff, 2 civilians and police officer Garrett Swasey, 44, who worked for the University of Colorado, were killed and 4 civilians and 5 police officers were hospitalized. Swasey, a 6-year police veteran, was on campus, and drove 10 miles down the road to support local police under fire.

CNN identified the gunman as Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., 57, who was arrested and held without bond. Witnesses heard him say, “no more baby parts.” He was described in the Washington Post as a malcontent and drifter with a long criminal record who lived in a shack in the woods in Black Mountain, North Carolina and a camper in Hartsel, Colorado.

Swasey, an elder and ­co-pastor at his nondenominational evangelical church, Hope Chapel, taught ice skating, bass and guitar. Swasey trained with Olym­pic skater Nancy Kerrigan. He and Christine Fowler won the junior national ­ice-skating championship in 1992. He and Hillary Tompkins finished 13th in the 1995 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. He was survived by his wife, Rachel, and 2 children—Faith, 6, and Elijah, 11.

At his December 9 Colorado Springs court appearance, Dear said he was a “warrior for the babies.” He was charged with ­first-degree murder and other counts. He was represented by public defender Daniel King, who had also represented Colorado theater shooter James Holmes. His next hearing was scheduled for December 23.

The other victims were identified as an Iraq war veteran and a mother of 2.

November 27–29—Cameroon—On December 2, 2015, a Cameroon government spokesman said a multinational force from Cameroon, Nigeria, Chad and Benin ran raids on November 27–29 that freed 900 hostages held by Boko Haram, killed more than 100 terrorists, and arrested 100 others. The hostages from Cameroon, Nigeria and Chad were being trained as suicide bombers, fighters, and thieves at several camps.

November 28—Egypt—Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a security checkpoint near Saqqara, home to the 4,600-year-old Step Pyramid, killing 4 police officers. The next day, the Egyptian IS affiliate claimed credit and said it would conduct more attacks against soldiers of the tyrant.”

November 28—Kenya—CNN reported that authorities were searching for British citizen Malik Yassin, a suspected ­al-Shabaab member who had entered the country. The government said he had dark brown hair, brown eyes and a “Caucasian complexion… “To disguise his appearance, he may have shaved his beard … his hair or both…. He is tall, slender and speaks with a British accent.”

Police chief Joseph Boinnet announced the arrests of Kenyan citizens Abubakar Sadiq Louw, 69, and Yassin Sambai Juma, 25, who admitted to spying for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, which directed them to conduct terrorist attacks against western targets in Kenya. Boinnet says Louw, a senior figure in Nairobi’s Shi’ite community, recruited Juma and arranged for him to travel to Iran for training. Louw was arrested on October 29; Juma was arrested on November 19 when he returned to Kenya. The government said the targets “included hotels in Nairobi frequently used by Western tourists, businessmen and diplomats.”

November 28—Mali—Mortars were fired at 4 a.m. on a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) in Kidal, killing 2 peacekeepers and a contractor and injuring 20, 4 of them seriously. Guinea’s Ministry of Defense said 2 of its soldiers died. The UN Security Council said the dead contractor was from Burkina Faso. No one claimed credit, but jihadis were suspected. 15112801

November 28—Turkey—Gunmen shot to death prominent lawyer and human rights defender Tahir Elci, 49, and a police officer in Diyarbakir’s Sur neighborhood. Elci had faced a prison term on charges of supporting Kurdish rebels, and was shot while he and other lawyers were making a press statement. Two policemen and a journalist were injured. Elci was the head of the bar association in Diyarbakir.

November 28—Afghanistan—A suicide bomber attacked the vehicle of Hawliya Rodwal, Kabul provincial director of the Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan, killing his bodyguard and wounding his driver. Rodwal was unharmed. Several homes were damaged.

November 28—Spain—Police arrested 2 men, aged 32 and 42, and a woman in northeastern Catalonian on suspicion of involvement in an IS recruitment network. The men were from Tangiers, Morocco and shared a Barcelona address. Police said they used social networks to spread “extremist ideology.” The 24-year-old Spanish woman was detained in the northeastern city of Granollers and was preparing to travel to Afghanistan.

November 28—Cameroon—Boko Haram was suspected when 2 teen female Nigerian suicide bombers targeted a family and local shop in the town of Dabanga near Cameroon’s northern border with Nigeria, killing at least 5 people and injuring 12 others. The 2 Nigerians had come to Cameroon as refugees. 15112802

November 28—Iraq—Voice of America and Reuters reported that an Islamic State suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint near the entrance to a market in a predominantly Shi’ite district of Turkmen in Tuz Khurmatu, killing 7 people, including 2 police, and injuring 17, many critically.

November 29—Israel—Security forces shot dead a Palestinian, 38, who walked past 2 police officers near Jerusalem’s Old City, yelled “God is great-est,” then stabbed an Israeli police officer in the neck, moderately wounding him. Police found 2 knives.

A Palestinian stabbed in the back a foreign woman who was waiting for a bus in Jerusalem. The teen attacker escaped but was later found in a nearby construction site.

Police killed a 17-year-old Palestinian who was throwing a firebomb at them in east Jerusalem.

November 29—Russia—The National ­Anti-Terrorist Committee announced that security forces in Dagestan had killed 3 terrorists who had sworn fealty to IS. One had returned from Syria earlier in the year.

November 29–30—Nigeria—BH kidnapped dozens of girls and torched hundreds of buildings in Bam in Borno State.

The Premium Times reported that Boko Haram burned down a Nigerian military base; 107 soldiers from the 157 Battalion fled but ­self-defense militia prevented the group from retaking the town of Gulak. BH stole an army T-72 tank, 3 artillery guns, 8 trucks, 60,000 rounds of ammunition, and dozens of new camouflage uniforms.

November 30—Colombia—UPI reported that Colombian authorities announced they had killed Jose Daniel “One-eyed Lucho” Perez, 42, a senior member of the National Liberation Army (ELN), during a gun battle. He was accused of leading an ELN ambush against security forces who were escorting election officials in late October that killed 11 soldiers and a police officer; 2 soldiers were kidnapped and held for 3 weeks. He had been a member of the group for 25 years.

November 30—Iraq—A suicide bomber hit a check­point along a route used by Shi’ite pilgrims in the northern ­al-Shaab neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 9, including 4 soldiers, and wounding 21.

Two roadside bombs went off in Baghdad commercial areas, killing 5 and wounding 16.

November 30—Peru—The media reported that American activist Lori Berenson, 46, would return to New York after her 20-year sentence (and travel ban) lapsed. She had been convicted of aiding the leftist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement in Peru. She was paroled in 2010 and lived in Lima with her now-6-year-old son, Salvador. She earned a BA in sociology online in 2014.

November 30—Congo—Allied Defense Forces rebels attacked government forces in Eringeti in North Kivu Province. The ensuing gun battle killed 30 people, including civilians, soldiers, rebels, and a Malawian UN peacekeeper, and injured 10 people. The UN said its nearby base was also attacked. 15113001–02

November 30—Cameroon—Two Cameroonian soldiers were killed by a land mine in Gangse village. Boko Haram was suspected. 15113003

November 30—Syria—UPI reported that the IS publicly executed 18 accused government collaborators in Tadmur, near the ancient ruins of Palmyra.

December 1—Turkey—A pipe bomb exploded on an overpass near Istanbul’s Bayrampasa metro station during evening rush hour, injuring 5 people. The private Dogan news agency said the bomb went off seconds after a bus carrying police drove past. Several vehicles, including a bus and a car, were damaged.

December 1—Nigeria—Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman announced the arrest of an 11-year-old boy trained by Boko Haram to be a suicide bomber in the Dalori refugee camp, the largest in northeast Nigeria, with 30,000 people. He was suspect No. 82 on a poster of the 100 ­most-wanted BH terrorists. Troops guarding the camp said the ­Hausa-speaking child had infiltrated it as a refugee. The child said 3 other children who trained with him had blown themselves up in suicide attacks. He was a ­resident of Bama, which BH took over in Septem-

ber 2014. The child identified a Boko Haram member among adults in Dalori refugee camp, who was arrested.

December 1—Pakistan—Gunmen on a motorcycle fired on a vehicle carrying military police in a commercial area in Karachi, killing 2 officers before fleeing.

December 1—Italy/Kosovo—Police in the 2 countries arrested 4 armed Kosovars with Islamic State contacts for making threats against the pope and a former U.S. ambassador to Kosovo. The group posted praise of the Paris attacks, saying, “this is only the beginning.” Another posting said, “Remember there won’t be any pope after this one. This is the last. Don’t forget what I am telling you.” Newsweek reported that Kosovo police arrested Samet Imishti, an ethnic Albanian south of Pristina, who authorities said was the group’s leader who tried to recruit fighters to go to Iraq and Syria and who promoted “terrorist” activities on social media. Police confiscated a pistol, a rifle and electronic equipment. Italian authorities said Imishti had combat experience outside Kosovo. Italian authorities detained the other 3 during raids in 4 cities, including Brescia, Vicenza, Padua, and Perugia; one person was being held while 2 were being expelled under ­anti-terrorism measures. The 4 were members of a Facebook group associated with Kosovars who have traveled to Syria to fight for the IS.

December 1—Spain—Police arrested a Moroccan, 32, who was preparing to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State. The Interior Ministry said he used his Pamplona restaurant to show and distribute IS videos and photographs and recruited fighters to go to Syria.

December 1—Afghanistan—A bomb went off among children who were playing on the outskirts of Puli Khumri, capital of Baghlan Province, killing 3 boys and wounding 12 children, 4 of them criti-cally. The victims were aged between 7 and 12 years old.

December 1—Israel—A Palestinian attempted to stab a pedestrian at a junction outside of Jerusalem, but Israeli troops shot and killed him. An Israeli who was nearby was lightly wounded.

Several hours later, a female assailant tried to stab a soldier in the northern West Bank. The soldier fired back, killing her.

December 1—Yemen—Gunmen kidnapped a Tu­nisian woman and male Yemeni who were on their way to work for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sana’a in the morning. The Yemeni was freed hours later. 15120101

December 1—France—The trial began of 7 men, including Salim Benghalem, 35, alias The Executioner, who was believed to be in Raqqa, Syria. He had been designated a terrorist by the U.S. He was accused of running a network to recruit French extremists to fight for the IS in Syria. Benghalem promised to only return to France to carry out an attack “with a maximum of damage.” He was linked to Cherif Kouachi, who with his brother attacked Charlie Hebdo in Paris in January 2015. The prosecutor requested an 18-year sentence for Benghalem.

AP reported on December 7, 2015, that during the trial, the 6 in court claimed that they played soccer together as children growing up in Thiais, south of Paris, or met as teens in school. They claimed that after short visits to Syria, they wanted to go home, and minimized their ties to jihadis, blaming the absent Benghalem. Five had been to Aleppo.

Abdelmalek Tanem, 26, was in Syria from the end of 2012 to the spring of 2014. He claimed he helped French jihadis get to the Turkish border with Syria. He pledged allegiance first to the Nusra Front, then to the Islamic State. Tanem admitted contacting Benghalem by phone. He was picked up in Spain in April 2014 while trying to get to Algeria. Prosecutor Arnaud Faugere said Tanem “was the most implicated of the 6…. He was a sniper. He has no fear of combat or death.” The prosecution requested a 10-year sentence.

Karim Hadjidi, 37, married with 4 children, said he was recruited, but he could not afford to stay, leaving Syria in 2013 after 10 days, vice the original 2 months he had planned. “They gave me a Kalashnikov, but I didn’t fire it because I didn’t have bullets…. Each bullet cost 2 euros ($2.18).” Attorney Xavier Nogueras represented him. The prosecutor sought 8 years in prison for Hadjidi.

Paul M’Barga, 23, a Cameroonian Muslim convert, said he stayed only 5 days in Syria “before being confronted with the reality.” He was photographed holding a Kalashnikov, but explained to the court, “It’s a disguise. It’s like when you’re little and you put on a Spiderman costume. The prosecutor requested a 6-year sentence.

December 1—Cameroon—Two teen female suicide bombers detonated their explosives during the evening in Waza, killing 6 people. Soldiers killed a third suicide bomber before she could set off her bomb. 15120102

December 1—Yemen—AQAP posted a threat to avenge the execution of any of its members by Saudi Arabia. Unofficial reports in Saudi media said the regime was about to execute more than 50 convicted terrorists, including AQAP members. “Their pure blood will not dry before we shed the blood of the soldiers of al-Saud…. With God as our witness, we will not let you down—you, our prisoners—until you are released.”

December 2—Kenya—In a court in Mombasa, Justice Martin Muya convicted and sentenced British citizen Jermaine Grant to 9 years for attempting to illegally acquire a Kenyan birth certificate, a Kenyan identification card and a primary school leaving certificate. Authorities said he was an extremist who plotted attacks against Kenya. The prosecution appealed a previous acquittal. Authorities said Grant belonged to a cell with UK national Samantha Lewthwaite that was planning attacks over Christmas 2011. Lewthwaite is the widow of Jermaine Lindsay, one of the bombers who took part in the July 7, 2005, attack on London. Grant was completing a 3-year jail term for immigration offenses and lying to a government official about his identity. He was also charged with conspiring to commit a felony and possessing explosive materials. His Kenyan wife, whom he married 24 hours before his arrest, was also charged. The group was allegedly collaborating with Kenyans sympathetic with ­al-Shabaab. Authorities suspected that Lewthwaite worked with Musa Hussein Abdi, the Kenyan man who was shot dead with East Africa’s ­al-Qaeda leader Fazul Abdullah Mohammed in Somalia in June 2011.

December 2—Syria—The Islamic State released a video in which it beheaded a man it said was a Russian spy who infiltrated the group. It began, “You will be conquered and humiliated, O Russians.” IS threatened Russian citizens and chastised President Vladimir Putin. The Russian’s executioner said Russian airstrikes “made us understand that we are doing right thing.” Speaking Russian, he said, “Listen to me, Putin, you dog.” He told the Russian people, “Here today, on this blessed land, the battle begins…. You will not find peace in your homes. We will kill your sons … for each son you killed here. And we will destroy your homes for each home you destroyed here.” The Russian was believed to have gone to Syria in 2014, according to Fox News. The alleged spy said he was Khasiev Magomid, alias Haroon, 23, from Grozny, Chechnya. He claimed the FSB recruited him to report on Russians who had joined IS, especially those who wanted to return to the Caucasus to conduct terrorist attacks.

In a separate video, 2 gunmen, one speaking Arabic, one in ­African-accented English, said “Praise be to Allah who allow ­martyrdom-seeking lions to storm the capital of France…. France was the beginning. Tomorrow it will be Washington, it will be New York and it will be Moscow.”

December 2—Pakistan—AFP, AP and Fox News reported that Mullah Akhtar Mohammed Mansoor, leader of the Afghan Taliban, was injured in a gun battle sparked by an argument at a meeting in Quetta of militant commanders. Sultan Faizi, the spokesman for the Afghan first vice president, told AFP, “Mansour was seriously injured. He was rushed to hospital and we are not sure if he survived his wounds.” The BBC added that 4 people (increased to 6 in AP reporting) were killed in the clash in the Quetta home of Mullah Abdullah Sarhadi, who reportedly died. The Taliban denied the claim. Newsweek reported on December 4 that Faizi announced that Mansoor had died of his injuries.

December 2—U.S.—CNN, UPI, Reuters, and the Washington Post said that at 11 a.m., 2 shooters dressed in tactical gear and carrying AR-15 rifles, handguns and multiple ammunition magazines with 1,600 rounds of ammunition fired 65–75 rounds on partiers in the conference center at the Inland Regional Center, a San Bernardino, California, center for people with developmental disabilities, killing 14 people and wounding 22 before leaving behind a pipe bomb and fleeing in a rented black Ford Expedition SUV.

They returned to their apartment in Redlands, then snuck away in their SUV when police arrived. In a car chase, Syed Rizwan Farook fired at police and threw things while Tashfeen Malik drove. By 3 p.m., ­black-clad ­Chicago-born Farook, 28, and Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, had been killed in a ­shoot-out with 23 police officers on San Bernardino Avenue, a few miles away from the original shootings. Police detained a third person who was running from the scene. Farook apparently had a confrontation at the party, left, and returned 20 minutes later with his wife, weapons, explosives, and body armor. The couple left behind a 6-month-old child. The couple had 3 explosive devices, rigged to a ­remote-controlled toy car. Police found 2 legally-purchased .223-caliber rifles and 2 9mm pistols in the SUV. Farook bought the pistols; someone else—possibly a former roommate—bought the rifles. U.S. citizen Farook was an environmental health specialist with the San Bernar­dino County health department and had worked at the center for 5 years. He and his wife had amassed a stockpile of 12 pipe bombs and 3,000 rounds of ammunition at their home.

The Washington Post and CNN reported that the dead included

• Robert Adams, 40, a health inspector from Yucaipa, was married for 15 years and had a 20-month-old daughter, Savannah. He worked for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. The couple met when they were teens and were high school sweethearts. They were planning a trip to Disneyland the next week.

• Isaac Amanios, 60, was a supervising environmental health specialist from Fontana and cousin of a New York Giants football player. He was survived by his wife and 3 children.

• Bennetta ­Bet-Badal, 46, of Rialto, moved at age 18 to the U.S. from Iran to escape religious prosecution against Christians. She settled in New York, then moved to California with husband Arlen Verdehyou, a police officer she married in 1997. They had 3 children, aged 10, 12, and 15.

• Harry Bowman, 46, of Upland, grew up in York, Pennsylvania, and moved to California about 15 years ago, according to the Los Angeles Times. He was a statistical analyst for the San Bernardino County Department of Public Health. He had 2 daughters.

• Sierra Clayborn, 27, of Moreno Valley, graduated from the University of California, Riverside, in 2010.

• Juan Espinoza, 50, of Highland, was an inspector for the San Bernardino County health department. He earlier worked in a juvenile court as a corrections officer. He left behind a wife and 2 children.

• Aurora Banales Godoy, 26, of San Jacinto, married her high school sweetheart, according to the Orange County Register. The couple had recently celebrated their anniversary and had a nearly-2-year-old child.

• Shannon Johnson, 45, Los Angeles, had worked for San Bernardino County for nearly 11 years, traveling more than 60 miles between the Los Angeles home he shared with his girlfriend and his San Bernardino office. He grew up in Kentucky and played baseball at a Georgia college. He was married for 6 years in the 1990s to Tina Johnson. One of the survivors of the massacre said he shielded her during the shooting.

• Larry Daniel Kaufman, 42, of Rialto, worked at a coffee shop at the site of the shooting. He participated in the annual Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire in Southern California.

• Damian Meins, 58, of Riverside, dressed up as Santa for a local school. He graduated from Notre Dame High School in Los Angeles in 1975. He worked at the environmental health services agency. He had graduated from a Catholic high school in Riverside. He married his high school sweetheart, now a Catholic school principal, and with her raised 2 daughters, one a teacher.

• Tin Nguyen, 31, of Santa Ana, was born in Vietnam and came to the U.S. at age 8. She attended Cal State Fullerton and worked as a food inspector with the county health department. She was scheduled to wed at a Catholic church in 2017. The day before the shooting, she celebrated her fiancé’s 32nd birthday.

• Nicholas Thalasinos, 52, of Colton, had a “heated, passionate conversation” about politics and religion with Farook days before the shoot-ing. He was a Messianic Jew, a movement that seeks to combine Judaism with the Christian belief that Jesus was the messiah. He left behind a wife.

• Yvette Velasco, 27, of Fontana, left behind her parents and 3 sisters.

• Michael Wetzel, 37, of Lake Arrowhead, was survived by his wife, Renee, and 6 children. He worked for the San Bernardino environmental health department.

The injured included Denise Peraza, who was shot in the back; Kevin Ortiz, who was shot twice in the leg and once in the shoulder; Patrick Baccari, who was hit by shrapnel coming through the wall; and 2 police officers.

The news media speculated that motives were a combination of workplace violence and jihadi terrorism.

Malik was a ­Pakistani-born immigrant who moved to Saudi Arabia when she was 4 years old and lived in Saudi Arabia for 25 years before marrying Farook on August 16, 2014, in Riverside County, according to ABC News. She was in the U.S. on a fiancée visa and had a U.S. green card. The marriage certificate listed both as Muslims. From 2007 to 2012, she studied pharmacy at Bahuddin Zakri University in Multan, Pakistan. ABC News discovered that the Pakistani town she listed as her home town does not exist. Farook’s brothers said that they never saw her face because she always wore a full burqa in public.

Co-workers said Farook, whose parents had immigrated to the U.S. from Southeast Asia, recently traveled to Saudi Arabia and returned with a woman he met online. Farook went to Saudi Arabia in 2013 for the Hajj.

CNN reported on December 4 that Malik had posted on Facebook a pledge of allegiance by the couple to IS caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, using a different name. Authorities said Farook had deleted some files from his computer earlier in the week, that the couple’s hard drive was missing, and that they found 2 relatively new cell phones smashed in a garbage can near one of the crime scenes. AP reported that Farook had been in contact with known jihadis under FBI scrutiny on social media, but the FBI said that they were not significant players nor was there a recent surge in communications. The Washington Post also reported that Farook had attempted to contact ­al-Shabaab and Jabhat ­al-Nusra.

The FBI announced on December 4 that it was investigating the attack as an act of terrorism. Neither of the attackers had been on any watch lists. On December 5, the Islamic State said on its radio station that the shooters were “supporters.” “We pray to God to accept them as martyrs,” al-Bayan Radio reported.

The landlord let a swarm of 100 reporters inside the shooters’ apartment after the FBI had left. Some cable stations broadcast live inside the apartment.

The Washington Post reported on December 6 that the FBI raided the home of Islamic convert Enrique Marquez, 24, a former ­next-door neighbor of the duo, who was believed to have purchased the 2 ­military-grade rifles used in the attacks. Authorities came back for a second search the next day. Both weapons were modified with large-capacity magazines. Marquez checked into a nearby mental health facility. He and Farook tinkered on cars together. The Washington Post reported on December 17 that Enrique Marquez was arrested and held at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside, California. His first hearing was scheduled for January 21, 2016. The Post later added that federal charges included conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of firearms used in the attack. Officials said that Marquez and Farook talked about conducting an attack in 2012. A year later, Farook and Malik exchanged private ­e-mails about violent jihad. In 2014, Marquez married Mariya Chernykh, whose sister Tatiana is married to Farook’s brother, Navy veteran Syed Raheel Farook. Court records indicated that Farook and Marquez plotted in 2011 and 2012 to throw pipe bombs at cars on the 91 Freeway in Corona and shoot trapped motorists and first responders, and attack Riverside City College, which Marquez had attended, but both plots were aborted. The Los Angeles Times reported on December 30 that Marquez was indicted on additional charges, including marriage fraud, via a superseding document that listed 5 charges. He faced 50 years in federal prison.

December 2—UK—Police raided 7 locations in Luton, searched several vehicles, and arrested 4 men in their 30s on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism.

December 2—Iraq—Drive-by gunmen killed Kirkuk councilman Mohammed Khalil ­al-Jubouri and his wife. The prominent Sunni politician was traveling through the central Taseen neighborhood without guards when the shooters opened fire.

December 2—Libya—Colonel Ali ­al-Thomas, head of military operations in Benghazi, died when he stepped on a land mine in Sidi Faraj, a farming and residential area.

December 2—Somalia—On December 7, Reuters reported that the Pentagon confirmed that Abdirahman Sandhere, alias Ukash, a senior ­al-Shabaab leader, was killed in an air strike on December 2.

December 3—Germany—Some 80 police raided 3 homes in the southwestern state of North ­Rhine-Westphalia of people in the “Islamist scene” who were suspected of trying to procure forged French passports. Authorities confiscated documents, hard drives, and other items. No arrests were reported. The raids followed a February arrest in Berlin of a middleman with the passports in his possession.

December 3—Israel—Authorities arrested Jewish youths suspected of an arson attack on a Palestinian home that killed 3.

December 3—Syria—AFP reported that IS posted a video entitled “To the Sons of Jews” showing dozens of boys, about 10 years old, studying religious texts and ­hand-to-hand combat. Their instructor chose 6 of them to “send a message” to IS opponents, and had them kill Syrian soldiers being held hostage. Each captive announced his name, year of birth and role in the security forces or in ­pro-government militia. The boys then killed them. Five were shot, one had his throat slit. IS said the video was taken in “Wilayat ­al-Kheir,” IS’s name for Syria’s eastern Deir Ezzor Province.

December 3—Spain—The National Court began the trial of 35 members of 3 outlawed Basque separatist political groups accused of being members of ETA. The prosecution said the 3 parties acted under ETA’s orders and represented a political and financial front for ETA. The accused support Basque separatism but denied ETA membership. The accused were members of Batasuna—outlawed in 2003 for its ETA connections—and 2 splinters that were banned in 2008. The prosecution asked for sentences of up to 10 years.

December 3—Mali—AQIM leader Abu Musab Abdul Wadud announced in an audio address that his group had unified with ­al-Mourabitoun, deeming the November attack on the Radisson Blu luxury hotel in Bamako as their declaration of unity. ­Al-Mourabitoun released a separate audio confirming the report.

December 3—U.S.—Reuters reported that U.S. District Court Judge Henry Hudson sentenced Irek Hamidullin, 55, a former Russian tank officer and Muslim convert convicted in August 2015 of a November 2009 attack on U.S. and Afghan soldiers at a border police station, to life in prison plus 30 years. Hamidullin was the first enemy combatant from Afghanistan to be tried in a U.S. federal court of charges related to helping Taliban fighters. Hamidul­lin was the sole Taliban insurgent to survive the attack. No Americans or Afghans were killed.

December 4—Spain—Police arrested 2 inmates on suspicion that they used their prison leave to spread propaganda for the Islamic State. Police detained a 24-year-old Moroccan who was on leave from Martutene prison in San Sebastian. A 32-year-old Span­iard was arrested in the prison. The 2 were serving sentences for common crimes. The Interior Ministry said the duo met with people outside the prison at which they showed video recordings of IS executions and attacks and praised the group’s actions. One inmate posted a video on social networks showing him burning his passport.

December 4—Thailand—National police deputy spokesman Colonel Songpol Wattanachai told the press that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) warned Thai police on November 17 that 10 Syrians who may be linked to the Islamic State could stage attacks in Thailand on targets associated with Russia and others opposed to the terrorists. The Syrians entered Thailand during the second half of October; some went to Bangkok and the seaside resorts of Pattaya and Phuket.

December 4—Israel—Four Palestinians in separate incidents wounded 4 Israeli soldiers, 2 moderately and 2 lightly, before being shot and killed by authorities. Two Palestinians stabbed a soldier in Hebron. A Palestinian stabbed a soldier in the neck during a security inspection near Ramallah in the West Bank. A Palestinian rammed his car into troops at an army post in the West Bank, wounding 2 soldiers.

December 4—Central African Republic—During the night, ­ex-Seleka jihadis attacked a camp for the displaced in Ngakobo, leading to the deaths of 8 civilians and 5 fighters and injuries to several displaced people, 2 jihadis, and a UN peacekeeper. 15120401

December 4—Egypt—UPI reported that at 6 a.m., 6 masked men on 3 motorcycles threw Molotov cocktails into the ­el-Sayad restaurant and nightclub in Cairo’s Agouza area, killing 11 men and 5 women and injuring 3 people. The Interior Ministry suggested it was a labor disagreement at a basement nightclub vice terrorism. Others suggested it was a dispute between restaurant staff and visitors who were denied entry. Al-Jazeera reported on December 5 that Egyptian authorities arrested 2 Cairo residents, an 18-year old student and a 19-year-old mechanic, in Suez Province on the Red Sea coast after fleeing the city. Interior Ministry spokesman Abu Bakr ­Abdel-Karim said police were searching for 6 suspects.

December 4—Austria—NBC News reported that 2 Syrian men in their 20s registered as refugees were detained after claims that they had fought for IS.

December 5—Austria—During the evening, police in Vienna’s Westbahnhof railway station arrested a 17-year-old Swedish girl who planned to travel to Syria. Her family feared she was going to join IS.

December 5—Chad—The New York Daily News and Gulf Times reported that 3 female suicide bombers killed 30 people and injured 90 at a market on Koulfoua (variant Loulou Fou) island in Lake Chad. Boko Haram was suspected. Later reports from AP said 15 died and 130 were injured. 15120501

December 5—Nigeria—The Department of State Security said that during the past month it had arrested 9 alleged Boko Haram extremists plotting ­attacks on Abuja over the Christmas season. One individual was carrying out surveillance of a “high-profile hotel.”

December 5—Malaysia—Reuters reported that Police chief Khalid Abu Bakar announced the arrests between November 17 and December 1 of 5 people—4 foreigners and one Malaysian—on suspicion of links with terrorist groups like the Islamic State and ­al-Qaeda. One detainee was a European, 44, who worked as a temporary teacher in Penang State. He was linked with ­al-Qaeda and reportedly had participated in militant activities in Afghanistan and Bosnia. A 31-year-old Indonesian man, a Malay­sian and a Bangladeshi were part of a cell linked to the Islamic State and were tasked with recruiting volunteers to take part in terrorist activities overseas. The cell’s leader, an Indonesian, reportedly swore allegiance to IS caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi through Facebook in 2014.

December 5—UK—Reuters reported that a man with a knife yelled “This is for Syria” then stabbed 3 people in east London’s Leytonstone metro station, seriously injuring one man and causing minor injuries to 2 others before police fired a stun gun at him and arrested him. Richard Walton, head of the London police’s Counter Terrorism Command, said “We are treating this as a terrorist incident.” In a video taken of the incident, a bystander yelled, “You ain’t no Muslim, bruv,” which became a Twitter hashtag. ABC News reported that police found in the suspect’s home “images and flags related to ISIS, material on the recent attacks in America, images of orange jump suit–wearing Islamic State prisoners, images related to the recent attacks in Paris, and images of a British police exercise involving an active shooter scenario,” according to the Westminster Magistrates Court. Muhaydin Mire, 29, was charged with attempted murder. The court said the name associated with his phone was “Die in Your Rage Crusader.” The court noted that he shouted “This is for Syria, my Muslim brothers,” right after being detained, before adding: “this is because you bombed the hospitals in Syria.” The court said Mire attacked a man from behind, adding, “A number of witnesses describe a furious assault which initially involved Mr. Mire hitting the male numerous times around the head and body before forcing him to the floor. Once on the floor, Mr. Mire was seen to kick and stamp on the male. Some witnesses attempted to intervene, but one was punched in the face before Mr. Mire brandished a knife. As the witness retreated in fear, Mr. Mire proceeded to hold the male’s head with one hand and began to cut his neck in what is described by some as a sawing motion.” AP reported on December 8 that Mire’s family said he had mental problems and that they contacted the police weeks earlier. He was diagnosed with paranoia in 2007 and spent 3 months in a hospital.

December 5—Lebanon—Mohammad Hamza threw grenades at soldiers raiding his apartment in Deiremar before he set off his suicide belt, killing himself and 2 relatives and wounding 7 soldiers, including 2 officers. Hamza was wanted on several charges, including firing on a Lebanese army patrol in 2014.

December 5—Bangladesh—Terrorists threw 3 bombs at the Kantajir Hindu temple during an ­open-air dramatic performance as part of an annual fair in Dinajpur district in the morning, injuring 10 people. Police detained 6 men.

December 5—Yemen—Masked gunmen in Aden killed a military intelligence official and a judge known for sentencing AQAP terrorists. No one claimed credit.

December 6—Yemen—The Yemeni IS affiliate claimed credit for setting off a bomb that killed the governor of Aden Province and 6 of his bodyguards. The bomb hit the convoy of Governor Gaafar Mohamed Saad as he was traveling to his office. IS said the bomb was hidden in a parked car. IS called Saad a “tyrant” and warned the “heads of the infidels” that it would conduct “operations to chop off their rotten heads.”

December 6—Germany—Serbian authorities arrested a man who threatened to open an external door during Lufthansa flight 1406 from Frankfurt to Belgrade as it was flying over Austria if he was not allowed outside. He banged on a cockpit door and threatened to crash the plane. Crew and passengers overcame him. The Belgrade Blic reported that he was a Jordanian with a U.S. passport.

December 6—Syria/China—UPI reported that the Islamic State‘s ­al-Hayat Media Center released a 4-minute nasheed (propaganda song) in Mandarin calling for China’s Muslim men to “wake up” and “take up weapons in rebellion.” Lyrics included: “We are Mujahid, our shameless enemy panics before us. To die fighting on this battlefield is our dream. Wake up! Muslim brother, now is the time to awaken. Take up your faith and courage, fulfill the lost doctrine. No power can stop our progress. To take up weapons in rebellion is Muhammad’s order. To fight against those who fight you is Great Allah’s command. To take up weapons in rebellion is Prophet Muhammad’s order. We are Mujahid, our shameless enemy panics before us. To die fighting on this battlefield is our dream.”

December 7—Israel—A Palestinian stabbed Gennady Kaufman, 41, a resident of the Kiryat Arba settlement, in nearby Hebron. Israeli forces fatally shot the assailant. Kaufman died of his wounds on December 30 at the Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusa­lem.

December 7—Afghanistan—NBClosangeles.com reported that the IS Telegram news channel released a video in which it said that the Afghan Taliban had deviated from the righteous Muslim path. Abu Yasir ­al-Afghani accused the Taliban of cooperating with Pakistan and of protecting shrines deemed un–Islamic by the IS. He also railed against alleged ties between the Taliban and Iran.

December 7—Somalia—Somali security forces in Barawe arrested Abdimalik Jones, an American who was fighting with ­al-Shabaab, according to African Union spokesman Colonel Paul Njuguna. Jones said he was from San Diego. Jones said he had left ­al-Shabaab because of internal fighting. He was missing the index finger of his right hand.

December 7—Russia—A small bomb went off at a bus stop on Moscow’s Pokrovka Street, one mile from Red Square. Three women were lightly injured by flying glass. Two were hospitalized with leg injuries.

December 7—U.S.—WOKV-TV reported that Amani Bracy, 14, said she had ties to IS and threatened to shoot up Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, Florida. She was arrested for a felony charge of written threats to kill or do bodily harm to a person or family member. She was pulled out of her classroom on December 2 after a student told officials about the threat, which came through the instant messaging app KIK. Bracy and another suspect “were making statements that they were with ISIS and have hacked the School Boards server to get her information,” according to the police report. They said they would “shoot up the school” with AK-47s and sniper rifles. Bracy’s accomplice allegedly threatened the victim, saying “don’t dare call the police we gone murder u if u do,” according to the report.

December 8—India—UPI reported that Indian police in Pampore killed 2 suspected terrorists in a car who were believed to have entered Kashmir to attack Srinagar. Two police officers were injured in the gun battle on a highway. The terrorists fired on authorities when they were ordered to stop at a security blockade.

December 8—U.S.—UPI reported that the Department of Justice indicted Terrence J. McNeil, 25, from Ohio, on 3 counts of solicitation of a crime of violence and 3 counts of threatening military personnel for soliciting the murder of U.S. military members, including the Navy SEAL who presumably killed Osama Bin Laden. Authorities arrested McNeil on November 12 on federal charges that he solicited the murder of U.S. military members. The indictment said he used Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, to assert support for the Islamic State. Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony of the FBI’s Cleveland Division said, “While we aggressively defend First Amendment rights, the individual arrested went far beyond free speech by reposting names and addresses of 100 U.S. service members, all with the intent to have them killed.” The indictment said that in late September, he reposted on Tumblr photographs of ­apparent U.S. military personnel along with their names, addresses and the military branch which they served. The final image showed a handgun and a knife plus text that said: “and kill them wherever you find them.” In early October, he posted on Twitter a message and link that revealed the apparent address of Navy SEAL Robert ­O’Neill, often cited as the man who fatally shot Osama Bin Laden. A message said the SEAL “is a mummy’s boy who has been trying to hide yet still lives with his father … and mother…. In between going around America to conferences boasting at how his ‘claim to fame’ is killing Sheikh Osama Bin Laden…. I am posting his address to brothers & to ­al-Qaeda in the U.S. as a number one target. He added on Tumblr, “don’t let this kafir sleep peacefully.” Each solicitation count carried a statutory maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and each threat count carried a statutory maximum sentence of 5 years in prison.

December 8—U.S.—The Washington Post reported that federal authorities arrested Amin ­al-Baroudi, 50, alias Abu ­al-Jud, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Syria, for violating U.S. sanctions against Syria and conspiring to defraud the United States by conspiring to provide firearm scopes, tactical vests and other supplies to Ahrar ­al-Sham, a Syrian rebel group. The indictment, filed in April 2015 in federal district court in Alexandria, Virginia, was unsealed the previous week. He was formally served with his charges on December 3 at Dulles International Airport. He made a brief court appearance on December 7; a federal magistrate judge ordered him detained pending further legal proceedings. He was represented by attorney Anthony Capozzolo, who told the court that al-Baroudi had been to Saudi Arabia and suffered a heart attack there. Baroudi was not charged with lending support to terrorists. The indictment said Ahrar ­al-Sham “frequently fights alongside Jabhat ­al-Nusra, which has been designated by the United States as a foreign terrorist organization and operates as ­al-Qaeda’s official branch in Syria.” They alleged that Ahrar ­al-Sham’s “stated goal is to overthrow the Assad government and install an Islamic state in Syria.” Baroudi had lived in Irvine, California.

December 8—Egypt—UPI, Xinhua and the ­state-run Ahram Online reported that jihadis set off a roadside bomb as an armored vehicle passed by near a hospital in Rafah on the Sinai Peninsula, killing 4 Egyptian security personnel.

December 8—Spain—Authorities arrested a man and a woman, both Moroccans, in Mataro Catalonia and the Canary Island of Fuerteventura on suspicion of forming an Islamic State cell and recruiting and indoctrinating Islamic militants. Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said the duo worked within “a highly professional” network aimed at conveying “an idealized image of their struggle” to recruit young Spaniards and train them in the use of arms and explosives. He said they were “in constant contact with the Islamic State hierarchy in Syria” and publicly pledged loyalty to IS and caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. The 2 made “specific threats” against Spain and France. The woman was 19 and arrested in Fuerte­ventura; the man was 33.

December 8—Israel—The government announced the indictments of 5 Arab citizens for establishing a cell of the Islamic State and amassing weapons and training with them. The men were residents of Nazareth, aged 19 to 27, and were charged with supporting an outlawed group and weapons offenses.

December 8—Finland—The National Bureau of Investigation announced the arrest of 2 23-year-old Iraqi twin brothers believed to have been members of the Islamic State in Iraq who were suspected of fatally shooting “11 unarmed and defenseless prisoners” in June 2014. The duo arrived in Finland in September and were arrested in Forssa. The NBI said IS posted a video online of the shooting of the prisoners in Tikrit. On December 11, the Pirkanmaa District Court in Tampere jailed them for 4 months. NBI spokesman Jari Raty said the court case would start in April 2016. The defendants faced life imprisonment, which in Finland means being released—although not automatically—after serving between 12 and 15 years. Finnish media said the duo were asylum seekers.

December 8–9—Afghanistan—CNN reported that at 6:20 p.m., the Taliban attacked a market bazaar and school near Kandahar Air Field, killing 50 people, including 38 civilians, 10 Afghan soldiers and 2 police officers, and injuring 35. Authorities said 11 attackers died in a gun battle that lasted 26 hours. The Taliban said the machine ­gun-carrying gunmen were targeting foreign forces.

December 9—Israel—Security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who stabbed and seriously wounded 2 Israelis near Hebron in the West Bank.

December 9—Iraq—An Islamic State suicide bomber set off his explosives a the doorway of a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad as worshipers were leaving after midday prayers, killing 11 people and wounding 20.

December 9—Iran—The ­semi-official Fars news agency reported that a booby trap bomb killed 3 policemen and wounded several people in Nikshahr, near the border with Pakistan.

December 9—Yemen—Masked gunmen remotely detonated explosives they had placed around a church in Aden, demolishing the building but causing no injuries.

December 9—U.S.—AP reported on December 22 that Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Eagan, Minnesota was arrested on December 9 and charged on December 10 with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and one count of providing such support by helping other young Somalis to travel via Mexico to Syria to fight for the IS. Nine others in the group were charged earlier. A court document said Warsame gave a man $200 for an expedited passport application. Warsame applied for an expedited passport was denied, but he obtained a passport in August 2014. The document said one man had reserved a May 2014 flight from Minneapolis to Istanbul, and intended to go to Syria. The day before the flight, Warsame and 2 others accompanied the man to a library, where he printed out his itinerary. The foursome bought travel items at a mall. The traveler was stopped at ­Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport by FBI agents. On December 22, FBI Special Agent Daniel Higgins testified that Warsame had claimed that he could build rockets that could threaten planes landing at ­Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where he had worked in ­April-August 2014 as a baggage handler. U.S. Magistrate Judge Becky Thorson ruled there was probable cause to support the charges, and that Warsame was a flight risk and danger to the community. Another FBI agent, Vadym Vinetsky, wrote in the original federal complaint that Warsame was appointed emir of a local group of radical Somalis by Guled Ali Omar, who was planning to leave for Syria but was thwarted and was among those awaiting trial. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Winter said Warsame helped one defendant with money for an expedited passport and assisted another alleged ­co-conspirator to contact Islamic State facilitators in Turkey. An FBI informant recorded a conversation between Warsame and Omar regarding a propaganda video about a “tank hunter” who used ­rocket-propelled grenades. “The defendant indicated he would like to take such a role and said he quote, loved RPGs.” Warsame was represented by defense attorney Robert Sicoli.

December 10—Australia—Federal Police counterterrorist authorities in western Sydney arrested and charged 2 men, one a 15-year-old, the other 20, with conspiracy to prepare for a terrorism act as part of the Operation Appleby investigation into persons suspected of being involved in domestic acts of terrorism, foreign incursions into Syria and Iraq and the funding of terrorist groups. Police said the duo and 3 others, already jailed, were facing terrorism charges regarding an alleged plot to attack a government building, possibly a federal police building. All faced a potential sentence of life in prison. Police discovered the plot during raids in Sydney in December 2014. Police believed the plot, and another one that would have targeted a random member of the pub-lic in Sydney, were influenced by extremists over-seas.

December 10—Netherlands—A ­3-judge court in Amsterdam convicted 6 Muslim men of membership in a terror network that recruited young people to fight for groups such as Islamic State in Syria. They were among 8 men and one woman convicted of various crimes linked to a network of jihadis that operated in The Hague, spreading radical Islamic messages on social media, websites and at readings. The panel sentenced some to 6 years. Two were believed to be fighting in Syria and were tried in absentia. Andre Seebregts served as defense lawyer for Azzedine C., who received a ­6-year-sentence.

December 10—Israel—A Palestinian driver crashed his vehicle into a group of Israelis, injuring 3, one seriously, near the West Bank settlement of Beit Arieh, before fleeing into the neighboring Palestinian village of Luban. The next day, authorities arrested Mahmad ­Abd-el-Halim ­Abd-el-Hamid Salam. Shin Bet said he is a member of Hamas from the West Bank village of Luban and that he admitted to carrying out the attack.

December 10—Spain—Police arrested Ali Charaf Damache, of ­Algerian-Irish nationality, in Barcelona, on a U.S.-issued warrant indicating that he was a suspected AQIM recruiter. The U.S. wanted him in connection with emails sent in the United States between 2009 and 2010 that indicated he was recruiting for AQIM and was trying to establish cells. The National Court in Madrid ordered him provisionally jailed while his extradition is reviewed. He had appeared in a court in Waterford, Ireland on March 15, 2010. He was accused of recruiting American citizen Colleen LaRose, alias Jihad Jane, while living in Ireland in 2009 and another American woman via jihadi websites, and plotting to kill Lars Vilks, a Swedish artist whose drawings depicting the prophet Muhammad as a dog offended Muslims. She was sentenced in 2014 to 10 years. He married the second woman, Jamie ­Paulin-Ramirez, on the day she arrived in Ireland from Colorado. ­Paulin-Ramirez was sentenced in the U.S. in 2014 to 8 years for supporting Da­mache’s work.

December 10—Switzerland—Geneva police announced that they were “actively searching” for “suspicious individuals who could be in Geneva or the Geneva region” in connection with the Paris attacks.

December 10—Iraq—Reuters reported that Army Colonel Steve Warren told a Pentagon briefing that coalition strikes in recent weeks had killed 3 IS leaders, including IS finance minister Abu Salah, a senior leader responsible for coordinating the group’s extortion activities and an executive officer. Newsweek quoted Warren as saying that Abu Salah was “a legacy al-Qaeda member” who died in an airstrike in late November. The Brookings Institution said Abu Salah’s real name was Muafaq Mustafa Mohammed al-Karmoush.

December 10—Syria—ABC News reported that a 17-page Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Intelligence Report warned law enforcement authorities that the Islamic State might have its own machine(s) for printing Syrian passports since taking over Deir ­ez-Zour, home to a passport office, 17 months earlier. A second passport office was in Raqqa. The report indicated that “fake Syrian passports are so prevalent in Syria that Syrians do not even view possessing them as illegal. The source stated fake Syrian passports can be obtained in Syria for $200 to $400 and that backdated passport stamps to be placed in the passport cost the same.”

December 10—Syria—Syrian state television and the Islamic State said the group set off suicide bombs in the predominantly Christian town of Tal Tamr in the evening, killing 60 people and wounding dozens. The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said they killed 26, including 4 Assyrian Christians.

December 10—Afghanistan—Attaullah Khugyani, spokesman of the Nangarhar provincial governor, said a woman set off her explosive vest at a checkpoint in Jalalabad in the evening, killing her 3 children and an officer who stopped their ­suspicious-looking car. The NDS intelligence service stopped the car with the woman, her children and 4 men at the checkpoint. The woman and the children got out. They did not use the languages of Pashto and Dari and appeared to be speaking Russian. It was not clear what happened to the men.

December 10–11—Kyrgyzstan—AFP reported that the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security (SCNS) Security killed 2 members of what they claimed was the cell of an unnamed international terror group during a nighttime raid in Bishkek. The SCNS said “criminals put up fierce armed resistance and were eliminated…. The cell members that were killed were involved in a number of particularly serious crimes including the murder of a policeman in the 8th district of Bishkek.” Policeman Aktilek Abduvaliev, 26, was shot to death after attempting to check the documents of 2 people who later escaped on bicycles in November.

December 11—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a Spanish Embassy guest house in Kabul’s Shir Pur area, killing a Spanish police officer and wounding 7 civilians. Gunshots were heard in the area. The Italian aid group Emergency told CNN that it had received 7 Afghan patients after the attack. Two attackers were killed but 3 or 4 others were hiding in the guesthouse. UPI said 2 guards were killed. Three Spaniards were rescued. Five more bombs and gunfire were heard during the night as security forces battled Taliban infiltrators in the diplomatic quarter. NBC News reported that the attack and siege left 12 dead, including 4 terrorists, 4 Afghan police, a security guard, a civilian, and 2 foreigners, including the Spanish guard. AP reported that the second foreigner was a Spanish officer who died of his wounds. 15121101

Gunmen in Baghlan Province killed Abdul Jabar, Borka district chief, on the main road near Puli Khumri, the provincial capital. The gunmen kidnapped Jabar’s driver and 2 bodyguards.

December 11—Cameroon—Al-Jazeera reported that a male suicide bomber hit the central area of Kolofata, killing 10 people and injuring 22. Boko Haram was suspected. The German news agency DPA said a second suicide bomber escaped when his bomb fizzled. 15121102

December 11—Lebanon—Shi’ite gunmen kidnapped Hannibal Qadhafi, son of former Libyan leader Mu’ammar Qadhafi, and demanded information about the disappearance in 1978 of Shi’ite Imam Moussa ­al-Sadr in Libya. Hannibal Gadhafi appeared in a video aired on local al-Jadeed TV to have been beaten up and had black eyes but said in the video he was “in good health, happy and relaxed.” Qadhafi, who is married to a Lebanese woman, said, “I am with people who have a cause and they are loyal to their cause…. We should respect their loyalty to their cause and at least give them the truth.” Police found him in Baalbek and brought him to Beirut. 15121103

December 11—Switzerland—Public broadcaster RTS reported that Geneva authorities arrested 2 men of Syrian origin; traces of explosives were found in their vehicle. It was unclear whether they were among the individuals being sought for IS connections. AP reported on December 23 that Spanish authorities searched the Barcelona home of one of the Syrians. Spain’s Interior Ministry identified the suspects only as A.A., 19; and K.A., 24; and said one held Spanish residency.

December 11—Israel—Israeli troops shot to death a Palestinian who tried to crash his car into Israeli soldiers near Hebron in the West Bank. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified him as Issa Hroub, 55, from the nearby village of Deir Samet. There were no Israeli injuries.

Israeli troops shot and wounded a Palestinian who fired on them at a West Bank border crossing. He fled in a van from the Gilboa crossing near Jenin. No Israelis were injured.

December 11—Colombia/Spain—Colombian chief prosecutor Eduardo Montealegre announced that his office had documented more than 150 forced abortions carried out by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. He said the policy was used on women rebels to avoid their loss as combatants. AFP reported on December 12 that police in Madrid, Spain arrested Hector Albeidis Arboleda, alias The Nurse, alias The Medic, who was believed responsible for performing the abortions. He was accused of aggravated torture, performing ­non-consensual abortions, and aggravated conspiracy. Most of the abortions were performed on members of the 9th and 47th FARC fronts. Colombian prosecutors sought his extradition.

December 11—Burundi—Military spokesman Colonel Gaspard Baratuza said gunmen in civilian garb attacked 3 military camps—2 in Bujumbura and one in the countryside—at 4 a.m., aiming to steal weap­ons and free prisoners. The military killed 12 gunmen and arrested 20 attackers, including one who was hospitalized. Baratuza said 5 soldiers were wounded, although soldiers told the media that 3 of them were killed. Stray bullets hit civilian homes. One soldier said 5 gunmen and 2 soldiers died at the camp in the Ngagara neighborhood. A soldier at the ISCAM military academy said one soldier died there. The third attack was at Mujejuru in the commune of Mugongo Manga, 22 miles from Bujumbura. The next day, the Burundi army said 87 people, including 8 security forces, were killed in the fighting.

December 11—Syria—The Islamic State set off 3 suicide bombs at the offices of the main Kurdish YPG militia in the predominantly Kurdish province of Hassakeh, killing at least 26 people.

December 11—Somalia—Two ­IS-affiliated websites accused ­al-Shabaab leaders of ordering the killing and detention of dozens of jihadis who expressed their willingness to join IS. They include Mohamed Makawi, a Sudanese who took part in the ­drive-by shooting of American citizen John Ganville and his driver in Khartoum on January 1, 2008. Makawi and Abdelbasit Haj Hamad were among 4 sentenced to death in Sudan for killing Granville but escaped from prison in 2010. The U.S. offered up to $10 million for information leading to their capture.

December 11—U.S.—CNN reported that the FBI was investigating a possible arson in the case of a fire started at noon inside the Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley mosque in California. Some damage was reported. No one was hurt. KMIR reported that on the morning of November 4, 2014, 4 shots were fired toward the mosque. On December 12, police arrested Carl James Dial, Jr., 23, for the arson. He was held in Riverside County Jail on suspicion of arson, a hate crime, and felony burglary. Bail was set at $150,000.

The Washington Post reported that the FBI arrested Mohamed Yousef Elshinawy, 30, alias Mojoe, alias Mo Jo, of Edgewood, Maryland, for receiving $9,000 from the Islamic State to conduct an attack on U.S. soil. Charges included providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, obstruction of an investigation and making false statements to the FBI. The complaint said he bought phones, calling cards and a laptop computer. He communicated with the IS via social media, multiple email accounts and “pay as you go” phones. The FBI said he pledged allegiance to IS on February 17, telling a childhood friend via social media he was “a soldier of the state but was temporarily away.” The FBI spotted him in June when it became aware of a $1,000 payment to him from Egypt. The Bureau discovered payments via Western Union and PayPal to him from overseas. He was represented by federal public defender Joseph A. Balter. Elshinawy claimed he was trying to scam money from IS and did not intend to conduct an attack. He faced 15 years on the charge of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and 8 years each on the other 2 charges.

December 11—Ethiopia—AFP reported that a grenade was thrown into the Anwar Mosque in Addis Ababa’s central Merkato district after prayers, injuring 17 people.

December 12—Pakistan—AFP reported that a bomb exploded near the Frontier Corps checkpoint in Quetta during the morning, killing one soldier and injuring 4 other people, including a teen passing by.

December 12—Iraq—A suicide car bomber wearing a captain’s uniform crashed his military vehicle into the Hafr Zawiyah border security post in ­al-Nukhayb in Anbar Province, killing 6 guards, including base commander Lieutenant Colonel Hussein ­al-Goli, and wounding 14 guards some 62 miles from the Saudi border. The Islamic State was suspected.

December 12—Syria—State news agency SANA reported that a car bomb exploded near a hospital in the ­government-held Zahra neighborhood in Homs, killing at least 8 people and wounding 25. The ­UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 35 were wounded.

December 12—Burundi—The bodies of 28 people were found shot dead in 3 neighborhoods in Bujumbura. One person found 21 bodies with bullet wounds in their heads in the Nyakabiga neighborhood; some had their hands tied behind their backs. The body of James Ntunzwenimana, 14, was found in the Jabe neighborhood. The other 6 bodies were found in Musaga.

December 12—Ceuta—Spanish police arrested a 34-year-old Spanish man, resident in Ceuta, on suspicion of radicalizing and recruiting youths for the Islamic State. Police had spotted several young women who had left Ceuta for Syria, and traced them back to the suspect.

December 12–13—Nigeria—Shi’ite gunmen attacked the convoy of Army chief General Turur Buratai in the afternoon. Army spokesman Col. Sani Usman said, “The sect numbering hundreds, carrying dangerous weapons, barricaded the roads with bonfires, heavy stones and tires…. They refused all entreaties to disperse and then started firing and pelting the convoy with dangerous objects … in a deliberate attempt to assassinate” Buratai.

Soldiers raided the Zaria home of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria group’s leader, sparking a ­day-long gun battle that killed 12 people and wounded 30.

December 13—UK—Shaker Aamer, the last British resident released from Guantanamo Bay, told the Daily Mail that extremists “can get the hell out” if they are that angry with the UK. “How can you give yourself the right to be living here in this country, and living with the people and acting like you are a normal person, and then you just walk in the street and try to kill people?”

December 13—Kenya—Al-Shabaab gunmen ambushed an army truck traveling to Mandera from Nairobi, between Elwak and Lafey, killing one soldier and wounding 2. 15121301

December 13—Pakistan—NBC News reported that a bomb exploded in a market selling ­second-hand woolen items in Parachinar, capital of the Kurram tribal region, killing 25 and injuring 70. A ­remotely-detonated bomb was suspected.

December 14—Turkey—The U.S. Embassy in Ankara announced that it would be available only for “limited operations” due to an unspecified security threat.

December 14—France—Prosecutors said a kindergarten teacher, 45, made up the story of having been stabbed in the throat and side at 7 a.m. at the Jean Perrin preschool in Aubervilliers by a ­balaclava-wearing assailant wielding a scissors and a ­box-cutter who yelled that the attack “was for Daesh. This is a warning. This is only the beginning.” The teacher was hospitalized with ­nonlife-threatening injuries, according to Le Parisien. No students were in the classroom at the time. UPI reported the next day that the teacher was suspended and taken to a psychiatric hospital. He said he stabbed himself in the side and neck with box cutters. The Local reported that the 20-year teaching veteran might have been trying to avoid upcoming inspections; he had a history of calling in sick for inspections.

December 14—Australia—AFP and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a 17-year-old from Melbourne alleged to have ­bomb-making materials pleaded guilty in the Children’s Court to one charge of engaging in an act in preparation for, or planning, a terrorist act. Two less serious charges were dropped. The teen did not apply for bail. He had been arrested in May, when police seized a computer from his home. The computer contained encrypted documents from Inspire, including “Pressure Cooker Backpack Bomb with Switch Detonator” and “Make a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom.” Police also confiscated a pressure cooker and lengths of steel pipes fitted with caps.

December 14—Israel—Bystanders shot to death Palestinian man Abed Almohsin Hassoneh, 21, from the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina, after he crashed his car into pedestrians at a crowded bus stop at the western entrance to Jerusalem under the city’s iconic Calatrava bridge, wounding 9. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said police found an axe in Hassoneh’s white Mazda.

December 14—Kenya—A roadside bomb exploded under a police truck on patrol in Mandera, near the Somali border, wounding 5 policemen, 3 seriously. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected. 15121401

December 14—Libya—Maltese citizen Pierre Baldacchino, 36, manager of the St. James Hospital, was abducted as he returned to his Tripoli home around 5 p.m. 15121402

December 14—U.S.—Former Illinois National Guard soldier Hasan Rasheed Edmonds, 23, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State.

December 14—Yemen—UPI, the BBC, and Saudi state news reported that Houthi rebels fired a ­Soviet-era Tochka rocket that hit a command center in Taiz Province, killing Saudi Colonel Abdullah ­al-Sahyan, commander of Saudi special forces in Yemen, and UAE officer Sultan ­al-Ketbi. The center was part of a camp housing members of the ­Saudi-led coalition, including troops from Yemen, Sudan, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The pro–Houthi Saba news agency claimed hundreds of soldiers and mercenaries, including more than 40 members of Blackwater, a private security firm that changed its name to Academi in 2011, were killed. 15121403

December 14–16—Philippines—Fighting broke out during a government raid on an Abu Sayyaf camp in Basilan Island’s ­al-Barka township. After 3 days, at least 15 rebels and 3 soldiers were dead and at least 7 terrorists and 13 soldiers were wounded.

December 15—Denmark—Prosecutor ­Lise-Lotte Nilas charged a 23-year-old man with violating Danish terrorism laws by joining the Islamic State in 2013 and with financially supporting IS because he intended to bring 20,000 kroner ($3000) in 2014 when he planned to return to Syria but was stopped by Danish police. He faced 4 years in prison.

December 15—UK—Judge Gerald Gordon sentenced British citizen Mustafa Abdullah, 34, to 4½ years in prison on ­terrorism-related charges after the Muslim convert returned from Syria to London’s Gatwick Airport in 2014. Police discovered gun instruction and guerrilla training videos on his phone and computer and a photo of him carrying an assault rifle. Abdullah said at trial that he was working for Britain’s intelligence service but was convicted of 13 offenses.

December 15—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that Muhammed Raghil ­al-Hardani, a Syrian IS jihadi suspected of planning a suicide attack against the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, was detained “in the past few days” at a bus station in Kahramanmaras. A court in the town ordered him jailed pending trial following questioning by ­anti-terror police. The news service said authorities traced ­al-Hardani to Samsun in northern Turkey. He was detained en route to Gaziantep Province while dining with another Syrian, who was released after questioning.

December 15—Germany—The New York Times reported that police detained Sven Lau, 35, a German jihadi who once tried to open a school supported by the Invitation to Paradise network, on 4 counts of supporting a terrorist organization. Prosecutors said he was suspected of supporting the Army of Emigrants and Helpers (Arabic acronym JAMWA) and the Islamic State by serving as a “contact for those willing to leave the country and fight,” and providing cash and equipment, including ­night-vision goggles, to Germans in combat in Syria. In 2014, he sent young men with orange security vests lettered with “Shariah Police” into the streets of Wuppertal.

December 15—Russia—Alexander Bortnikov, director of the Federal Security Service, said the FSB was investigating 1,600 individuals and legal entities suspected of aiding the Islamic State and had identified 2,900 Russian citizens suspected of involvement in extremist groups in Syria and Iraq. Some 198 of them were killed in fighting and another 214 returned to Russia. Of the returnees, 80 were convicted and 41 were arrested.

December 15—Saudi Arabia—Deputy Crown Prince and Defense Minister Mohammed bin Salman announced the formation of a 34-nation “Islamic military alliance” to fight terrorism—and not just countering the Islamic State. The joint operations center would be based in Riyadh. Members included Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Jordan, Tunisia, Yemen, the Palestinians, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Benin, Chad, Togo, Djibouti, Senegal, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Gabon, Guinea, Comoros, Ivory Coast, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Nigeria. The alliance did not include the ­Shi’ite-led countries of Iran and Iraq, nor Syria, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Oman. Some countries listed as members said that they first heard of the agreement through news reports, and had not signed on, according to the Washington Post.

December 15—U.S.—CNN reported that upon receiving a 360-word ­e-mailed threat of a ­large-scale jihadi attack by “138 comrades” with ­pressure-cooker bombs, nerve agents, and machineguns, the Los Angeles school system was ordered closed while the New York City school system remained open, its leaders dismissing the threat as a hoax. The LA school system includes 900+ public schools and 187 charter schools attended by 640,000 students. The ­e-mail had been routed through Germany.

Similar threats were sent on December 17 to school districts in Indiana (Plainfield), California (Long Beach), Florida (Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando) and Texas (Houston, Dallas, and one near the border with Mexico).

CNN reported on December 21 that all public schools—12 elementary schools, 3 middle schools and 2 high schools—in Nashua, New Hampshire, closed after the district received a “detailed threat of violence” against the 2 high schools.

December 15—Mali—AQIM credited Ansar Dine with an attack on a military barracks in Nione in the northern Segou region that killed and wounded soldiers.

December 16—Israel—During an overnight raid to confiscate weapons in the Qalandiya refugee camp in the West Bank, 2 Palestinians tried to ram their vehicles into soldiers and border policemen before they were fatally shot. Palestinian activist Raed Hamdan identified the duo as Ahmad Jahajha, 21, a resident of the Qalandiya camp, and Hikmat Hamdan, 29, from ­el-Bireh.

December 16—Iraq—Gunmen in several dozen vehicles raided a camp of Qatari falconry hunters near Layyah in the Samawah desert on the Euphrates River near the Saudi border at dawn, and kidnapped between 19 and 26 Qataris, including members of the Qatari royal family. Two kidnapped Iraqi intelligence officers were soon released. 15121601

The Islamic State fired Katyusha rockets for hours at a Kurdish peshmerga training camp in the Bashiqa region in Ninevah Province, killing 3 Iraqi Sunni fighters and wounding 10 people, including 4 Turkish soldiers conducting the training. 15121602

December 16—Kenya—In a nighttime attack, ­al-Shabaab attacked a police convoy escorting goods on the ­Mpeketoni-Lamu road in coastal Lamu County, and shot dead 2 people, including a police officer. The group stole a police vehicle and drove it to Somalia. 15121603

December 17—Israel—Palestinian security officials said Abdallah Nasarah, 16, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers conducting “routine security activity” in Hawara in the West Bank after he charged at them with a knife.

December 17—Afghanistan—The Islamic State announced the creation of the ­anti-government radio station Voice of the Caliphate in Nangarhar Province. It was heard in Jalalabad broadcasting at 90 FM.

December 17—Germany—DPA reported that authorities arrested a 31-year-old man from Syria at a refugee center in Unna on suspicion of having worked for the Islamic State. DPA reported that Dortmund prosecutor Henner Kruse released him later that day, saying authorities could not substantiate an accusation on an ­Arabic-language website of IS affiliation.

December 17—U.S.—Adam Shafi, 22, of Fremont, California, pleaded not guilty to one count of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He had expressed love for the head of the ­al-Nusra Front, according to court records, and said in phone conversations with friends that he was willing to die for the group. His family had reported him missing in August 2014 during a family trip to Egypt. Authorities at San Francisco Airport stopped him on June 30, 2015, as he was boarding a flight to Turkey. He was represented by attorney Joshua Dratel.

December 17—Turkey—AFP and the Dogan news service reported that authorities conducted early morning raids in Istanbul’s Esenyurt district, detaining 11 suspected Syrian members of the Islamic State on suspicion of planning an attack on the U.S. consulate in Istanbul. The 11 were carrying fake passports. Their ringleader was identified as Abdulaziz Amin Mojbil, 18.

December 17—United Nations—World finance ministers and other representatives at the Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution sponsored by the U.S. and Russia under Chapter 7 aimed to disrupt revenue IS obtains from oil and antiquities sales, ransom payments and other criminal activities. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the UNSC, “ISIL has reaped an estimated $500 million from black market oil and millions more from the people it brutalizes and extorts.”

December 17—Austria—Authorities in Lebring arrested 2 Syrian brothers, aged 16 and 18, at a refugee center on suspicion of involvement with terrorist organizations. One was suspected of having fought for IS in Syria; the other of membership in Ahrar ­al-Sham, an ultraconservative group operating in northern Syria. On December 23, prosecutors in Graz said the duo were still in custody, according to the Austria Press Agency. A tip leading to the arrest came from Germany, where authorities accused a third, elder brother of belonging to IS.

December 18—Germany—Prosecutors arrested German citizen Sinan Sefik A., 26, on suspicion of membership in a group—the ­now-defunct German Taliban Mujahedeen, that fought international and government troops in Afghanistan. He was detained upon arrival at Berlin’s Tegel airport. Police said he had joined the group during a trip to the Waziristan region on the ­Pakistan-Afghanistan border in late 2009 and early 2010. They said he was trained to fight and was involved in producing a propaganda video, but left the group circa February 2010 after disputes with other members.

December 18—Pakistan—The army said airstrikes had destroyed 6 “terrorists’ hideouts,” killed 23 suspected terrorists, and wounded another 10 terrorists in the Shawal valley in North Waziristan and in the Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border.

December 18—Israel—A Palestinian in his 30s from Turmus Aya in the West Bank attempted to crash his car into police and troops at the Qalandiya checkpoint north of Jerusalem and then make a run at them before he was shot, wounded in the leg, and arrested. No Israelis were hurt.

Palestinian Mohammed Abdel Rahman Ayad, 20, from Silwad, drove his car at Israeli forces responding to a riot in Silwad, near Ramallah, West Bank. Israeli forces hid behind concrete blocks and shot the driver to death. No Israelis were wounded.

Troops killed Mahmoud Mohammed Saeed Alagha, 24, a Hamas member from Khan Younis in Gaza, when he tried to breach the border fence with Israel.

December 18—France—More than a dozen congregants were burned on the hands and sustained eye irritation when tear gas was applied to an electronic keypad at the synagogue in ­Bonneuil-sur-Marne, a Paris suburb. The Creteil prosecutor’s office opened an investigation for “aggravated violence.”

December 18—Mali—A man walked up to a group of people in front of a Christian radio station in Timbuktu, shot at the ground and then shot and killed 3 people before fleeing. Bilal Mahamane Traore, advisor to the mayor, said the victims included radio host Joel Dicko, a local contractor for the U.N. mission, and a Tuareg who was studying in Morocco. He said extremism was not suspected. AP added on December 22 that Chekou Dicko, the older brother of the radio host, said authorities arrested 2 people.

December 19—Somalia—UPI reported that gunmen fired on a government official’s vehicle, sparking a gunfight with security forces outside a shopping center along the Maka Almukarramah road in Mogadishu. One person was killed. A parked car bomb went off, killing 2 civilians. Scores of civilians, including regional governor Husayn Ali Wehliye, were injured. ­Al-Shabaab was suspected, although earlier in the month, 20 ­al-Shabaab members broke from the group to form an IS cell.

December 19—Saudi Arabia—Mortar shells from Yemen landed in Najran during the evening, killing a Saudi citizen and 2 Indian workers. 15121901

December 19—Israel—A Palestinian, 20, stabbed 3 Israelis in Raanana before Israeli security forces shot and arrested him. One Israeli man was seriously wounded in the stomach. Two women were lightly wounded.

December 19—France—On December 22, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said French authorities thwarted a jihadi attack the previous week in an area near Orleans targeting “soldiers, police and representatives of the state,” and that 2 French citizens aged 20 and 24 were arrested on December 19. He said the duo were in contact with a French jihadi in Syria.

December 19–20—Mali—French forces announced that they killed about 10 ­al-Mourabitoun extremists and recovered arms and explosives after 4 hours of heavy fighting in the northeastern Menaka region near Niger. They also seized ­pick-up trucks and a dozen motorcycles.

December 20—Israel—A Palestinian woman tried to stab troops in Hebron before authorities shot her with rubber bullets and arrested her. No soldiers were wounded.

December 20—Afghanistan—CNN reported that a mullah shot to death ­Afghan-American woman Lisa Akbari as she was leaving the gym of her apartment complex in Kabul at 8 p.m. Fraidoon Obaidi, a Kabul district police chief, said the mullah was injured but declined to explain how or why. He was arrested. Investigators found documents in the mullah’s residence that show he allegedly had links to terrorist groups. Afghanistan’s TOLO News agency reported that the attacker lived in Akbari’s housing complex. 15122001

December 20—Mauritius—Air France flight 463, a B-777 en route to Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris from Mauritius with 459 passengers and 14 crew was diverted to Moi International Airport in Mombasa, Kenya, when a suspected bomb was found in a lavatory cabinet behind a mirror. Six passengers were held for questioning. A passenger, who was one of the 6 being questioned, found a package containing cardboard, sheets of paper, and a device that looked like “a stop watch mounted on a box.” The plane left Mauritius at 9 p.m. and arrested at Mombasa at 12:37 a.m. AP added that police in Bobigny, outside Paris, questioned a retired French police officer in his late 50s for 12 hours before releasing him. He had been a member of the elite emergency response unit RAID and came from Reunion. Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Nkaissery said Kenya alerted French authorities about the man and a traveling companion after sniffer dogs traced the package back to their seats and the lavatory. Air France filed a legal complaint of reckless endangerment.

December 20—Nigeria—Army spokesman Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman announced that 3 child suicide bombers, aged between 10 and 15, attacked a security checkpoint in Benisheikh in Borno State, killing 6 and injuring 24. Elsewhere, the Army raided 2 camps in Borno State, killing 12 Boko Haram terrorists.

December 21—Kenya—Al-Shabaab was suspected when gunmen fired on 2 vehicles in Mandera, killing 2 people and wounding 3 in dawn attacks. The terrorists fired on a bus, killing a passenger and wounding 3 others, then fired on a truck following the bus, killing a passenger. 15122101

December 21—Afghanistan—A Taliban suicide bomber, Zahidullah, on a motorbike attacked an 8-man joint foot patrol of Afghan and coalition forces at 1:30 in Bagram district’s Bajawri area in Parwan Province, killing 6 American NATO members and injuring 2 American NATO personnel and 3 Afghan police officers.

Among the dead Americans were

• Air National Guard Staff Sergeant Louis Michael M. Bonacasa, 31, of Coram, Long Island, a service member assigned to the 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York. He was on his fourth tour of duty in the region. He joined the Air Force 2 years after graduating from Newfield High School and served for 14 years. He lived in Manorville, New York. He was survived by his wife, whom he met in the Air Force, and 5-year-old child.

• Staff Sergeant Michael A. Cinco, 28, from Mercedes, Texas, was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 11th Field Investigations Squadron, Joint Base San ­Antonio-Randolph, Texas. He had played football and was in the band at Mercedes High School.

• New York Air National Guard Technical Staff Sergeant Joseph G. Lemm, a 15-year New York police veteran who was survived by his wife, daughter, and son. He was promoted to detective in January 2014, serving in the Bronx warrant squad. He deployed twice to Afghanistan and once to Iraq. The resident of West Harrison, New York, was assigned the 105th Security Forces Squadron, a part of the 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York.

• Staff Sergeant Chester J. McBride, Jr., 30, a 2003 graduate of Statesboro High School in Georgia. He was a defensive back on the Statesboro team that won the 2001 Georgia state championship. He also played football at Savannah State University, where he graduated. The weightlifter was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.

• Air Force Staff Sergeant Peter W. Taub, 30, from Wyncote outside Philadelphia, graduated from Cheltenham High School. He was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, Detachment 816 at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota. He had served for 8 years and had recently ­re-enlisted. He was married and the father of a 3-year-old daughter; a second child was on the way.

• Air Force Major Adrianna Vorderbruggen, 36, from Plymouth, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a pioneer in the protest against the military’s former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, who was one of the first openly gay service members to marry after the policy was ended in 2011. She was survived by wife Heather Lamb and son Jacob. She was assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 9th Field Investigations Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.

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December 21—Kenya—CNN reported that ­al-Shabaab gunmen ambushed a bus en route to Mandera, near the border with Somalia, but fellow Kenyan Muslims, mostly women, shielded the Christian passengers, saying they would die together. The accompanying police car had broken down a few hours earlier, and the bus had continued on. A Christian man who tried to escape was captured and shot dead, as was the driver of a truck, which was trailing the bus. 15122103

December 22—Bosnia-Herzegovina—Police arrested 11 people suspected of links with the Islamic State. Police raided 13 locations in greater Sarajevo, including Rajlovac, searching for 15 people involved in “incitement of and recruitment for terrorist attacks” who were believed to be in “close contact” with the Islamic State. Police raided several private homes and 2 places of worship.

December 22—UK—The Metropolitan Police arrested at a London business address a 31-year-old man suspected of being involved in preparing acts of jihadi terrorism.

December 23—Turkey—Dogan reported that a 2:05 a.m. explosion in a parked Pegasus Airlines plane at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen Airport killed Zehra Yamac, 30, who was cleaning the plane, and injured fellow cleaner Canan Burgulu. No passengers were on the plane. On December 26, the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons, a PKK splinter, said it had fired mortars at the airport in retaliation for the government’s military operations against the PKK.

December 23—Indonesia—Indonesian officials warned that despite halting a plot by jihadis to assassinate public figures, a credible threat remained of attacks against minority Christians during the ­year-end holiday season. Over the weekend, authorities arrested 9 suspected jihadis in Tasikmalaya, another West Java town, Central and East Java who were planning to attack government officials and minority Shi’ite Muslims on Indonesia’s main islands of Java, Sumatra and Borneo, according to AP. On Decem-ber 24, police in 2 locations in Bekasi, West Java, announced the arrests of 2 more suspected militants, Arif Hidayatullah, alias Abu Mush’ab, an employee at a private auto company, and Alli, a Uighur who used a fake identity card and was allegedly preparing to be a suicide bomber. Police found a list of militants in prisons and others fighting with the Islamic State in Syria. Police said Hidayatullah confessed he was ordered by Bahrunnaim, another militant who is now in Syria, to act as a coordinator or facilitator for Indonesians wanting to join IS. Police said Alli came to Jakarta 2 months earlier and is known as a bomb maker.

Some 1,300 security personnel continued the manhunt for Abu Wardah Santoso, leader of the East Indonesia Mujahideen, who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State, who claimed credit for killing several police officers. He was charged with running an extremist training camp in Poso in Central Sulawesi. In a raid on an EIM camp in Poso’s forest on December 21, authorities found a male corpse, 5 bombs, explosive materials and cooking wares. The 40 terrorists split into smaller groups and escaped.

December 23—Israel—Two Palestinians in their early 20s from the West Bank stabbed Jewish pedestrians outside Jerusalem’s Old City Jaffa Gate before police shot the attackers. One died at the scene and the second succumbed at a hospital. Three people were seriously wounded, possibly one by friendly fire from the police. Two of them later died. A 45-year-old Israeli men was killed by multiple stab wounds; a 40-year-old man died from gunshot wounds.

Shin Bet announced the arrests in recent weeks of 25 suspected Hamas members who operated in the Abu Dis area east of Jerusalem and in Bethlehem in “a wide terrorist infrastructure” in the West Bank and Israel, directed from Gaza. Shin Bet said the group ran a bomb lab in Abu Dis, and planned to conduct suicide bombings in Israeli.

December 23—Iraq—A car bomb exploded inside a bus station in Khalis, killing 3 and wounding 10. A second car bomb went off at the outdoor grocery market in Khalis, killing 4 civilians and wounding 8.

Five bombs exploded in commercial areas in Baghdad, killing 8 civilians and wounding 35.

December 24—Turkey—Anadolu Agency reported that authorities raided an Istanbul home and arrested 2 Pakistanis suspected of IS membership. They detained a Briton at a bus stop the next day. A court ordered them held until trial or deportation. The suspects were believed linked to Briton Aine Leslie Davis, who was arrested in in November. Authorities said Davis was linked to the late IS spokesman Mohammed Emwazi, alias Jihadi John.

December 24—Kenya/Somalia—Some 200 members of ­al-Shabaab split with the ­al-Qaeda–affiliated group and pleaded allegiance to the Islamic State, according to the Kenyan police chief. The group operated near the Somali border in northern Kenya, and conducted 2 attacks in the last 2 weeks, killing one soldier and 2 civilians in Mandera County. Among the new IS affiliates was Mohamed Kuno, alias Gamadhere, who was wanted for the April 2 ­al-Shabaab attack on Garissa University that killed 148 people.

December 24—China—CNN, UPI, the Washington Post, and NPR reported that the U.S. Embassy warned of threats against Westerners in Beijing’s Sanlitun area. The alert said, “The U.S. Embassy has received information of possible threats against Westerners in the Sanlitun area of Beijing, on or around Christmas Day. U.S. citizens are urged to exercise heightened vigilance. The U.S. Embassy has issued the same guidance to U.S. government personnel.” Sanlitun features a shopping mall and several restaurants. The British, French and Australian embassies issued similar warnings.

December 24—Bangladesh—Authorities in Dhaka’s Mirpur area arrested 7 suspected members, including 3 “important figures” of the banned Jumatul Mujahedeen Bangladesh which is blamed for attacks on foreigners and minority groups in the country. Police found a cache of bombs, 20 ­locally-made grenades, and other explosives in the residence. The suspects set off the bombs when the raid on the bomb factory began, but no injuries were reported. The raid came from a tipoff during questioning of another member of the group who was arrested earlier. Shaikh Abdur Rahman, a religious teacher educated in Saudi Arabia, founded the group in 1998.

December 24—Syria—CNN reported on December 29 that a coalition airstrike 5 days earlier killed IS leader Charaffe ­al-Mouadan, who had direct ­contacts with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader behind the November 13 Paris terror attacks.

December 24—Israel—An attacker approached the entrance to an industrial zone in the Ariel settlement and stabbed 2 security guards, wounding them moderately, before they shot and killed him.

A motorist was killed after attacking Israeli troops, lightly wounding a soldier.

December 25—Algeria—AQIM announced that an Algerian army ambush in the Tizi Ouzou region east of Algiers killed Abu ­al-Hassan Rachid ­al-Bulaydi, head of AQIM’s Sharia Committee. The Algerian ­Defense Ministry had announced that 2 “dangerous terrorists” had been killed in another part of Tizi Ouzou.

December 25—Bangladesh—A young male suicide bomber set off his explosives during prayer in an Ahmadiya mosque in Bagmara area in the Rajshahi district, killing himself and wounding 3 people from the minority sect. The villagers said he was an outsider.

December 25—Israel—Palestinian Mahdia Hammad, 38, sped her car at Israeli forces in Silwad, north of Ramallah. The police shot her to death.

Hani Wahdan, 22, died when troops shot at Palestinians who tried to breach the Gaza Strip’s border fence with Israel.

December 25—Mali—Ansar Dine ambushed a vehicle carrying Tuareg separatists, killing 4, including the younger brother of the ­secretary-general of the separatist group that signed a peace deal with the government in late June.

December 26—Mali—Ansar Dine gunmen killed 11 Tuareg rebels in Kidal. The group posted on a jihadi website, “The attack resulted in the release of mujahedeen prisoners and the recovery of vehicles and weapons.”

December 26—Israel—When Israeli police approached a suspicious Palestinian who was following 2 Jewish worshippers outside the Old City of Jerusalem, he pulled a knife and tried to stab one of them. The officers shot and killed the assailant.

December 26—Kenya—A police patrol fired at 5 suspected ­al-Shabaab terrorists in Mandera; one died when a roadside bomb they were planting exploded. The others escaped. 15122601

December 26—Syria/Iraq—IS’s ­al-Furqan Media Foundation released a 24-minute audio from caliph Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi, who called on “Soldiers of the Islamic State be patient because you are on the right path. Be patient, because God is with you.” He claimed airstrikes only increased the group’s resolve and disparaged the ­Saudi-led 34-nation Islamic military antiterrorist coalition. He noted, “It is unprecedented in the history of our Ummah (Islamic nation) that all the world came against it in one battle, as it is happening today. It is the battle of all the disbelievers against all the Muslims.” A separate, U.S.–led, coalition does “not scare us … nor do they scatter our resolve because we are the victors in any event.” He said the U.S. would not send ground troops because “they do not dare to come, because their hearts are full of fear from the mujahideen.” “America and its allies dream of destroying the caliphate through their proxies and henchmen, and whenever an alliance of theirs fails or a tail is cut, they hasten to establish another, until they recently declared the Salouli (Saudi) alliance that was falsely called Islamic.” He said a true Islamic coalition would instead target the Syrian army and its Russian “masters,” Shi’ites, and Jews. He warned against attacking IS, threatening, “We promise you, God permitting, that whoever participates in the war against the Islamic State will pay the price dearly.” Turning to Israel, he said, “The Jews think we forget about it and got distracted from it. No, oh Jews. We have not forgotten Palestine and never will…. We are getting closer to you” every day. Israeli Jews “will hide behind trees and stones” from the IS. CNN reported that he counseled, “Do not be amazed by the meeting of the nations of disbelief and groups against the Islamic State…. If we are killed and the wounds are numerous and the problems amassed against us and the hardships are great, then it is no surprise either.” He pointed out that AQI, the IS predecessor, found that when Abu Musab al Zarqawi was killed and Sunni tribes turned against it, “The seditions and the hardships became greater, such that the Islamic State fell back from many of the areas it had taken and controlled…. Be reassured, for your state is still good. Whenever the conspiring of the nations increases against it, the more certain (is) the support of Allah.” He underscored that “waging this battle is a duty upon every Muslim and no one is excused.” “We promise you that anyone who participates in the war on the Islamic State will pay a high price and will regret it, so, plot O America, plot O Europe, plot O Russia,” he says.

December 27—U.S.—The Washington Post reported that during the previous week, federal authorities arrested Jalil Aziz, a Pennsylvania man, on charges of providing material support to IS by spread­ing propaganda on social media and trying to help recruits get to Syria. Prosecutors said he also called on IS supporters to use U.S.-based encryption methods.

December 27—Israel—A 30-year-old stabbed a soldier near Jerusalem’s central bus station, lightly wounding him. A security guard arrested the attacker.

Two attackers stabbed an Israeli soldier at a gas station near the Hawara crossing south of Nablus, moderately wounding him, before forces at the check­point shot to death the assailants. An Israeli soldier was accidentally shot and wounded.

December 27—Egypt—Security forces chased 2 jihadis fleeing on a motorcycle, killing one and injuring another in ­el-Arish. Military forces pursued and shot to death a third jihadi near Mount Halal in northern Sinai.

December 27—Indonesia—In the nighttime, 15 gunmen attacked a police station in Sinak town in the mountainous Puncak district in Papua Province, killing 3 officers and wounding 2 others. The terrorists stole 7 assault rifles and a crate of ammunition.

December 27—Nigeria—Three suicide bombers blew themselves up during the evening at a home near Bakassi Estate in Maiduguri, killing 18 people.

December 28—Nigeria—Several Boko Haram suicide bombers were joined by dozens of gunmen firing ­rocket-propelled grenades at 4 southwestern entry points into Maiduguri, killing 50 people and wounding more than 90. PR Nigeria said “intercepted and destroyed” 13 suicide bombers and arrested a female suicide bomber. Some 20 died in a dawn bombing outside a mosque. Two girls blew themselves up in the Buraburin neighborhood, killing several people. Residents found unexploded bombs. The gunmen fired RPGs into 4 residential areas, starting a firefight with soldiers. Civilians were caught in the crossfire.

Gunmen fired from 3 trucks in the outlying village of Dawari. A woman ran into a suburb yelling “Boko Haram, Boko Haram.” When people gathered, she detonated herself.

When an RPG exploded, a second woman blew herself up, killing the village chief, 10 of his children and others.

Two female suicide bombers killed 30 people at a market near a busy bus station in Madagali in 9 a.m.

Minister of Information Lai Mohammad had declared on December 23 that the military “has so degraded the capability of Boko Haram and that the terrorist group can no longer carry out spectacular attacks.” President Muhammadu Buhari had declared that security forces had “technically won the war” against Boko Haram.

December 28—United Arab Emirates—The Abu Dhabi ­state-owned National newspaper reported that M.A.H., the husband of Emirati woman Alaa Bader Abdullah ­al-Hashemi who was executed in July 2015 for killing American schoolteacher Ibolya Ryan at an Abu Dhabi mall in 2014, was charged with terrorism in a local court. He was accused of planning to assassinate an unnamed Emirati leader, planning to bomb a Formula 1 racetrack in Abu Dhabi and other tourist locations, and targeting tourists and “an American military base.” He denied the charges.

December 28—Afghanistan—A suicide car bomber hit the eastern entrance of Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, killing a civilian, injuring 31 others, including 8 children and 3 women, and damaging nearby shops, houses, a minibus and other vehicles. The Taliban claimed the target was a convoy of foreign forces. Reuters quoted police as saying the target appeared to be a white pickup truck similar to those used by security contractors. Police said the bomb went off near a madrassa.

Gunmen killed a woman distributing polio vaccinations to children in Kandahar city and injured a second polio worker.

Police shot to death a ­would-be suicide bomber before he could attack a police checkpoint in the Gereshk district of Helmand Province.

December 29—Belgium—CNN, AP, and the Washington Post reported that following searches in in the Brussels area, the Liege region and Flemish Brabant on December 27–28 in which 4 people were detained and released, Brussels police arrested 2 men suspected of planning ­IS-inspired attacks in Brussels during the holidays. The federal prosecutor’s office said an investigation discovered “the threat of serious attacks that would target several emblematic places in Brussels and be committed during the ­end-of-year holidays.” Targets included the capital’s Grand Place main square. Authorities charged one individual with acting as the leader and recruiter of a terrorist group planning to commit terrorist offenses, the other with participating in a terrorist group’s activities as a principal actor or ­co-actor. Police found ­military-type training uniforms, Islamic State propaganda materials and computer material, but no weapons or explosives. CNN reported that the duo were members of the Muslim biker gang Kamikaze Riders, were based in the Brussels and Vilvoorde areas, had easy access to weapons and had been involved in robberies and other criminal activity. UPI reported that a December 31 court hearing was scheduled for Mohamed Karay, 27, and Said Souati, 30, accused of plotting the New Year’s Eve terrorist attack.

A former founder of the Kamikaze Riders, Abdelouafi Elouassaki, was arrested in 2013 after one of his brothers, said to have traveled to Syria to conduct jihad, allegedly called him from there to tell him about a plan to attack the main law courts in Brussels. Elouassaki was released without charge. He died in a motorcycle crash in May 2013. His 2 younger brothers were members of the radical group Sharia4Belgium, which recruited fighters for the Islamist cause in Syria and was designated a terrorist organization in Belgium. Both brothers also went to Syria, where one was killed and the other badly wounded. Attorney Abderrahim Lahlili said Abdelouafi was jailed for a time in Belgium after going to Turkey to bring home his wounded sibling.

On January 1, 2016, AP reported that the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office freed 3 people after questioning them about a suspected plot to conduct attacks in Brussels over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. The Office had detained 6 people for questioning on December 31, but released the other 3 the same day.

December 29—Pakistan—A suicide bomber set off his explosives outside the regional office of the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA), which issues identity cards to Pakistanis, in Mardan, killing 22 people and wounding 45, some critically. Taliban splinter ­Jamaat-ul-Ahrar spokes­man Ahsanullah Ahsan, claimed credit, lauding the “noble act to punish NADRA because it extends support to security forces.”

Counterterrorism officials in Punjab Province announced the arrest of 13 men who were trying to set up an Islamic State affiliate and seized weapons and CDs from the detained men, who allegedly pledged allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr ­al-Baghdadi. Nine detainees appeared before a court on December 29; the court ordered them held for 10 days for questioning.

December 29—China—Authorities detained 2 men for spreading a rumor in the Shenzhen city district of Guangming that 300 ­IS-trained terrorists from Xinjiang had arrived in the city, days before a January 1 ban on falsifying terror information was to take effect. Police said 2 executives posted the rumor notice at their firm.

December 29—UK—The Old Bailey court convicted Reading residents Mohammed Rehman, 25, and his wife, Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, of planning a ­large-scale bombing of civilian targets in London to mark the 10th anniversary of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city’s transit system. Prosecutor Tony Badenoch said Rehman wanted to demonstrate his support for the Islamic State and that his wife helped him by paying for chemicals purchased on eBay. Rehman was arrested on May 28, 2015. He had been stockpiling chemicals and set off a small practice device in his back yard. Susan Hemming, head of the Crown Prosecution Service’s ­counter-terrorism division, said they had needed only a detonator to carry out a ­mass-casualty attack. Rehman used the name Silent Bomber to ask Twitter followers to help him choose a target: “Westfield shopping center or London underground? Any advice would be appreciated greatly.” Rehman was also convicted of possessing an article to be used for terrorist purposes. On December 30, the duo received life sentences; Rehman could be released after 27 years; Khan after 25.

December 29—Lebanon—Local authorities advised a Libyan Justice Ministry delegation to leave after receiving a threat to its safety. The group left on December 29. It had been investigating Hannibal al-Qadhafi, son of the late Libyan leader Moammar al-Qadhafi. Hannibal remained in a Lebanese jail; unknown captors delivered him to authorities earlier in the month for questioning about the disappearance of top Shi’ite cleric Moussa ­al-Sadr while on a visit to Libya in 1978. The Libyan delegation asked for al-Qadhafi’s extradition for crimes committed during his father’s rule.

December 30—Turkey—The ­state-run Anadolu Agency reported that police raided the ­low-income Mamak neighborhood in Ankara, arrested 2 suspected Islamic State members, Turkish citizens M.C. and A.Y., believed to be planning suicide attacks during New Year celebrations in Kizilay square in central Ankara, and confiscated suicide vests armed with bombs laden with ball bearings and metal sticks. Anadolu indicated that the duo planned to set off the suicide vests at 2 locations near bars and a shopping mall. The duo entered Turkey from Syria.

December 30—Philippines—In a gun battle between Philippine troops and 100 Abu Sayyaf gunmen near Patikul town in Sulu Province, 8 terrorists and one soldier were killed and 7 gunmen and one soldier were wounded. Authorities believed that the terrorists were led by Abu Sayyaf commander Hatib Hajan Sawadjaan, who had been blamed for several kidnappings, including of foreign tourists. Police said Abu Sayyaf planned to set off bombs in downtown Jolo town and attack police and military detachments on New Year’s Eve.

December 30—Russia—Two gunmen fired at visitors at the 6th century bc ­Naryn-kala fortress in Derbent in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea, killing one person and injuring 10.

December 30—Belgium—The mayor of Brussels cancelled the New Year’s Eve fireworks display due to the threat of a terrorist attack.

December 30—Syria—The Islamic State bombed the Miami and Gabriel restaurants in Qamishli, a predominantly Kurdish city, during the night, killing 16 and wounding more than 30.

December 31—U.S.—CNN reported that the U.S. Department of Justice charged Rochester, New York resident Emanuel Lutchman, 25, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State, which carries up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. DOJ said he planned to kill New Year’s Eve participants in the name of IS at an upstate New York bar and restaurant. He appeared on December 31 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian Payson of the Western District of New York. Lutchman allegedly received direction from an IS member overseas. The Islamic convert wanted to prove his worth to the group and wanted to attack a Rochester restaurant/bar using a machete and knives provided by an FBI informant. Two other FBI informants were involved in the case.

December 31—Yemen—Drive-by gunmen in a car killed Ahmed ­al-Idrisi, a senior ­pro-government militia leader, and 5 of his companions in Aden in a morning attack. The men were leaving a wedding party in the Mansoura neighborhood.

Bullets and shrapnel fired at the ­al-Tharwa hospital in Taiz wounded 20 staffers.

December 31—Israel—A Palestinian rammed his car into a group of Israeli soldiers on patrol on a road near Nablus in the West Bank, injuring one soldier. Soldiers shot and killed the attacker.

December 31—Egypt—Terrorists shelled a home near a security checkpoint in Rafah in the northern Sinai, killing an entire family of 5 and wounding a teen neighbor.

December 31—Germany—Munich Police spokes­man Werner Kraus told the media that “we have serious information and different tips about an imminent attack. After evaluating the situation, we started evacuating the train stations and also asked partygoers to stay away from big crowds outside.” DPA reported that police closed the city’s main train station and a second train station in the city’s Pasing neighborhood at 11 p.m. Service was stopped for 8 hours. Police later said they had been warned of 5–7 IS suicide attackers targeted against the central Hauptbahnhof station and the Pasing station west of the city. Police had personal information on some of the attackers, including Syrian and Iraqi nationals. The following day, police remained on high alert. UPI said police had received a warning from French intelligence.

Late December—Syria—The ­London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that 20-something IS member Abu Bilal ­al-Homsi died earlier in the week in Palmyra in Homs Province, either in an airstrike or a suicide attack in which 19 people were killed and nearly 100 were wounded. ­Al-Homsi left his hometown of Homs in mid–2014.