A Terrorism Resurgence

The killing of 14 people on New Year’s Day in New Orleans was the latest sign of a resurgence in radical Islamist terrorism. Some of the attacks — like the one last week — seem to have been merely inspired by ISIS, the network of groups that are offshoots of Al Qaeda. In other cases, ISIS groups played an active role in the planning.

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The list of attacks and plots either inspired or aided by ISIS over the past five years is longer than many people may realize. It includes:

• A double suicide bombing in the Philippines that killed at least 14 people in 2020.

• Several attacks in France, including the beheading of a teacher in 2020, the fatal knifing of three people in a church in Nice in 2020 and the killing of a teacher in the small city of Arras in 2023.

• The killing of four people by a gunman in a bustling Vienna neighborhood in 2020.

• The fatal stabbing of a British member of Parliament in 2021 while he was meeting with constituents inside a church in a seaside town.

• A suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, that killed 13 U.S. troops and roughly 170 civilians in August 2021.
• The stabbing of six people at a supermarket in New Zealand in September 2021.

• Two attacks in Israel in March 2022 that killed a total of six people.

• A mass shooting in Oslo, apparently targeting L.G.B.T. Pride events, that killed two people and wounded 21 in June 2022.

• The fatal shooting of two Swedish soccer fans in Brussels in 2023.

• A bombing in eastern Iran that killed about 100 people attending a ceremony honoring Qassim Suleimani, the deceased Iranian general, just over a year ago.

• The killing of a worshiper at a Catholic church in Istanbul by two gunman last January.

• A mass shooting at a suburban Moscow concert hall that killed 145 people and injured more than 500 last March.

• The fatal shooting of six people near a Shiite mosque in Oman last summer.

• A foiled plot to bomb a Taylor Swift concert last summer in Austria that the authorities believe could have killed hundreds.

• The fatal stabbing of three people at a festival in western Germany in August.
• Attacks in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Niger, Pakistan and Syria that together have killed hundreds of people.

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