The targeting of leaders and sensitive sites relied on activating intelligence teams, pre-positioned weapons and other capabilities that had long lain dormant.
In the Bourbon Street rampage, a foiled attack on a European pop concert and other attacks, a pattern of self-radicalization breeds terrorists influenced by ISIS.
Tehran is chasing deals with two Chinese companies that specialize in small satellites with powerful cameras. Intelligence assessments worry about military applications.
Authorities found explosive devices and Islamic State propaganda in the home of one of the suspects, 19. Swift’s concerts were expected to draw more than 150,000 people.
Before Friday’s massacre, ISIS spinoffs were on the march from North Africa to South Asia. One group appears laser-focused on terrorist attacks abroad.
The Iranian government has stepped up its efforts to kidnap or kill government officials, activists and journalists around the world, alarming Western officials.
The unwillingness to punish President Vladimir Putin for a killing in Berlin ordered by Moscow added to the Kremlin’s sense of impunity before the Ukraine war.
The Islamic State’s regional affiliates in Africa are carrying out lethal attacks at a tempo far surpassing the parent organization that once ruled large swaths of Iraq and Syria.