Terrorist threats continue to rise across the world

Threats from terrorist groups like ISIS are again surging across the world three years after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.

So far this year, ISIS has claimed responsibility for several deadly attacks in Turkey, Iran and Russia. Affiliated actors also carried out a stabbing attack in Germany and threatened a Taylor Swift concert in Austria.

“The threat continuum evolves on a daily basis, and our intelligence community is certainly doing the best they can with the resources available to them,” said James DeMeo, an adjunct faculty instructor at Tulane University.

The renewed ISIS threat, along with the emergence of other terrorist groups across the Middle East, is highlighting how the U.S. and its allies are struggling to fight them.

“It’s crowded the terrorism landscape, and now different groups are vying for that power and to be the next group that’s going to target the next biggest country, which puts the U.S. front and center,” said Sara Harmouch, a doctoral candidate at American University.

In July, the U.S. Central Command released a statement saying ISIS was responsible for 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2024 and is on pace to more than double the total number of attacks it claimed in 2023.

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