Talk:List of terrorist incidents linked to the Islamic State/Archive 1

Requested move
I went ahead and made a bold move of this page. I think the scope should be increased to include all incidents globally that are connected by a reliable source to ISIL. Whether this list should include attacks inside Iraq and Syria is debatable. I large master list of attacks would be the most useful. See also Manual of Style/Stand-alone lists.

Other variants could be or .~Technophant (talk) 15:59, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Recent beheading in Oklahoma
Just in the news a recently terminated worker at a food distribution plant who has been described as a recent convert to Islam beheaded a co-worker and stabbed another. It's too early to say if this person is responding to Abu Mohammad al-Adnani's call to "kill a disbelieving American or European". Discussion is at Talk:2014 ISIL beheading incidents ~Technophant (talk) 16:31, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Australian terror raids
There raids were not a terrorism incident. It was a counter-terrorism operation. The connection with IS is only a allegation at this stage. It has not been reported in Australian as an IS incident. Its not appropriate to add it to this page. - Shiftchange (talk) 23:21, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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Unclear inclusion criteria
The page says this is for 'terrorist' acts outside Iraq and Syria Not only does it list incidents that happened in Iraq and Syria but lists other attacks that happened more in the context of war or insurgency and are as such not individual events

Hundreds of people die in these war zones everyday, we do not have a page for the daily air raids by Assad regime that kill dozens daily so why do we have a page for minor attacks that happened in the context of a war just because it is isil? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.244.77.96 (talk) 00:59, 1 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I agree that inclusion criteria would be helpful. The recent truck attack in Nice and axe attack in Germany have questionable ties to ISIL, and the latter hasn't been described as a terrorist attack. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 12:51, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Why is Orlando shooting not included?
Orlando's shooting had equivalent linking to ISIL as San Bernardino yet it is not listed here. Why? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.9.221.99 (talk) 03:19, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

Why is Nice attack of 14 July 2016 not included?
The attacker consumed plenty of ISIL propaganda and ISIL have claimed responsibility for the attack — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:BDD2:5200:81FD:9A66:3D9B:6C67 (talk) 16:54, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Since the two articles largely overlap, I suggest to merge Timeline of ISIL-related events -> List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL Opinions are welcome.GreyShark (dibra) 05:50, 18 June 2017 (UTC)

Hamas not ISIL carried the June 2017 Israel attack
Israel Intelligence Rejected claims of ISIL attack in the June 2017 Jerusalem attack, and Hamas admitted to doing the attack and denied ISIL involvement. Unless it is proven ISIL and not Hamas carried the attack, I think its better not to add it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bengoman1993 (talk • contribs) 09:18, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Let's ask a simple question - this is "list of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL"; does ISIL's claim of responsibility for a terror attack means "linked to ISIL"? I tend to think that the answer is yes.GreyShark (dibra) 16:19, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Orphaned references in List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of List of terrorist incidents linked to ISIL's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "suspect": From 2016 Berlin truck attack:  From 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa:  From January 2016 Tel Aviv shooting:  From 2015 Thalys train attack:  From Danforth shooting:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 10:40, 27 July 2018 (UTC)

Why does this page not include the Orlando nightclub shooting?
The deadliest shooting in US history, in which the shooter pledged allegiance to Islamic State, and which Islamic State claimed responsibility for, obviously belongs in this list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.2.218.131 (talk) 19:39, 23 March 2019 (UTC)

New incident
Hi friend. Can somebody add this new article to main table of article? Gunman attack in Tripoli 2019 Thank you so much.Forest90 (talk) 13:14, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Verb tense inconsistencies in "Description" Section
In the description section for each terrorist attack, chains of events are either written in the past or present tense with no clear predominance. Is there any norm to abide by here? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rankedo (talk • contribs) 00:53, 2 October 2020 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Timeline of ISIL-related events (2019) offers a very detailed account of ISIL-related events for several months in 2019. The article in its present form is very hard to keep up to date because its scope is so broad. I suggest that events from the months where there’s overlap between the two articles be added to this List article, and the Timeline article is then deleted. Mccapra (talk) 05:07, 18 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Oppose: the current structure seems to work, with a series of timeline article for each year from Timeline of ISIL-related events (2013) to Timeline of ISIL-related events (2018); the 2019 make a natural next in the series, although I accept that we may not need ones for 2020 and thereafter. Klbrain (talk) 14:22, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Oppose: It is part of a series of articles on ISIL activities per year. Dimadick (talk) 10:30, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Closing, given the uncontested objections and no support. Klbrain (talk) 09:50, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Wrong figure
The May 2020 attacks actually killed 56 people. Willbb234 22:58, 29 April 2023 (UTC)