List of Islamist terrorist attacks

The following is an incomplete list of Islamist terrorist attacks.

According to Fondapol, a French think tank, between 1979 and May 2021, at least 48,035 Islamist terrorist attacks took place worldwide, causing the deaths of at least 210,138 people.

During this period, each Islamist attack resulted in the death of about 4.4 persons on average.

The main target of these attacks is the military (31.7%), followed by civilians (25.0%) and police forces (18.3%).

Afghanistan was the country most affected by Islamist terrorism, followed by Iraq and Somalia.

The " black flag of jihad " as used by jihadist militants since c. the late 1990s.