The time and place of 20,016 confirmed attacks carried out in the name of jihadist doctrine, from 1948 to 2026, in 89 countries, each with its sources. About 79 in every 100 of the dead recorded here were killed in Muslim-majority countries. The first victims of these doctrines are Muslims.
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Scope. Attacks whose perpetrators acted in the name of a jihadist or Islamist ideology, as recorded in the source lists. This is a record of acts committed under a doctrine. It is not a record of a people or a faith, and nothing in it describes Muslims in general.
Completeness. Built from Wikipedia and Wikidata incident lists and attack articles, the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset, Crisis Group CrisisWatch, US State Department country reports, Johnston's Archive and recent news reports, merged into one record per attack with every source kept. A multi-site attack is one parent record carrying the whole-attack toll; its site records carry 'pa' (the parent id), stay listed and are left out of totals and map clustering. Rows that were period, campaign or year totals were dropped. UCDP state-based and non-state events (armed clashes in which UCDP does not record who attacked) only add a source when they match another record; on their own they are grade C leads whose toll counts the dead on all sides, and they are not in 'killed_total_attacks'. Casualty figures are the most specific source's figure with the range across sources where they differ. Incidents were vetted by hand in batches: confirmed ones gained an independent source and a higher grade, ones found not to be jihadist were removed, and the rest stay grade C until vetted. Incidents that could only be placed at country level carry no coordinates and are left off the map.
Evidence grades. A: reported by two or more independent publishers and attributed to a jihadist group by its own claim, an official statement or a court. B: one reliable source with a clear attribution. C: the attribution is only suspected; these are hidden unless you choose to show them. Every incident lists all of its sources.
Figures. Casualty numbers are those given by the source and may include the attackers. Where sources disagree, the range is shown. An empty cell means the source gives no number.
Source and licence. Compiled by the Defuse engine from many open sources: the UCDP Georeferenced Event Dataset (Uppsala Conflict Data Program, CC BY 4.0), Wikipedia and Wikidata, government reports, independent chronologies, monitoring reports and news organisations. Each fact is recorded with its source and the descriptions are our own. Material derived from Wikipedia is used under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. Every row links to its source. The compiled data file is offered under the same licence. Last compiled 2026-11-14.
Corrections. If an entry is wrong or missing, write to editor@defuseislam.org with a source and it will be fixed.