On March 12, 2021, militants wearing military uniforms raided multiple houses in al-Boudur in Iraq’s Salahuddin province, killing eight people, including six members of a single family. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack and alleged the family had been part of a Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) spy ring.  

On March 9, 2020, ISIS launched five missiles at the presidential palace in Afghanistan, during the inauguration of president elect Ashraf Ghani. It was unclear if there were any casualties, despite claims from ISIS’s official news agency claiming “injury was delivered.”  

 On March 8, 2020, suspected jihadists raided at least two villages settled by Fulani herders in the north, near Burkina Faso’s border with Mali. According to the Burkinabe government, the attack killed at least 43 people and was one of the deadliest attacks of 2020.   

On March 5, 2021, an al-Shabaab suicide bomber detonated an explosive-laden car in Mogadishu, targeting the Luul Yemeni restaurant, killing between 10-20 and injuring 30 others. Militants had attempted to attack the site in August 2020, but were foiled by Somali authorities.

On March 4, 2022, an Afghan man and long-time resident of Pakistan entered a Shiite mosque in in Peshawar, shooting two guards before detonating his explosive vest. The suicide attack, claimed by ISIS-K, killed at least 63 people and injured another 196. 

On March 1, 2022, the Philippine army launched a predawn raid on a base belonging to the ISIS-linked group Daulah Islamiyah. The ensuing battle left two militants and one soldier dead, and wounded two troops.