On August 13, 2017, suspected jihadists opened fire on a Turkish restaurant and hotel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, killing 19 people and injuring 25 others. The assailants took hostages and were killed in an ensuing shootout. 

On August 11, 2018, Egyptian police stopped a suicide bomber on a bridge outside the Coptic Virgin Mary Church in the Cairo suburb of Mostorod. The bomber detonated his device, killing himself, with no other casualties. There were no immediate claims of responsibility. 

On August 9, 2017, an assailant rammed a car into a group of French soldiers in Levallois-Perret, a Paris suburb, injuring six. The suspect, 36-year-old Algerian Hamou Benlatrèche, had reportedly been radicalized and showed interest in ISIS. 

On August 7, 2015, al-Mourabitoun gunmen attacked the Hotel Byblos in the central Malian town of Sevare, killing nine civilians and four Malian soldiers.

On August 7, 2015, al-Mourabitoun gunmen attacked the Hotel Byblos in the central Malian town of Sevare, killing nine civilians and four Malian soldiers.

On August 5, 2021, an al-Shabaab firing squad executed 83-year-old Hassan Tohow Fidow in Hindhere, in Somalia’s Galmudug State, for allegedly blaspheming against the Islamic prophet Mohamed.