Denmark

Police shot a Somali man wielding an axe and knife as he attempted to murder Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard at his home. The Somali man was linked to Shabaab and Al Qaeda in East Africa. A few years ago, Westergaard had drawn a cartoon of the prophet Mohammed with a bomb in his turban.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

Iraq

Islamic state

Syria

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Al shabaab

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