A U.S. airstrike killed ISIS leaders in the Faryab province of Afghanistan and eastern Syria, and the Egyptian military killed an ISIS leader in the Sinai Peninsula last month, according to a monthly terror threat assessment released by the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.
The monthly assessment, the Terror Threat Snapshot, identified a number of non-Western plots or attacks carried out by ISIS, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Boko Haram in April. ISIS gunmen reportedly killed a Christian family of four in Quetta, Pakistan; an attack on a funeral of anti-ISIS militia members killed 16 and injured 14; an attack on an Egyptian army base killed eight; a suicide bomber in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed 57 people; and attacks in Afghanistan left 11 soldiers and police officers dead.
The Terror Threat Snapshot continued to identify homegrown Islamist extremism in the United States continues to be an area of concern. Since 2013, 152 cases have been reported. Last month, Sean Andrew Duncan, 22, of Sterling, Virginia, pleaded guilty to obstructing a counterterrorism investigation. Three Ohio men pleaded guilty to concealment of financing of terrorism, and Wesley Dallas Ayers, 27, of Anderson County, South Carolina, was indicted on charges of transportation of explosive materials with intent to injure and possession of destructive devices during the commission of a crime.
Abroad, the threat assessment notes that 28-year-old Salah Abdeslam, the sole remaining survivor of the 2015 Paris attacks was sentenced to 20 years in prison for engaging in a shootout with Brussels police officers. He is awaiting trial for charges related to the attacks in France.