Manama: The Islamic State has recently launched bloody attacks on Kuwait and Tunisia, and if experts are to be believed this is just a start. The terror outfit has a more horrifying plan to mark its first anniversary in the holy month of Ramadan. According to Institute for the Study of War (ISW) IS is planning to carry attacks throughout the month of Ramadan.
In its report, 'ISIS Military Operations during Ramadan' which was published on June 7, ISW correctly predicted ISIS would execute a 'mass casualty attack' in Tunisia.
It also said Islamic State would target mosques in the Middle East.
As 38 people were being gunned down on a Tunisian beach on Friday, a suicide bomb attack massacred 27 innocent worshipers and injured 200 others at a mosque in Kuwait.
According to a Daily Mail report, ISW has released the names of the countries that are on the extremist group’s target list.
Its experts claim the countries ISIS has announced as targets are England, France, Italy, Spain, the United States, the Caucuses region of southern Russia, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Meanwhile dozens of other nations including Greece, Romania and Australia are at risk of deadly 'surprise attacks'.
The report said, last month, the UK's most senior counter-terrorism officer warned that half of the 700 British extremists who had gone to fight alongside Islamic State are now back in the country.
Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said: 'Islamic State and other terrorist groups are trying to direct attacks in the UK... They are seeking, through propaganda, to provoke individuals in the UK to carry out violent attacks here.'
Islamic State's deadly network of jihadi groups in West Africa will 'continue efforts to plan explosive or mass casualty attacks... within Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria or southern Europe,' ISW says.
These ISIS-linked extremists 'may take advantage of refugee flows from Libya into Italy as a means for launching such an attack'.
There are fears the group could repeat a Tunisia-style attack, where gunman Seifeddine Rezgui opened fire on a beach packed with holiday makers, in the popular tourist country of Morocco.
In March, ISIS expanded its tentacles into Africa after Nigerian terror group Boko Haram pledged its loyalty to Islamic State. The extremists command as many as 10,000 fighters who have slaughtered hundreds since its formation in 2002.
And ISW predicted that ISIS's next move would be to expand into Europe by creating a new 'wilayat' - or province - in the Caucuses region of southern Russia, which includes Chechnya, Dagestan and Ingushetia.
The terror group spread its tentacles further around Europe after the Caucuses Emirate - a major terrorist group which commands 'as many as 15,000' in the region of southern Russia - pledged its allegiance to ISIS this month.
It says Islamic State will also awaken 'terror cells' inside relatively-untouched countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines - which have 'sizeable Muslim populations' - and order them to carry out bloody attacks within the next month.
More than 500 Indonesians have already joined ISIS on the battlefield in the Middle East and experts believe the 'history of extremism' in the country, home to 200 million Muslims, makes it a 'ripe location' for further recruitment.
Its leaders became so worried about the rise of extremism that they banned verbal support for ISIS, clamped down on overseas travel to support terror groups and revoked citizenship of those suspected of doing so.
The threat of extremism in nearby Malaysia became just as real following the release of a harrowing ISIS propaganda video in March, featuring young Malay boys brandishing weapons in front of the notorious black flag.
Almost 150 Malaysians have joined Islamic State in the Middle East and more than 100 individuals linked to the extremists have been arrested inside the country, according to a report by the Overseas Security Advisory Council.