In Turkey on Jan. 12, a suicide bomber targeted the popular Istanbul neighborhood of Sultanahmet, killing 10 people, including nine German tourists. The bomber was identified as a Syrian national and is believed to have been allied with the militant Islamist group Daesh (ISIL). The Sultanahmet neighborhood includes the heavily touristed sites of Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. In Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakır on Jan. 14, a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters in the...

In the northwestern Pakistan city of Charsadda on Jan. 22, four men attacked Bacha Khan University with bombs and guns, killing 19 people and injuring 17 others. The gunmen were killed by armed school security guards and police after a 3-hour standoff. The Pakistani division of the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist movement, took credit for the attack, but the spokesperson for the main body of the Taliban said the group was not involved and described the attack as “un-Islamic.” Bacha Khan...

On Jan. 17, an Israeli woman was stabbed and killed in her home in the West Bank settlement of Otniel. A 15-year-old Palestinian was arrested for the attack. On Jan. 18 in the settlement of Tekoa, a pregnant woman was stabbed in a secondhand-clothing store; she and her baby survived. For this attack, another 15-year-old Palestinian was arrested. On Jan. 25, two women in a grocery store parking lot in Beit Horon settlement were stabbed by two Palestinians, who were shot and killed by security...