Starting in early 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants started rapidly making territorial gains, capturing a third of Iraq and half of Syria. This prompted many states to begin to Military intervention against ISIL the in Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars. Other smaller interventions were conducted against ISIS-affiliated groups in Nigeria and Libya . In retaliation, ISIL\IS\Daesh\ISIS, or ISIS-inspired jihadists, conducted more than a dozen attacks in more than half a dozen countries, leaving hundreds of civilian casualties. The curse of the suicide bomber spread from the Middle East and went global.