Threats of a new ISIS attack were made against major Western cities in a new video released Monday.
"If it was Paris yesterday, and today Brussels, Allah knows where it will be tomorrow," the video narrator says in English,
AOL reported. "Maybe it will be in London or Berlin or Rome."
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The video comes just weeks after the Islamic State claimed responsibility for multiple bombings that rocked the Brussels airport and subway, killing at least 31 people and wounding hundreds of others.
Those bombings, in turn, came roughly a year after the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris, and just months after the November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks.
What's more, NBC's
Richard Engel reported on "The NBC Nightly News" last month that a senior U.S. counterterrorism official says Brussels was "likely just the beginning" of an ISIS terror wave.
Here are seven targets ISIS or other terrorist groups could strike next, gathered from government intelligence and major news sources.
1. Americans traveling abroad — The State Department has identified international civilian travelers as potential targets, and encourages them to enroll in its
Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP), which "gives you the latest security updates, and makes it easier for the nearest U.S. embassy or consulate to contact you in an emergency."
2. New York City — Manhattan has long been a target for terrorists around the globe, and the World Trade Center was attacked in 1993 and on Sept. 11, 2001. In November 2015, the Islamic State released a video that appeared to threaten Manhattan's Times Square and
Herald Square with suicide bombings, the New York Post reported.
3. Cruise ships — "Vice Admiral Clive Johnstone, the U.K.’s highest naval officer in NATO, said Islamic State’s spread into Libya had cast an ‘uncomfortable shadow’
over the sea," the Daily Mail reported in January. "In stark remarks, he revealed the IS terror groups are attempting to build a navy to wage war against the West . . . He said there was a ‘horrible opportunity’ that a ‘very high quality weapons system’ would be used to hit ships crossing the sea, having ‘extraordinary implications’ for the Western World."
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4. Shopping areas — In December 2014, an American teacher was stabbed to death at a mall in Abu Dhabi by a suspect wearing a burqa. Police later arrested suspect Dalal al Hashemi, a 38-year-old Emirati citizen of Yemeni origin, in connection with the murder. Authorities said she was inspired by jihadist websites to carry out a
"personal terrorist attack" on random victims, ABC News reported.
5. Airplanes —
Al-Qaida has issued warnings that it now has developed bombs that are completely undetectable — that don’t use metal and have non-detectable explosives — and could likely bypass airport security. It’s likely that if one terrorist organization has access to such weapons, ISIS won’t be far behind.
6. Churches and synagogues — On Nov. 18, 2014, two Muslim men attacked Jewish worshipers at the Kehilat Bnei Torah synagogue in Jerusalem. Wielding axes and guns, they killed four. It was one of many terror attacks on houses of worship through the years.
7. Schools — Terror groups regularly train to attack schools. In 2014, school children were abducted by militant Islamist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and 140 school children were killed by terrorists in Peshawar in north-west Pakistan. In early 2015, the
BBC reported that, "Terror attacks on schools and colleges around the world have risen to higher levels than at any point in more than 40 years, according to a long-term analysis of global terrorism."
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