Wave of Terror in Europe is the period of increased terrorist activity on the European continent, erupting since early 2015 and continuing into mid-2016. Though mostly, the incidents of terror across the continent have been unrelated with each other, the Wave of Terror has often been associated with the rise of radical Islam, with many isolated individuals who sympathise with the jihadist movement, as well as the more specific spillover of the Syrian Civil War associated with the jihadist activity of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).