The suspected gunmen who attacked a Jewish gathering on Bondi Beach were of Indian heritage and inspired by ISIS, officials say.

The suspects in the Bondi Beach massacre in Sydney, Australia, were motivated by ISIS and had traveled to the Philippines, Australian officials said. The Philippine authorities then said that the two men had traveled to the city of Davao last month. It remains unclear what they were doing there.

Investigators found improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and at least two black ISIS flags in a car at the scene registered to Naveed Akram.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said yesterday in a news conference that the Bondi Beach shooters—who murdered more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah out on the beach—appear to have been radicalized by the Islamic State.

The two men who killed 15 people on Sunday were driven by “Islamic State ideology,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told Australia’s public broadcaster.

The shooting happened during a mission by U.S. and Syrian forces in a historic central town near Palmyra on Saturday. President Trump and U.S. military officials attributed the attack to ISIS.

One of the Bondi Beach terror attack suspects was a “closely connected” to a convicted ISIS terrorist who was busted in 2019 — but was dropped from suspicion after just six months, a

Two Iowa National Guard soldiers were killed in an ISIS attack in Syria. They were on a mission in support of counter-terrorism efforts.

The black flag of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, is no longer associated with the sprawling territorial “caliphate” the group once controlled in the Syrian desert. It no longer serves as a banner beckoning Islamist militant recruits from across the globe or as the symbol of an organization with tight operational control over its terrorist plots and media profile.