Authorities in the region have said it will be a long battle to thwart the terrorist group’s ideology, even after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself by detonating a suicide vest during a raid in northwest Syria in October.

Malaysia will remain on guard against threats posed by fighters returning from abroad, online radicalization and possible lone-wolf attacks, home minister Muhyiddin Yassin said at a meeting of ministers from members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Bangkok, Reuters reported.

“We believe that al-Baghdadi’s death will open up another chapter in ISIS terror operation. After losing much of its territory in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is also looking for a new base, maybe in southeast Asia,” Muhyiddin was quoted as saying by Malaysian news agency Bernama.

Muhyiddin, whose ministry oversees the police force, said Malaysia had foiled 25 planned attacks by Daesh in the country and arrested 512 people with suspected links to the group over the past six years.

Malaysia has been on high alert since January 2016, when gunmen allied with Daesh carried out a series of attacks in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

Daesh also claimed responsibility for a grenade attack on a bar in the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in June 2016 that wounded eight people. It was the first such strike on Malaysian soil.

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Gilles de Kerchove, the EU’s counter-terror coordinator, told Spain’s El Mundo newspaper on Thursday that he expected more terrorist attacks following the deadly car incidents in Barcelona and Cambrils, the Spanish cities.

“We are going to suffer more attacks,” he said.

“The majority, except Brussels and Paris, were not directed from Raqqah but inspired, and then ISIS (Daesh) claimed responsibility,” he said, referring to the Syrian city considered the de facto capital of the Daesh terrorist group.

“The group’s propaganda no longer calls so much for people to travel to the ‘caliphate’, but to launch attacks in their places of origin or of residence, even on a small scale with homemade weapons,” he continued.

British officials have already warned that the threat from home-grown extremists who are barred from joining Daesh terrorists operating in Syria and Iraq is increasing.

De Kerchove said that Britain has the highest known number of extremists in Europe, and out of these some 25,000 extremists about 3,000 are considered a direct threat by MI5 – Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency.

Britain has recently been targeted by several Daesh claimed terrorist attacks. The country increased terror threat level to critical in the aftermath of a bombing that killed at least 22 people, including seven children, at the Manchester Arena at the end of a concert back in May.

Later in June, two attacks claimed the lives of at least ten people in central London. Three men rammed a van into people on London Bridge before launching knife attacks on people somewhere else in Borough Market. Both attacks were later claimed by Daesh.

A recent car rampage, which was also claimed by the Takfiri group in the Spanish city of Barcelona, is said to  have been inspired by the London Bridge attack, according to security officials.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May famously has said that she is willing to change human rights laws in order to “restrict the freedom and the movements of terrorist suspects.”

“If human rights laws stop us from doing it, we will change those laws so we can do it,” she said in early June.

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