February 4th, 2019

Battered in the Middle East, IS eyes Southeast Asia as next terrorism hotspot

The terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (IS) is today a shadow of its once-formidable self in the Middle East, with its army in tatters and its territories reduced to a sliver of turf.
But the IS ideology — which includes the setting up of a caliphate — is far from dead and buried.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/islamic-state-terrorism-extremism-eyes-southeast-asia-11199586

 

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