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Turkey will be increasing pressure on international partners over the YPG/PKK terrorist group, which continues its logistical and financial cooperation with Daesh in Syria. For Turkey, the PKK/YPG is actually cooperating Daesh, and continues to receive political and logistical, arms support from Washington under the pretext of fighting terrorists in Syria.
Source: Daily Sabah
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The Islamic State is trying to take advantage of deteriorating economic conditions in Iraq and Syria to reconstitute itself and reconstitute presence in areas hardest hit by the economic downturn, said the U.S State Department. In Iraq, the group is still waging a low-level insurgency in northern and western Iraq. In Syria, IS is still carrying out small-scale attacks on regime forces or areas held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Source: Shafaq.com
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Russia’s federal security service FSB has prevented terrorist attacks that were being plotted by members of the international terrorist organization Islamic State. On orders from the ringleaders of the terrorist organization two Russian citizens were plotting a simultaneous attack against residents of Moscow and the Astrakhan Region.
Source: TASS
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A faction of the Islamic State based in Africa said that it was responsible for two bombings in eastern Congo, adding to concerns that extremism has infiltrated a region with a long history of rebel conflict. It said that the targets were Christians at a bar and the Butsili Catholic Parish.
Source: Newsweek
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Islamic State’s affiliates in Africa are set for major expansion after a series of significant victories, new alliances and shifts in strategy reinforced their position across much of the continent. Following recent gains in Nigeria, the Sahel, in Mozambique and Congo, Isis propaganda is increasingly stressing sub-Saharan Africa as a new front which may compensate the group for significant setbacks elsewhere.
Source: The Guardian
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The Islamic State and Al-Qaeda terror groups are still active despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Director of the Federal Security Service of Russia, Alexander Bortnikov, told. He warned the activity of armed units of IS and Al-Qaeda, and groups linked to them in the Middle East and on the African continent is still high, and the penetration of terrorists in Afghanistan and Southeast Asian countries is ongoing.
Source: Tass
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U.S. forces, through American intelligence agents, are training ISIS militants to use them in attacks against the Syrian and Russian armies, as well as communities and essential facilities. U.S. forces have moved a new group of ISIS militants from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prisons in Hassakeh to their bases in the rural south of the governorate. This operation is not the first of its kind in that region; rather, it appears to reflect that the group’s militants are fighting within SDF’s ranks.
Source: Syrian Observer
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Russia is recruiting 400 Syrian from Bashar Al-Assad’s military and allied armed factions to protect Libyan oil facilities held by militias belonging to renegade general Khalifa Haftar. Meanwhile, the pro-regime Jerusalem Brigade, also supported by Russia, is recruiting mercenaries to reinforce its numbers after attacks by the Islamic State group.
SOURCE: THE NEW ARAB
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The United States is working to increase humanitarian assistance in Mozambique in response to the devastating violence by ISIS-Mozambique in Cabo Delgado province. The United States is the single largest donor of humanitarian assistance in Mozambique.
SOURCE: US DEPARTMENT STATE
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The Islamic State has found a new lifeline in Africa. It has forged ties with many of these local insurgencies as a marriage of convenience: For the militants, the Islamic State brand brings recognition from local governments that the homegrown guerrilla movements have long craved. The Islamic State, in turn, has been able to broadcast the local militants’ attacks as proof that their global jihad is alive and well.
SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
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