Islamic State eyes India, Sri Lanka as next operational hub: report
Posted on August 16th, 2019

Courtesy DECCAN CHRONICLE

The monitor showed that the increase in its activity outside West Asia — mostly across South Asia and Africa– is drastic.

In recent times, IS has carried out more activities outside West Asia than inside and also restructured its group, under the directions of its leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: Representational /AFP)

 In recent times, IS has carried out more activities outside West Asia than inside and also restructured its group, under the directions of its leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: Representational /AFP)

New Delhi: India, Turkey, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka are among the countries where radical terror group Islamic State (IS) is eyeing to foot its influence as its hold in the territories of origin (Iran and Syria) is loosening drastically, Hindustan Times reported.

A US-based leading conflict monitor, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), has indicated that the radical outfit, in its first, had carried out more activities outside West Asia than inside and also restructured its group, under the directions of its leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi.

The IS greeted its loss of territory in Iraq and Syria in 2018 with expanded global presence in 2019,” said the ACLED report titled Branching Out: Islamic State’s Continued Expansion. Through the first five months this year, the IS has placed unprecedented emphasis on its global operations… In his first video in five years (after the Sri Lanka Easter bombings in April), Baghdadi focused largely on the group’s activity in South Asia, North, West and Central Asia.”

The report reflected that IS is active and proliferating in India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Mali and Libya.

The monitor showed that the increase in its activity outside West Asia — mostly across South Asia and Africa– is drastic. In 2019, more that 60 per cent movements and exercises were carried out outside group’s origin-territory. In 2018, the activity outside West Asia was limited to 45 per cent and it was as low as 20 per cent in 2016 and 2017.

One Response to “Islamic State eyes India, Sri Lanka as next operational hub: report”

  1. Ananda-USA Says:

    Is Mohammed Saharan REALLY DEAD?

    His wife is giving SECRET statements in Court. What about?

    Has his body been identified beyond all doubt through incontrovertible DNA evidence with an ironclad chain of custody?

    Leaders of terrorist groups RARELY commit suicide during in their FIRST operation, leaving the group leaderless and at sea! For example, Osama bin Laden did all he could to survive the fallout from 9/11.

    Therefore, I ask whether a COVER STORY was created to show he died as a suicide bomber, whereas he is alive and well and is leading the organization from hiding? The Turkish Ambassador to Sri Lanka said the same thing recently.

    FOOD FOR THOUGHT, I think!

    Suicide bomber Saharan’s wife gives secret statement in court

    Aug 15, Colombo: Abdul Cader Fatima Hadiya, wife of Mohammed Saharan, the leader of the National Thowheed Jammath organization and the suicide bomber who attacked the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo on Easter Sunday, made a secret statement today before the Colombo Fort Magistrate.

    She made this statement when the post mortem examination of the two suicide bombers at the Shangri-La Hotel Mohammed Saharan and Mohammed Ibrahim Ilham Ahmed was held before the Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake today (August 15).

    Fatima Hadiya has made the confession for over an hour in the official room of Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake.

    Saharan’s wife and her 4-year-old daughter Mohammed Zahran Rukia, were taken to court amid tight security.

    The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) also produced Yusuf Mohammed Ibrahim, the father of the other suicide bomber Mohammed Ibrahim Ilham and his brothers Mohammed Ibrahim Iflal Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrahim Ismail Ahmed before the Magistrate today to provide evidence at the post mortem examination.

    The case will be taken up again on the 19th.

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