{"id":92276,"date":"2019-08-16T04:50:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92276"},"modified":"2019-08-16T04:50:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T11:50:58","slug":"is-has-found-footing-in-sri-lanka-india-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/16\/is-has-found-footing-in-sri-lanka-india-report\/","title":{"rendered":"IS has found footing in Sri Lanka, India: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>India,&nbsp;Sri Lanka,&nbsp;Turkey&nbsp;and Afghanistan are among the countries where the Islamic State (IS) terror group has found a footing,&nbsp;as its influence has diminished drastically across its territory of origin&nbsp;in Iraq and Syria, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday quoting a leading conflict monitor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data released by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED), a US-based conflict monitoring and crisis mapping body, IS has this year regrouped and carried out more activity outside of West Asia than inside it for the first time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IS greeted its loss of territory in Iraq and Syria in 2018 with an expanded global presence in 2019,\u201d said the ACLED report titled Branching Out: Islamic State\u2019s Continued Expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the first five months this year, the IS has placed unprecedented emphasis on its global operations\u2026 In his first video in five years (after the Sri Lanka Easter bombings in April), jihadist leader Abubakr al-Baghdadi&nbsp;focused largely on the group\u2019s activity in South Asia, North, West and Central Asia,\u201d&nbsp;it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy The Daily Mirror India,&nbsp;Sri Lanka,&nbsp;Turkey&nbsp;and Afghanistan are among the countries where the Islamic State (IS) terror group has found a footing,&nbsp;as its influence has diminished drastically across its territory of origin&nbsp;in Iraq and Syria, the Hindustan Times reported on Friday quoting a leading conflict monitor. According to data released by Armed Conflict Location and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}