Daesh extremists ‘taking fight’ to Africa, warns US

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Sun, 2019-11-24 00:29

MANILA: Daesh extremists fleeing Syria are showing little interest in “taking the fight” to Southeast Asia and are focusing their efforts on Africa, a senior US counterterrorism official said.

“We know that the Daesh core, the remnants of Daesh in Syria, have been encouraging their fighters to leave and fight again, to take the fight to other regions,” Nathan Sales, coordinator for counterterrorism at the US State Department, said.

“But the truth is that Southeast Asia is not one of the regions that militants seem to be heading to in droves.”