Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses - ANNUAL THREAT ASSESSMENT Global Threat Landscape

Such ramped-up diverse local contexts across the world: online propaganda efforts were not without armed jihad to establish the khilāfa effect, apparently helping spark violence by (caliphate); hatred of the non-Muslim Other, IS affiliates in Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Somalia, and the End Times and the coming of the West Africa and the Philippines.5 Mahdi.10 As far as the estranged ideological cousin of. [...] With the police distracted, orchestrated by the MIT group.153 The threat the JI members had hoped to swoop in and from MIT would take a brutal turn in attack the shops in the ethnic Chinese November, when a group of militants it killed area.149 In 2020, there was a reduction in the four Christians after attacking a village in number of women arrested for terrorism Central Sulawesi. [...] The relentless assaults of the Armed Forces of Philippines (AFP) in Introduction 2020 have likely significantly depleted the number of fighters in local militant groups, The terrorism threat in the Southern with many also convinced to surrender.185 Philippines declined in 2020, following a The subsequent section analyses the impact series of military operations on terrorist of the COVID-19 pandemi. [...] The pro-IS Abu Sayyaf presence more recently, however, could be splinter led by Hajan Sawadjaan, previously attributed to the travel restrictions imposed by named in security papers as IS’ emir in the governments around the world to control the Philippines and who was subsequently killed spread of the coronavirus, and the consistent in July 2020, was able to launch ambushes assaults against Abu Sa. [...] The first suicide bombing in Indonesia to Mindanao.199 Also known as the the country occurred on January 27, 2019 in tri-border region, there are no Customs which the Jolo Cathedral was also and/or Immigration Checkpoints regulating targeted.205 In the main, suicide attacks in the the flow of persons and goods through these Philippines have been carried out by foreign areas.200 Although legitimate.