Counter Terrorist Trends and Analyses - Annual Threat Assessment - Global Threat Landscape

This threat has been peace process in Afghanistan between the amplified by the virulence of Right Wing Taliban, the US forces and Afghan national Extremist (RWE) groups, the spread of which government has provided the back-drop for remains a cause of concern in regions where AQ forces to embed themselves further in the there has been an intersection of religious country and South Asia. [...] The the trade is considered to be the most Indonesian suicide bombers, Rullie and lucrative illicit business in the region.83 In the Ulfah, involved in the Jolo attacks, as well as Philippines, the IS-linked BIFF sub leader the Moroccan bomber, Abu Khatir Al- Samad Masgal was recently arrested at the 80 Kenneth Yeo, “Philippines”, Counter Terroris. [...] Following the collapse of the IS’ partially hampered by the poor state of the “caliphate”, non-Malaysian foreign terrorist country’s economy, which limits the fighters (FTFs) from the theatre and other dispensable resources available for extremists may also seek refuge in the rehabilitation and reintegration country. [...] Parts of eastern Sabah, including the towns In October 2019, 12 men allegedly linked to of Sandakan and Tawau, also continued to the banned Sri Lankan militant group be used by militants as transit points to join Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) IS networks in the Philippines, exacerbating were also arrested in Malaysia under the fears of the regional movements of terrorist Security Offence. [...] armed militants in the Rakhine State to emulate the 137 The Northern Alliance includes the AA, the Kachin autonomy that the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Independence Army (KIA), the Myanmar National Myanmar’s most powerful armed ethnic group, Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and the Ta'ang enjoys in Wa areas near the Myanmar-China border.