A colourful map of the region can be seen at the link.
[AlAhram] Many countries in the region are intensifying their counterterrorism efforts, the report notedA recent report by Egypt’s National Centre for Studies on the state of terrorism in the larger Middle East during the month of January reported a high rate of terror attacks in Syria.
"Syria saw 28 terror attacks during the month of January," the report noted.
The first monthly ’State of Terror Report,’ which was published by the NCS earlier this month, noted that both Afghanistan and Somalia came in second in the number of attacks, with each suffering 24 attacks during the past month.
The security situation in both countries, the report noted, is unstable given the continued lack of political stability — with Somalia possibly set to face a new rough phase — and given the withdrawal of US troops from both countries.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the report noted that continued intelligence cooperation between the US and both Somalia and Afghanistan would still be consequential in the battle against the al-Shabaab
...... an Islamic infestation centering on Somalia attempting to metastasize into Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and similar places, all ofwhich have enough problems without them...
in Somalia and the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Afghanistan.
The report counted a total of 110 terror attacks in the larger Middle East, 88 of which were in countries with political instability.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the report noted that despite the security deficiency from which they suffer, neither South Sudan and nor Libya recorded terror attacks during the month of January.
Algeria, however, came back with a single terror attack that was followed by security operation that led to the killing of all suspected terrorists.
Many countries in the region are intensifying their counterterrorism efforts, the report noted. Egypt, for one, is still hard at work to quell terror cells in Sinai.
The biggest success story of January, the report noted, came in Iraq with the elimination of Gabbar Al Issawi,
..in our archives as Abu Yasar al-Issawi, born Jabbar al-Issawi in Fallujah, killed in Kirkuk...
the leading Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(IS) figure who was killed by Iraqi law enforcement on 28 January, one week after Baghdad was hit with deadly twin suicide kabooms.
Suicide attacks, kidnappings and murders were all reported during the month of January in the NSC report, which was titled ’The fall of Gabbar’. The report added that in several cases, terror groups used drones to carry out their terror attacks.
Meanwhile,
...back at the abandoned silver mine, the water was up to Jack's neck and still rising. And then he smelled the smoke...
the report noted that leading terror groups in the region, especially IS and al-Qaeda, are moving to consolidate ranks with an aggressive online media campaign.