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| Daesh continues its inexorable rise to ascendancy in Africa |
| 2022-12-06 |
| [ARABNEWS] The life expectancy of ISIS’s "caliphs" gets ever shorter. The group has been forced to acknowledge the second death of a leader in just a few months. Militants are not even particularly grieved about these losses because they know nothing about either the new or the old leaders; they simply blindly pledge cult-like loyalty to these shadowy figures. In Iraq and Syria, ISIS’s murderous activities mercifully appear to be in terminal decline, with sharply reduced numbers of attacks confined to a dwindling number of localities — in particular, areas like Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Nineveh and Salahuddin, where Iran-backed Hashd paramilitaries appear happy to turn a blind eye. ISIS sees these Tehran-affiliated paramilitaries as its most promising route back to preeminence, given their unceasing efforts to destabilize the Iraqi state and trigger sectarian tensions. Hezbollah and the Hashd never tire of demonizing all Sunnis as ISIS supporters, despite the group’s actual presence in Leb |
| Posted by:Fred |