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Daesh Reportedly Gains Ground in Africa as US Lacks Resources to Fight Terrorism in Sahel
Daesh Reportedly Gains Ground in Africa as US Lacks Resources to Fight Terrorism in Sahel
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US counterterrorism officials see the rise of the Daesh* terrorist group (aka ISIS) in Africa as a new external threat, but US resources are... 26.11.2024, Sputnik Africa
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Brett Holmgren, the head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, told the newspaper that Daesh cells were operating in the Lake Chad basin, Nigeria, Mozambique, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and could pose a significant threat to the US. The rapid rise of terrorist groups in the Sahel is a "ticking time bomb," another senior US counterterrorism official told the US news outlet. They argued that most of Washington was too "consumed" by Ukraine, Israel and China to pay attention, allowing the threat in the Sahel to potentially metastasize.*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other states
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Daesh Reportedly Gains Ground in Africa as US Lacks Resources to Fight Terrorism in Sahel
17:37 26.11.2024 (Updated: 17:44 26.11.2024) MOSCOW (Sputnik) - US counterterrorism officials see the rise of the Daesh* terrorist group (aka ISIS) in Africa as a new external threat, but US resources are already spread too thin across other geopolitical tasks for Washington to afford a greater role in the Sahel region, US media reported.
Brett Holmgren, the head of the US National Counterterrorism Center, told the newspaper that Daesh cells were operating in the Lake Chad basin, Nigeria, Mozambique, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and could pose a significant
threat to the US. "That could include going after US interests and targets in Africa, or if they bring in foreign fighters, as we have seen in other conflicts, at that point it could become more of an external threat to the United States," Holmgren said.
The rapid rise of
terrorist groups in the Sahel is a "ticking time bomb," another senior US counterterrorism official told the US news outlet. They argued that most of Washington was too "consumed" by Ukraine, Israel and China to pay attention, allowing the threat in the Sahel to potentially metastasize.
*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia and many other states
