{"id":72670,"date":"2017-06-10T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=72670"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T14:03:50","slug":"isis-losing-in-the-levant-focuses-on-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=72670","title":{"rendered":"ISIS, losing in the Levant, focuses on Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to AFP<\/a>, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, speaking to the UN Security Council, told them that ISIS is adapting to their loses in Syria and Iraq by shifting their focus to Europe;<\/p>\n

“ISIL has reorganized its military structure, giving more power to local commanders and is more focused than ever before on enabling and inspiring attacks outside of conflict zones.”<\/p>\n

Speaking before the UN Security Council, Feltman cited recent attacks in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Turkey.<\/p>\n

The group has posted fewer messages on social networks in the past 16 months, but “the threat persists as supporters outside Syria and Iraq collect and redistribute this propaganda.”<\/p>\n

The total number of IS fighters and the group’s revenues have also dropped during the same period, Feltman added.<\/p>\n

But IS can count on tens of millions of dollars per month from oil sales, extortion, ransom kidnapping, antiquities trafficking and mining exploitation in territories they control.<\/p>\n

While the number of foreign fighters recruited by IS has also decreased, “returnees and the relocation of fighters from the conflict zones to other regions now present a considerable threat to international peace,” Feltman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“Duh!” <\/p>\n

Isn’t that what folks, especially Donald Trump, have been saying for years? That area of the world has been exporting terrorism for decades, why should any of it change now?<\/p>\n

Nice of the rest of the world catch up to the realist, not that the UN is going to be able to do anything except talk. I’m sure they’ll find a way to punish Israel for it, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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