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U S steps up support as ISIS-linked militants rampage, reportedly beheading children in Mozambique
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The US military has reportedly joined the growing fight against jihadist insurgents in northern Mozambique.
A dozen US Army Green Beret special forces began training Mozambican marines this week in a two-month programme, the
New York Times reported.
The move indicates a greater commitment by the new Biden administration to the fight against the Islamic State-linked insurgency than that of the previous Trump administration.
Last week Washington formally designated the insurgency which it named Isis-Mozambique as a global terrorist organisation and imposed sanctions on it and its leader, whom it named as Abu Yasir Hassan.
The insurgents who operate in Mozambique’s northernmost Cabo Delgado province sometimes call themselves Al-Sunna wa Jama’a, (ASWJ). Locals also call them Al-Shabaab though they are not known to have any formal link to the group of that name in Somalia, which is affiliated to Al-Qaeda, not the Islamic State.
17 Mar 2021
British-based charity Save the Children said Tuesday children as young as 11 years old have been beheaded by the savage ISIS-affiliated Islamist insurgency in Mozambique.
The terrorists are reportedly murdering children before the eyes of their helpless mothers.
Sky News quoted horror stories related to Save the Children by civilians in Mozambique, including a mother who hid in terror with three of her children while the insurgents murdered her 12-year-old eldest son, and a woman who watched the death of her 11-year-old boy.
The Mozambique insurgency calls itself Ahlu-Sunnah Wa-Jama, a name it borrowed from Somalia’s Al-Shabaab terrorist organization; some of the killers, and many terrified local citizens, simply refer to the militants as “al-Shabaab.” The insurgency grew out of a popular movement against corrupt government and foreign exploitation of Mozambique’s oil and gas resources, but its loyalties lie with the Islamic State.
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US soldiers help Mozambique battle an expanding ISIS affiliate
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Last Updated: Mar 17, 2021, 04:40 PM IST
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The U.S. program is modest in size and scope: a dozen Army Green Berets are to train Mozambican marines for the next two months. But it signals the entry of the United States military into a counterinsurgency effort that has been aided so far mainly by South African mercenaries, who have faced accusations of human rights abuses.
New York Times
An American soldier trains Chadian troops in Atar, Mauritania, Feb. 19, 2020. American Special Forces soldiers began training Mozambican troops this week as part of an effort to repel a spreading insurgency in northeastern Mozambique
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