This week, ISIS’s activity in the various provinces continued at a "routine" level: Syria: The main event this week was an attack, apparently carried out by ISIS operatives, against a convoy of the Syrian army and members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in the Al-Sukhnah Desert, on the Palmyra-Deir ez-Zor highway. Iraq: ISIS claimed responsibility for detonating an IED near the tomb of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in the Shiite Kadhimiya neighborhood in northern Baghdad. The Sinai Peninsula: ISIS operatives carried out a combined attack on an Egyptian army camp south of Sheikh Zuweid. There has been a downtrend in ISIS’s activity in Africa. Libya: After a long period with no ISIS attacks in the country, this week ISIS carried out a suicide bombing attack at a roadblock set up by General Haftar’s army about 670 km south of Tripoli. At least four military personnel were killed, including an officer.
India’s
Hindustan Times reported on Wednesday the country has established formal communication with the Taliban terrorist organization, a sign that New Delhi expects the group to wield significant power in neighboring Afghanistan following the withdrawal of American troops.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan prior to the onset of the two-decade-old Afghan War in 2001. Since the U.S. invasion, the group – which has long maintained ties with international jihadist outfits like al-Qaeda – has ceaselessly attempted to overthrow the current government in power. Supporters of an even more extended American presence in the country argue that the Afghan National Army and assorted armed forces cannot match the strength of Taliban terrorists and Kabul’s government may fall to a Taliban “emirate” shortly after the departure of U.S. troops.
Sex Slavery Driving Jihadism in Nigeria: Group
American activists decrying the Christian genocide in Nigeria are asserting that jihadist violence is motivated partly by an effort to enslave women and girls.
“Most of the individuals captured by Boko Haram jihadists are young women and girls taken by force and trafficked as slave concubines,” the Committee to Free Nigerian Slaves (CFNS) said a statement.
CFNS members demonstrated against the practice around a billboard in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, on June 5.
“They endure horrendous abuse and mistreatment. An example of one of these victims is displayed on the billboard: She is 18-year-old Leah Sharibu, kidnapped from her school in Dapchi, Nigeria, in 2018,” event organizer Stephen Enada told The Epoch Times.