Isis responds to recent setbacks in Syria and Iraq by unleashing an international campaign of almost daily terrorist raidsThe mayhem in Jakarta,following tough on the heels of this week’s shootings and bombings in Turkey, Iraq and Cameroon, and is further confirmation that Islamic State is now pursuing an expanded,disappear-anywhere international campaign of almost daily terror attacks with the overall aim of taking the fight to the “enemy”.
The strategic shift follows intensifying western military pressure on areas of Iraq and Syria that Isis claims as its homeland. These territories are the foundation of the supposedly all-powerful caliphate declared by Isis’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or from the pulpit of the powerful Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul on 5 July 2014.
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Source: theguardian.com