“West African nations have given Niger one week to return to civilian rule
following the recent coup there and threatened measures including the use of
force unless coup leaders return ousted President Mohamed Bazoum to power. The
situation complicates the fight against terrorism in the Sahel region.
Confidence MacHarry is a Nigeria-based geopolitical security analyst. He says
that the region has lost a key ally who has been serious about the fight
against terrorists and extreme groups.”
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Eye on Extremism
August 1, 2023
Voice Of America: Sahel Region Coups Make Room For Terrorist Groups: Analysts
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“West African nations have given Niger one week to return to civilian rule
following the recent coup there and threatened measures including the use of
force unless coup leaders return ousted President Mohamed Bazoum to power. The
situation complicates the fight against terrorism in the Sahel region.
Confidence MacHarry is a Nigeria-based geopolitical security analyst. He says
that the region has lost a key ally who has been serious about the fight
against terrorists and extreme groups.”
UPI: U.S. Sanctions 20 People Accused Of Supporting ISIS, Al-Qaida In Maldives
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“The United States has blacklisted 20 people accused of financially
supporting the operations of the Islamic State and al-Qaida in the Maldives, as
the Biden administration continues to attack the terrorist organizations'
global networks by targeting their ability to generate funds. The sanctions
were announced Monday by the departments of State and Treasury, who said that
among those designated are key leaders and financial facilitators of the
terrorist organizations active in the South Asian archipelago nation. The
punitive measures specifically target what the federal departments said was an
ISIS-affiliated terrorist cell in Addu City, ISIS-aligned criminal gang Kuda
Henveyru, al-Qaida operatives and associates of Mohamad Ameen, an ISIS
operative who was sanctioned by the United States in 2019.”
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Pakistan
Reuters: Pakistan Suicide Bombing Death Toll Rises To 56
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"The death toll from a suicide bombing in Pakistan that targeted a hard-line
religious group's political rally and raised security concern for a general
election due by November has risen to 56, a government official said on
Tuesday. The attack was the deadliest on a political party since campaigning
for the last election, in 2018, in the nuclear-armed South Asian nation of the
220 million people. Militant violence also marred preparations of a 2013
general election. The toll from Sunday's attack in the northwestern district of
Bajaur, on the border with Afghanistan, could rise, said Anwar-ul-Haq, the
region's deputy commissioner.”
Dawn: As Pakistan Elections Near, Terrorist Groups May Resort To Fear Tactics
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“Once again, dozens of innocents have paid in blood for their state’s failure
to apprehend an attack on the country and its people. At the time these lines
were being written, at least 35 civilian lives had been lost to the cowardly
bombing of a Sunday political convention in KP’s Bajaur district, while 85
individuals were battling with injuries of varying degrees, a number of them
struggling between life and death. The grief and anger came in familiar waves —
it had been a while since so many civilian lives were lost to a single act of
senseless violence, but we are certainly no strangers to the trauma.”
Middle East
i24 News: NGO Cancels Movie Screening About Palestinian Hijacker After
Criticism From Israel
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“A movie about convicted terrorist Leila Khaled, who attempted to hijack an EL
Al plane in 1970, was set to be presented as an opportunity for discussion
Israel’s Foreign Ministry took to Twitter, now known as X, to slam the
Jerusalem-based German NGO The Willy Brandt Center (WBC) for celebrating the
convicted Palestinian terrorist Leila Khaled in a film presentation slated for
Wednesday. The ministry responded with a sarcastic tweet to the center's post
on X, which invited people to attend the screening of “Leila Khaled: Hijacker”
with “popcorn.” “Because who doesn’t love theatre popcorn and TERROR? Leila
Khaled is a Palestinian terrorist responsible for hijacking a plane from Rome
to Tel Aviv in 1969. The Willy Brandt Center in Jerusalem will be screening a
film celebrating her legacy of terror and violence,” the ministry wrote.”
Africa
Reuters: Islamist Militants Behead At Least 10 Farmers In Nigeria's Borno
State, Residents Say
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“Islamist militants have beheaded at least 10 farmers in Nigeria's northern
state of Borno after attacking their farms, residents said on Monday. Last
week, militants killed at least 25 people and wounded others in attacks on two
villages in Borno state, a hotbed for insurgency and the center of a more than
a decade-long insurgency in Nigeria that has spilled into neighbouring Chad and
Cameroon. Abubakar Masta, a farmer who escaped, said the assailants attacked
their farms in Kawuri village of Konduga local government area of Borno State
on Monday around 08:30 a.m. (0730 GMT), on motorbikes, carrying rifles. "I saw
10 corpses of my friends who were slaughtered," Abubakar said, as security
officials were recovering the bodies.”
India
Reuters: At Least Five Killed In Hindu-Muslim Clashes South Of New Delhi
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“At least five people, including two police personnel, were killed in clashes
between Hindus and Muslims that erupted on Monday around 50 km (30 miles) south
of the capital New Delhi, police officials told Reuters. The violence erupted
after a Hindu religious procession passed through the Muslim dominated Nuh
region, in Haryana state, the officials said. By evening, the violence had
spilled over into neighbouring Gurugram, where a mosque was torched, killing
the cleric and injuring another person. Gurugram, formerly known as Gurgaon,
shares a border with New Delhi and has emerged as a business hub for the
country, housing several multinational companies.”
Southeast Asia
Philstar: Philippine Gov't Tags Teves, 12 Others As Terrorists
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“The Anti-Terrorism Council has designated Rep. Arnolfo Teves (Negros
Oriental)—the alleged mastermind in the assassination of governor Roel
Degamo—as a terrorist. The move allows the Anti-Money Laundering Council to
investigate and freeze the financial assets and properties of Teves—who is
believed to be overseas—and members of his alleged armed group. The ATC
resolution, which was approved on July 26 but was only released Tuesday, named
the suspended lawmaker the leader of the “Teves Terrorist Group” and also
tagged as terrorists his brother, Pryde Henry, alleged bagman Marvin Miranda,
and the following.”
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