A United Nations report this week reveals that the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq, and its global network poses a rising threat -- as does al-Qaeda, which is much stronger in places -- the Worthy News website reports today (August 15, 2018).
The report by UN experts said that despite the defeat of IS in Iraq and most of Syria, it is likely that a reduced "covert version" of the militant group's "core" will survive in both countries, with significant affiliated supporters in Afghanistan, Libya, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
The experts said al-Qaeda's global network also "continues to show resilience," with its affiliates and allies much stronger than IS in some spots, including Somalia, Yemen, South Asia, and Africa's Sahel region.
These viable perceptions of the two major world terrorist groups convey that -- despite a united worldwide effort to defeat terrorism -- we can expect deadly terrorist activities to continue for at least another decade before terrorism will be obliterated from the face of the earth.
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