Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog: Islamic State Affiliated Groups And Their Current Status
According to this Intel Center list, there are currently 43 worldwide terrorist groups which have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State. I started wondering how many of those were active, how many weren’t covered by that list, and what was the most recent documented activity of each. Hence this list.
I started with the Intel Center list, found the most recent activity (if any) for the group listed, added a few groups I knew they were missing, and alphabetized the whole thing (it was originally group by country). I don’t speak Arabic, so this list is not alphabetized the way an Arab scholar might alphabetize it. I’ve given alternate names and spellings where known, but this information is almost certainly not complete. I’ve tried to distinguish between similarly named groups, but it’s still entirely possibly I’ve gotten something wrong. Terrorist groups form, splinter and die-off all the time.
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WNU Editor: That is a lot of groups to target.
2 comments:
Sad news for those praising about the ISIS' demise after Mosul and Raqqa. Unless the global coalition wages a global offensive to shut down all these cells, the ongoing threat will increase considerably.
ISIS is only one Jihadist group which happened to have unusual success because of the regional situation (the collapse of Iraq along sectarian lines, and the Syrian civil war). Even if it goes out of existence new groups will be formed in the future, and might repeat their "achievements" or worse depending on the regional situation.
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