ISIS’ NEW STRATEGY TO ‘WAGE WAR AT HOME’, EXPERT SAYS

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ISIS’ NEW STRATEGY TO ‘WAGE WAR AT HOME’, EXPERT SAYS


Source: 9News - 21 July 2019

By Sammi Taylor
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Islamic State fighters are shifting their focus from the Middle East and are now looking to wage war at home, according to a leading expert in terrorism. “It’s a guerrilla strategy using components from outside the heartland of the Middle East,” Sidney Jones, terrorism expert in South East Asia said.
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“ISIS has said basically now that it’s difficult to get to Syria, wage war at home.”


While the fight to wipe out extremists in Syria and Iraq is progressing, many Islamic State recruits are now relocating to Australia’s backyard in South East Asia. The resurgence of ISIS on Australia’s doorstep is considered such a threat that Australian soldiers have been deployed to the jungles of the Philippines to make sure ISIS is stopped in its tracks.
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More than 100 Australian troops from the army, air force and navy are currently part of the training mission designed to train the Filipino military in battle techniques against ISIS. “It may not be in Australia, but this part of the world is in our backyard,” Young told 60 Minutes reporter Liam Bartlett.


“They’re [Philippines] our neighbours. Their prosperity, their peace, is ours.”
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Offering lessons they learnt in combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, Australian troops are preparing local forces for urban combat situations – not dissimilar to the Marawi City siege of 2017.
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Marawi City was home to more than 200,000 people before it was transformed into Islamic State’s battleground, destroying every building and structure in the city.
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Despite the Marawi siege ending in November 2017, the city is still uninhabitable with hundreds of unexploded bombs hidden beneath the rubble.

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