{"id":30430,"date":"2020-07-25T17:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=30430"},"modified":"2020-07-25T17:14:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T11:44:06","slug":"significant-numbers-of-isis-terrorists-in-kerala-karnataka-says-un-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=30430","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Significant numbers&#8217; of ISIS terrorists in Kerala, Karnataka, says UN report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong><em>The group reportedly has between 150 and 200 members from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan.<\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/kerala\/significant-numbers-of-isis-terrorists-in-kerala-karnataka-says-un-report\/article32189443.ece?homepage=true\">PTI<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A UN report on terrorism has warned that there are significant numbers of ISIS terrorists in Kerala and Karnataka, noting that the al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent terror group, which reportedly has between 150 and 200 militants from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar, is planning attacks in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 26th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team concerning ISIS, al-Qaida and associated individuals and entities said that the al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) operates under the Taliban umbrella from Nimruz, Helmand and Kandahar provinces of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group reportedly has between 150 and 200 members from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan. The current leader of AQIS is Osama Mahmood , who succeeded the late Asim Umar AQIS is reportedly planning retaliation operations in the region to avenge the death of its former leader, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the report, one member state reported that the ISIL Indian affiliate (Hind Wilayah), which was announced on May 10, 2019, has between 180 and 200 members .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It said that there are significant numbers of ISIL operatives in Kerala and Karnataka States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In May last year, the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) terror group claimed to have established a new \u201cprovince\u201d in India, the first of its kind announcement that came after clashes between militants and security forces in Kashmir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terror outfit, through its Amaq News Agency, had said that the Arabic name of the new branch is \u201cWilayah of Hind\u201d (India Province).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A senior Jammu and Kashmir police officer had rejected the claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prevously, ISIS attacks in Kashmir were linked to its so-called Khorasan Province branch, which was set up in 2015 to cover \u201cAfghanistan, Pakistan and nearby lands\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group reportedly has between 150 and 200 members from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Pakistan. PTI A UN report on terrorism has warned that there are significant numbers of ISIS terrorists in Kerala and Karnataka, noting that the al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent terror group, which reportedly has between 150 and 200 militants from India, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}