Jihadists in a sentence

After the jihadists lost their last territory to SDF-led forces in 2019, SDF has cracked down on remnants of IS, whose members still launch deadly attacks in Syria.

Although the criminal gangs are largely motivated by financial gains from ransom payments, some have forged ties with jihadists from northeast Nigeria where they are waging a 14-year old insurgency to establish a Caliphate.

He also claimed that “several air strikes targeted positions of suspected jihadists” on Friday.

In 2014, days before IS fighters seized swathes of northern Iraq, the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul left the city, salvaging a trove of centuries-old Syriac manuscripts from the invading jihadists.

In Bangladesh, George Soros has joined an evil nexus which conspires to replace a secularist government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina by placing Islamists and jihadists in power.

It faces two insurgent campaigns: one which swept in from Mali in 2015 and the other involving jihadists from Nigeria.

Jihadists affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group have escalated their operations into central Mali and neighbouring Niger and Burkina Faso.

Mali is now relying on the Russian mercenary group Wagner to fight the jihadists.

Mali's military junta is working with Wagner mercenaries in the fight against jihadists.

Moreover, casting jihadists as deviants rather than products of problematic tenants of jurisprudence that justify violence stymies criticism of the justification of autocracy as a necessary means to combat violence and promote moderate Islam.

Save the Children warned in December that around 7,000 children of suspected foreign jihadists were “trapped in desperate conditions and put at risk on a daily basis” in overcrowded detention camps in northeast Syria.

Some 40 percent of Burkina Faso has since been seized since by jihadists.

Suspected jihadists on motorbikes ambushed the troops near the western town of Sanam on Sunday, according to a statement issued by the National Guard High Command.

The unit had been deployed in the town of Koumbri in Yatenga province to help the resettlement of residents forced out of the area by jihadists more than two years ago.

Transnational crime rackets are busy in selling Western weapons in black market, while a significant portion of these weapons are landing into the grips of terrorists, jihadists and crime rackets mostly in the European nations.

When jihadists in Mali announced they would blockade the ancient city of Timbuktu, residents thought it was just another intimidation tactic.

While Hezbollah’s precise capabilities are unknown, analysts say they have increased substantially since 2006, partly because its members gained experience fighting the jihadists of the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.

A South African yacht delivery crew allegedly suffered hell when their vessel was stopped by the Mozambican navy and they were held for a week under suspicion of being mercenaries or jihadists.

A successful attack on a soccer match goes a long way to achieve jihadists’ goals of polarizing communities, exacerbating social tensions, and driving the marginalized further into the margins, even if is likely to alienate large numbers of fans.

By contrast, IS jihadists "present themselves as the only viable alternative that would impose respect for religious principles while opposing foreign interests", Bindner told AFP.