US Defense Intelligence Chief Warns Of Increased ISIS Attacks Around The World

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The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency director has warned that ISIS is likely to increase the amount of attacks in the months ahead.

He went on to say that he wouldn’t be surprised if ISIS extended its operation deeper into Egypt.

Marine Corps Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart voiced his concern of the groups’s emerging branches in Tunisia, Somalia, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Mali.

‘Last year, Daesh remained entrenched on Iraqi and Syrian battlefields and expanded globally to Libya, Sinai, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the Caucasus,’ Stewart said.

‘Daesh is likely to increase the pace and lethality of its transnational attacks because it seeks to unleash violent actions and to provoke a harsh reaction from the West, thereby feeding its distorted narrative’ of a Western war against Islam, he said.

Stewart then said that ISIS’s presence in Syria and Iraq was only the start of its expansion.

It is estimated that ISIS has as many as 25,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria.

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