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ISLAMIC STATE               NOV 10 2019 SPOTLIGHT SOUTH ASIA NEWS SPS PUBLICATION RESEARCH EDUCATION & CULTURE SPOTLIGHT Home Spotlight Baghdadi’s elimination does not mean the end of Islamist terrorism Baghdadi’s elimination does not mean the end of Islamist terrorism Baghdadi announced he had become "Caliph" in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraw in July 2014 and, since then, his followers recognised him as the political and religious leader of the whole Muslim world. Large numbers of terrorist outfits - including in South Asia - accepted him as their leader, writes Jai Kumar Verma for South Asia Monitor   By Jai Kumar Verma   NOV 2, 2019 US President Donald Trump disclosed in a televised address on October 27 that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, head of Islamic State, had been killed in a raid by special Forces in the Idlib region of northwest Syria. Trump also said th

·         SOUTH ASIA MONITOR ·           ·         A Perspective on, from and of interest to the region ·         Powered by SPS Society for Policy Studies ·         JUL 19 2019 ·         SPOTLIGHT ·         SOUTH ASIA NEWS ·         SPS PUBLICATION ·         RESEARCH ·         EDUCATION & CULTURE Top of Form Bottom of Form SPOTLIGHT 1.       Home 2.       Spotlight 3.       Al Qaeda video a desperate attempt to revive dying Kashmir militancy Al Qaeda video a desperate attempt to revive dying Kashmir militancy Analysts state that old and frail al-Zawahiri is in Pakistan and may be availing of facilities provided by the ISI, which is worried that insurgency in Kashmir is dying down after Operations All Out, Cordon and Search and Sarp Vinash. In the first five months of 2019, Indian security forces have successfully eliminated 101 terrorists, including 23 foreigners and 78 locals, writes J K Verma for South Asia Monitor By J K Verma