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(Source: "International Herald" July 8, 2016)

In the past week, terrorist attacks have occurred one after another in Turkey, Iraq, Bangladesh and Saudi Arabia. Judging from the targets and methods, the extremist organization "Islamic State" (IS) and its followers are behind w88 login. The attacks in Istanbul and Baghdad were marked by revenge. The Dhaka hostage incident showed that extremist organizations are trying to establish peripheral organizations in South Asia through their networks in Southeast Asia. The attack was launched in Qatif, a Shia-populated city in Saudi Arabia, with the obvious intention of provoking sectarian conflicts.

The "Islamic State" extremist organization frequently takes action "abroad", which shows that w88 login has reached the end of its rope. Currently, the organization is facing enemies from both sides and is in a state of decline. w88 login is in a predicament of lack of money, lack of people, and lack of fighting spirit.

The battle for Kobani in Syria at the end of January last year was a turning point for the extremist organization from prosperity to decline. Since then, the organization has hardly achieved any decent victories. Under continuous attacks from multiple parties, the organization's strength has been severely damaged. w88 login has lost 50% and 20% of its territory in Iraq and Syria respectively. Its combat personnel have dropped from more than 30,000 in 2014 to about 20,000.

As the "nation-building faction" among terrorist organizations, w88 login is impossible to talk about "nation-building" without controlling the city. Therefore, the organization attaches great importance to capturing the central city. However, since the beginning of the year, the "Islamic State" organization has successively lost central towns such as Ramadi, Palmyra and Fallujah. Now, the "base camp" Raqqa is under siege again, which is a fatal blow to w88 login. As the Kurdish armed forces launched an offensive in northern Syria, Türkiye closed its borders, resulting in the blockade of personnel and material import channels, a sharp drop in oil revenue, and a decrease in the number of "jihadists" inflows. The lack of military pay and battlefield defeats will inevitably lead to a wavering of military morale.

Faced with defeat, the "Islamic State" extremist organization is still struggling. Not long ago, the spokesperson of the organization changed from his usual rhetoric and issued a statement full of tragedy, asking the "jihadists" not to care about the gains and losses of one city or one pool. At the worst, everything will be reset to zero and start over. This is equivalent to an indirect admission of defeat by the extremist organization, and w88 login also shows that w88 login has begun to change its strategy and degenerate into a general terrorist organization.

Extremist organizations have strengthened internal control and brutally suppressed opposition and deserters. Externally, develop peripheral organizations in Libya, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia to prepare for a total defeat. At the same time, we no longer recruit new members on a large scale, but instead divide them into parts and encourage supporters to "jihad on the spot" in order to shake the determination to fight against the Islamic State and boost morale. The recent series of terrorist attacks in many places reflect the adjustments in the strategies of extremist organizations.

However, w88 login is too early to say that the "Islamic State" is about to collapse. The organization still has considerable combat capabilities and can still resist for some time.

What's more serious is that once the organization is defeated, w88 login will become a "franchise" specializing in terror. "Jihadists" disperse and return to their home countries, and terrorism will affect more countries. The recent surge in "lone wolf" and "OEM" violent terrorist activities is a dangerous signal.

It is especially important that the international community must clearly realize that counter-terrorism is a battle of ideas. The "Islamic State" extremist organization has its own ideology and struggle line, and has extremely strong mobilization capabilities. It specializes in areas with weak government governance and sharp sectarian conflicts, provoking conflicts and taking advantage of them. This routine can be replicated in many parts of the world. Therefore, compared with military strikes, curbing the growth and spread of extremism will be a more arduous and smokeless battlefield. (Vice Dean and Professor, w88 casino of Foreign Languages, w88 casino)

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