US-Backed Local Forces Battle Bloody ISIS Insurgency in Mozambique Military forces in Mozambique said Monday they had re-taken the strategic northern town of Palma from a regional ISIS affiliate that is causing havoc in the southeast African nation, but the progress isn’t coming without bloodshed.
The Pentagon announced last month that a dozen U.S. Army green berets have been deployed for a two-month mission in the area, “to support Mozambique’s efforts to prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism.†In addition to training, the U.S. government has also provided medical and communications equipment, it said.
Tens of thousands of civilians have fled for their lives as death count rises in and around the coastal town in Mozambique’s northernmost Cabo Delgado province. Dozens of decapitated bodies were left strewn along roadsides. Children have been indiscriminately slaughtered, and Islamist militants have gone door-to-door, dragging out innocents caught in the crossfire.
International experts are warning of the next “humanitarian catastrophe†– and it’s all down to the so-called Islamic State Central African Province (ISCAP), which has waged a bloody assault against the civilian population for months. Embattled government forces and private militias are engaged in a brutal battle against the insurgents in a bid to win back the impoverished, yet resource-rich region...............
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