ISIS has intensified attacks worldwide over the past six months despite sustained international pressure, a senior UN counter-terrorism official told the Security Council on Wednesday.
Natalia Gherman, executive director of the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED), said the group continues to carry out and inspire “destructive attacks” across a wide geographic arc, from Syria and Iraq, to the Sahel, the Lake Chad Basin, East Africa and Australia.
“The impacts have been devastating,” Ms Gherman said, adding that UN monitors had documented increasingly sophisticated fund-raising and propaganda strategies used by the group.
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