Daily Express - ISIS terrorists are attempting to construct a new so-called "Caliphate" in Mozambique with locals subject to horrific violence including beheadings.
Islamist extremists have been waging an insurgency in Mozambique’s northern province of Cabo Delgado since 2017 which has left over 2,600 dead and 700,000 displaced. In response, US special forces are being deployed in a bid to “prevent the spread of terrorism and violent extremism”.
ISIS has been blamed for a wave of beheadings in Mozambique including at least 50 in the month of November 2020 alone.
Some of those targeted have been children leaving charity workers from Save the Children “sickened to the core”.
Speaking to The Sun a 28-year-old mother revealed she watched her son being beheaded whilst hiding with her other children.
She said: “That night our village was attacked and houses were burned....READ MORE
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