"In Secretary Mattis's words, 'problems in ungoverned spaces don't stay in ungoverned spaces,'" Shanahan said.
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This porous and ungoverned region continues to present a major problem and the challenge posed by the ungoverned space will require multi-national cooperation to surmount.
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Much of that meth gets cooked in Myanmar's ungoverned borderlands.
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At the very least, she'd expected something ungoverned, sexy, free.
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Donald Trump's ungoverned behavior is a danger to us all.
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On the one hand, the ungoverned space of the internet—like the ungoverned spaces of Afghanistan, northern Syria, and the Sahel in the offline world—have given jihadist groups a safe haven to organize.
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Again, ungoverned spaces are going to be exploited by Islamic extremists.
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He found it was "virtually ungoverned" and the inmates were armed.
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The strategy is clear: Exploit poverty and local conflicts in ungoverned spaces.
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States do not allow new territories to go ungoverned for very long.
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Some of Egypt's vast ungoverned territory would provide a safe haven for killers.
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The high seas have traditionally been wild and ungoverned, and so they remain.
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We crave, devour and gorge, trying and failing to sate our ungoverned hunger.
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Jihadists use its ungoverned spaces to train and plot attacks at home and abroad.
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Radical factions in the ungoverned spaces around Israel might turn their guns on it.
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We have a country to the south of us that is relatively ungoverned now.
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State presence needs to be felt by people who live in ungoverned rural areas.
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IS has been "defeated" before, only to regroup in ungoverned spaces with angry populations.
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"Republican politics boils down to ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason," writes Jonathan Chait.
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Seafood supply chains are fluid, extending across national boundaries and into the oceans' ungoverned spaces.
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"It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space," the Morrison's letter read.
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What is left of IS will also find it harder to find ungoverned places to fill.
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Hot spots Failure to ensure that ocean territories are secure promotes ungoverned spaces which criminals exploit.
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I think there might be larger pieces of the world that are functionally ungoverned or undergoverned.
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So there's sort of, he doesn't sleep very much, so there's 12 hours of ungoverned time.
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It needs to be supplemented by improving governability in Syria, a place with much ungoverned territory.
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"When you have these ungoverned spaces, that's exactly where extremist like to go to setup," said Ford.
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He was referring to how al-Qaeda was able to plan the attacks in Afghanistan's ungoverned places.
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Such a threat can cause an unintended showdown as competing forces converge on ungoverned areas of Syria.
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David H. Petraeus, the former general and C.I.A. director, often says that ungoverned space inevitably becomes extremist space.
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The country's vast desert provides an ungoverned space in which they can hide and regroup—and make money.
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The strike was the latest in a flurry of attacks in a largely ungoverned portion of the country.
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The "ungoverned space" on Mindanao, he said, "is a regional security threat, not just a Philippine security threat."
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"We need to make sure we look at ungoverned spaces where versions of ISIS can pop up," Gen.
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Under American pressure, the Pakistan Army recently waged a military campaign against the Taliban in the ungoverned border region.
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"Ungoverned spaces" is not a phrase that made it into Javid's statement last month on MI5's "compliance risks".
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It would leave ungoverned spaces not unlike those in pre-9/85033 Afghanistan, which allowed al Qaeda to flourish.
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Some suggest attacking the root causes driving the terrorist campaigns while reducing the ungoverned spaces where terrorists find sanctuary.
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But its ability to inflict terror, to take advantage of ungoverned spaces and exploit sectarian hatred is far from extinguished.
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"ISIS uses the ungoverned areas in Yemen as safe space to plot, direct, inspire, resource and recruit for attacks," Maj.
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The latest escalation comes as competing forces converge on ungoverned swaths of Syria amid the country's six-year civil war.
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With the world overstocked with ungoverned spaces available for terrorist training, securing Afghanistan would do nothing to lessen this threat.
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Junaid Hussain was killed in a military in Rocca, Syria, in the ungoverned space where he was plotting his terrorist activities.
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More than two-thirds of the planet is covered by water, and much of that liquid expanse is ungoverned and potentially ungovernable.
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As always, al-Qaeda and Islamic State fill the copious ungoverned spaces, perhaps offering a refuge for fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria.
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Not to 1972 or '67 or whatever, but to a place ungoverned by cellular decay, refrigerator mounted calendars, or Greenwich standard time.
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But its ability to inflict terror, take advantage of ungoverned spaces and exploit simmering ethnic and sectarian hatred is far from extinguished.
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Achin abuts the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, or FATA , a mostly ungoverned region that is home to various Islamist groups.
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Afghan and Western officials fear that the vast ungoverned space in Afghanistan could once again turn into a terrorist safe haven. Gen.
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Which group or groups fill those voids of increasing ungoverned territory in Afghanistan "is something we'll have to contend with," he said.
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This porous and ungoverned area presents a major problem by virtue of the ease of movement for militants and terrorists across these borders.
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"There are a lot of places where the dance looks ungoverned, like the inhabitants are coming up with the next step by themselves."
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It was "just" an insurgency and terror group, hiding out in the ungoverned and anti-government corners of the failed state of Iraq.
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While Nadège flew to Paris from Lagos, traffickers increasingly send the women overland through largely ungoverned Libya to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.
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As the airspace in which the drones are flying is relatively ungoverned, there are no regulations requiring the drone operators to identify themselves.
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But how do we get at their form of communication and of recruiting and of reaching out over social media, which is ungoverned, essentially?
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The terrorists can operate and train in the country's vast ungoverned spaces, producing attacks on neighbours such as Tunisia, which it has already hit.
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Now the Lannister Queen Cersei and her commanders in the field, interested only in shoring up King's Landing, are leaving the Reach entirely ungoverned.
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The Islamic State has been reconstituting its ranks in porous and ungoverned areas of Iraq and Syria, according to Iraqi and American intelligence officials.
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"AQAP has taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Yemen to plot, direct and inspire terror attacks against the United States and our allies," Davis said.
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Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia have been stepping up security cooperation, particularly in the largely ungoverned border areas where militant groups are known to shelter.
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They also serve as an indicator of the vast ungoverned spaces that still offer fertile safe havens where Islamic State and Qaeda fighters can regroup.
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With its large areas of ungoverned territory — and limited visibility by the United States — Libya also continues to be a haven for the Islamic State.
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Ungoverned and fragile states in the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia will be exploited by extremists and become breeding grounds for terrorism and disease.
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So there's effectively six hours of ungoverned time in the residence with a television and a phone, and this is like John Kelly's worst nightmare.
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"AQAP has taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Yemen to plot, direct and inspire terror attacks against the United States and our allies," US Navy Capt.
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They could also try and retake the land of the caliphate, disappear back in to ungoverned territory to regroup or a combination of all of that.
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"I don't put timelines on wars," he said, adding the West had learned the consequences of allowing its enemies to plot against it from ungoverned spaces.
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But there are a lot of ISIS terrorists enjoying ungoverned space in the region, ISIS decision making is decentralized, and al- Baghdadi will have a successor.
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"That particular part of ungoverned space requires potentially unique special operations solutions and we're attempting to provide those options to the chain of command," Thomas said.
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"That particular part of ungoverned space requires potentially unique special operations solutions, and we're attempting to provide those options to the chain of command," Thomas said.
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The Pakistan Taliban claim a long list of violent and deadly assaults on civilians and the military in Pakistan's mostly ungoverned area along its Afghan border.
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"Ongoing US counter-terrorism operations against ISIS in the ungoverned spaces of Yemen continued today with two strikes, which killed nine terrorists," said US Army Maj.
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A lawless, mountainous expanse along the borders with the Central Asian states, northern Afghanistan has vast ungoverned territory, home to militia chiefs, heroin smugglers and militants.
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The organization "has used the ungoverned spaces in Yemen to plot, direct and inspire terrorist attacks," he added, including on the U.S. embassy in Yemen in 2008.
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The ungoverned spaces, such as Afghanistan and Pakistan, that once facilitated the recruitment and training of terror organizations like al Qaeda and ISIS are largely less available.
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Islamic State has used ungoverned areas in Yemen to plot, direct, instigate, resource and recruit for attacks against America and its allies around the world, it said.
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There is a visible gap between the extent of the terrorist threats in Afghanistan's ungoverned spaces and the capacity of the Afghan government to manage it alone.
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The fact that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was hiding out in one of these ungoverned spaces near Idlib is a stark reminder of this fact.
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The ungoverned continent, which was dubbed the first gay-friendly continent by humanitarian organization Planting Peace, will hold the event on June 9, according to Mic News.
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"ISIS has used the ungoverned spaces of Yemen to plot, direct, instigate, resource and recruit for attacks against America and its allies around the world," the Pentagon said.
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This will see us move in the direction of asserting democratic governance over the Internet, which is perceived by the surveillance capitalists to be the last ungoverned space.
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Taken together, the scope and scale of Islamic State production demonstrated the perils of a determined militant organization allowed to pursue its ambitions in a large, ungoverned space.
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Millions more refugees might flock out of the country, overwhelming already taxed nations nearby, and ungoverned pockets will give terrorist groups new safe havens from which to operate.
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DNI Coats: "The United States is under attack" On ISIS: Coats: "ISIS remains a threat and will likely focus on regrouping in Iraq and Syria and in ungoverned" regions.
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The fundamental issues they have — the large population bulge of disaffected young males, ungoverned spaces, economic challenges and the availability of weapons — won't go away for a long time.
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Drone operations are viewed as critical to helping monitor the vast ungoverned and sparsely populated expanses of the Sahel that allow terror groups to cross borders with relative impunity.
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The region's ungoverned spaces would have a pro-Western monarch, argued a participant in a forum run by the Washington Institute of Near East Policy, thus stemming Iran's westward advance.
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One of the lessons we learned from 9/11 is the danger of allowing terrorists to occupy ungoverned space which they have in Syria and Iraq for so many years.
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Some American officials are particularly worried by similar developments farther west, in Mali and Niger, where they fear that ungoverned spaces are being taken over by criminal traffickers and jihadists.
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We can ill afford a strategic surprise the likes of 85033/11 emerging from some ungoverned corner of this region or nuclear materials falling into the hands of terrorist groups.
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He was living in territory that was essentially ungoverned space, dominated by two different Qaeda groups — Mr. al-Baghdadi's rivals — and now an emerging territory for ISIS fighters on the run.
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"We are deeply concerned at the presence of (these) groups ... in the ungoverned spaces in Afghanistan as they pose a threat to peace and security in the region," the statement said.
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Military officials said American and Afghan forces were doing just enough to pressure training camps and strongholds that the Islamic State had built in remote and ungoverned areas of the country.
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But, he said at the time, "these are adaptable actors who are drawn to ungoverned spaces and so may increasingly look to this technology as an attractive way to transfer value."
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"It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space," Morrison said in the letter, calling for the issue to be discussed at the G20 summit in Osaka in June.
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"ISIS and al-Qaeda have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks," the statement said, using an acronym for Islamic State.
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As many Syrian Kurds prepare to fight and others run in the opposite direction, thousands of terrorists and two holding facilities containing displaced ISIS members and ISIS survivors could be left ungoverned.
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What he's saying: "It is unacceptable to treat the internet as an ungoverned space," Morrison writes in a letter to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, chairman of June's G20 meeting in Osaka.
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Despite the worldwide dip in terrorism related deaths and fatalities, the report said that militant groups continued to exploit ungoverned areas in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia to plan attacks.
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These were precolonial distinctions that divided the area under the rule of the 21979th-century Alaouite dynasty from the ungoverned tribal area in the south that had not submitted to its authority.
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The race to drive the jihadists out of eastern Syria, where they have held sway for three years, has gained new urgency as rival forces converge on ungoverned parts of the region.
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Ungoverned spaces of the kind we have grown familiar with in Syria and east Africa, banditry, and piracy will spread unless Europe and North America are willing to act hand in hand.
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Whereas buccaneers in the Gulf of Guinea and South-East Asia stole cargo, the Somalis seized crews and often the ships themselves, hauling them back to the ungoverned coast of their lawless state.
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Since the early aughts, the U.S. has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on strengthening Sahelian security forces, in a bid to limit the spread of jihadism in the region's vast, ungoverned spaces.
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"He's ungoverned around that — he won't take advice, he won't look to getting more informed — he will simply do whatever he wants," added O'Brien, currently a senior advisor to Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign.
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" The key factor this will impact is the spread of ungoverned space, which to date has created "an environment conducive to extremism and encouraged the enlistment of thousands of volunteers eager to fight.
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Rather, Pakistan leaders insist that such attacks originate from the "widely ungoverned spaces" of Afghanistan, pointing out that there the government is reported to be in control of less than half of the territory.
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Ungoverned spaces, crumbling Arab state authority in places like Libya and Syria, Shia dominance and exclusion and repression of Sunnis is creating a ready made grievance narrative that allows ISIS to recruit fellow Sunnis.
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"While the use of open source continues to grow exponentially, its ungoverned use presents significant security risks, as evidenced by last year's breach at Equifax," said Art Heidrich of TPG said in a statement.
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Since the bulk of NATO forces left Afghanistan in 2014, border provinces such as Paktika, Khost, Nangarhar and Kunar (see map) have become largely ungoverned spaces from which jihadists can operate with relative impunity.
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Sustained conflict in Afghanistan has created a vast ungoverned space, confining the Afghan government to cities and allowing the Taliban to be the dominant nonstate actor and the Islamic State to establish a presence.
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It is in everyone's interest to keep them on the job, paid something and well equipped, to help put Syria back together again someday and deny ungoverned space for ISIS and other extremist groups.
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"I fear that without continuing counterterrorism pressure, where there are ungoverned spaces used as sanctuaries, there will be resurgent threats," said Mr. Costa, now the executive director of the International Spy Museum in Washington.
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Asked whether retaking ISIS's de facto capital in Syria, Raqqa, is more imperative after the attack, Coats said "that won't solve the problem" because of lone-wolf attacks and ISIS's spread to other, ungoverned territory.
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In addition, partially thanks to America's never-ending war on terror, there are increasing numbers of ungoverned spaces and tumultuous regions in dozens of countries in a band stretching from West Africa to Central Asia.
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Liberty also flags what it calls "a remarkable admission to the Commissioner" — made by MI5's deputy director general — who it says acknowledges that personal data collected by MI5 is being stored in "ungoverned spaces".
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"This appears to be the continuation of expanding AFRICOM activity in Libya's ungoverned areas," said Deborah K. Jones, who served as United States ambassador to Libya from 2013 to 2015, referring to the Africa Command.
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In Libya, civil war killed thousands of people and left much of the country ungoverned and vulnerable to terrorists, and the U.S., as usual, had no plan or desire to deal with the aftermath of intervention.
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It controls pockets of territory in four out of approximately 400 districts of Afghanistan, which is hardly proof of the group's potency given the vast amount of ungoverned space in Afghanistan and in Pakistan's tribal areas.
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Kirby said that while China's missile arsenal is a "legitimate concern," he said the US could help counter it by relying on its advantages in sea-based cruise missiles, which are ungoverned by the INF treaty.
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The militant group is believed to have several hundred fighters in Libya who have taken sanctuary in its vast ungoverned spaces to plot attacks inside and outside the country, and send fighters into neighboring countries like Tunisia.
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Government forces and the Iranian-backed militias that support them are converging on ungoverned parts of the country where American-backed fighters are also maneuvering as they seek to roll back the Islamic State's self-declared caliphate.
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In other words, ISIS will become a more diffuse and clandestine organization, living off of the grievances of disaffected and disenfranchised Sunni populations, the sanctuary of ungoverned territory, and the blow-back from our exclusively kinetic approach.
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The meeting of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing coalition in Canada would focus on how to ensure "terrorists and organised criminals are not able to operate with impunity in ungoverned digital spaces online", Malcolm Turnbull said.
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The meeting of the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing coalition in Canada would focus on how to ensure "terrorists and organized criminals are not able to operate with impunity in ungoverned digital spaces online", Malcolm Turnbull said.
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It's the absence and inadequacies of local governance that often allow terrorists to carve out a foothold in the first place; and the deadly civil war consuming Syria threatens to leave large swaths of the country effectively ungoverned.
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A sudden U.S. departure would mean parts of Iraq and Syria would slip back into Islamic State control, creating the sort of ungoverned space that once allowed al Qaeda to mount attacks against Americans from Afghanistan and Yemen.
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COYUCA DE CATALAN, Mexico (Reuters) - The Mexican army says its fight against surging opium production that feeds U.S demand is increasingly complicated by the rise of smaller gangs disputing wild, ungoverned lands planted with ever-stronger poppy strains.
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The illustrations in the video depict daily life in the Song Dynasty (960–1279 CE), specifically within the confines of Kowloon's walled-off city, a mostly ungoverned settlement for refugees in Hong Kong that was ultimately destroyed in 1994.
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Their threat has grown as Libya — with its ungoverned spaces, oil, ports, and proximity to Europe and the Middle East — becomes a budding hub of operations for both Al Qaeda and the Islamic State to reach deeper into Africa.
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Indeed, the current weakness of the system and loose controls have facilitated the flourishing of hostage-taking, drug trafficking, human trafficking and the transfer of ostensibly small, non-suspicious sums of money by ungoverned systems such as Orange money.
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The group that was believed responsible for the ambush, ISIS in the Greater Sahara, is thought to have up to 300 active fighters, operating in the ungoverned border area between Mali and Niger, an area known as the Sahel.
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Yet even when Mosul is retaken in its entirety, ISIS will continue to wreak havoc in Iraq as an insurgent group, Knights said, maintaining a presence in ungoverned stretches of the country and launching terror attacks on major government-held cities.
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Central Command said that AQAP has taken advantage of the chaos and ungoverned areas to direct terrorist attacks against the U.S. Since taking office, Trump has expanded which targets U.S. forces can attack without gaining prior approval from the White House.
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What's crazy is that as you go north of here, closer to the Libya border, to Dirkou, you run into streams of migrants coming back from Libya, which they found ungoverned, abusive and lacking in any kind of decent work.
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The cessation of those missions, to instead focus on security, is likely to allow what remains of the terrorist group to reconstitute itself in the ungoverned spaces where it flourishes, much as it did when Turkey invaded northern Syria in October.
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The strikes, which other officials said were carried out by Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drones based in neighboring Niger, came as the Islamic State had increased recruiting and attacks in recent months in the largely ungoverned spaces of southwest Libya.
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"Since the beginning of 2017, we have conducted more than 140 strikes to remove key AQAP leaders and disrupt its ability to use ungoverned spaces to recruit, train and plan operations against the U.S. and our partners across the region," Navy Cmdr.
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"Since the beginning of 2017, we have conducted more than 140 strikes to remove key AQAP leaders and disrupt its ability to use ungoverned spaces to recruit, train and plan operations against the U.S. and our partners across the region," spokesman Navy Cmdr.
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Dale Wilcox is executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative and predatory effects of unlawful immigration and ungoverned legal immigration.
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A precipitous drawdown from Afghanistan may well have calamitous consequences in the short run, exacerbating the exodus of refugees and expanding the area of ungoverned territory in which extremist groups could once again subject Afghans to despotism and plot attacks on the West.
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As ISIS reverts from being a territory-holding state to a guerrilla insurgency, its members are slipping into the shadows, going underground in urban areas or hiding out in ungoverned stretches of desert where they can plot and launch attacks, experts warn.
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In a report earlier this year, an N.C.A.A. commission led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice referred to grass-roots basketball as "ungoverned space" — as if the commission were describing a third-world conflict zone under the loose control of rival warlords.
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Dale Wilcox is executive director and general counsel for the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative and predatory effects of unlawful immigration and ungoverned legal immigration.
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It said President Francois Hollande had authorized "unofficial military action" by both an elite armed forces unit and the covert action service of the DGSE intelligence agency in the conflict-ridden North African state, which has two rival governments and largely ungoverned desert spaces.
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If thousands of civilians flee the strategic city, it would bring a new and unprecedented level of largely ungoverned territory to northern Syria that ISIS is likely to take advantage of by moving into new areas, according to a recent assessment by US officials.
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"ISIS and al-Qaeda have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks; recruiting and facilitating the movement of foreign terrorist fighters; and raising and moving funds to support their operations," Africa Command said Thursday.
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"As its physical 'caliphate' is being taken away by America's capable and committed partners in Syria and Iraq, ISIS is attempting to make use of ungoverned, safe spaces across the globe to recruit and train militants to coordinate external terror attacks worldwide," he added.
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Despite being a system that is (as far as I can tell) ungoverned by any organization, there is nevertheless a hierarchy, an explicit set of tiers and levels of who is more or less important than Kassandra in this Grecian system of freelance labor.
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"We took a stable part of the world and we turned it into an ungoverned region that is now exporting fighters and weapons and refugees or invaders into Syria, into Iraq, and into southern Europe," Hoekstra said during a discussion about US involvement in Libya.
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One fear among Afghan and Western officials is that as the Islamic State is pressured by military operations in Iraq and Syria, some of its leaders may make their way to Afghanistan, where the ungoverned space has increased and their local affiliate has established ground.
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But they did not stop there -- they also questioned the idea of regime change as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy, arguing that the lesson of interventions in Iraq and Libya is that overthrowing dictators risks protracted civil conflicts and ungoverned spaces for extremists to exploit.
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"I don't want to telegraph future operations, but this is part of a plan to go after a very real threat, to ensure they are defeated and denied the opportunity to plot and carry out terrorist attacks from ungoverned spaces," Davis said, according to the report.
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The United States has been leading a coalition in an air campaign against Islamic State while also carrying out air strikes against al Qaeda in Syria, which it says sought to take advantage of the chaos from Syria's civil war to reconstitute itself in ungoverned towns.
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While the major cities in western Anbar Province, like Ramadi and Falluja, have been freed from the Islamic State, the surrounding deserts to the west on the way to Jordan and Syria remain dangerous and ungoverned spaces, where Islamic State militants are still able to move freely.
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"ISIS and al Qaeda have taken advantage of ungoverned spaces in Libya to establish sanctuaries for plotting, inspiring and directing terror attacks; recruiting and facilitating the movement of foreign terrorist fighters; and raising and moving funds to support their operations," US Africa Command said in a September 28 statement.
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More recently, there is evidence they have also attracted recruits from further away, including Mozambique, South Africa, and even the U.K. If this continues, the ADF's fiefdom in Eastern Congo could become as dangerous as ungoverned spaces in Libya, Iraq, Syria, Mali and Afghanistan, if it isn't already.
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The district's brief fall and recapture offer a window into how this long war is being fought now: The ungoverned space across the county continues to grow as each side — the government and the militants — rallies resources and wrests control of an individual area for a short time.
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"We're trying to - to support a country and make sure that they're not taken over by violent extremist organizations who would take over those ungoverned spaces and turn them, and make plans to do things outside the region in Europe or perhaps in the United States," he added.
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But he added that a total US military withdrawal "would restore Assad and continue his brutal treatment against his own people", and also create potential "ungoverned spaces" in which ISIS might flourish again, citing the 2011 departure of US forces in Iraq that gave ISIS room to grow there.
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"There are parts of Europe, especially in France and Belgium, where over the past two decades you've seen the emergence of essentially ungoverned spaces, nearly akin to Yemen or Libya," said Peter R. Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence at King's College London.
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It accepts that Syria will remain a divided country with a government controlled enclave connecting Damascus, Aleppo, and the Western governorates, separate Kurdish enclaves in the north, which are a great concern for Turkey, and a vast ungoverned Sunni badlands to the east, much of which is still dominated by ISIS.
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Their focus may also shift from holding large cities, towns or other territory--as they did in Syria and Iraq--to finding lawless or ungoverned spaces to plan, train and operate for the purposes of not only constructing a caliphate but exporting terror overseas, including into Europe and the United States.
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The unseen currents that have governed the Republican electorate in the Obama era have swelled to the surface, and it is now hard to deny that white revanchism (or in Jonathan Chait's memorable phrase, "ethno-nationalistic passions ungoverned by reason") is the single most powerful force motivating a plurality of these voters.
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"Today we remember how this conflict began but let us also remember how this must end, with Afghanistan never again serving as an ungoverned space, sanctuary or base for those who are bent on attacking us and our allies," ambassador Hugo Llorens told a crowd of soldiers at the NATO coalition's headquarters in Kabul.
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A US defense official told CNN last week that as part of an effort to facilitate an ISIS resurgence, the terror organization is establishing small sub-organizations in ungoverned areas like Afghanistan, Libya and Yemen in the hopes of helping foreign fighters cross borders and link up with other ISIS branches outside Iraq and Syria.
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And if that's not enough to worry about, the ouster of ISIS from major cities in both Iraq and Syria may soon raise Yemen's appeal as a future base of operation to new waves of extremists, especially given the existing presence of ISIS and Al-Qaeda networks in the country and the vast ungoverned spaces.
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To get ahead of the trajectory of the tomorrow's terrorist threat, we must collectively address the two key factors laid out by the NIC: contending with the foreign terrorist fighters coming out of Syria and Iraq and addressing the festering conflicts that create looming disequilibria and the ungoverned spaces in which tomorrow's threats can fester.
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Two months ago it published examples of what it described as shocking failures by U.K. state agencies — such as not observing the timely destruction of material; and data being discovered to have been copied and stored in "ungoverned spaces" without the necessary controls — which it said showed MI5 had failed to comply with safeguards requirements since the IPA came into effect.
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But just leaving Libya, Syria and parts of Iraq and Yemen ungoverned, and spewing out refugees, has led to a flood of migrants hitting Europe and stressing the cohesion of the European Union; that refugee flood could very well lead to Britain's exit from the E.U. President Obama has been patting himself on the back a lot lately for not intervening in Syria.
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Targeted killings away from battlefields — a practice denounced by some critics as assassinations — have grown as the United States has waged an open-ended war against a splintering, morphing terrorist adversary whose members flow into ungoverned regions where no ground forces are engaged in combat, and as the rise of drone technology has lowered the barriers to carrying out strikes in inaccessible places.
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Opinion: For Trump, backing Pakistan tweet could get results Claiming the roots of terrorism in Afghanistan were due to corruption, drug production and ungoverned terrorist havens, "the Committee observed that Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the collective failure in Afghanistan and that blaming allies certainly does not serve the shared objective of achieving lasting peace in Afghanistan and the region," the NSC statement said.
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But Snowden came to believe that the forces that ruined the Internet of his boyhood were less the forces of libertarianism that left corporations unchecked, giving rise to endless forms of capture, tracking, mining, and manipulation, than the forces of government that, under the expansive authority of the 2001 Patriot Act, made the Internet a place where it was impossible to be unknown and ungoverned.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. military has worked closely with other allies to strengthen the capacity of African partners, including Niger's Security and Intelligence Battalion (BSR), which has proven itself increasingly willing and able to operate in the remote areas where the links its builds with local leaders and communities is critical to the long-term goal of depriving militant groups of the "ungoverned spaces" in which they thrive.
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Monaco: The estimates really range, but the people I'm most concerned about are the al Qaeda veterans who began a couple years ago to take up root in Syria in the ungoverned space left by (President Bashar al-Assad's) brutality on his own people to have a space to plot and plan against the United States, which is why you saw in September of 2014 that we initiated military actions to take out those leaders and to take out those plotters.
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"First, that ungoverned spaces in the Middle East and Central Asia will likely be exploited by Islamic extremists; second, that in dealing with such situations, U.S. leadership is not only invaluable, it is indispensable — though we obviously want as many partners with us as possible; and third, that we need to lead a comprehensive approach, not just a narrow [counterterrorism] approach — though that does not axiomatically mean that the U.S. has to provide the ground combat forces or perform a number of the other tasks that comprise a comprehensive approach," he told The Hill.
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