ISIS Is Back, UK Spy Chief Claims

On Tuesday, MI5’s director general of security service, Ken McCallum, claimed there’s been a resurgence of the Islamic terror group known as ISIS.

At the start of his news conference in London, the head of the United Kingdom’s domestic spy agency began with a claim that the main concerns to the British homeland are right-wing and Islamic extremists.

“The headline split of our counterterrorist work remains roughly 75% Islamist extremist, 25% extreme right-wing terrorism,” McCallum told reporters. “But under that headline, much has shifted. Straightforward labels like Islamist terrorism or extreme right-wing don’t fully reflect the dizzying range of beliefs and ideologies we see. We’re encountering more volatile would-be terrorists with only a tenuous grasp of the ideologies they profess to follow.”

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