Sentence examples for extremist control from inspiring English sources

Even though it may slowly be freed from extremist control, Mogadishu will only ever be the capital in name.

Towns, only recently free of Sunni extremist control, have some of the worst rates of connection to the water network in Iraq, according to the United Nations.

With its military advances in large swathes of Syria and Iraq, IS has achieved extremist control of the largest chunk of territory in recent times.

So the extremists control the show, on both sides of the Green Line.

Now, in the heart of a city where Islamist extremists control entire neighbourhoods, the 14-storey cross is nearly complete.

The governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, said this week that extremists control two local government areas near the border with Niger, and are in partial control of another.

Last week, its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the land the extremists control.

Vast swaths of the three states are under the extremists' control, which prompted President Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in all three last year.

However, in a rare setback, about 200 vigilantes and hunters armed with bows and arrows, clubs, spears, machetes and home-made guns helped the Nigerian military regain control of Mubi, which had been the biggest town under the extremists' control.

The Sunni extremists control large areas Syria's north and north-east near the border with Iraq, where fighters pushed into earlier this year and gained control of several towns and cities.

In most ways the afflicted region epitomises the collapse of authority: extremists control roads and markets; the government is powerless outside the capital; outsiders provide what little assistance exists.But not all failed or fragile states look like Somalia.