Flowers and placards that read 'We are not afraid' are displayed outside the damaged Starbucks coffee shop in central Jakarta on January 15, 2016, a day after a series of explosions hit the Indonesian capital. The deadly Paris-style attack in Jakarta has thrown a spotlight on a shadowy South-East Asian faction of the Islamic State group and offers new evidence of the spread of IS franchises. - AFP
JAKARTA: The deadly Paris-style attack here has thrown a spotlight on a shadowy South-East Asian faction of the Islamic State group and offers new evidence of the spread of IS franchises.
Under growing pressure in Iraq and Syria from the US-led bombing campaign, the extremist group is spreading its tentacles, metastasising into new regions.
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