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Singapore faces its highest terrorism threat level since the time of the September 11 attacks in the US in 2001 and the 2002 Bali bombings, Singapore’s defense minister said.
“There are no signs to indicate that this will abate within even the next decade,†Ng Eng Hen said.
“This is a long-term problem, and we have to deal with it as a long-term problem.â€
Citing recent terrorism incidents including the May suicide bombings in the Indonesian city of Surabaya and the five-month-long armed conflict with militants linked to IS in Marawi, a city in the southern Philippines, Ng said the metrics pointing to an increased terrorism threat, the number of actual attacks, were all going up.
To deal with a long-term problem such as terrorism meant that the Singapore Armed Forces would need to continue to undergo structural change, Ng said, adding that there was also a greater need for regional and international partnerships to deal with trans-national terrorist threats.