{"id":20406,"date":"2026-07-18T08:02:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=20406"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:17:01","slug":"terrorist-groups-increasingly-using-video-games-to-recruit-youth-un-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eng.dragonmedia.com.np\/?p=20406","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Terrorist Groups Increasingly Using Video Games to Recruit Youth: UN Official<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dragon Media News Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Terrorist groups have begun actively using video games to recruit young people, according to Alexander Zuev, Acting Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Counter-Terrorism.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the Russian news agency TASS, Zuev said terrorist organizations targeting young people were increasingly incorporating electronic games into their recruitment strategies.<\/p>\n<p>He said the global terrorist threat continued to evolve and that no region was completely protected from it. 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