A UN report said that Al-Qaeda's global network remains resilient posing more of a threat in some regions than the Islamic State group. In a report sent to the Security Council, UN sanctions monitors today said that Al-Qaeda affiliates remain the dominant terror threat in some regions, such as Somalia and Yemen. <br/><br/>The report said that UN member-states consider potential for linkups between Al-Qaeda and IS groups to support each other, warning that in some regions this could be a new threat. <br/><br/>It also said that Al- Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based in Yemen, served as a communications hub for the UN-designated terror group as a whole. <br/><br/> The Islamic State lost its self-declared caliphate in Syria and Iraq last year.