NORTHEAST SYRIA – About 5 years after the collapse of the so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria by the hands of the US-led coalition, the Islamic State is making a comeback. Mazlum Kobane, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the US-backed group main the conflict towards Islamic State in Syria, informed Al-Monitor throughout an unique interview at an undisclosed location in northeastern Syria that the situations exist for the resurgence of the jihadists.
For the reason that starting of the 12 months, ISIS has carried out two large assaults in Iran and Russia, killing a whole bunch of civilians. A department of ISIS referred to as the Khorasan Group – or ISIS-Ok, which was shaped primarily to combat in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan – claimed accountability for the bloodbath. Alarm bells are sounding because the group threatens to convey the combat again to Europe.
Nonetheless, because the world’s consideration has centered on Gaza and Ukraine, jihadists’ actions elsewhere have gone largely unnoticed.
In Syria, jihadists have quietly however determinedly expanded their presence in regime-controlled areas within the Syrian desert, killing a whole bunch of regime troopers and civilians, particularly truffle hunters. The jihadists are additionally attacking their archenemies, the US-backed, Kurdish-led SDF. Sleeper cells lurk within the nation’s Kurdish-run northeastern area, the place some 9,000 international fighters are held in prisons. The ladies and youngsters of the fighters, greater than 40,000 of them, are being held in camps which might be proving more and more troublesome to manage. ISIS plans to free them and virtually succeeded in a bloody jail break in 2022.
