The latest in a series of events that experts believe are accelerating the escalation of ISIS activity in Syria was reported on Monday by an organization monitoring violence in Syria. Four of dictator Bashar Assad’s soldiers were killed by Islamic State ( ISIS ) jihadists in an attack intentionally targeting the military, according to an organization monitoring violence there.
The incident reportedly took place in the state of Raqqa, whose eponymous largest area was once the Islamic State” empire” that was established over important areas of both Iraq and Syria. The Sunni ideology evil group’s expansion into the Middle East and expanding its activities throughout Africa and South Asia is causing a growing problem as a result of its recent destruction of ISIS from Raqqa in 2017.
On May 3, 2021, a Palestinian man passes a gigantic portrait of Bashar al-Assad at the Umawiyin sq in Damascus, Syria’s capital. ( LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images )
Much of the modern focus on the Islamic State is placed on ISIS- Khorasan Province, its regional mobile in Afghanistan. Apparently, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for a large terrorist attack in March that occurred outside of Moscow, Russia, and has since grown under the control of the Taliban criminal organization. In addition, the Islamic State has grown in size throughout Africa, especially in countries with fragile institutions like Nigeria and Mozambique. In the past year, but, panels have documented growing ISIS activity in the country that was once its” caliphate”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a team that has longer documented assault in the country, especially during the Syrian Civil War, reported the noted shooting of Assad troops this trip.
The Observatory was cited as saying that” Four users of the government troops were killed following an attack targeting military posts south of the city of Tabqa in the northern land of Raqqa.” Following the attack by an independent pro-Assad army known as the” National Defense Forces,” the statement added that the standard Syrian government had received “reinforcements” from the” National Defense Forces.”
According to Rudaw,” ISIS problems have been on the increase in Syria, especially in the vast swathes of its eastern and northern deserts, where the team launches wonder attacks amid a protection vacuum.”
Earlier in April, the U.S. store Voice of America cited numerous studies that had also found proof that the Islamic State was regrouping in both Syria and Iraq, boosting its recruits, and expanding its purported operations. Some of that proof was derived from statistics provided by the Pentagon’s Middle East-based wing, U.S. Central Command ( CENTCOM).
” Only- released data from U. S. Central Command, which oversees U. S. troops across the Middle East and South Asia, puts the number of Islamic State soldiers in Syria and Iraq at about 2, 500 — more than double estimates from soon January”, Voice of America reported.
Voice of America also cited a report by the Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit that moinitors international criminal action, that concluded” March was, by every measurement, the most violent quarter of ISIS’s Badia]central Arab plain ] rebellion since soon 2017, when the team first lost control of its place”.
The report specifically made the observation that Islamic State terrorists were increasingly aiming their attacks at” security forces,” including Assad’s. At the peak of the” caliphate”, much of ISIS’s violence was directed at non- Assad targets, such as the U. S. military and the Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF), a coalition of militias led by the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units ( YPG/YPJ). In the end, the SDF and American forces were ultimately to blame for Raqqa’s liberation.
” ISIS carried out at least 69 confirmed attacks in March in the Aleppo, Homs, Hama, Raqqa, and Deir Ez Zor governorates”, the Counter Extremism Project report documented. At least 84 pro-Assad regime soldiers and 44 civilians were killed in these attacks, according to the report. At least 51 more soldiers and civilians were hurt as a result.
Due to playing a key role in the fall of ISIS, the SDF continues to have control over several prisons housing Islamic State terrorists, many of whom are international citizens whose governments have refused to repatriate them. Iraq has taken some of those alleged terrorists back, ending Monday’s repatriation of nearly 700 suspected Islamic State members, mostly women and children, but its efforts alone do not plan to significantly reduce the number of SDF prisons.
SDF leaders reported an attack on one of those prisons on April 16 in yet another indication of ISIS’s growing influence in the area.
” Suspenseful of ISIS detainees attempted to escape the prison following the attack. The SDF’s security measures and internal security, however, have prevented the attempted escape, the SDF said at the time, according to the Kurdish outlet Kurdistan 24.
Kurdistan 24 reported that independent reports appeared to support the claim that the SDF has been warning for months that ISIS activity in its areas has “increased significantly” in recent months. In January, for example, a United Nations report claimed that ISIS had transformed the heart of central Syria into” a logistics and operations hub with 500 to 600 fighters”.
The Islamic State’s continued presence in Syria has been acknowledged by the US State Department.
In addition to the” caliphate,” ISIS at one point controlled a region with a population of approximately ten million people, according to Deputy Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS, and we have seen the emergence of ISIS affiliates- the so-called ISIS Khorasan inside Afghanistan, which poses a clear external threat, and in Sub-Saharan Africa, where several ISIS affiliates have emerged.
” We are very concerned about the ongoing threat ISIS still poses and we are very committed to this endeavor,” McCary said of the global coalition led by the United States.
The Islamic State is a persistent threat to human rights, according to the State Department’s annual report on human rights for Syria, which was released on April 22.
” ISIS carried out killings, attacks, and kidnappings, including against civilians. There were no reports of such actions being investigated or prosecuted, according to the report. “NGOs reported extensively on reports of regime and proregime forces, as well as HTS and ISIS, sexually assaulting, torturing, detaining, killing, and otherwise abusing children”.
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