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PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Sep 09, 2022 4:09 pm

ISIS leader entering Istanbul

Bashar Hattab Ghazal Al-Sumaidai, an important senior executive of ISIS, has been detained by Turkish security forces

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that ISIS terrorist Bashar Hattab Ghazal Al-Sumaidai, whose alternative name is Abu Zeyd, has been captured by the Turkish security forces.

The terrorist, according to Erdogan, is "one of the most important senior executives of Daesh [ISIS] after [Abu Bakr Al-] Baghdadi and [Abdullah] Quardash." Baghdadi was killed in 2019 in Idlib, after which Quardash became the head of the organization.

In a joint operation orchestrated by the General Directorate of Security, the Istanbul Police Department, and the National Intelligence Organization (MIT), Al-Sumaidai was captured, as the governmental bodies and authorities tracked the terrorist's connections in Turkey and Syria, discovering that Al-Sumaidai planned to enter Turkey illegally using a fake ID. He was transferred to Turkish judicial authorities after being interrogated by the MIT and Istanbul police.

The terrorist confessed to working for ISIS' education and justice ministries, while international reports have identified Al-Sumaidai as the head of the judiciary of ISIS.

Possibly, he was appointed after Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi Al-Quraishi was killed, joining ISIS in 2013 after serving as a terrorist in Iraq.

Last month, in an act to mend relations with Damascus, Ankara called on the so-called "Syrian Opposition Coalition" to withdraw from Turkey.

Ultimately, the Coalition forces will have to migrate and relocate to another country and halt all political and media activities in Turkey.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Sep 12, 2022 11:24 pm

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The common perception is that the battle fought in the town of Baghouz in eastern Syria in 2019 was a turning point in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) and that it brought about the end of the self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria

Although territorially defeated, the group still survives in the sense it has adapted itself to the post-Baghouz reality. The main change that the battle brought about was in the leadership, which currently lies within the women of the group – a change whose foundation stone had been set elsewhere.

Fighters of the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) and the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on March 23, 2019, territorially defeated ISIS after it overran its last bastion in Baghouz. They arrested thousands of the terror group’s fighters and resided their wives and children in the al-Hol camp, which serves as a contracted caliphate that once was straddling Syria and Iraq.

The terror group attached a huge deal of importance to women when it declared its so-called caliphate in 2014. It recruited women on an unprecedented scale and they continue to play a significant role in sustaining ISIS’ ideology.

With men militants either killed or detained elsewhere and contact almost entirely severed, the leadership in ISIS was shifted to females held in the camps run by the SDF.

In the post-Baghouz era, women with solid ISIS ideology were entrusted with the mission of raising and educating their children, otherwise known as the cubs of the caliphate, as future warriors.

Originally established in 1991 to accommodate Iraqi refugees fleeing Saddam Hussain's repression, the al-Hol camp, some 45 km in east Hasaka city in northeast Syria (Western Kurdistan) became the biggest gathering and the most notorious spot ever inhabited by ISIS since 2019.

Representing 51 countries, there are now more than 55,000 people in al-Hol, nearly 93 percent of them are women and children, and half of the population is under 12 years old.

Since the fall of Baghouz, the camp defiantly remains unbridled which is not a coincidence, there is an end-of-times mission carried out, however, how?

Traditionally, women's duties in extremist groups were primarily domestic and focused on support for their men, but that has now been altered.

With the expansion of ISIS, women assumed leading, mostly domestic and feminine, roles until they ended up taking the helm gradually.

The first rapid change was introduced in February 2014, of the all-female first armed multi-faceted battalion known as “al-Khansa Brigade.”

The formation of the “al-Khansa Brigade” highlights and emphasizes in part the important role attached to females in the caliphate. While men were fighting on the frontlines their women were protecting the honor of the community at home - enjoining good and forbidding wrong. The group is headquartered in al-Hol camp and it is known as ISIS’ right hand.

The second step came, however, as a contextual one in 2017 when ISIS was territorially on the decline. Prior to that year, women illicitly could take part in battles but not as protagonists.

However, stark to the conventional extremist groups' tenets, a most fundamental and first-ever radical change was introduced in October 2017 when women were granted the right to fight still with no obligation.

In 2019 women fought on a wider scale alongside men to defend the last bastion of the caliphate in the Baghouz sliver on the Syrian- Iraqi border.

The visualization of ISIS female fighters shocked at best and disillusioned at worst supporters of ISIS. Part of the pervasive insecurity and violence committed in the al-Hol camp is against those who say ISIS should not have broken with its conventional lines.

Research on the ground reveals the roles given to women and the eventual feminization of battles is not an absolute tactical device employed by ISIS, rather it is a strategy that could have been introduced had the terror group remained a viable one to have its legitimacy established and its first-ever outdated dream preserved.

Back in al-Hol, the "Baghuziat" (mostly migrant women who stayed loyal until the very end) is the most militant and fearsome enforcer of ISIS’ sharia law. These women hold the most expansionist and extremist vision. The collapse of the physical caliphate has failed to deter hard-line supporters.

This surviving cohort of women and children, who make up the vast majority at al-Hol camp, is a key factor to the future survival of the caliphate, according to ISIS.

Surrounded by a hostile periphery, ISIS' women and children are the best and most effective available weapon in commissioning and perpetuating the ideology of the terror group’s caliphate.

As ISIS women are leading the charge and their children hold the banner to the future, the al-Hol camp is the shield that protects that banner and ensures the smooth continuation of the caliphate.

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These females are NOT sweet housewives, they are vile, barbaric savages who continue to hold Yazidis captive within the camp

Their are indoctrinating innocent children into their savage beliefs

Military forces need to take a firm control, go into the camps and remove all the burkas / black sack coverings from these ghouls so that people can see who and what these people are

Remove their anonymity
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PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Sep 13, 2022 9:45 pm

Anti-ISIS operation near Kirkuk
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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Ministry of Peshmerga in a statement on Tuesday said it carried out an operation in Qara Hasan on the border of the Kirkuk province

The area was used by ISIS as a hideout. Operations were also carried out in the nearby villages of Jawar Bor and Akhur Gurji, and other suspected ISIS points.

The operation lasted six hours and was carried out from four axes. Units of the 22nd Infantry Division also participated in the operation.

The operation was launched in reaction to ISIS militants abducting and killing two Kurdish civilians in the same region of Kirkuk last month.

Although ISIS lost all its territory in 2017, suspected ISIS sleeper cells continue to kidnap civilians for ransom in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad.

The ISIS extremists especially operate in the security vacuum created by Iraqi forces and Iranian-backed forces by pushing out Peshmerga forces from the disputed territories after Kurdistan Region's September 2017 independence referendum.

The US-coalition has since then pushed for more cooperation between Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Sep 18, 2022 9:04 am

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ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The General Command of the Internal Security Forces (also known as Asayish) in a statement on Saturday announced the Asayish arrested a total of 226 ISIS suspects during the Operation Humanity and Security in the al-Hol camp

The Asayish said a total of 226 suspects were “arrested including 36 extremist women involved in murder and terrorism offenses.”

The operation lasted for 24-days. “25 tunnels and trenches were uncovered,” the statement added.

“We announce the end of the second phase of Operation Humanity and Security in the al-Hol camp, and our forces will continue to hunt down the potential cells, confronting dangers by conducting regular security operations when necessary,” the Asayish said in a concluding statement.

On August 25th, the Asayish enabled by the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces) and the International Coalition against ISIS launched the second phase of Operation Humanity and Security in the al-Hol camp, eastern al-Hasakah, to hunt down ISIS sleeper cell,

The Asayish said “the operation was launched following the increasing crimes of killing and torture committed by ISIS cells against the camp residents who refused to join or support the terrorism of ISIS.”

Since 2022, 44 camp residents and humanitarian workers have been murdered by ISIS cells, the Asayish said.

Moreover, the Asayish said “ISIS women have taken advantage of the provided resources, especially the communications and money transfers, to transmit information, to inciting ISIS cells, and network them together inside and outside the camp.”

During the operation also two Yezidi women were freed from ISIS women in the camp. The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) also liberated a total of 200 Yezidi women and children over the past years. Two SDF fighters were also killed during an ISIS escape attempt from al-Hol.

“The YPJ encountered many obstacles to reaching these women and freeing them, the most important of which is the fear of revealing their Yazidi identity by impersonating foreign personalities and blending into the lifestyle of ISIS women to protect their lives under threats by ISIS women,” the Asayish said.

The YPJ also “also freed four non-Yazidi women who were chained and brutally tortured by ISIS women.”

The latest report by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria released on Wednesday said there around 58,000 individuals are held in the al-Hol camp and Roj camp, including some 17,000 women and 37,000 children. More than 17,000 of the children are Iraqi.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:44 pm

Car bomb attack on al-Hol foiled

Kurdish forces in Western Kurdistan on Wednesday said they thwarted two planned car bomb attacks by suspected Islamic State (ISIS) militants attempting to infiltrate al-Hol camp which houses family members of the group, days after an anti-ISIS operation in the facility concluded in hundreds of arrests

Internal security forces (Asayish) said they obtained information on a planned ISIS attack at al-Hol and subsequently ambushed the suspects near a village close to the camp, killing three and resulting in the detonation of one of the car bombs.

The second car bomb contained 300 kilograms of explosives and was dismantled, according to the Asayish.

An Asayish member was slightly wounded in the operation.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday announced the completion of a weeks-long anti-ISIS operation inside the notorious al-Hol camp, which saw the arrests of 226 ISIS suspects, including 36 women, as well as the confiscation of various weapons and the dismantling of tents used by ISIS cells as courts and torture centers.

Al-Hol camp is located in Hasaka province and has infamously been branded a breeding ground for ISIS, with authorities describing the sprawling facility as a “ticking time bomb,” saying the situation in the camp is “very dangerous.”

The sprawling camp is home to around 56,000 people - mostly women and children of different nationalities that have links to ISIS, who were taken to the camp after the SDF overran the terror group’s last stronghold in Syria in 2019.

Kurdish, Iraqi, and international officials have repeatedly warned of ISIS indoctrination in the squalid camp.

On Wednesday, the SDF counter-terrorism units announced the arrest of six alleged ISIS members, including a leader, in Raqqa city.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:46 pm

anti-ISIS memorandum with Peshmerga

A US department of defense delegation on Wednesday signed the renewal of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kurdistan Region’s ministry of Peshmerga, renewing US support for the Kurdish force in the fight against terrorism

President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani delivered a speech highlighting the heroism of the Peshmerga in the fight against terrorism, thanking the US and its allies for supporting the Peshmerga in defending Kurdistan.

He also thanked Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Iraqi Armed Forces Mustafa al-Kadhimi for the cooperation between the Peshmerga and the Iraqi army in fighting a common enemy.

The signing of the first MoU between the Peshmerga ministry and the Pentagon was first signed in 2016 under Kurdistan Democratic Party Leader Masoud Barzani, and has been extended several times since.

“I would like to reiterate the Kurdistan Region's gratitude for the support and assistance of the United States and our other friends in the reform process in the Ministry of Peshmerga and their efforts to reunite the Peshmerga,” President Barzani said during his speech.

    Delighted to meet with Assistant Secretary of Defense Wallander and oversee the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding between US Department of Defense & Ministry of Peshmarga Affairs. We remain grateful for continued US support to KR & Iraq in the fight against terror. pic.twitter.com/7QwgFnJ5Wl
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Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Masrour Barzani met with the US delegation led by Assistant Secretary of
Defense for International Security Affairs Celeste Wallander, earlier today to discuss security reforms and the memorandum.

During the meeting, PM Barzani reiterated the Kurdistan Region's desire to promote comprehensive relations with the US, also thanking them for their support to the Peshmerga forces, especially during the country’s fight against terrorist attacks and ISIS terrorists.

“The United States continues to show its policy of supporting the Kurdistan Region and the Peshmerga by these high-level visits by these pentagon leaders,” Colonel Myles Caggins, former spokesperson for the anti-ISIS coalition, told Rudaw in an interview on Wednesday.

Washington has maintained a strong relationship with the Kurdistan Region and Iraq. The US has provided the Kurdish Peshmerga with several rounds of military aid over the years, namely in the fight against ISIS beginning in 2014. The coalition gave over 200 vehicles, including Humvees, water tankers and transport trucks to the Kurdish fighters in July and September.

The terror group was territorially defeated in 2017, but it remains a security threat, especially in areas where there is a security vacuum between Erbil and Baghdad.

The Peshmerga ministry announced in July of last year they were working on the formation of two joint brigades of Iraqi and Peshmerga forces to counter Islamic State remnants in the disputed areas, cooperating in order to reduce the threat of the group’s resurgence.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Oct 13, 2022 1:48 am

Lasting defeat of ISIS discussed

The president of the Kurdistan Region and the US State Department's envoy to Syria on Wednesday met to discuss the lasting defeat of the Islamic State (ISIS) group as well as the dangerous situation in the country's camps, particularly the notorious al-Hol camp

President Nechirvan Barzani and Nicolas Granger discussed the threat that ISIS continues to pose to Syria and Iraq as well as the difficult situation in al-Hol camp which houses people who have links to the terror group, according to a statement from the president's office.

"Both sides called on European and regional countries to cooperate in the repatriation of their citizens from al-Hol camp in Syria to their countries," the statement said while stressing the need to continue joint cooperation to fight ISIS.

Al-Hol camp is located in northeast Syria's (Rojava) Hasaka province and has infamously been branded a breeding ground for terrorism, with authorities describing the sprawling facility as a "ticking time bomb," saying the situation in the camp is "very dangerous."

The camp is under the control of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who routinely launch operations to capture ISIS sleeper cells dwelling in the camp.

"Terrorism will not only be destroyed by weapons, but we also need to eliminate terrorism through education and the depth of the culture of tolerance, acceptance ... and confrontation of the ideology of extremism and violence," President Barzani added.

The facility is home to around 56,000 people – mostly women and children of different nationalities who have links to ISIS and were taken to the camp following the SDF's takedown of ISIS in their last Syria stronghold in 2019.

The US has repeatedly urged the international community to repatriate their nationals from the camp, warning that the children residing in the facility could be radicalized by ISIS sleeper cells present there.

ISIS rose to power across swathes of Syria in 2014 but it was territorially defeated five years later. Despite the group's lack of any territorial presence, it continues to pose serious security risks through kidnappings, hit-and-run attacks, and bombings in the war-torn country.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Oct 17, 2022 10:40 pm

ISIS leaders eliminated

An ISIS terrorist group including leaders was eliminated by the Syrian Arab Army which is proceeding with a security operation in Jasim city in Daraa to remove remaining terrorist groups from the area

A security source told SANA correspondent today, Monday, that the competent authorities, in cooperation with local and civil groups and with the support of army units, were able to eliminate a terrorist group of ISIS leaders in Jasim city in Daraa countryside.

The source added that "this came during the continuation of the security operation to secure the city of Jasim in the countryside of Daraa."

"among the dead was the terrorist Rami Al-Salakhdi, nicknamed Abu Muawiyah Al-Falih, who was the right hand of terrorist Abu Abdul Rahman Al-Iraqis, in addition to the terrorist Abu Khaled Al-Idlibi and others that are still unidentified," the source said.

The security source told the agency that operations are proceeding to eliminate ISIS terrorists from the city of Jasim, as army units are imposing a fire siege around the city, and carrying out precision targeting with appropriate firearms on the terrorists' locations and their movement."

Yesterday, Sunday, the Russian Reconciliation Center between the conflicting parties in Syria announced the implementation of a joint operation between the Russian and Syrian forces in Daraa Governorate, southern Syria, to eliminate ISIS elements involved in the bombing of a bus carrying Syrian army members in the countryside of Damascus.

On Saturday, the Syrian news agency, SANA, announced the killing of a number of ISIS leaders, in a security operation carried out by the competent Syrian authorities, in the countryside of Daraa.

It is noteworthy that the Syrian army was able to retake control of the province of Daraa (southern Syria) in 2018, according to reconciliation agreements carried out under the auspices of Russia, as well as specific military operations against terrorist organizations.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:58 pm

Recently we have discovered US paying ISIS for some of their militants to fight alongside Nazis in Ukraine, now we discover this. How many other countries have been supporting ISIS as it CONTINUES to slaughter innocent people?

French company guilty of working with ISIS

A major French industrial company and its Syrian subsidiary on Tuesday pleaded guilty to providing material support and resources to the Islamic State (ISIS) and al-Nusra Front (ANF) during the militant group’s reign of terror in Syria from 2013 to 2014

A federal court in New York sentenced Paris-based Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS) to pay financial penalties totaling $777.78 million, after pleading guilty to having negotiated deals with armed factions in the Syrian civil war, including ISIS and ANF, to ensure that the operation of a cement plant they were running would continue despite the start of the war.

Lafarge and LCS had reached a revenue-sharing agreement with ISIS, under which LCS would pay the militant group 750 Syrian Pounds per each ton of cement that it sold, in exchange for protection for the company’s employees and customers, as well as curbing the revenues of its competitors through imposing taxes or preventing their sales.

“In the midst of a civil war, Lafarge made the unthinkable choice to put money into the hands of ISIS, one of the world’s most barbaric terrorist organizations, so that it could continue selling cement,” a statement from the US justice department cited Breon Peace, US attorney for the Eastern District of New York, as saying.

“This unprecedented charge and resolution reflect the extraordinary crimes committed and demonstrates that corporations that take actions in contravention of our national security interests in violation of the law will be held to account.”

From August 2013 to October 2014, Lafarge and LCS made approximately $70.3 million in total sales revenue, paying $5.92 million to ISIS and ANF and $1.11 million to third-party intermediaries during that same time. ISIS obtained an additional $3.21 million after it took possession of the cement when LCS abandoned the plant in September 2014, the statement added.

ISIS seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land in 2014 but was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Oct 26, 2022 11:45 pm

ISIS responsible for shrine attack

Hours after the attack on the Shah-e-Cheragh shrine in the Iranian city of Shiraz, ISIS claims responsibility for the attack that killed 15 people

Fifteen were killed and 40 were wounded in a terrorist attack on the Shah-e-Cheragh shrine in Shiraz earlier today.

The Director of Al Mayadeen office in Tehran reported that 15 were martyred and 40 were wounded in a terrorist attack that targeted the Shah-e-Charagh shrine in Shiraz, and the attacker was arrested following his injury.

Al Mayadeen correspondent had initially reported that gunmen, who are extremist terrorists of non-Iranian nationality, entered the city of Shiraz by car and opened fire on the visitors and staff in the religious shrine.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announced today, Wednesday, that the attack on the Shah-e-Cherag shrine will not go unanswered, calling on "the security services to expose the perpetrators and masterminds behind this terrorist act."

In a message of condolence, Raisi stressed that "the enemies of Iran are taking revenge for the despair and failure that have hit them hard," noting that "the enemies of Iran, by trying to foment sedition among the people, want to avenge the country's development."

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Dec 14, 2022 12:21 am

ISIS emir arrested

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)’s special forces on Tuesday arrested an alleged emir of the Islamic State (ISIS) in a series of joint operations with the US-led coalition targeting the group’s cells in Western Kurdistan amid an ongoing Turkish offensive

“The operations resulted in arresting one of the ISIS emirs along with two other terrorists who were responsible for supplying the terrorist cells with weapons and ammunition in an attempt to target the prisons and al-Hol camp,” the SDF said in a statement, referring to a camp in Western Kurdistan that houses tens of thousands of ISIS suspects.

The SDF added that the operations were conducted in the towns of al-Hol and Tal Hamis as well as in Deir ez-Zor. 

While the operations between the SDF and the US-led coalition against ISIS continue, the ongoing Turkish aerial campaign has caused disruption with a temporary pause days after the operation, raising fears of a potential ISIS resurgence in the area. 

Turkey on November 20 launched Operation Claw-Sword targeting Kurdish positions of the People’s Protection Units (YPG) - the backbone of the SDF - and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Syria and the Western Kurdistan.

The aerial campaign, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is a prelude to a looming ground offensive in the areas that will be launched “soon.” 

The operation has led to a barrage of dozens of drones and airstrikes targeting the SDF, which presents a danger to US personnel as they maintain a presence in the area.

In late November, the US Central Command (CENTCOM) said that a deadly Turkish drone strike against a joint Kurdish-American base that killed 2 SDF fighters put American forces in northern Syria in danger. 

An overnight US helicopter raid in eastern Syria on Sunday killed two ISIS officials, CENTCOM announced, with the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor’s chief Rami Abdulrahman telling AFP that the SDF’s anti-terror units also assisted in the operation. 

The Kurdish forces and Washington have repeatedly threatened that a Turkish ground offensive in the area would jeopardize hard-earned gains made in the years-long fight against ISIS. 

ISIS swept through vast swathes of Syrian land in 2014 but was declared territorially defeated in 2019 after the SDF overran its last bastion in Baghouz.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Dec 19, 2022 1:38 am

ISIS kills policemen in Kirkuk

The Islamic State (ISIS) group killed at least seven members of the federal Iraqi police, including a senior officer in an IED attack in southern Kirkuk province where the militants are active, Iraqi state media reported on Sunday

A bomb exploded on a vehicle carrying the policemen in southern Kirkuk’s Riyadh subdistrict and the blast was followed by bullet fire when the suspected ISIS militants attacked the car, killing at least seven policemen including a senior officer. 

At least one militant also lost his life during the attack, while no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani on Sunday afternoon directed the formation of an investigation into the incident, stressing that “the terrorist elements that committed this cowardly terrorist attack” will be dealt “fair and urgent retribution,” according to his spokesperson Yehia Rasool. 

ISIS seized large swathes of Iraqi and Syrian territory in 2014 and declared a so-called “caliphate.” While the group was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in 2017, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions across several provinces.

The terror group is particularly active in areas disputed by Erbil and Baghdad, including parts of Kirkuk, Salahaddin, and Diyala. 

Kirkuk Governor Rakan al-Jabouri urged the need to strengthen security in the disputed areas following the attack and said the incident “will not pass without immediate punishment for the terrorist elements.” 

On Saturday, three people were killed and another injured when a bomb left behind by ISIS exploded in Nineveh province’s Bashiqa town.

The Iraqi army earlier in December killed six ISIS members, including two suicide bombers in Salahaddin province.

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Re: ISIS growing stronger and more organised in Middle East

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Dec 21, 2022 9:16 pm

ISIS is reorganising itself

Security forces in Hol Camp and a prison for ISIS members in Qamishlo were targeted. Eight fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed in the attack in Hol Camp. ISIS supporters who tried to take advantage of the chaos that ensued after the airstrike to escape were captured by security forces

The Hol reception and detention camp near Hesekê is home to over 50,000 people from over fifty different countries. Most come from Syria and Iraq, others from Europe, the Caucasus, North Africa and the Middle and Far East.

Because the "Islamic State" was becoming increasingly active in the camp, the security forces of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) launched an operation in March 2021 that uncovered secret ISIS cells and arrested nearly 300 ISIS supporters.

Another operation began in August this year and lasted for several weeks. The Security Forces Command said that Hol Camp had become the centre of covert ISIS activities. According to the information, 44 people have been murdered in the camp this year, including 14 women and minors.

Most of the murder victims appear to be deviants from ISIS doctrine. The operation freed several Yazidi women who had been abducted by ISIS from Shengal in 2014 and sold in slave markets. In north-eastern Syria, about 12,000 ISIS members are interned in prisons.

What is the current situation in the Hol Camp and the ISIS prisons?

ISIS wants to use the current situation in the region as an opportunity to prove itself after taking out several commanders in Syria, north-eastern Syria and Iraq. Currently, desert areas in Syria are under ISIS control and movements are taking place in Homs, Deir ez-Zor and other areas on the border with Iraq.

ISIS wants to capture new places and occupies villages every day. In northern and eastern Syria, pressure is mainly exerted on the population in Deir ez-Zor, sometimes also near Raqqa and in the south of Hesekê.

The ISIS cells operate mainly in the evenings and at night, collecting money as offerings, but using it for reorganisation. ISIS needs money and equipment for its activities and the money collected is no small sum.

Of course, it has certain states behind it and large sums are also transferred from abroad, but domestically it finances itself through this method. According to the information we gained when we captured al-Bagouz [the last ISIS enclave in spring 2019], 20,000 ISIS members from abroad have disappeared. 46,000 Islamists of foreign origin had joined ISIS, of which 26,000 have been killed or arrested and the rest have disappeared.

ISIS has withdrawn elementary cadres, especially in the battles in Mosul and Raqqa, and placed them in areas occupied by the Turkish state, such as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other Islamists. According to our findings, there are fifty ISIS commanders in the occupied areas alone. In addition, there are thousands of other Islamists there. We have also communicated this to the International Coalition.

Turkey has targeted the Hol Camp and a prison. What danger does this pose?

Ultimately, ISIS wants to use the Turkish attacks for itself once again. In this regard, there is a lot of intelligence from the detention centres for ISIS members as well as from Hol Camp. In January, a large-scale attack took place on the Sina prison in Hesekê. This attack was only one aspect of the ISIS' plans.

There are still covert cells in the region, and we are taking action against them every day. ISIS needs a leadership structure and its commanders are currently imprisoned. They should be freed so that ISIS can reorganise. Hol Camp is more of an ideological space for ISIS.

There is a military and an ideological area there. This was found during our last humanitarian security operation. No weapons were found in the area used for training, but military equipment was seized in the other area. So, ISIS is reorganising itself on two levels in Hol Camp.

In recent months, children as young as two years old have been discovered in the area for foreign women. This has not been reported publicly so far. How do these children get there? There are no men in the sector for foreign women.

It seems that marriages are being contracted with minors. By marrying boys at the age of 12 or 13, procreation is ensured. For this reason, children of this age are now taken out of the sector by the security forces.

In north-eastern Syria, 65,000 ISIS members are currently interned in camps and prisons, of which 12,000 are in detention centres. The prisoners are commanders from 60 countries. ISIS has undertaken various offensives for their liberation and wants to use the attacks of the Turkish state as an opportunity.

Eight Islamist attack attempts have taken place within 20 days. One of them was directed against Hol Camp, while the others targeted the prison in Hesekê as well as the region around Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor and the south of Hesekê.

The Turkish attacks on Kobanê were intended to give hope to ISIS. Mekmen was bombed by the Turkish air force. The village is 80 kilometres away from the Turkish border at a strategically important location between Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Hesekê. With the liberation of Mekmen, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa could also be liberated at that time. ISIS carried out numerous attacks in Mekmen and tried to come back to life there.

Turkish state deliberately bombed Mekmen. This is not a coincidence, but a retaliatory strike against ISIS. ISIS has used the Turkish bombings as an opportunity to carry out eight attacks of its own. While we are busy with the Turkish wave of attacks, we had to repel eight ISIS attacks at the same time.

Are sufficient measures being taken?

Attention must be paid to those in the prisons and camps. There are ISIS members from over 50 countries in Sina prison alone. Most ISIS members from Europe are in prison. There are also people from various countries of origin in the camps. Many of them were children but have since grown up and been educated with the radical ideas of ISIS.

They are like a time bomb in our hands. Hol Camp in particular is now less a reception camp and more a military camp. The Turkish state does not consider ISIS a terrorist organisation, but calls it an armed organisation. What will happen in Hol Camp and the prisons in the future is completely unclear at the moment. These places pose a danger. Prisons are being rebuilt and money is being spent on them, but it is not enough. In the end, it is of no use. It is only a temporary measure.

First of all, trials against ISIS members must take place in our region. We say that these trials must be held here because the prisoners are here with us. Moreover, the people who have suffered under ISIS live here, and there are five million people. Moreover, we have the evidence of the crimes committed.

Some states argue that the trials should take place elsewhere. However, that would make no sense because the five million witnesses cannot be brought there. Likewise, it is hardly feasible to transfer such a large number of prisoners to another location. Basically, this is meant to fragment the whole trial, it is not meant to be about ISIS as a whole.

ISIS is not a collection of individual cases. We have not fought against individuals, but against a mentality. Since the ISIS caliphate was crushed in 2019, about 3000 ISIS members have been repatriated to Iraq and about 2000 from other countries of origin.

This is not enough, because there are 65,000 ISIS members in our country. If it continues at this rate, they will stay here for another 25 years. A solution must be found. A court must be established or each country must take back its own ISIS members.

Control over the Islamists is not only the responsibility of the autonomous region, but also of the international coalition. To what extent are the states represented in the anti-ISIS coalition taking care of the matter? Are you holding talks with the coalition on this matter?

Of course, such talks are taking place. These 85 countries are in our region as an international coalition. However, they are doing very little to provide intelligence or other support to the SDF. This is not enough for the fight against ISIS. Much more support is needed for both the military fight and society. ISIS has caused great destruction in the region.

Our infrastructure has been destroyed, many schools are ruins, facilities for electricity and water supply are broken, towns and villages have been looted and destroyed. We need direct support for reconstruction. In addition, the region must also be politically recognised in the long term.

The fight against ISIS is not only on a military level, but also on a political and ideological level. As long as our region does not receive official recognition, the ISIS threat will remain and the Turkish state will continue to support ISIS. We have talked about this at length with the coalition.

The coalition admits that the fight against ISIS has no chance of success without the SDF and the YPJ/YPG. Only Turkey does not admit to this, but it finances ISIS anyway. Apart from the SDF, there is no force that can fight ISIS. If this fight is to produce results and ISIS is not to threaten all of humanity again, the SDF must be supported more strongly.

There are investigation results on the attack on the ISIS prison in Hesekê, which will be published in the coming time. Camps and prisons are under the ISIS command and are commanded by the respective commanders.

These commanders were located in Idlib and Afrin in the past, as they are today. This was confirmed during the investigation of the attack in Hesekê. One and a half months ago, three ISIS members were captured who wanted to establish a cell for another attack on the prison.

The captured mercenaries had been trained in camps in Turkish-occupied Serêkaniyê. Their statements will also be made public in the near future.
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Re: ISIS growing stronger and more organised in Middle East

PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:01 am

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54 ISIS mercenaries captured

The Sulaymaniyah Asayish captured 54 ISIS mercenaries and killed 3 of them in the operation they carried out in and around the city center for 5 months

South Kurdistan Public Security Police (Asayish) announced in a statement that a total of 54 ISIS mercenaries were captured and 3 of them were killed as a result of an operation carried out in Sulaymaniyah, Chamchamal, Sharazur, Khanaqin and surrounding areas for 5 months.

The Asayish stated that many places where the mercenaries were hiding were discovered. The statement added that among the ISIS mercenaries captured were emirs and members responsible for the province of Sulaymaniyah.
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Re: ISIS growing stronger and more organised in Middle East

PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Dec 23, 2022 2:14 am

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Over 500 ISIS repatriated

Over 500 children and women affiliated to the Islamic State (ISIS) were repatriated by their countries in 2022

Western Kurdistan's foreign office told reporters on Thursday that 515 people from more than a dozen countries have been repatriated from the region’s camps since January. This does not include hundreds of ISIS-affiliated families returned by the Iraqi government.

Tajikistan had the lion's share in the repatriations by returning 146 of its nationals. It is followed by France (109) and Russia (68), according to the official figure.

Over 50,000 ISIS-linked people are held in the notorious al-Hol camp in Hasaka. Thousands others are kept in Roj camp.

Kurdish and US officials have repeatedly called on countries to repatriate their nationals, with Kurds warning that the children are “ticking bombs.”

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/22122022
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