At the same time as the demands for America’s withdrawal from Iraq and Syria are escalating; ISIS is more active than ever!

, during the last 50 days and in parallel with the crimes of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip, ISIS has intensified its activities in Syria. Many observers believe that parallel to the increasing pressure on the US in Syria and Iraq, Washington has prepared the ground for the intensification of ISIS activities. Currently, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (Moradeh) announced in a report that since the beginning of this year, ISIS terrorists have killed (martyrdom) more than 100 soldiers and civilians during 50 operations in Syria. According to this report, all these operations took place in the Badia region of Syria; That is, in the east of Syria and in the deserts west of the Euphrates! 116 people were martyred in these operations. Among them, 101 people were from the forces of the Syrian army and allies, and 13 of the martyrs were resistance fighters. In addition, 15 civilians have also been martyred, one of whom is a child.

Geography of operational areas

The accuracy of the geography of ISIS operational areas shows that the United States supports their operations! From 2019 to 2023, the operational area of ​​ISIS in Syria mainly included Badia al-Sham (the desert region of eastern Syria west of the Euphrates), the area known as Al-Jazeera (the desert region of eastern Syria east of the Euphrates), and the northeastern regions of Syria, especially the province of Hasakah. In terms of the distribution of the casualties of the attacks, between 30 and 40 percent of the casualties were usually caused by the “QSD” forces. Of course, this ratio changed in the last months of 2023 – at the same time as the Zionist regime invaded Gaza – and ISIS reduced the number of its operations in the territory of Qasd.

For more explanation, it should be said that ISIS operations were generally carried out in three regions. The first region was the east of Homs and Rif Damascus provinces and the west of Deir Ezzor province. That is, the great desert of eastern Syria, known as “Badiya al-Sham”, which starts from cities such as Tadmar and al-Sukhna and continues to the western banks of the Euphrates. This area is under the control of the Syrian army, and in some parts of it, resistance fighters have a strong presence. It is east of Deir al-Zour province, south of Raqqa province and south of Hasakah province, which is known as “Al-Jazeera” region in the geographical divisions of Syria. This area is under the control of the united forces of the United States known as “QSD” (Syrian Democratic Forces). The province of Raqqa is under the control of Kurdish militias and the main stream is “Qasd”. America has a strong presence in these areas as well.

However, from the beginning of 2024, ISIS will stop its operations in the areas under the control of Qasd and only It has focused on Badiyeh al-Sham. The aim of these operations is clearly to attack the positions of the Syrian army and resistance fighters. Now this question is raised, what special thing has happened that, firstly, ISIS has gained additional operational capacity, and secondly, it has focused on attacking the positions of the resistance and the Syrian army, and has forgotten the conflict with the SDF?

Given the presence of American soldiers in Al-Tanf area, which is located in the south of Badia al-Sham, it can be assumed that the main logistics of ISIS are through the bases American is provided and this issue is the main factor in changing the equation in ISIS operations. In addition, the main human base of ISIS is still the “Al Houl” camp in the east of Deir Ezzor province, which is under the control of the SDF and American allies, and ISIS must be able to remove part of the terrorists from the Al Houl camp in order to increase its operational capacity.

According to the above two points, we can answer “the reason for the change in the behavior of ISIS (forgetting the fight against the SDF and focusing on the Syrian army and the resistance)” and “the sudden increase He understood the operational capability of ISIS. /strong>

In such a situation, the warnings of the SDF about increasing the operational capacity of ISIS are also meaningful. “Saymand Ali”, the media spokesman of SDF, announced that it seems that the current operational forces of ISIS are more than 10,000 people! He warned the world that ISIS still has a significant operational capacity to commit terrorist acts and called for an increase in Washington’s support and presence in Syria. Meanwhile, estimates by Iraqi institutions show that there are about 4,000 ISIS terrorists in Iraq.

In August 2023, UN experts estimated They estimated the size of ISIS forces in Iraq and Syria between 5 and 7 thousand people. And here we have to ask how the size of ISIS operational forces doubles in 6 months? The most basic and simple answer that can be given is that ISIS has withdrawn part of its forces from the al-Hol camp or the prisons of the SDF during a deal with the SDF – which is not possible without the permission of the Americans. The incident was repeated in 2009 and 2010, and a significant number of the leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq, which was later called ISIS, were released from prison by the Americans.

An important point that should be noted here is the success of Iraq in controlling the monster of ISIS Is. In the years 2019 to 2022, ISIS carried out most or second most operations in Syria and Iraq. But in 2023, Iraq ranked third, and now while the volume of ISIS activities in Syria has multiplied; But in Iraq, the security forces have succeeded in reducing the number of ISIS operations. Almost every week in the Iraqi media, news of the identification and discovery of an operational team or a number of ISIS terrorists is published. The country of Iraq does not need the presence of the American coalition and the American military to fight terrorism.

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