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Re: ISIS growing strong again in Iraq and Syria

PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Oct 31, 2019 3:59 pm

Death of Baghdadi Not End of ISIS

The death of the Islamic State (ISIS) top leader Abu Bakir Al-Baghdadi does not mean the end of the insurgent group or that the world is safe now, Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani has argued

"I don't think the job is finished. I think Al-Baghdadi was on top of this organization, but by no means this is the end of ISIS. ISIS leaders in different areas have operated almost independently. They are inspired by the vision of their leader, but that doesn't mean that they cannot continue operating without their leader," Barzani said during an interview with ABC News.

"Any terrorists killed or captured means less of a threat but that doesn't mean that the world is a safer place today because you don't know what might replace or who might replace him."

He additionally urged the US and other world countries to "stay alert. Increase cooperation and accept the fact that terrorism is still a major threat to the security of the world, so the corporation that has already been in place would continue."

The Kurdish premier also warned of thousands of ISIS fighters held in prisons in Syria, noting that they would pose a great threat to the whole world if they ever break out of prison.

"We are concerned very much, specially if they're not contained. If the prisons are not secured, ISIS will escape. We've seen in the past that if they're able to run away and of course they pose a great threat to the security of not only the region but like you said of the world, so we hope that all these prisoners now in custody will be secured."

He further reminded that the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces played a key role in breaking the myth of the ISIS group, and how he stayed alongside the Peshmerga fighters in the front lines since the emergence of the extremist group in 2014.

"We have a long experience of fighting ISIS. I've been in the front lines with the Peshmerga since 2014 when we fought ISIS. And Peshmergas have paid a very great price in liberating many of the areas that were initially controlled by ISIS. There were in fact the very first force on the ground that broke the myth of ISIS as an undefeatable force. And Peshmergas have done a great job alongside many other members of the coalition," he said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Oct 31, 2019 7:24 pm

ISIS confirms Baghdadi death
and names new leader


Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself after US special forces found him in north-west Syria

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The jihadist group Islamic State (ISIS) has for the first time confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and named his successor.

IS THIS THE NEW LEADER???
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US special forces tracked down Baghdadi in north-west Syria at the weekend and attacked his compound.

The ISIS leader fled into a tunnel and killed himself with a suicide vest.

The Iraqi had a $25m (£19m) bounty on his head and had been pursued by the US and its allies since the rise of ISIS five years ago.

ISIS also confirmed on Thursday the death of spokesman Abu al-Hasan al-Muhajir - who was killed in a joint operation in northern Syria by US and Syrian Kurdish forces hours after the one targeting Baghdadi. The Saudi national had been considered a potential successor.

The new ISIS spokesman, Abu Hamza al-Qurashi, also called on Muslims to swear allegiance to Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi.

Who is Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurashi?

Hashemi's name is not known to security forces, and is believed to be a nom de guerre.

ISIS did not provide many details about the new leader or release a photo, but it did claim he was a veteran jihadist fighter who had fought against the West.

With the name "al-Qurashi", the group also made clear that he claims to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe - something generally held by pre-modern Sunni scholars as being a key qualification for becoming a caliph.

Before the announcement, BBC jihadist media specialist Mina al-Lami said: "If IS chooses to appoint someone who is not a Qurashi, then perhaps it is an implicit acknowledgement that the 'caliphate' is no more."

What is the context?

ISIS declared the creation of a "caliphate" - a state governed in accordance with Sharia, or Islamic law - after seizing control of huge swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014 and imposing its brutal rule on millions of civilians.

It proclaimed Baghdadi as "Caliph Ibrahim" and demanded allegiance from Muslims worldwide.

Despite the demise of its physical caliphate in March, IS remains a battle-hardened and well-disciplined force whose enduring defeat is not assured.

The group still has between 14,000 and 18,000 "members" in Iraq and Syria, including up to 3,000 foreigners, according to a recent US report.

What happened to Baghdadi?

The day before ISIS released the name of its new leader, the US military made public more information about the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a raid in Syria's Idlib province early on Sunday.

In grainy footage, helicopters were seen firing at gunmen on the ground as they flew towards a compound where Baghdadi was hiding.

On landing, US special forces commandos blew holes in the walls of the compound and called on Baghdadi to surrender, the military said. But he fled into a tunnel and detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and two children he had taken with him.

"You can deduce what kind of person it is based on that activity," said the head of US Central Command, Gen Kenneth McKenzie.

After the raid, the compound was destroyed in an air strike.

Gen McKenzie said the destroyed buildings were left looking like "a parking lot with large potholes".

He added that he could not confirm President Donald Trump's graphic description of Baghdadi whimpering and crying as he died.

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Re: ISIS growing strong again in Iraq and Syria

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Nov 06, 2019 6:05 am

Baghdadi's brother often
travelled to Istanbul


A brother of ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi travelled several times to Istanbul, Europe’s largest city, from northern Syria in the months before the terror chief's death, acting as one of his most trusted messengers to deliver and retrieve information about the group’s operations in Syria, Iraq and Turkey, according to two Iraqi intelligence officials

The hunt for the elusive architect of ISIS concluded on October 26 in a dramatic, covert US special forces raid on his isolated villa in the north-western Syrian border village of Barisha, in Idlib province. He killed himself by detonating his explosive vest when backed into a tunnel with no escape, US President Donald Trump said.

Now, The National can reveal new details about the movements of one of the members of Al Baghdadi’s inner circle and how he made several 2,300-kilometre round trips deep into the territory of a Nato member, the terror chief’s use of an old-fashioned militant method to evade detection while directing the group from the shadows and the joint efforts of Western and Middle Eastern security services to catch a trail that could lead them to one of the most wanted men in the world.

“We were watching somebody who was acting as a messenger to Al Baghdadi and he was travelling frequently to Turkey and back,” said a senior Iraqi intelligence official. “He was Al Baghdadi’s brother.”

That brother was Juma, one of Al Baghdadi’s three male siblings, who is still believed to be alive. Iraqi security services first detected him crossing the Syrian-Turkish border at the end of 2018 before he appeared in Turkey’s largest city, where ISIS militants or sympathisers have attacked a nightclub on New Year’s Eve, tourists in its historic Sultanahmet Square near Hagia Sophia and its now-closed Ataturk International Airport.

Iraqi security services worked in collaboration with their American counterparts on the surveillance of Juma inside Turkish territory, the officials said. Spokesmen for the Pentagon and US-led coalition to defeat ISIS said they would not comment on matters of intelligence. The office of the Turkish presidency and the Turkish interior ministry did not respond to a request for comment.

An Iraqi intelligence agent who worked directly on the operation to track Juma said the terrorist leader's brother continued to reappear in the following months, until his last recorded visit to Istanbul in April. He is then believed to have returned to north-western Syria, months before the location of his brother’s safe house was revealed. It is unlikely he was smuggled across the border, the agent said, but rather moved across it freely.

The Iraqi operatives cultivated an asset in Istanbul who would become privy to details about Juma’s Istanbul trips and what was exchanging hands on behalf of Al Baghdadi.

“Juma, the brother of Al Baghdadi, was in contact with a guy in Turkey who was meeting our source inside Turkey,” said the agent, who dealt directly with the handler of the asset. Juma made “multiple visits” to Istanbul to meet that contact, the agent said.

The source met with a courier who would hand packages to an appointed middleman. That intermediary would then pass the packages on to Al Baghdadi’s brother for delivery to the leader in northern Syria, according to the agent.

The contents of the packages exchanged in Istanbul reveal how Al Baghdadi persisted in directing the group and the lengths he went to to remain abreast of its progress without detection even after years in hiding and months after the loss of all of the Syrian and Iraqi cities the group had once controlled.

“He was delivering messages from ISIS commanders in Iraq. The state of their forces, money, logistics, routes,” the agent said of the courier. “[He] was in contact with commanders here [in Iraq].”

But it was not only Iraq in which Al Baghdadi showed an interest. On these trips, Juma was tasked with “passing on messages and bringing messages back and forth to the ISIS guys inside Turkey”, the senior intelligence official said.

Even though the Iraqis and the Americans conducted joint intelligence work on tracking Al Baghdadi’s go-between for five months, the official said, it remains unclear if he was handing Al Baghdadi the packages in person after receiving them, and if that was done in Idlib. That is because they would lose track of him when he entered into the extremist-laden Syrian province where Al Baghdadi was eventually found.

The officials became confused as to why his trail would end in Idlib, as they believed Al Baghdadi was hiding in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, and they wondered how his brother could transit territory held by the Syrian regime or the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Arab-Kurdish coalition that led the ground fight against ISIS, to deliver messages to him.

“We tracked him going across the border but then we were losing track. From Turkey he travelled south through Idlib but it seems like he never travelled further down,” the senior intelligence official said.

“Now, we think that he just came across five clicks away from the border to meet Al Baghdadi. We don’t know if the Turks knew this or not.”

It is believed Al Baghdadi moved to Idlib in spring, around the time of the offensive to wrestle Baghouz, ISIS's last pocket, from its remaining fighters. But the Iraqi claims indicate he could have moved there before then, or somewhere closer to Idlib and further away from eastern Syria than previously believed.

Little is known about Juma. No picture of him is publicly available. As efforts to track his movements continue, much of the information about him remains classified. US special forces captured two men in the Barisha raid on Al Baghdadi’s compound, but it is unclear if Juma was one of them, or if he was present at the safe house at the time of the mission.

At one point, Juma is believed to have become Al Baghdadi’s bodyguard and was the brother closest to him.

His methods of travel from northern Syria to Istanbul and back, and the route he chose to take, remain unknown. But the ability of one of the most senior members of ISIS to commute to a major European city freely to meet other ISIS members will again raise questions about the Turkish security services and what they knew about Al Baghdadi’s final months and the movements of his closest associates, former Turkish security officials and counter-terrorism experts said.

Accusations levelled against Ankara have not been supported by hard evidence, but many in security circles point to a passive attitude in the Turkish security apparatus towards ISIS that has allowed them to build sophisticated networks inside the country.

The government is facing criticism after Al Baghdadi was found so close to the Turkish border, and it stands accused of emboldening ISIS with its offensive against the Syrian Kurds in north-eastern Syria using rebel proxies accused of war crimes. That offensive, which Ankara started to quash what it says is a threat of terrorism from Kurdish militants, has displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

“It is impossible for the Turkish intelligence that Turkey does not know of his presence five to seven kilometres away from the Turkish border,” a former high-ranking Turkish military officer said

Turkey on Tuesday said it had captured Al Baghdadi’s 65-year-old sister, Rasmiya Awad, near the Syrian town of Azaz. But former officials said she likely had little to do with the group’s operations and it was an attempt by Ankara to appear to be working against the group in the face of criticism.

“For the Turkish National Intelligence, or Turkish police, [ISIS] are not the real enemy," said Ahmet Yayla, a former Turkish counter-terrorism police chief and now a fellow at the George Washington University Programme on Extremism. "They do not seriously look for these people, but [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is in a position where he is trying to prove that he is fighting against ISIS.

“That is the reason they are bragging about his sister who is 65 and most probably doesn’t have much to do with the issues there or what he is doing, but they are making a huge propaganda of it in the Turkish media.”

One theory about Al Baghdadi hiding only kilometres from the Turkish border is that he was trying to move his family to the country. “This is not unknown among Islamic State officials and leaders,” according to Aymenn Al Tamimi, a prominent researcher on the modus operandi of Syrian extremist groups.

On Juma’s apparent freedom to travel, Mr Yayla expressed reservations that someone so close to Al Baghdadi could have made such a long journey to Istanbul to deliver or retrieve messages without being detected, or had chosen it as a location for meetings instead of closer Turkish border cities like Gaziantep or Sanliurfa.

“How come Turkey did not stop this person? It just doesn’t add up,” said Mr Yayla. “It is risky for someone like him to go to Istanbul. This is a strange world, anything can happen, but I wouldn’t expect such a crucial mistake from someone like him.”

Yet Istanbul may have offered a more likely location for ISIS’s senior leadership to remain undetected compared to well-known extremist hotbeds in southern Turkey.

“Istanbul has always been a relatively safe area to travel. There are many refugees. It’s easy to get lost in the crowd,” the Iraqi agent said.

In a city of at least 15 million people, “you can expect a degree of anonymity”, said a former Western intelligence chief. “You’re not under scrutiny – everybody is there.”

In smaller, southern hubs such as Gaziantep, it “would be much harder to be sure that you weren’t being followed or spotted”.

For a Syrian, Iraqi or someone of similar appearance who doesn’t have a criminal record and who has the right papers, travelling through Turkey “is not a big problem”, said Guido Steinberg, senior research associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and former counter-extremism adviser to chancellor Gerhard Schroder.

“Although it’s a thousand kilometres, for the Turks it’s not considered to be a long distance. You enter the bus and that’s it. You’ve got direct connections to Istanbul from every city.”

In Turkey, ISIS has a leader of its Emni intelligence service, responsible for the group’s foreign operations, and thousands of supporters developing networks that have made it easy to move people and money throughout the country, Mr Yayla said. So, it may have made more sense for Al Baghdadi to use another lieutenant for the job.

But Juma became “one of the few people trusted by” Al Baghdadi, according to the Iraqi agent. As ISIS’s territory and leadership figures began to dwindle, so did Al Baghdadi’s reliance on his remaining commanders and foot soldiers, figures who may have arrived in Iraq or Syria only six years ago.

“It seems clear now that towards the end, Al Baghdadi only trusted some very close family members,” said Amarnath Amarasingam, an expert on ISIS and senior research fellow at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue in London. “It also seems to be the case that key pieces of info that led to his capture also came from the people he placed his trust in towards the end.”

Even though he was being traced by other security services, Juma’s limited profile could have helped him to evade detection by Turkish security services while travelling through the country, said Colin Clarke, senior research fellow at the Soufan Center.

“I assume they have the family network mapped out but it’s not Al Baghdadi himself. So how well known were his relatives? What did he look like?”

The trailing of Juma did not lead to Al Baghdadi’s attempted capture. An informant cultivated by the Syrian Kurds inside Al Baghdadi’s inner circle and several crucial arrests of his associates would prove to be his downfall.

The use of a courier is a tried and tested terrorist method of evading detection, one of many used by extremist leaders in a bid to operate under the radar to continue their activities. It was one mastered by former Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who would send confidants long distances with USB drives to internet cafes to pass on information. Since then, militant evasion tactics have moved from email drafts to secure email services and on to encrypted messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.

Al Baghdadi became obsessed with secrecy, turning to handwritten notes or even word of mouth to send messages, and at times dressing as a shepherd, according to his detained brother-in-law Mohammed Ali Sajit, who gave an interview to Al Arabiya last week. Those who visited him were on occasion blindfolded on the drive to his location, while others were forced to remove their wristwatches and hand over their phones. Going dark, like bin Laden did for 10 years, can be easy, but terrorist leaders come unstuck in their failure to reconcile their need for stealth with their need to communicate as heads of these organisations, says Jason Burke, an expert on extremism.

“You can go off grid and stay off grid, but it’s difficult to communicate,” he said. “Those who are looking for you are basically guessing. But if you need to trust somebody [to courier], they are going to be identifiable.”

Yet the Iraqis and Americans did not move on Juma. They hoped he would lead them to Al Baghdadi’s location, the same way that bin Laden was tracked to his Abbottabad compound in 2011.

“In this case, the brother would not have been the target, he was just a means to the target. I think it’s entirely understandable that you might let him run and see what turns up,” said the former Western intelligence chief.

“Then, you can go on from there and see what he was doing at either end.”

Even though this was the decision in the case of Juma, the ease with which he crossed into Turkey, like many lower level ISIS members before him, will likely give Western and regional security services cause for concern, whether Ankara had knowledge of his trips or not.

“When you cook pasta, you drain it in a colander,” said the former Turkish general. “Turkey’s borders have unfortunately been like this for a long time.”

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Re: ISIS growing strong again in Iraq and Syria

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Nov 10, 2019 7:54 pm

How ISIS turned into the
Syrian National Army?


The groups that make up the so-called “Syrian National Army” include many who have been former leaders of ISIS mercenaries

The Hawar news agency obtained the names of about 80 people from ISIS leaders and members whom the Turkish state changed their clothes and recruited them to wage war against the north and east of Syria.

Dozens of individuals have committed crimes against humanity in Homs, Hama, Sweida, Ghouta and many other cities. Among them is the mercenary named Sufian Al-Qesm who participated in the kidnapping of American Peter Kasji and beheaded him in Idlib and published his grusome act on the internet. There is also the killer of Hevrin Khalaf named Abu Saddam Ansari.

Those people who fought with ISIS mercenaries met in the Aleppo-Azaz line with Turkish-backed mercenary groups, and are now attacking with the Turkish state Serêkaniyê and Gre Spi

NEWS CENTER - The names of 76 senior executives of ISIS Turkey stationed in North and East Syria under the name of Syrian National Army were obtained. ANHA reported the ISIS members who attack the Kurds name by name with the regions they fight in.

The National Syrian Army Recep Tayyip Erdoğan refers as 'champions of Islam' turned out to be senior ISIS members. ANHA published the names of the 76 ISIS members wearing Syrian National Army uniforms. The ISIS members published by ANHA are as follows:

1 - Basil Mihemmed Eleli: Code name Telha

He was born in the Syrian city of Humus. He is 23 years old. He joined ISIS in 2013. In 2017 he joined the Turkey backed El Hamza Division in Aleppo. He is currently in Suluk.

2 - Basil Xesan al-Esurah: codenamed Abu Usame al Shami

He was born in 1993 in Damascus. In 2012 he joined El Nusra in Guta. He moved to Siwêdê in 2014 and joined ISIS. In 2016, he established the Emin Xarici Battalion on behalf of ISIS and became an Emir. In 2017 he went to Turkey. He joined the Al Hamza Division in the Efrin attack. He now fights in Gire Spi under Turkey's command.

3 - Beşar Simid: Code name Ebu İslam El Qelemuni

He was born in 1994 in El Nebik, Damascus. He joined ISIS in 2014. He fought in Damascus, Temdur and Tenef. He went to Turkey with Ebu Eymen El Iraqi from İdlib. He participated in the Efrin attack as batallion commander with Turkey backed Ahrar al -Sharqiya. He is now in Serekaniye.

4 - Beshir El Emuri: Code Name Ebu Ehmed El Tedmuri

He was born in 1990. He joined ISIS in Humus in 2014. He went to Ezaz in 2017. He participated in the Efrin occupation with Sultan Murat Brigade. He is now in Serekaniye.

5 - Abdullah Ehmed Abdullah

Born in 1991 in Humus. He joined ISIS in 2014 and took part in the organization's intelligence work. He carried out an attack against International Coalition's airport. He escaped to Guta. His was involved in a lot of thefts and looting. He joined the El Hamza Division in 2016 passing through areas where Turkey controls. He is now in Serêkaniyê.

6 - Abdullah El shimeri: Code Name Ebu Telha El shimeri

He is 20 years old. He was born in El Sokhna village of Temdur. He joined Ahrar el Sharqiya, which is in Turkey's control. He is now in Gire Spi.

7 - Abdullah Elzirir: Code Name Ebu Cehfer

He was born in 1991 in Humus. He joined El Nusra in 2012. He joined ISIS in Damascus in 2014. He fought in Damascus, Aleppo and Elbitir. He joined Turkey's ranks in 2017 and receive military training. He established Liwa El İslam gang under the supervision of National Intelligence Service (MİT). He participated in the Efrin occupation with this group. He is now in Gire Spi.

8 - Abdullah Mohamad Eliweid: Code Name Ebu Seyef Elhalabi

He was born in 1989, in Aleppo. He joined ISIS in Aleppo in 2015. He posted photographs of him using an Dotchka from his Twitter account in 2016. He went to İdlib and then to Turkey in 2017. He received military training in El Hamza Division under the supervision of Turkish Armed Forces. He is now in Gire Spi.

9 - Abdullah Mohamad El-İnizi: Code Name Ebu Mohamad El Cezrawi

He was born in Saudi Arabia, Riyad. He is 27 years old. He joined ISIS in 2015 from Turkey. He fought in Reqa and Humus. He fought in Minbic with Usud El-Ednani Batallion. He joined Ahrar al Sharqiya, controlled by Turkey. He is now in Gire Spi.

10 - Ebdilrehman Mihêmid: Code Name Qesure El Dêri

He was born in Dêrazor in 1992. He joined El Nusra in 2012 in Dêrazor. He fought in Dêrazor, Dera and Hama. He posted his photographs from his social media account as El Nusra Emir. He joined Ahrar al -Sharqiya in 2016 which is in Turkey's control. He is now in Gire Spi.

11 – Code name Ebu Fisel El Nihemi

He was born in Temdur in 1990. He joined ISIS in Humus in 2014. He used ISIS heavy weapons and provided military training. He went to Idlib and fought with Feyleq Al-Sham. He left here with 20 gangs and joined the Sultan Murat Brigade. Now in Serêkaniyê.

12 Code name –Ebu Omer El Hatim

He is 32 years old born in Reqa. Joined ISIS in 2015.He went to Ezaz from Aleppo in 2017 . He attacked Serekaniye with Ahrar el Sharqiya in Turkey's ranks. He is now in Serekaniye.

13 - Ebu Sileman El Minbij

He is 34 years old and was born in Minbij. He joined ISIS in Reqqa in 2015. He joined Ahrar el Sharqiya in 2017 in Ezaz. He attacked Gire Spi in Turkey's ranks. He is now in Gire Spi.

14 – Code name Ebu Wefa El Tunisi

He is 35 years old and was born in Tunisia. He joined ISIS in 2014 from Turkey. He was the Şer- i Emir of ISIS in Reqqa. He was sent to Derazor with the same mission. He trained the new gang members about sharia as well as providing military training. He joined Ahrar al Sharqiya in 2017 in Ezaz. He provided training to a paramilitary group under the code name Ebu Wefa. He is now in Serekaniye.

15 - Edehem Feteh El shikerji

Born in 1999 in Derazor. He joined ISIS in 2013. He fought in Soxne, Temdur and Derazor. He went to Bab and Ezaz in 2017. He fought with Turkey backed gangs in Aleppo. He is now in Serekaniye.

16 - Ehmad El-Eli El-jasim El-Omer: Code Name Ebu İselam El-shami

He is 28 years old. He was born in El Kesrat. He joined ISIS in 2015 ,in Reqa. He used heavy weapons. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in 2017. He is now in Gire Spi.

17 - Ehmed Elhamid: Code Name Ebu Furat Elhimsi

He was born in 1994 in the city of Temdur in Syria. He joined ISIS in 2015. He was responsible of mines. He went to Ezaz in 2017 and joined El Hamza Division.

18 -Ehmed Xalid El-Rehmun: Code Name Ebu Mariya El-Ensari

He was born in 1993 in Damascus. In 2013, he joined the Free Syrian Army (FSA). Within the framework of the US-train-equip program in Turkey he recieved military training. He left FSA in 2014 and joined ISIS. He went to İdlib in 2016 and joined El Hamza Division controlled by Turkey. He recieved weapons training from Mistefa El- Lobnani. He is now in Gire Spi.

19 - Eli Hesen Taha: Code Name Ebu Dewle Harun

He is 27 years old. He was born in Derazor. he joined ISIS in 2015 in Şedade. He was responsible from Howitzers. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in Ezaz in 2017. He is now in Serekaniye.

20 - Erwa Eshed Eldihêfis: Code Name Ebu Semir Elhimsi.

He was born in Elxinéfis, Humus. He fought in Humus, Siweda and Tanaf. He came to Turkey in 2017. He fought in Turkey ranks in Sultan Murat Brigade in Bab. He then joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya and joined the occupation in Serekaniye.

21 - Fayiz Elebid Elkerim: Code Name Ebu Fatime Elreqawi.

He is 23 years old. He was born in Reqa and joined ISIS in 2014. He was responsible for armament. He participated in the Efrin occupation with El Hamza Division, controlled by Turkey. He is now in Serekaniye.

22 - Fedi Qoseyi Sultan: Code Name Ebu Tirab Elşami

He is 23. He was born in Damascus and joined ISIS in 2015. He fought in Reqa, Humus and Derazor. He joined Turkey backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya in 2017. He is now in Gire Spi.

23 - Fehid Selum El-İdlibi: Code Name Ebu Eli Hewaciz.

He is 27, born in İdlib. He joined ISIS in 2014, in Reqa. He joined Turkey backed Ahrar al-Sharqiya in 2017 and participated in the attacks of National Syrian Army. He is now in Gire Spi.

24 - Fehid Xelef El-Eli El-Seyid: Code Name Seyif El-İslam.

He was born in Gire Spi in 1998. He joined ISIS in 2015 in Reqa.He joined Turkey back El Hamza Division and participated in the Serekaniye attack with this gang. He is now in Serekaniye.

25 - Fehid Xelef Nercis: Code Name Ebu Xewle Mudadat

He is 23. He was born in Derazor. He joined ISIS in 2014. He fought in Reqa and Derazor. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in Aleppo in 2017. He joined the Gire Spi attack with this Turkey backed gang. He is now in Suluk.

26 - Ferec Ehmed Elseyid: Code Name Ebu Ebas Elêraqi

He was born in Derazor. He joined ISIS in 2014. He fought in Derazor and Reqa. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in Aleppo in 2017. He joined the Gire Spi attack with this Turkey backed gang. He is now in Serekaniye.

27 - Hemid Elwan Elhesin: Code Name Ebu Selha Tew

He is 23. Born in Derazor. He joined ISIS in Haseke in 2014. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in Aleppo in 2017. He joined the Gire Spi attack with this Turkey backed gang. He is now in Gire Spi.

28 - Hesen Xelif El-Omer: Code Name: Ebu Omer El-Faruq.

He is 19, born in Reqa. He joined Ahrar al- Sharqiya in Aleppo in 2017. He joined the Gire Spi attack with this Turkey backed gang. He is now in Serekaniye.

29 - Hesen Xilêf Elhesuni: Code Name Ebu Ebdelah Xerite

He is 37, he was born in Derazor. He joined ISIS in 2015 in Derazor. He first joined Ahrar al-Sharqiya in 2017 and then participated in El Hamza Division. He participated in the Gire Spi attack of Turkey. He is now in Gire Spi.

30 - Husam El-İdlibi: Code Name Ebu Mohamad Elemni.

He is 37, born in İdlib, joined ISIS in Reqa in 2014. He joined the paramilitary groups in Turkey's control. He participated in the Gire Spi attack with Ahrar al-Sharqiya. He is now in Gire Spi.

31- Huzeyifa Sehid: Code Name Ebu Zêd

He was born in Reqa. he joined ISIS in 2015 in Reqa. He then joined Sultan Murat Brigade and now he is with Ahrar al Sharqiya in Gire Spi.

32- Macid El Xalid (Hec Macid): Code Name Heci Ebu Omer El Ensari.

He was born in Humus in 1983. He was with Lİwa El Heq at the beginning of the Syrian Civil War. He joined ISIS in 2014. He was in the Hama organization and its military Emir. He contacted Turkey and went to İdlib with his group. He was the military command of El Hamza Division and he was in Turkey's ranks during the attacks against SDF. He is now in Serekaniye.

33- Mesna Xelil El Hesen: Code Name Ebu Aişe El Tibni

He is 25, his mother's name is Xedica. He joined ISIS in 2013, at the El Tibni district of Derazor. He was in charge of a military group in the Suxna district. He fled to Rai, Aleppo and joined Usud al Sharqiya. Now in Gire Spi.

34-Mohamad Asim El Sebra: Code Name Ebu El Hari El Ensari

He was born in 1996. He joined ISIS in 2014 in Humus. . In Damascus, he worked in the technical field under the command of Abu Mohamad. In early 2017, he joined the FSA and recieved mlitary training from American soldiers. Then he was assigned to Ezaz and 3 months later he joined the Al Hamza Division. He took part in the occupation of Efrin, now in Gire Spi.

35-Mohamad Besam Misto

He was born in 1995, in İdlib. Mother's name is Nura. He joined El Nusra in İdlib, Cisur in 2015.He joined the Al Hamza Division in 2017 and is now in Siluk with Al Hamza Division

36- Mohamad Ehmed Siwês: Code Name Ebu Ehmed El Humusi

He was born in 1995 in Humus. He joined ISIS in Damascus in 2015. He took part in Bitir-Tenef and Tedmur attacks. Then he joined the Ahrar al- Sharqiya and recieved military training in Turkey. He participated in the Efrin and Shehba attacks. He is now in Gire Spi.

37- Mohamad Elbedireh: Code Name Ebu Cilêbib

He was born in 1994 in Humus. In 2015, he joined ISIS in Humus and took part in the Shahar-Teyfur and Jezra attacks. In 2017, he went to Ezaz via an external security unit called Beşair. He joined the Al Hamza Division in 2018 and took part in the attacks in Şehba. Now in Serêkaniyê.

There is a photo showing Mohamad taking place in ISIS. Another photo shows that he is now in the Sultan Murat Brigade.

38- Mohamad El Hemdan: Code Name Decane El Iraqi

He was born in 1980 in Iraq. In 2003, he moved to Syria and settled in Humus. He is one of the founders of ISIS. He was a military Emir in Sehra province and took part in the clashes in Humus, Damascus and Hama. In 2017, he moved from Hama to Idlib and founded the Siqur Elbadiyê Battalion of Sultan Murat. Most members of the group were ISIS members. He joined the Efrin attack with this group, now in Girê Spi.

39-Mohamad Enes El-Êbêd: Code Name Enes Elherbi

He was born in 1995 in Humus. He joined ISIS in Humus in 2015 and took part in the attacks of Tedmur, Tenef region, Heqil El Shahir. In 2016 he was appointed to Emin Xarigi (external security). Then he joined the Sultan Murat Brigade. He received military training in Turkey. He joined Ahrar al-Sharqiya. He took part in the attacks of Efrin and Til Rifat. Now in Gire Spi.

40- Mohamad Omer El Berxesh Code Name Ebu Xalid Eyash

He is 23. He was born in Derazor, Eyash. His mother's name is Zehra. He joined ISIS in Derazor, El Tıbni in 2014. He was responsible from the heavy weapons. He went to Minbic and fleed to Ezaz in 2016. He joined Ahrar El Sharqiya and now he is in Gire Spi with them.

TOMORROW: The rest of the list will be published. Sofyan El Qishim who beheaded Doctor peter Kassig from USA and Ebu Sedam El Ensari who massacred Kurdish politician Hevrin Xalef will be on that list.

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Re: ISIS growing strong again in Iraq and Syria

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:03 pm

ISIS increases activities in
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Three members of the security forces were killed in attacks of the ISIS in South Kurdistan. Eight people were injured in the attacks, including three civilians

In the course of the Turkish invasion of Northern Syria, the ISIS cells in Iraq and Southern Kurdistan have also become more active. Yesterday evening there was an attack of the jihadists in the South Kurdistan region Germiyan. Three members of the security forces (Asayish) lost their lives and a total of eight people were injured; five Asayish members, two children and a woman.

In the evening, the ISIS militias first attacked a checkpoint with rockets and heavy weapons. This resulted in heavy fighting, which lasted until late into the night, before the jihadists finally withdrew. An operation against the ISIS cells was then started in the region.

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Re: ISIS growing strong again in Iraq and Syria

PostAuthor: Anthea » Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:40 am

ISIS stronger again in Iraq

ISIS was uprooted after a long fight in Iraq, but it was never completely defeated

There are growing indications that the Islamic State (ISIS) group is re-organising in Iraq, two years after losing the last of its territory in the country. Kurdish and Western intelligence officials have told the BBC that the ISIS presence in Iraq is a sophisticated insurgency, and ISIS attacks are increasing.

The militants are now more skilled and more dangerous than al-Qaeda, according to Lahur Talabany, a top Kurdish counter-terrorism official

"They have better techniques, better tactics and a lot more money at their disposal," he said. "They are able to buy vehicles, weapons, food supplies and equipment. Technologically they're more savvy. It's more difficult to flush them out. So, they are like al-Qaeda on steroids."

The veteran intelligence chief delivered his stark assessment in a London accent - the legacy of years in the UK after his family had to flee from the regime of Saddam Hussein.

At his base in Sulaimaniya, nestled in the hills of the Kurdistan region of Northern Iraq, he painted a picture of an organisation that has spent the past 12 months rebuilding from the ruins of the caliphate.

"We see the activities are increasing now, and we think the rebuilding phase is over," said Mr Talabany, who heads the Zanyari Agency, one of two intelligence agencies in Iraqi Kurdistan.

A different kind of IS has emerged, he says, which no longer wants to control any territory to avoid being a target. Instead - like their predecessors in al-Qaeda before them - the extremists have gone underground, in Iraq's Hamrin Mountains.

"This is the hub for ISIS [Islamic State group] right now," said Mr Talabany. "It's a long range of mountains, and very difficult for the Iraqi army to control. There are a lot of hide-outs and caves."

He warned that ISIS would be nourished by the current unrest in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, and would exploit the sense of alienation among their fellow Sunni Muslims - a minority community. In Iraq, this is a familiar and bloody pattern.

"If we have political unrest," he said, "this is Heaven or Christmas come early for ISIS."
Growing ranks

The militants are also benefitting from strained relations between Baghdad and the Kurdistan regional government, following a Kurdish independence referendum in 2017.

There is now a vast area of no man's land in northern Iraq between Kurdish Peshmerga security forces and their Iraqi counterparts. According to Mr Talabany, the only ones patrolling in this area are ISIS.
Peshmerga fighter looks out across no man's land

At a sandbagged outpost on a hilltop overlooking the town of Gwer, Major General Sirwan Barzani has a commanding view of this no man's land, and a worried expression. The Kurdish Peshmerga commander says ISIS now have free reign across this swathe of uncontrolled territory.

"In the delta between the Great Zab and Tigris rivers we can say they are permanently there," he said. "There is too much activity from ISIS in the area close to the Tigris. Day by day we can see the movement of ISIS, and the activities."

According to Peshmerga intelligence reports, ISIS ranks in the area have recently been reinforced by about 100 fighters who crossed the border from Syria, including some foreigners with suicide belts.

Major General Sirwan Barzani

"If the situation continues, ISIS will become more organised in 2020," warns Maj Gen Sirwan Barzani

It was from this hilltop at Gwer that the Peshmerga launched their first offensive against ISIS in August 2014. The major general - and others here - say history is repeating itself.

"I can compare 2019 with 2012, " he said, "when they were beginning, organising themselves, and getting taxes from the people. If the situation continues as it is, in 2020 they will reorganise themselves more, be more powerful and carry out more attacks."

Kurdish intelligence officials estimate that ISIS is 10,000 strong in Iraq with between 4,000 and 5,000 fighters, and a similar number of sleeper cells and sympathisers

The international community should be worried, according to Lahur Talabany. "The more comfortable they get here," he says, "there more they will think about operations outside of Iraq and Syria."

Keeping up the pressure

The top US military commander on the ground in Iraq says ISIS is trying to reconstitute itself but faces a different response from Iraqi and Kurdish security forces this time around.

According to Brigadier General William Seely, Commander of Task Force-Iraq, these forces are better prepared than in 2014 when ISIS gained control of a third of Iraq and took Mosul, its second largest city, virtually unopposed.

"The ISF [Iraqi security forces] and the Peshmerga are not the same forces as when Mosul fell," said Brig Gen Seely. "We have been here adding to their training. The ISF is keeping their foot on the pedal to ensure the momentum against Daesh [ISIS] remains steady."

He cites a single month, from mid-October to mid-November, in which the ISF carried out 170 "clearance operations" and destroyed almost 1,700 components for improvised explosive devices.

He says ISIS fighters are now hiding out in caves and in the desert "in conditions that no one can handle for too long", and they can't move in large formations. "The largest I have seen in my six months here is 15, he says, adding that even one ISIS fighter is too many.

For now the extremists are confined to the shadows - emerging at night to carry out hit-and-run attacks. But Iraq has seen terror grow from these beginnings before, and some here fear a new threat is coming, for the region and the West.

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Re: ISIS growing very strong in Iraq like al-Qaeda on steroi

PostAuthor: Anthea » Tue Dec 24, 2019 12:20 am

Christmas attacks

Iraq faces specter of ISIS Christmas attacks

Buckling under protests against cronyism and Iranian imperialism, Iraq's government faces a new challenge as Christmas approaches: the increasing threat of new ISIS attacks.

While the terrorist group has lost much of its physical caliphate in Iraq and Syria, it retains thousands of capable fighters, tens of thousands of supporters, a logistics network, and continued ambition.

Christmas has long been a favored target of the Salafi-Jihadist death cult. In 2013, the group killed more than 35 Iraqis as they attended Christmas services in Baghdad. In 2016, ISIS carried out a truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12.

Similar attacks on western targets were only prevented thanks to effective intelligence operations. Christmas attacks are favored by ISIS because they represent action against infidels (cause), and they concentrate people together (targets).

Two factors make this Christmas a particularly challenging one for Iraqi security forces. First off, ISIS, wiped off the battlefield, has regrouped and retooled itself specifically for mass-casualty attacks. As the BBC's Orla Guerin reported this week, the group has returned to its pre-2013 roots — a decentralized cell structure and active operational security tactics against detection.

This puts ISIS in a position to build bombs and deliver them to Iraqi civilian targets. It was always delusional to believe that the territorial degradation of the caliphate would lead to the elimination of its threat. Iraqi security forces will, of course, take steps to protect churches and worshipers. But the most capable ISIS cells are highly adept at avoiding detection, so the risks are high.

The political context is also critical here. With the Iraqi government facing a strong, multi-sectarian challenge to its rule, ISIS will hope to stoke the sectarian flames. Ironically, ISIS's primary regional enemy, Iran, will benefit most from attacks against Shia or Christian targets, in that such attacks might allow the Iranians to consolidate their influence over Iraq's Shia community.

Then again, the death of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi also gives ISIS all the more incentive to carry out a visible and successful campaign of terrorism, to prove the group isn't dead yet.

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Re: ISIS has MORE members than before it's rise to power

PostAuthor: Anthea » Fri Feb 07, 2020 12:55 am

Possibility of ISIS comeback

Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Masrour Barzani has said that there is a "great possibility" the Islamic State (ISIS) will make a comeback, warning it has more members than before its rise to power in 2014

In an interview with France 24 aired on Tuesday, Barzani said that the root causes of the group’s emergence are still present.

“There is a great possibility of the reemergence of ISIS. They can regroup very easily and recruit because all the root causes that led to the rise of ISIS and the collaboration of people with ISIS still exist: there is no political instability, there is no prosperity and there is no strong security,” he told France 24’s Marc Perelman.

“ISIS has more members today than they used to have in 2013, before they started to attack Syria and Iraq and created their own caliphate,” he added.

The PM also called for increased cooperation between Erbil and Baghdad regarding security in the disputed territories, acknowledging that tensions have created a security vacuum in which ISIS can re-group.

Disputed territories claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil, including the provinces of Kirkuk and Diyala, have been subject to increased insurgency attacks from ISIS remnants in recent months.

US troops are “very much needed” to continue the fight against the terror group, Barzani added.

US missile defense

Bases hosting US troops in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq were attacked by Iranian missiles in early January following the assassination of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani by the US in Baghdad a few days earlier.

This pushed Washington to seek permission from Baghdad to put a defense system in Iraq.

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said late January that his country has asked Baghdad for permission to deploy a Patriot missile defense system in the country.

“The US, like any other government, has the right to defend itself…it is up to them how they want to put their defense system to protect themselves,” Barzani told Perelman in the interview..

“They have been talking about putting a defense system here but obviously they are waiting to talk to the Iraqi government and get permission from the Iraqi government,” he said when asked if the KRG had been asked about the proposal.

He added that the KRG welcomes such a move.

Iraq protests

Barzani also addressed the political instability plaguing Baghdad.

Discussing the protests that have gripped the south of the country since October, Barzani said the demonstrations were a result of years of “bad governance.”

However, he added that former Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi did not receive the support he “deserved” from other political factions in Baghdad.

“The previous prime minister Mr Adil Abdul-Mahdi tried his best but unfortunately he did not enjoy the support that he deserved from other political factions to continue and implement his agenda. We do not think that he was responsible for all the problems that the country has,” he said.

Abdul-Mahdi resigned due to pressure from demonstrators but Iraqi political parties failed to agree on a replacement until Saturday, when Iraqi President Barham Salih appointed Mohammed Allawi, a former minister, to form a new cabinet despite his rejection by protesters.

PM Barzani hoped that Allawi “will enjoy much more support from both people and political factions so that he can be successful,” adding that he also hopes the PM-designate will “commit himself to finalizing the agreement which we think is the best thing for the country.”

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Re: ISIS growing stronger number of supporters increasing

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:38 pm

ISIS fighters to go on trial

Syrian Kurds to put ISIS fighters from dozens of countries on trial

Decision follows exasperation at failure to reach international agreements over prisoners

Syrian Kurds have said they will hold trials for Islamic State fighters from more than 50 countries, including about 30 from Britain, after becoming exasperated by a failure to reach international agreements over what to do with them.

The Kurdish-dominated administration in north-east Syria said it is holding 1,000 male fighters in overcrowded detention centres and a further 4,000 ISIS women in refugee camps, many of whom are accused of involvement in the terror group’s crimes.

Local authorities had hoped to strike agreements with western and other governments to either repatriate fighters and other accused people to face justice in their home country or to set up an internationally recognised tribunal.

But there has been no meaningful progress since Isis lost the last of its territory nearly a year ago. On Thursday, the Syrian Kurdish external affairs ministry unilaterally declared it would start putting people on trial.

Fener al-Kait, assistant minister in the external affairs ministry, said: “This is an international crisis and an international solution must be found. Unfortunately, many states have not responded to our appeals.”

Unlike in neighbouring Iraq, the Syrian Kurdish administration said it will not levy the death penalty on former Isis fighters. Those found guilty of war crimes will be sentenced to life imprisonment. Frontline fighters could receive sentences of up to 20 years, although this would mean expensive detention in a region recovering from Syria’s bitter civil war.

Britain has refused to repatriate adults from Syria and stripped the UK citizenship of anybody it considers a dual national. This includes Shamima Begum, who left east London to join Isis as a teenager and remains in a refugee camp in the country.

Begum has appealed against citizenship deprivation and a ruling on her case is due on Friday. She fled the UK aged 15 to live under Isis with two friends, and subsequently bore three children, all of whom have since died.

Other Britons or former Britons held in prisons in the region are believed to include Shahan Choudhury, who left London in 2014. He said he had acted as a gravedigger during Isis’s last phase, burying victims of the conflict.

Another is Hamza Parvez, a former police cadet from London, who joined Isis in 2014 and appeared in online propaganda videos urging other Britons to travel and join up, in the early phases of the self-styled caliphate.

Syria’s Kurdish forces were instrumental in helping remove Isis from Syria. Its military provided the ground forces that eliminated the group’s hold on the territory in March last year but have been unable to turn that into a strong diplomatic or security position.

They suffered a significant setback when the US president, Donald Trump, allowed Turkey to invade the border region in northern Syria in October. Ankara then set up a security zone in which Syrian Kurdish forces were excluded.

Conditions in the prisons, where there are a handful of guards and little space for prisoners, are cramped and insanitary. There are fears they could become breeding grounds for future extremism.

The Syria Kurds hope that if they start putting foreign fighters on trial, some western governments will provide extra money to secure their detention, although this has not been forthcoming in the past.

The Foreign Office said that anyone who has fought for, or supported Isis, should face justice “in the most appropriate jurisdiction, which will often be in the region where their offences have been committed”.

A spokesperson said they could not comment specifically on the Syrian Kurds announcement but added: “Any internationally supported justice mechanism must respect human rights and the rule of law as well as ensure fair trials and due process.”

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Re: ISIS growing stronger number of supporters increasing

PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Feb 19, 2020 12:38 am

ISIS numbers double

ISIS has DOUBLE the number of soldiers across Iraq and Syria than it did when it swept through the region in 2014, Kurdish leader warns

    Trump has proclaimed 'victory' over ISIS, wants to withdraw from Middle East

    But Kurdish leader Masrour Barzani warns the group is rallying for a comeback

    Terrorists have 20,000 fighters, he claims, double the number they had when they began capturing territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014

    Terror group is also thought to have a war chest of $300m to wage attacks with
ISIS has double the number of soldiers it had when it began capturing territory in Iraq and Syria in 2014 and is poised for a comeback, a Kurdish leader has warned.

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, issued the stark warning amid moves by President Trump to withdraw US troops from the region after years of fighting.

While ISIS has lost all of its territory and much of its leadership, Barzani believes the terror group still has 20,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria and is trying to recruit more.

ISIS has 20,000 fighters in Iraq and Syria, double the number it had when it started capturing territory across the region in 2014, a Kurdish leader has warned

ISIS fighters held in cramped cells inside Syrian prison

That number is double the initial US estimates of ISIS's strength when it began capturing territory across Iraq and Syria in 2014, sparking an international crisis.

Revised CIA estimates put that number at 31,000, while Iraqi security advisers estimated it had 100,000 fighters by the time it announced the formation of a 'caliphate' in July that year.

Nevertheless, Barzani cautions that the modern-day ISIS is still a force to be reckoned with and 'should not be taken lightly.'

Masrour Barzani, prime minister of Iraqi Kurdistan, says ISIS 'should not be taken lightly' as US forces mull withdrawing from the region

Speaking to The Atlantic, he said: 'ISIS is still very much intact. Yes, they have lost much of their leadership. They have lost many of their capable men.

'But they’ve also managed to gain more experience and to recruit more people around them.'

ISIS launched a lightning-fast offensive across Iraq and Syria in 2014, capturing a huge swathe of territory that stretched from Aleppo to the outskirts of Baghdad.

The capture of Iraq's second city of Mosul, and subsequent declaration of a caliphate by then-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, saw them rise from an Al Qaeda splinter group to the world's foremost terror group.

America began a bombing campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria in 2014, and began supporting forces on the ground - largely led by the Kurds - in order to push the terror group back.

By early 2016, the US estimated that ISIS had lost 40 per cent of the 36,000 square miles of territory it once held.

As well as its fighters, ISIS still has tens of thousands of members locked up in Kurdish prison camps - including 70,000 mostly-female inmates at al-Hol

The following year ISIS lost the battle for Mosul, its last stronghold in Iraq, shortly before being driven out of Aleppo in Syria.

In March 2019, the terrorist's last redoubt - a sliver of land called Baghouz in Syria - was captured by Kurdish forces, spelling the end of the group as a territorial power.

Since then ISIS has transformed into a guerrilla fighting force similar to Al Qaeda, directly launching bomb and gun attacks in Syria and Iraq.

The group has also worked to expand its presence in volatile regions of Africa, while using self-radicalised individuals to perpetrate attacks further abroad.

Vladimir Voronkov, undersecretary-general for the U.N. Office of Counter-Terrorism, warned last year that ISIS still commands a $300mllion war chest to fund attacks.

The group 'continues to evolve into a covert network' with fighters spread across the Middle East, West Africa, Asia and embedded in western nations, he said.

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Thu Mar 19, 2020 12:08 am

US names ISIS chief
on terror blacklist


The United States on Tuesday placed the new leader of the Islamic State group (ISIS) on its blacklist of terrorists, naming him as Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that al-Mawli was named leader of the ultra-violent group after an October raid by US commandos killed its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The organization had earlier named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new head, but US officials acknowledged they knew little about him – and later came to believe that the Islamic State group was using his nom de guerre.

Al-Mawli “was previously active in al-Qaeda in Iraq and is known for torturing innocent Yezidi religious minorities,” Pompeo said.

“We’ve destroyed the caliphate and we remain committed to ISIS’s enduring defeat no matter who they designate as their leader,” he said.

A US-led coalition, spearheaded on the ground by Syrian Kurdish fighters, crushed the Islamic State’s so-called caliphate that once stretched for vast stretches of Iraq and Syria – but the group has inspired attacks much farther afield.

Al-Mawli was named a specially designated global terrorist, putting him on a list created after the September 11, 2001 attacks that makes any support to him a crime in the United States.

The State Department has already issued a $5 million bounty for information leading to al-Mawli’s capture.

A scholar in Islamic sharia law, al-Mawli rose through the ranks by issuing edicts to justify the persecution of the Yezidi, a campaign that the United Nations has described as genocide.

The jihadists killed thousands of Yezidis, who practice an ancient religion, and abducted and enslaved thousands more women and girls as they rampaged across the Middle East.

The Guardian, in a January article that cited intelligence sources, said that al-Mawli was raised in an Iraqi Turkmen family – making him one of the few non-Arabs to rise through the ranks of the extremist group.

The newspaper said that intelligence officials were unsure of his whereabouts but believe he likely followed Baghdadi to Idlib, the last Syrian outpost out of the control of President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

The Counter Extremist Project, which tracks militants, said that al-Mawli served in the Iraqi military under Saddam Hussein before joining Al-Qaeda in Iraq, becoming a jurist for the Sunni Arab militants.

It said that US forces captured al-Mawli and jailed him in southern Iraq where he formed his bond with Baghdadi, who was also jailed as part of Al-Qaeda.

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Re: ISIS leader Al-Mawli placed on US terror blacklist

PostAuthor: Anthea » Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:09 pm

Thousands of ISIS
jihadists await trial


In the prisons of Northern Syria thousands of members of the jihadist militia "Islamic State" (ISIS) are waiting for their trial - about a fifth of them from abroad

For years the autonomous administration has been calling on their home countries to take them back and bring them to trial. But many countries refuse to take responsibility for their nationals. An international special court, as proposed by the North-East Syrian autonomous administration authorities, also seems to be a long way off. And so the ISIS prisoners remain in prisons in northern Syria for the time being - and wait.

The situation in the prisons for ISIS members is tense due to the years of uncertainty about the legal dispute with them. This situation creates new problems. In addition, the resources of the self-government are scarce and the prisoners can only be adequately cared for. Furthermore, there is a lack of possibilities to build more prisons. Because of the overcrowding of the internment camps, riots are also threatening.

Reporters visited the two prisons in northern Syria that are most affected by overcrowding and got an idea of the situation. All prisons in the autonomous region are run by the self-government and guarded by the Internal Security and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The number of inmates is in the thousands. We were also able to talk to some of the prisoners.

Central prison of Hesekê

The first prison we visited was the central prison of Hesekê. It was built by the international anti-ISIS coalition when problems with the accommodation of the ISIS prisoners became more acute. Around 4,000 prisoners are held here - many of them former FSA mercenaries or members of the Al-Qaeda branch Jabhat al-Nusra. The majority, however, are ISIS jihadists. They come mainly from Iraq and Syria.

Some of them have been convicted by the "People's Defence Courts" (Kurd. Dadgeha Parastina Gel) established in Western Kurdistan in 2014. Besides single cells, there are several large cells for up to 50 prisoners. Almost all jihadists we spoke with said that they were satisfied with the system and prison conditions and were treated humanely. Visits from relatives are also possible. Every day, three prisoners cook food for the detention centre together with three cooks and distribute it under the control of security forces.

Prisoners do not admit their crimes

Except for the already convicted jihadists, whose crimes have been proven beyond doubt, almost all of them claim to have lived only under ISIS rule and have committed no crime. For this reason, intensive work is being carried out to follow up evidence and proof of crimes in which these persons may have been involved.

Among the group denying their crimes are Iraqi ISIS members Ahmad Taleb Mansour and his father Mansour al-Huwaidi al-Shammari. Both are incarcerated in the same cell. The son is accused of being one of the executioners of the ISIS. He denies this and claims to have worked in food distribution at the ISIS. However, the charges against him are backed by strong evidence. There are even videos showing him performing executions. In court he claimed to have executed "only" one person. The Dadgeha Parastina Gel sentenced Mansour to life imprisonment for "crimes against humanity".

Many continue to defend their crimes

Even though some of the prisoners claim to regret their affiliation with the ISIS, the overwhelming majority expresses their continued adherence to the ISIS ideology. Many are convinced that this ideology will liberate them.

One prisoner we talked to is Hadir Shaid al-Uthman from Iraq. According to his own statements, he joined the ISIS in 2015 and actively fought for the organization. He says he is satisfied with the prison conditions here. In Iraqi prisons, however, there is massive repression. Uthman says, "If I'm extradited to Iraq, I will kill myself first."

When asked if he regrets being part of an organization like the ISIS that committed crimes against humanity and other atrocities, he first replies: "We did not commit atrocities. When we point out the evidence and the Shengal genocide, he says: "Sharia law demands it that way for the unbelievers."

Another prisoner, Ashraf Ahmed Vahad from Deir ez-Zor, we met at the yard gate. He joined the FSA in 2013. In a skirmish with ISIS members, he was captured by the militia. Eight months later he decided to join the ISIS. He surrendered to the SDF in 2017. Vahad tells: "I have deeply regretted joining the ISIS. I surrendered to the SDF because I learned that they do not treat captured ISIS members in any kind of inhumanity. I want to serve my sentence and become a normal person again. The treatment in prison is humane. There is no oppression whatsoever."

Serious risks

We drove from Hesekê prison to another prison, where mainly ISIS jihadists from the last ISIS enclave al-Bagouz are imprisoned. When the East Syrian village fell in March 2019, masses of ISIS jihadists surrendered to the SDF. They were imprisoned in a part of the University of Hesekê that had been converted into a prison. With around 5,000 prisoners, it is now the most overcrowded prison in the entire autonomous region of Northern and Eastern Syria. The prison conditions are extreme.

The building is old and dilapidated, it does not look particularly safe. In some cells there are hundreds of prisoners, in others even 150. The infirmary is also bursting at the seams. The overcrowding brings with it various health and safety risks. At the top of these problems is the reorganization of the ISIS among the prisoners and the rapid spread of diseases. Especially in prisons, pathogens find ideal conditions for spreading.

Unless the capacity of the prison is increased or prisoners are transferred to other prisons, risks such as mass escapes and riots are inevitable.

In the past, there have already been organized riot attempts in some cells here and in the infirmary. There have also been attacks on prison staff and journalists. For this reason, those responsible refuse us access to the infirmary or the cells. We take pictures through the small windows in the cell doors. The meetings with the prisoners are held in a room specially provided by the prison management.

For the ISIS - until the last moment

The majority of those we met deny having been with the ISIS. They said they had "emigrated" only to areas under ISIS control. Although they have adopted the ideas of the terrorist organization, they blame the functionaries. They complain that they were left alone under the bombs while their leaders fled to Turkey or Europe. However, the leaders of the SDF state that the jihadists imprisoned here have actively fought until the moment of their release.

We also talked to ISIS member Rıdvan Genç from the Turkish city of Afyon. He claims to have joined a Salafist community in Ankara and then travelled to the ISIS area so that his children could learn Arabic. Genç claims to have worked only as a car mechanic. Pointing out the crimes against humanity and especially against women, the murderous ISIS thought is very clear. He replies: "If it is religiously legitimate, then it will be done. Faith is above conscience."

Why does nobody take responsibility?

Abdullah Numan is a Belgian citizen with Moroccan roots. He is one of the few people who admit at least some of the crimes committed. Asked about threatening videos against Belgium in which he appeared, he relativizes: "At that time I was using narcotics, I wasn't in my right mind." The routes from all parts of the world had been open to join the ISIS in Syria, explains Numan. "Turkish intelligence knew I was interested in such communities.

Although my name was known, I was not stopped when I crossed the border. I went to Germany and from there I travelled on to Turkey by plane. I crossed the border in Antep. There were soldiers on both sides, but nobody did anything." Numan demands a trial before a Belgian court: "We have virtually been cleared the way for our accession and even encouraged. Now no responsibility is being taken for us. We have committed crimes. They should give us our punishment and we will accept it."

Young people are becoming more radicalised

55-year-old ISIS jihadist Fatih Çiftçi comes from Istanbul. There he lived in the district of Bağcılar, where he was also an active member of a community. He emigrated to the ISIS with his entire family. The border crossing to Syria was unproblematic, he recalls. He surrendered to the SDF "in good conscience", he says. "There is no torture or supply problems here. A humane approach is paramount. But the prison is simply overcrowded.

We have a lack of space and problems with medical care. Our biggest problem is that we don't know what's coming. We don't have the slightest idea of what is going on in the world. This situation is having a very drastic effect. Not everyone is as old as me. There are young people among us who don't know how to live together. They don't know how to obey. The other day, they started a riot in our cell.

We should be judged. Everyone should be punished for his crime and transferred. We lived in this country and when a crime was committed, it was committed here. The evidence is here on the ground, so we should be on trial here too. The world must deal with this problem and help the autonomous self-government to solve this problem."

The power of autonomous self-government is exhausted

Both those responsible and the prisoners we spoke to unanimously emphasize that the trials must begin immediately. The prison management emphasises that the isolation that has now lasted for a year, the lack of opportunities for self-government, the lack of procedures and the insecurity that this has created are further radicalising the prisoners.

The demands of the North-East Syrian autonomous administration sound the same. The trials of ISIS jihadists who have committed crimes against humanity are the responsibility of all humanity. But those responsible also say that they do not have sufficient means to guarantee the everyday needs and guarding of the prisoners. And they warn that failure to address this problem will encourage even greater radicalisation.
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Wives of ISIS members: Coronavirus is for infidels and non-Muslims

According to several wives of ISIS militants who currently live in al-Hol camp in Kurdish controlled north-east Syria, coronavirus is reserved for "infidels" and "non-Muslims."

“Muslims won’t die of this virus, only infidels will. God has sent his army. This is one of God's soldiers,” says one woman.

This view is consistent with the so-called Islamic State’s line on the virus, which sees the pandemic as divine retribution toward “crusader nations”.

Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, an expert on the terrorist group, notes that they have urged fighters in their newsletter, Al-Naba, to use the world’s focus on the virus to their advantage

The families of ISIS militants did not allow Rudaw reporters into their tents.

They are housed in a separate section of the camp from refugees and IDPs who fled the terrorist group in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa in Syria, and parts of federal Iraq.

Al-Hol camp provides shelter to more than 67,000 refugees from around the globe.

Its 21 health facilities receive around 40 patients each every day. However, medical professionals do not have the equipment required to test suspected COVID-19 cases themselves, and consequently need to send tests to Damascus.

Thus far, there have been no confirmed cases in north-east Syria.

Camp management fears that controlling the spread of a virus like COVID-19 in a camp setting will be terribly difficult.

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While the region locks down to contain the COVID-19 outbreak and the US consolidates its reduced military presence in the Middle East, the Islamic State (ISIS) has not pared down its activities. In fact, the group’s resurgence seems to be growing

After two Peshmerga fighters were killed and another wounded in an ISIS attack on Kolajo on Tuesday night, the militants launched another strike on Thursday, killing two Hashd al-Shaabi fighters near al-Sadeq (Haliwa) military airport in Tuz Khurmatu.

On the same evening, ISIS conducted a large scale attack on al-Sokhna town in Syria’s eastern province of Homs, killing 27 regime soldiers and loyalist militiamen, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).

“At least 22 members of the Islamic State group were killed” in retaliatory Russian airstrikes, the report says.

In its weekly al-Nabaa newspaper, published on messaging app Telegram on Thursday, ISIS claimed responsibility for 29 separate attacks in Iraq between April 1 and April 8. It also claimed 11 attacks in Syria over the same period.

ISIS was declared territorially defeated in Iraq in December 2017 and in Syria in March 2019. However, a low intensity insurgency has continued in both countries, exploiting security vacuums between rival forces.

Iraq’s disputed territories, which Erbil and Baghdad have long contested, and some western Sunni-majority regions including Anbar, have seen a recent uptick in insurgent activities, including bombings, ambushes, kidnappings, extortion, and arson.

Concerns have been raised in recent weeks that extremist groups might exploit the chaos created by the coronavirus pandemic to advance on the battlefield. This certainly appears to be the case in West Africa’s Sahel region, where ISIS-affiliated groups have launched catastrophic attacks in recent weeks.

This is despite United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calling for a global ceasefire to allow cooperation in the fight against COVID-19.

The recent wave of ISIS attacks also comes as the US and the international anti-ISIS coalition draw down and consolidate their missions in Iraq and Syria.

Coalition forces have been in Iraq since 2014 to train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces in the fight against ISIS. Over the border, they have also been partnered with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

Now the coalition believes ISIS has been degraded to such a point that foreign troops are able to reduce their commitments and hand over control to local forces.

The move also comes in response to the outbreak of coronavirus. Some coalition troops are being redeployed to their home countries to help with the domestic response to the outbreak.

France, Britain, the Czech Republic, and Canada have all fully or partially withdrawn troops.

In the space of a month, the coalition has handed over control of six military bases to the Iraq Security Forces (ISF), including Abu Ghraib near Baghdad, K1 in Kirkuk, al-Qaim near the Syrian border, Qayyarah in western Iraq, al-Sqoor in Mosul, and Al-Taqaddum in Anbar.

The reduced military supervision could present ISIS remnants in Iraq and Syria with a unique opportunity to launch more frequent attacks and expand their influence, particularly in Iraq’s disputed territories.

Jabar Yawar, chief of staff at the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, says the ISIS resurgence has been underway for some time.

“According to our data, the group increased its activities in 2018 and 2019, especially in Kurdistani areas outside of the Kurdistan Region administration, including Diyala, Hamrin, Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, and Qarachogh. In Qarachogh, they even established bases,” Yawar told Rudaw on Thursday.

A recent Pentagon Inspector General report, covering October 1 to December 31, said ISIS remnants are still active, capable of conducting small-scale attacks, and enjoy freedom of movement in Iraq’s isolated mountains and deserts.

“ISIS maintained both freedom of movement and the ability to hide and transport fighters and materiel in rural areas where [the Iraqi Security Forces] presence is less intense and ISIS can more easily avoid detection and capture,” the Lead Inspector General report said.

“ISIS retains enough manpower and planning capabilities to conduct regular small-scale attacks or ambushes against the ISF, the PMF [Hashd al-Shaabi), or local civilians accused of aiding the ISF or informing on ISIS activities.”

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PostAuthor: Anthea » Wed Apr 22, 2020 10:09 pm

Iraqi army: 82 civilians killed

Eighty-two Iraqi civilians were killed and 120 injured between January 1 and April 15 as a result of fighting between the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) and Islamic State (ISIS) militants, the ministry of defense acknowledged on Tuesday evening.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic and coalition withdrawal from several bases across the country, the ISF has conducted 1,060 operations and killed 135 targets since January 1, defense ministry spokesman Yehia Rasool said in a series of tweets.

According to these latest figures, operations took place in every Iraqi province aside from those in the Kurdistan Region over the first 15 weeks of 2020, to clear bomb factories, arms caches, and secret tunnels used by the jihadists, Rasool said.

At least 88 ISF soldiers were killed and 174 wounded during these operations.

In a phone call with Rudaw English on Wednesday, Rasool claimed that all civilian deaths in the time period were a result of ISIS attacks and explosive devices planted by the group.

“The civilians have been martyred due to ISIS attacks, explosive devices, and other terrorist attacks by the group,” Rasool said. “No civilians died due to Iraqi security forces military operations.”

Rudaw English reached out to Airwars, an independent war monitor, for comment on the nature of civilian deaths in Iraq during this time period, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI), which no longer publishes civilian casualty data on its website, has also been approached for comment.

Although the government announced the territorial defeat of ISIS in Iraq in December 2017, remnants of the group have returned to their earlier insurgency tactics, ambushing security forces, kidnapping and executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable rural populations.

ISIS seized vast swathes of Syria and northern Iraq in the summer of 2014, including Mosul and other large Sunni-majority cities.

Baghdad called on the international community to form a coalition to help fight ISIS in Iraq. At the height of its power between 2014 and 2016, ISIS controlled an area roughly the size of Great Britain, spread across both Iraq and Syria.

ISIS insurgent activities have increased in recent weeks, with militants killing five soldiers and wounding three more in three separate incidents in Diyala and Kirkuk provinces.

ISIS militants also killed an Iraqi federal police officer at a checkpoint in Hawija, western Kirkuk on April 12, according to defense officials.

Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari vowed last week to “ramp up” the government’s anti-ISIS efforts, and stop the group’s attacks amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Jabar Yawar, chief of staff at the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs, warned earlier in April that the ISIS resurgence has been underway for some time.

“According to our data, the group increased its activities in 2018 and 2019, especially in Kurdistani areas outside of the Kurdistan Region administration, including Diyala, Hamrin, Kirkuk, Tuz Khurmatu, and Qarachogh. In Qarachogh, they even established bases,” Yawar told Rudaw.

The latest Pentagon Inspector General report, covering October 1 to December 31, said ISIS remnants of the group are still active, capable of conducting small-scale attacks.

“ISIS maintained both freedom of movement and the ability to hide and transport fighters and materiel in rural areas where [the Iraqi Security Forces] presence is less intense and ISIS can more easily avoid detection and capture,” the Lead Inspector General report said.

“ISIS retains enough manpower and planning capabilities to conduct regular small-scale attacks or ambushes against the ISF, the PMF, or local civilians accused of aiding the ISF or informing on ISIS activities,” it added.

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