The strong return of the Islamic State

What is the most significant threat to America and the new Syria? And what are the causes of this unexpected rise? And why now?

The major surprise for the American administration and its intelligence agencies in the Middle East, particularly “New Syria”, has been the significant and calculated return of the Islamic State (ISIS) to military activities, reviving its sleeper cells and adopting a new strategy to expand and resume operations once more.

The cell’s success in targeting a military patrol belonging to the New Syrian Army in the heart of Idlib city, the former capital of the Liberation Front and the stronghold of the temporary Syrian president Ahmed al-Shara, comes a week after a Daesh member stormed an American meeting in the city of Palmyra to devise a joint strategy with the new Syrian security agencies to combat terrorism, resulting in the death of three Americans, one of whom was a military translator. This proves that ISIS has emerged from its shell and resumed its twin attacks against American forces in Syria and the area, as well as the governmental authority in Damascus.

Second, the United States sponsors its security and military apparatus.

The Tadmur attack, carried out by one of the Syrian security forces affiliated with the Sharaa authority, storming the mentioned meeting place, killing three Americans and a Syrian security officer, injuring many others, and transporting them, particularly the Americans, by helicopter to the American military base in Al-Tanf near the Iraqi-Jordanian border, contains several messages:

The first message is that the organisation remains active and capable of targeting any location, whether within or outside of Syria.

The second point: The international coalition formed in 2014 to confront ISIS, led by the US administration, has failed in its aim to utterly eliminate it. All that has happened is that the organisation has abandoned the enormous territories it controls in Iraq (Mosul) and Syria (Raqqa, its capital), and its cadres have fled underground.

The third: After improving its strategy, tools, and operational tactics, as well as renewing its human resources, the organisation now has great skills in infiltrating the new Syrian regime’s security and military forces (because the philosophy is the same). The perpetrator of the Palmyra operation and the killing of American soldiers may only be the tip of the iceberg, and he is not alone; many more like him remain in the ranks of the new Syrian security forces. The infiltration appears to be extensive.

The fourth step is to go back to “media savagery” by carrying out important military actions that will grab attention in the region and worldwide, using a strategy that the organisation successfully applied during its early growth, which claims that the more it wins in battles, the better it can improve its image as a strong group capable of military attacks.

The fifth: The more the regime succeeds militarily and broadens the scope of its operations in terms of personnel, equipment, and quality, the simpler it will be to recruit new young cadres from the area and around the world.
The sixth: the restoration of the aforementioned organisation might be a significant blow to the Lebanese government and Israeli pressures to disarm “Hezbollah,” as the party and its popular base are ISIS’s main adversaries.

The state of political and security chaos, Israeli incursions in Syria, the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, the failure of the Arab official system, rampant corruption, and economic collapse all contribute to the resurgence of extremist Islamic religious organisations, the Islamic State and, possibly, Al-Qaeda, which was the original incubator of this ideology.

Palmyra was chosen for the Islamic State’s first and largest attack for many reasons, the most important being the group’s extensive urban warfare experience and control over the archaeological city, which it ruled for over a year in 2015 before being expelled by the former Syrian regime’s army.

It appears that the extremist ideology of “ISIS” has become an attraction for some young Muslims due to the state of despair they are living in, the direct American support for the Israeli genocide war in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, and Yemen, and the provision of arms deals to the Israeli army that include destruction bombs weighing up to 2000 pounds, which have succeeded in destroying 95 percent of the towers and residences in Gaza, in addition to financial aid exceeding

The extremist ideology of “ISIS” appears to have become a point of attraction for some Muslim youth due to the state of despair they are living in, the direct American support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank, and Yemen, and the provision of arms deals to the Israeli army that include destruction bombs weighing up to 2000 pounds, which successfully destroyed 95 percent of the towers and residences in Gaza. Additionally, more than $75 billion in financial aid has been disbursed thus far.

After nearly a decade of inactivity, the Islamic State (ISIS) has started to reactivate its dormant sleeper cells. In the first phase, ISIS emerged from Raqqa and the Syrian desert, and it is currently following the same path and utilising the same Syrian incubator in the second phase. If ISIS is not quickly eradicated, which is difficult and unlikely, the current conditions in the Arab region foreshadow an explosion of armed disorder as a result of the massive humiliation and degradation caused by America and Israel.

On Thursday, the incursions of Israeli tanks and bulldozers into the Syrian Quneitra province included storming homes, killing a citizen, and arresting others, while the Israeli military conducted manoeuvres on the slopes of Mount Hermon. Hermon, the new Syrian regime’s insistence on not responding, and the continuation of the Gaza massacres – all of these factors, directly or indirectly, provide a golden gift to the Islamic State and its new leadership, as well as all other similar extremist groups.

The strong return of the Islamic State