The battle against the Islamic State (ISIS) is far from over. The group is expanding operations in Africa and has dispersed throughout the Middle East; it has since begun trying to regroup there. Other Islamic State jihadis and supporters are now living throughout the West, thanks to reckless immigration policies. The battle against the Islamic State is far from over and the continued ignoring of this group, particularly in the West, aids in its expansion.
Drone technology is being used by the Syrian Defence Force (SDF) and US-backed coalition forces as they continue fighting against the Islamic State to try to prevent it from regrouping in Syria. Particularly problematic is the fact that the SDF is made up mostly of Kurds, and Turkey is attacking them. Turkey also has a history of supporting Islamic State jihadis. According to the US Treasury Department, “Throughout 2019 and 2020, Khanfurah’s Turkey-based money service business transferred funds to ISIS members throughout Syria.”
The heroic efforts made by the Syrian Defence Forces against the Islamic State’s expansion are now being systematically undermined by the U.S.’s alleged ally Turkey.
“ISIS terrorist caught hiding in a field by a drone as bird’s-eye footage shows capture,” by Richard Ashmore, Express, December 29, 2022:
Newly released combat footage from Syria shows the moment a fleeing suspected ISIS member puts his hands in the air after being chased down by a drone. Video released by the Syrian Defence Force (SDF) shows a man running from a property in North East Syria to hide in a field as security forces conducted raids on ISIS cells.
But the suspect finds no hiding place in the wheat field and is suddenly illuminated by a bright spotlight from a drone hovering above. Moments later the man can be seen putting his hands up in the air.
Further footage in the video shows members of the US-backed coalition and SDF forces surrounding a compound.
Heavily armed troops can be seen rounding up a ground of suspected ISIS cell members before being pictured with the arrested prisoners against a wall.
An SDF statement said the operation, codenamed al-Jazeera Thunderbolt, was launched alongside the International Coalition to eliminate ISIS cells carrying out attacks on prison camps holding terrorists and their families.
The SDF said: “On December 29, at 1:00am, our forces, with the participation of the Internal Security Forces of NE Syria and the International Coalition against ISIS, launched Operation al-Jazeera Thunderbolt to eliminate ISIS terrorist cells and clear the terrorist hotbeds from areas that were the source of the recent terrorist attacks against the al-Hol camp, al-Hasaka and south of Qamishli and that could be source for possible attacks, specifically the al-Hol area and Tal Hamis.”
The SDF statement continued that operations against ISIS had been ramped up against a backdrop of “continuous Turkish threats and attacks on the regions of NE Syria”.
It said: “ISIS has escalated its terrorist attacks against the region’s population, especially communities that challenge ISIS’ extremist ideology, including our societies governed by tribal measures.
“Therefore, over the past period in which our forces were preoccupied with confronting the Turkish occupation attacks, ISIS terrorist cells resorted to propagating their brutality again by increasing their criminal activity, practicing takfir (the excommunication of one Muslim from the religion by another), and publishing posters and leaflets threatening all those participating in removing the ISIS effects and restoring life to their communities…..
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Okay, in Syria, who exactly is ‘US-backed coalition forces’? We’re out of there, the ‘Free Syrian Army’ is now a Turkish militia, the Kurds are on their own and I’m not sure that the Assad regime’s control exists east of the Euphrates. So who’s this great ‘coalition’ that we are backing?
Keith O says
This “combat footage” was I suspect a training exercise.
No shooting, no RPG fire, all the footage looked choreographed.
Lets face it, ISIS nut jobs are not going to surrender without a firefight!