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ISIS cell attacks in Syria Badia intensify almost two years after its defeat in Syria and Iraq Are they coordinated attacks by the organization? Or are they random operations for lost remains? Is there anyone looking to revive ISIS?
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ISIS remnants in Syria depend on the use of light weapons and charges
A second attack was carried out by ISIS cells on Syria’s peaceful Athriya Highway in less than a week, following an ambush targeting a bus of Syrian soldiers in Kabajab, south of Deir Ezzor, indicating an escalation. Notable in the organization’s movement some 20 months after Washington announced its removal in Al-Baghouz.
The remnants of ISIS are concentrated on a large map and are spread over parts of southern Deir Ezzor and Raqqa, the Hama desert and the Homs desert, this area may exceed, according to estimates, more than 4,000 square kilometers, and the remnants of the organization are present in the form of cells and are not concentrated.
The presence in this area was lived by the terrorists of the organization almost 6 years ago, and they lived with this desert, knowing the roads, hiding places and directions in a complex terrain that extends to the Al-Tanf area, that is, parallel to the base that the Americans have established in Al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi border, and can benefit from protection in that area, considering that the Syrian army cannot reach it.
The organization received severe blows that broke its spine, during the operations of the Syrian army and its allies in the Syrian Badia, which are the most important operations to eliminate this organization, and during which it exerted great effort and abundant blood until that those areas were combed, and today the organization resurfaces in these areas after several people fled towards them. The militants fleeing the Al-Baghouz battle that ended in March 2019, and several of these militants came from areas controlled by Turkey and groups supported by Ankara, which are outside the control of the Syrian state.
The organization relies on attacks carried out by a small number of its militants in open spaces between the governorates of Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Hama and Homs, to the vicinity of Area 55 in Al-Tanf, a tactic commensurate with the loss. geography, institutions and organizational structures of ISIS in which he has worked over the years.
Military expert Haitham Hassoun says للميادين, “The objective is to test ISIS’s new method of attack through the force of small groups and to restructure its military force after its defeat two years ago,” indicating that it is “an attempt to pressure the Syrian state and the hatchery environment hitting vital roads in the desert to Aleppo, Deir and even from the Jordanian border to North. “
#Analytical | What is the nature of the targets attacking the ISIS cells in the Syrian desert?#Syria pic.twitter.com/elVHrbcRmI
– Al-Mayadeen Channel (@AlMayadeenNews) January 4, 2021
The objectives of this organization are mainly focused on the Syrian army checkpoints, convoys and buses that pass through large areas and link the presence of the army in some rural areas from Deir Ezzor and Raqqa, to Al-Sukhnah and Hama in the center. from Syria, and what is new now is the focus also on the fuel tanks that carry Syrian fuel in the shadow. Economic blockade of the United States to the country. Or as happened yesterday (Saturday) on the archaeological road and the attack on a civilian bus and the death of several civilians, including a 9-year-old girl.
In terms of tactics, they rely on a small number of militants in the face of an attempted direct confrontation with the Syrian army, then flee and hide in the vast areas of Badia, since they know all the entrances, exits and caves in that area. In addition to the use of light weapons and charges, and a small medium weapon. And don’t use heavy weapons.
It is a war of attrition that also attempts to disrupt the movements of military, civilian convoys and economic activity in light of the still open fronts in Idlib, the Turkish threats of aggression against Ain Issa and a US economic blockade in Damascus that is no less fierce than conventional warfare.
A deliberate drain on Washington’s targets complements economic, diplomatic, and even military pressure on al-Tanf or the oil fields east of the Euphrates in the Syrian state to disrupt all efforts to emerge from the effects of the war.
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