Prospects for a Revival of ISIS
Prospects for a Revival of ISIS

Author(s): Arkadiusz Legieć
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Security and defense, Military policy, Radical sociology , Geopolitics, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Terrorist group; Islamic State; ISIS; Syria and Iraq; region destabilization; international anti-terrorist coalition; revival of ISIS;
Summary/Abstract: The terrorist group calling itself Islamic State (ISIS), after losing most of the territory it had overrun, has reformulated its strategy, basing it now on asymmetrical terrorist and insurgent operations. ISIS’s priority in Syria and Iraq is to use the destabilisation within these countries to free fighters and sympathisers from prisons and use them to create organised cells. The U.S. limiting troops in northern Syria and the escalating rivalry with Iran over Iraq is weakening the effectiveness of the international anti-terrorist coalition and facilitates the rebuilding of ISIS cells.

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