While the international media focuses on Israel’s new activities in Iraq where the IAF reportedly again bombed a base staffed by Iranians and members of the al-Hashd al-Shaabi militias and prevented the delivery of new ballistic missiles to the Shiite-dominated organization, someone else is trying to plunge the battered country into a new abyss.
Iraqi intelligence and the United Nations have reported that ISIS is working on a comeback led by the Jihadist organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The Iraqi intelligence group Falcons Cell reported on Monday that al-Baghdadi is overseeing the transformation of ISIS into a guerrilla force and is adjusting the modus operandi of the terror group.
Falcons Cell chief Abu Ali al-Basr revealed that al-Baghdadi is suffering “from paralysis in his limbs due to shrapnel wounds in the spine. “
“This injury was sustained during an attack led by the Falcons Cell and the air force, in a south-eastern Hajin area in Deir ez-Zor before its liberation in 2018,” according to al-Basr
The ISIS leader is hiding in Iraq and not Syria according to the UN, as was reported by al-Basr.
“The epicenter for the terror group's budding renaissance is Iraq, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and most of the ISIL leadership are now based,” a new UN report said.
The UN essentially confirmed what American intelligence officials and the Institute for the Study of War have said for some time now.
An ISIS re-emergence "could be faster and even more devastating" ISW wrote in a recent report.
The ISW report revealed that ISIS is categorizing all of its global operations as part of a campaign called “Soldiers Harvest”.READ MORE
