NEWSRAEL: Amazing! Trump loses to Biden, and in one year, ISIS returns and becomes a threat not only to Syria, but to the whole world order. Id Obama was known as a "catastrophe" for foreign affairs - for Biden, they will have to invent a whole new word - just for him.
This report comes from the news site for the well-known and respected Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
SOHR calls on the international community to find a lasting solution to the Syrian conflict and to protect Syrians from ISIS and the dangers the group poses.
Another year is about to end while ISIS presence is still strong in Syria, contrary to the International Coalition announcements of defeating the group in March 2019. ISIS’s strength is manifested in its escalating operations carried out in areas under control of the regime forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). In these areas, ISIS exploits every possible opportunity to sow chaos and carry out attacks, a clear statement that the organisation is here to stay.
On the other hand, the SDF, in cooperation with the International Coalition, have carried out counter-security operations, while regime forces have continued their routine “combing” campaigns with the support of Russia’s intensive air strikes. However, all anti-ISIS security operations have not achieved their goals yet.
In this report, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented in details ISIS activities and operations in different areas in Syrian in 2021.
Amid Russia’s escalated operations, ISIS killed 400 soldiers of regime forces and members of proxy factions.
ISIS continues its intensive attacks on different areas of the Syrian desert, a message for the regime forces and their allies that the Islamic group still has enough power to respond. Clearly, ISIS fighters are still deployed in nearly 4,000 square kilometres all along Jabal Abu Rajmin region in north-eastern Palmyra and the desert of Deir Ezzor and its western countryside, and Al-Sukhna desert and north of the administrative borders of Al-Suwaydaa province.
The areas of Aleppo-Hama-Al-Raqqah triangle, Homs and Deir Ezzor deserts, experience bombings, ambushes and attacks almost daily by ISIS that are countered by periodic security operations of regime’s forces and their proxy factions under cover of the Russian fighter jets.
In 2021, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) has documented the death of 880 people in security operations in the Syrian desert.
The fatalities include:
484 ISIS fighters, including 83 killed in clashes with regime forces, while the other, 401, were killed by Russian airstrikes.
396 of regime forces and their proxy militiamen were killed ISIS attacks, explosions and ambushes
Nearly 344 attacks in SDF-held areas killed 230 people
ISIS and its sleeper cells continued their operations in areas under the SDF in north and north-east Syria in 2021, carrying out several attacks and attempted assassinations using various methods, including shooting, using sharp tools and planting IEDs and landmines throughout SDF-held areas.
On the other hand, SDF launched periodic security campaigns, with Coalition support, targeting ISIS cells and individuals accused of “dealing with these cells”. However, such campaigns remained timid and ineffective and could not put an end to ISIS’ escalating operations in the region.
SOHR activists documented over 344 attacks in 2021 carried out by ISIS cells in SDF-held areas in Deir Ezzor, Al-Hasakah, Aleppo and Al-Raqqah, including armed attacks and explosions.
According to SOHR statistics, the number of people killed in these attacks reached 229: 93 civilians, including nine women and five children, and 136 members of SDF, Asayish Forces, Self-Defence Forces and other SDF-backed military formations.