| See also the Times of Israel take here. |
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
says thousands of ISIS turbans have maintained presence in Iraq and Syria despite the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...group’s defeat and a halt in the flow of foreign
The report by UN sanctions monitors revealed on Monday that the total ISIS membership in Iraq and Syria was "between 20,000 and 30,000 individuals, roughly equally distributed between the two countries."
The report also estimated that between 3,000 and 4,000 ISIS turbans were based in Libya, while some of the key operatives in the Takfiri outfit were being relocated to Afghanistan.
ISIS once controlled large swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria, but was driven out of its two strongholds ‐ djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and Raqqah ‐ last year.
ISIS "is still able to mount attacks inside Syrian territory. It does not fully control any territory in Iraq, but it remains active through sleeper cells" of agents hiding out in the desert and elsewhere, according to the report.
The sanctions monitoring team also said the flow of foreign