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/\ All true. I was shocked to read that they were unarmed. Their commanders are thinking like politicians (spit). They should be patrolling with live ammo in the magazines, mags in mag wells, a basic combat load out, and bayonets fixed (and sheathed if that is still viable). Grom is right; what ARE the rules of engagement? All this is just for the soldiers protection. Our troops are not fodder.
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/\ We'll no doubt have to wait until our troops are taken under fire and experience casualties. After that, returning fire will likely require (yes, you guessed it) 'Positive Identification' or (PID). Foto below depicts a National Guard patrol during the Chicago riots of 1968, no PID required. (Note the M1C Sniper Rifle).
#Somalia 🇸🇴: "Islamic State" (#ISIS) militants attacked #Puntland Forces and killed several officers in #Bari Region.
ISIS militants also captured an RPG-7 Launcher, #China-made 🇨🇳 Type 69-40 Anti-Tank rockets, Type 80 machine guns and Type 56-1 assault rifles. pic.twitter.com/9EBalDMvfB
[ShabelleMedia] Puntland ...a region in northeastern Somalia, centered on Garowe in the Nugaal province. Its leaders declared the territory an autonomous state in 1998. Puntland and the equally autonomous Somaliland seem to have avoided the clan rivalries and warlordism that have typified the rest of Somalia, which puts both places high on the list for Islamic subversion... security forces on Friday successfully entered the areas of Yucrin and Maraagade following a planned operation in the mountainous region of Togga Baallade, part of the Calmiskaad range in Bari region.
According to military sources, two members of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) were killed during the operation, and several holy warrior hideouts were destroyed.
The Puntland Defense Command confirmed that the offensive marks the first phase of a broader security campaign aimed at eliminating ISIS elements from the region.
Troops have now taken control of key areas including Buur Gunburi and God-gudban, where military equipment and livestock believed to belong to the fleeing Lions of Islam were recovered.
Commanders leading the operation reported that forces had seized strategic routes used by the Lions of Islam to move between hideouts, dealing a significant blow to their mobility and logistics.
Puntland Air Force jets provided aerial support, conducting reconnaissance and targeted Arclight airstrike ...KABOOM!... s on suspected holy warrior positions.
Intelligence gathered from the area suggests that ISIS fighters are now confined to a limited zone within the mountains.
A follow-up phase of the campaign is being prepared to completely dismantle the group’s presence in the region.
[Rudaw] Iraq is working to repatriate 20 Kurds who were detained in Libya, Baghdad’s acting ambassador to the north African country said on Friday.
"We have received information today from the Agency of Eradication of Illegal Migration in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... that the 20 migrants colonists from Kurdistan are now with the agency and they have entered Libya illegally," Chargé d'Affaires Ahmed al-Sahaf told Rudaw.
"We are working on preparations to return the detainees to Iraq, but we do not have an exact date yet," he added.
Last week, another group of six Kurds were returned to Iraq through the embassy.
Libya is used as a corridor for migration to Europe. Baghdad’s embassy has facilitated the repatriation of at least 60 Iraqis, according to Sahaf.
Sahaf met with Libya’s acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in July.
They "discussed the issue of illegal Iraqi immigrants colonists and ways to cooperate in this field to address their situation, ensuring respect for local laws and international agreements, and preserving the rights of Iraqi citizens," he told Iraqi state media.
"The two sides also discussed a set of joint memoranda of understanding to be signed between the two countries after completing the necessary legal and technical procedures, which will enhance bilateral cooperation during the next phase," he added.p
[IsraelTimes] Saudi authorities have announced the execution of a man on terrorism charges, despite advocates’ objections that he was convicted over offenses committed as a minor.
“The death sentence was carried out against Jalal bin Hassan bin Abdul Karim Labbad, a Saudi national, in the Eastern Province,” the state news agency SPA reported.
Labbad, it said, had “committed terrorist crimes including joining a foreign terrorist organization.”
The agency added that he was convicted for killing a judge in Qatif governorate, as well as firing and launching explosives at security forces with the intent to kill them.
Labbad was among a number of people sentenced to death for offenses committed when they were under 18 years old.
In October 2023, Amnesty International said the Saudi supreme court had issued a decision in secret to uphold the death sentence for Labbad, a member of the kingdom’s Shiite minority.
Presumably he had joined whatever local organization Iran’s agents had funded in his area.
He was sentenced on terrorism charges alongside eight others, including Abdullah al-Derazi, who was also a minor at the time, over their involvement in rare anti-government protests in 2011, according to Amnesty.
UN experts in May called for the release of Labbad and four others convicted over offences committed when they were minors.
Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most prolific practitioners of the death penalty, has carried out at least 250 executions so far this year.
The conservative country is on course to outstrip last year’s 338 executions — the most since public records first documented the cases in the early 1990s.
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Headline including "after objections from rights defenders" is a cliche. Practically ALL executions worldwide occur "after objections from rights defenders". A newsworthy item would be "No objections to today's execution"
[IsraelTimes] The manager of a leisure resort in the south of France has been arrested after refusing to allow entry to a group of Israeli youth due to his “personal beliefs,” French media reports.
French newspaper Ouest-France reports that the tour group of some 150 Israeli youth, ages 8 to 16, had made a reservation at the leisure resort well in advance, without incident.
But when they arrived at the center, located in Porté-Puymorens, in the southern Pyrénées-Orientales region, the 52-year-old manager turned them away, citing his “personal beliefs” as his reason for doing so.
The incident was reported to the police, who, according to the prosecutor’s office, detained him on suspicion of “discrimination on the basis of religion in the context of the offer or provision of goods or services.”
According to Ouest-France, the maximum sentence for this charge, if found guilty, is three years’ imprisonment.
[IsraelTimes] A family of Israeli tourists was attacked at a holiday park in the Netherlands Thursday evening, days after local anti-Israel groups posted videos online of Israeli tourists at another park and “called for action against them,” Israel’s embassy in The Hague said Friday, though local police reportedly says the victims’ nationality was not the cause for the attack.
Two victims of the attack at Center Parcs De Kempervennen, near Eindhoven, required hospitalization, and one suspect was detained, the embassy said in a Dutch-language statement, adding that “it is assumed that multiple suspects were involved.”
The embassy, whose building was defaced last week, added that this is the latest in a series of attacks on Israelis visiting the Netherlands..
Dutch media identified the hospitalized Israelis as a 37- and 41-year-old, one of whom suffered a head wound, and the detained suspect as a 15-year-old boy.
According to local newspaper Eindhovens Dagblad, the violence took place amid a paintball game between the Israeli tourists and another group, and police said the Israelis’ nationality was not the reason for the attack.
However, the outlet said “discriminatory and threatening slogans were shouted during the altercation,” and quoted a Dutch Jewish community group that was in contact with the victims as saying they were deliberately attacked because they were Israeli.
Days before the attack, several Dutch activists and groups posted videos of Israeli tourists at a different Center Parcs resort, and called on their followers to “take action” against “citizens of the Zionist Entity.”
תיירים ישראלים הותקפו אתמול בהולנד; פרו פלסטינים פרסמו קודם לכן סרטון עם תיעודים של ישראלים שבו נכתב: "ניתן לציונים להסתובב ברחוב עם הילדים שלנו? נשלח מסר ברור - הם לא רצויים"@DovGilHar@RamEliBrandtspic.twitter.com/AvQwtKqE7K
The 30-year-old Palestinian, a resident of the nearby village of al-Mughayyir, had allegedly fired at the Israelis — without hitting any — before engaging in a physical confrontation, during which one Israeli man was lightly hurt.
He was nabbed yesterday, several hours after the shooting, according to a military official.
During an initial interrogation by the Shin Bet, the suspect provided “findings that tied him to the attack,” the joint Shin Bet, IDF and police statement says.
The Israeli forces found a handgun suspected to have been used in the attack, the statement adds.
The military says a Palestinian gunman opened fire on Israeli civilians near the northern West Bank settlement of Adei Ad this morning.
According to the IDF, “a physical confrontation developed” between the assailant and civilians in the area, during which one Israeli man was lightly injured and taken to a hospital.
“IDF troops are now encircling the village of al-Mughayyir and other villages and conducting a manhunt for the terrorist,” the military says.
The organization says that in the attack this morning, a gunman from the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir shot a number of times at an Israeli shepherd at the outpost of Gal Yosef.
The shooter then fought with the Israeli man, who was lightly wounded in his head in that scuffle. He has been brought to Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, the organization says.
Magen David Adom paramedic Shaul Malka says that first responders found the man, in his 20s, fully conscious. The man told them he sustained an injury to his head.
Medics provided him with first aid on site.
“The incident could have ended differently,” Malka says.
A police spokesman tells The Times of Israel that the IDF is managing the situation as it develops, “as with any operational incident in Judea and Samaria,” the biblical name for the West Bank.
Police in the West Bank District, alongside the Shin Bet, are set to open an investigation later on, but have not yet announced one at this point.
[IsraelTimes] IDF chief says army ‘expanding activity in Gaza’; Hamas calls for open borders for aid after UN famine report; PMO calls famine declaration ‘outright lie’ and ‘modern blood libel’
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Friday vowed that Israel would destroy Gaza City unless the Hamas terror group releases the hostages and lays down its weapons.
The comments came hours after a global hunger monitor declared for the first time that famine had struck northern Gaza, a charge Israel swiftly denied, and as mediating countries made a final push to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal before Israel launches its planned assault.
On the ground, Gaza’s Hamas-run civil defense agency said Israeli fire killed at least 46 people on Friday, more than half of them in Gaza City. Hamas figures cannot be verified and do not distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Umm Mohammed Nasr, a 42-year-old mother of four from Gaza City, said that “the bombing hasn’t stopped since this morning… but we have no idea where to go.”
Thousands of Palestinians in Gaza City have already left their homes as Israeli forces have escalated strikes on the Sabra and Tuffah neighborhoods. Some families have left for shelters along the coast, while others have moved to central and southern parts of the enclave, according to residents there.
HAMAS DEMANDS GAZA BORDER CROSSINGS OPEN
Also on Friday, Hamas called for an immediate end to the war in Gaza and lifting of Israeli-imposed restrictions on the flow of aid into the Strip after the United Nations Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system officially declared a famine in parts of the territory earlier in the day.
In a statement published online, the terror group called for “immediate action by the UN and the Security Council to stop the war and lift the siege” and demands that border crossings into Gaza be opened “without restrictions to allow the urgent and continuous entry of food, medicine, water and fuel.”
According to the IPC report, an estimated 514,000 people — or nearly a quarter of Gaza’s population — are experiencing famine, and that number is expected to rise to 641,000 by the end of September.
Those are the ones who are merely chubby rather than morbidly obese.
According to the hunger monitor, Israel’s total blockade on aid from early March to mid-May — which came after the collapse of a ceasefire with Hamas — was followed by “critically low volumes through July” and “coupled with the collapse of local food production,” leading to “extreme food shortages.”
Israel resumed the supply of aid in May, but the flow remained well below what it had been prior to the blockade; it was only in July, after reports of imminent famine, that Israel announced a series of actions to boost the flow of aid into Gaza, while denying there was starvation in the enclave.
Israel swiftly denied the report, saying that the IPC relies on Hamas sources and accused the system of having “twisted its own rules” in declaring a famine.
PMO: IPC REPORT IS ‘MODERN BLOOD LIBEL’
In a Friday statement, the Prime Minister’s Office called the IPC famine declaration an “outright lie” and “modern blood libel.”
“Israel does not have a policy of starvation. Israel has a policy of preventing starvation,” the PMO said.
The statement said the report by the IPC report ignores Israel’s humanitarian efforts and fails to mention a drop in the prices of oil, sugar, salt, flour, yeast and chickpeas in Gaza that the PMO attributes to the entry of humanitarian supplies into the Strip. The source of the information on the prices is unclear.
The three-story glass and marble mall? Grocery stores? Souks? So many possibilities, and all post on the internet.
Citing data from the Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Israel has facilitated the entry of millions of tons of aid into Gaza since war there was triggered by the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, the PMO said.
Worst genocide ever.
The statement also said the controversial US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as well as NGOs facilitated by Israel, have served millions of warm meals to Gazans.
On the other hand, the PMO cited UN data as saying that in July, “of 1,012 aid trucks collected, only 10 reached warehouses; the rest were looted before distribution.” The PMO also accused the UN of having refused to deliver “hundreds of pallets of food” from the Kerem Shalom Crossing.
The photos show food rotting on the sun because the UN-linked NGOs refused to work with the IDF to get them delivered.
The PMO did concede that there had been “temporary shortages” of aid in Gaza “which Israel overcame with airdrops, maritime deliveries, safe transport routes and GHF distribution points manned by American companies,” but blamed the shortages on “Hamas’s systematic theft.”
[IsraelTimes] Over 220 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip yesterday through the Kerem Shalom and Zikim crossings, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities (COGAT) says.
According to COGAT, over 370 trucks carrying aid were also collected by the United Nations and other international organizations from the Gaza side of the crossings yesterday to be distributed.
“The contents of hundreds of trucks are still awaiting collection on the Gazan side of the crossings,” COGAT says.
Another 155 pallets of aid — about four trucks’ worth — were airdropped by Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Singapore, and Indonesia in Gaza yesterday, according to the IDF. Each pallet has several hundred kilograms of food.
Similar amounts of aid deliveries have been reported daily for approximately the past few weeks.
The UN has said 600 trucks of aid need to be distributed each day in order to properly feed the Strip’s roughly two million people amid the war.
The UN forgets to take into account the 80% of deliveries that Hamas has been stealing for years. When the hijacking is prevented, raw deliveries can be much less to deliver the 50% more than RDA the Gazans are accustomed to during wartime.
COGAT also says that “tankers of UN fuel entered for the operation of essential humanitarian systems” yesterday, and that it coordinated the entry and exit of humanitarian aid workers rotating in and out of Gaza.
[IsraelTimes] IDF downs Houthi drone over southern Israel after several failed attempts; missile fired at center apparently disintegrates mid air, fragments hit communities
Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels fired a drone and a ballistic missile at Israel on Friday, the military said. The drone was downed after several failed interceptions, while the missile apparently broke up in mid-air during its descent.
There were no injuries reported in either incident, and the missile fragments caused minor damage.
The drone set off sirens in several communities near the borders with the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip and Egypt. The military said it made several attempts to shoot it down before successfully intercepting it.
Footage showed the drone exploding in the air over southern Israel, while a fighter jet swooped past.
Several hours later, the Houthis fired a missile that set off warning sirens across much of central Israel as many sat down for the Friday evening Shabbat meal. The IDF confirmed that the missile likely broke up in the air during its descent.
The Israeli Air Force launched several interceptor missiles to shoot down the fragments, the military said. There were reports that fragments landed in several locations in central Israel. The IDF says it was investigating.
The Magen David Adom rescue service said there were no reports of injuries.
The Houthis took responsibility for carrying out both the ballistic missile and drone attacks. In a statement, the Iran-backed terror group claimed to have successfully hit Ben Gurion Airport with the ballistic missile. The Houthis also claimed to have launched two drones at Israel, targeting "Israeli enemy targets" in the Tel Aviv area and in Ashkelon.
They say that kind of thing a lot, though Tel Aviv and the airport ae just fine.
While the IDF shot down the first drone in the south, the second likely fell short before reaching the country, as many Houthi drones have in recent months.
The incidents were the latest attempts by the Houthis to attack Israel. Since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas ..a regional Iranian catspaw,... in the Gaza Strip, the Houthis in Yemen have launched 71 ballistic missiles and at least 23 drones at Israel. Several of the missiles have fallen short.
Based on tweets like the one below and the photos at the link, which focus on the tablescapes, I suspect as many as a few dozen were involved altogether across the country.
[IsraelTimes] Protesters calling for a hostage deal blocked multiple highways and rallied outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Jerusalem residence on Friday evening, as the Hostages and Missing Families Forum announced another day of nationwide hostage protests for Tuesday.
In Tel Aviv, protesters blocked traffic in both directions on the Ayalon highway, near the Hashalom interchange. Footage on social media showed the demonstrators unfurling banners reading “Stop until they’re all back” and setting up a table for a Shabbat meal.
Protesters also set up a mock Shabbat table and blocked traffic on Route 6, near the Elyakin Interchange in northern Israel.
שלושים איש החליטו עכשיו לחסום את כביש שש באזור מחלף אליקים, "למען החטופים". שוב נהגים אקראיים סופגים בריונות לא לגיטימית. אסור למשטרת ישראל לאפשר את זה pic.twitter.com/2npzksxiXP
Protesters also gathered outside the Prime Minister’s Residence in Jerusalem, where they set up another Shabbat table.
As the protests were taking place, the Hostages Forum announced plans for a “day of mass public identification” with the captives on Tuesday, as they push for continued mass protests to pressure the government to make a deal with Hamas to free the captives. Protests will take place across the country, with a central rally set to take place at Hostages Square at 8 p.m. following a march from the nearby Savidor train station, the Forum said.
Earlier this week, the Forum announced a day of nationwide protests planned for this coming Sunday, to follow the mass demonstrations that took place last Sunday, but later changed the format of the planned rallies, favoring smaller events across the country instead of one major protest in Tel Aviv. The mass protest in Tel Aviv will instead be held on Tuesday.
#Israel / #Egypt 🇮🇱🇪🇬: #IDF seized a drone smuggling weapons from #Egypt 🇪🇬.#Sudan-origin 🇸🇩 MIC "Terab" rifles and #Yemen-origin 🇾🇪 shortened G3A4 rifle were captured.
Seemingly weapons of Sudanese Civil War rapidly flowing to other countries and finding new destinations. pic.twitter.com/sVMcOLj5ck
Troops located the drone after it crossed the border, which was found to be ferrying six rifles and ten handguns, the military says, adding that the contraband and drone were handed over to the police.
In the past year, there have been frequent attempts to bring weapons and drugs over the Egypt border using drones. There have also been attempts to smuggle similar contraband from Israel into Gaza using drones.
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah weapon depot in southern Lebanon’s Deir Kifa was targeted in an Israeli strike a short while ago, the IDF says. The military says the site was a violation of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
The strike comes several hours after the Israel Defense Forces said it killed a Hezbollah operative in a drone strike on Ayta ash-Shab.
[IsraelTimes] A Hezbollah operative was killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon’s Ayta ash-Shab earlier today, the IDF says.
According to the military, the operative was involved in efforts to restore Hezbollah infrastructure in the area.
Since a November 2024 ceasefire, the IDF says it has killed over 230 Hezbollah operatives in strikes in Lebanon, accusing the operatives of having violated the terms of the truce
[IsraelTimes] A member of Syria’s internal security forces was killed in a suicide attack by Islamic State at a checkpoint in the city of Mayadin in the Deir Ezzor area, which borders Iraq, Syrian state media reports.
According to SANA, the attack was carried out by at least two assailants, one of whom detonated himself while the other was killed by troops.
The attack comes two days after a US-led coalition captured a senior Islamic State commander in northwest Syria, near the Turkish border, according to state media and a war monitor.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday that they dismantled a "dangerous" Islamic State (ISIS) cell in Raqqah during a military operation.
“Following sustained surveillance and intelligence gathering on the cell’s movements and activities, our forces raided the terrorist hideout and successfully captured four dangerous terrorists,” the SDF said in a statement.
The Islamic State, which was territorially defeated in 2019, has recently sought to regain ground, taking advantage of instability in Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
According to the statement the captured “terrorists confessed to carrying out several terrorist attacks, including terrorist attacks on the Internal Security Forces in Raqqa city and its surrounding countryside,” which had resulted in the killing of several individuals
In their confessions, they admitted they had carried out hit-and-run operations against the SDF.
This operation follows a recent surge in ISIS attacks and ambushes targeting SDF forces.
The SDF added that the busted ISIS cell had planned further attacks on their forces.
The capture of the ISIS group comes a day after the US military confirmed their forces killed a senior ISIS member in northwest Syria’s Idlib province earlier this week, originally reported by Syrian media.
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Firm identification for this gentleman, whom they were uncertain of on the day.
[Rudaw] The United States military on Friday confirmed their forces killed a senior Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) member in northwest Syria’s Idlib province earlier this week, originally reported by Syrian media.
In a statement US Central Command (CENTCOM) said it "conducted a successful raid in northern Syria on August 19, killing a senior ISIS member and key financier who planned attacks in Syria and Iraq. He had relationships throughout the ISIS network in the region, posing a direct threat to US and Coalition forces and the new Syrian Government."
Syrian state media on Wednesday identified the senior Iraqi ISIS leader as Salah Numan and reported he was killed by US-led anti-ISIS coalition forces in an airdrop raid in the town of Atmeh.
Numan was responsible for "coordinating and organizing a number of cells affiliated with the organization inside Syrian territory," state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
al-Ikhbariya said, citing an unnamed source.
Three witnesses told AFP on Wednesday that the raid took place around midnight, reporting they heard aircraft and gunfire. Numan tried to escape by jumping from a balcony but was killed when coalition forces opened fire.
"Together with our partners and allies, CENTCOM remains steadfast in our commitment of ensuring the lasting defeat of ISIS," said CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper.
The US-led coalition has carried out numerous raids against ISIS operatives in Idlib. ISIS emir Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in Atmeh in a 2022 operation conducted with Iraqi intelligence support.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land in 2014, declaring a so-called "caliphate." The group was declared territorially defeated in Syria in 2019, two years after its defeat in Iraq. Despite its military defeat, it continues to pose security risks, particularly in the vast eastern deserts of Syria.
Last month, a Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokesperson told Rudaw that an estimated 2,000 ISIS snuffies remain active in the Syrian desert.
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