ISIS coming back to life in Iraq, Syria as state sponsors maintain financing

Rubeir al-Fares

Iraq’s Federal Police succeeded in arresting a terrorist affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a village in the northern province of Kirkuk.

Upon searching the ISIS terrorist, policemen found a memory stick in his possession that contains valuable information about other ISIS terrorists, senior police officer Gen. Mohamed Jawad Jaafar said.

The terrorist was then referred to concerned investigation agencies, he added.

An Iraqi army checkpoint was, meanwhile, attacked in southern Mosul by ISIS terrorists.

Those carrying the attack fired mortar shells and opened their gunfire on troops at the checkpoint from a distance and then fled to an unknown place, a police source said.

He added that the attack did not cause any casualties among the army troops.

This was the second attack to take place on army checkpoints in southern Mosul. ISIS attacked another checkpoint in the area earlier. Fortunately enough, the attack did not cause any casualties among checkpoint troops.

ISIS sleeper cells continue to stage attacks in different parts of Iraq, even after the organization was defeated in the Arab state and most of its top commanders killed.

The same sleeper cells are apparently regrouping now, including in Syria where ISIS was defeated as well.

There are battles between ISIS terrorists, on one hand, and the Iraqi and Syrian armies, on the other, almost on a daily basis now.

However, this is raising questions on how ISIS is rising up from its defeat yet again. Some analysts believe that ISIS continues to receive financing and logistical support from some countries.

ISIS cannot regroup or come back to life without this support, security experts said.

Meanwhile, some American reports estimate the number of terrorists operating within ISIS now at 15,000.