The jihadist group Islamic State (IS) He urged his fighters on Saturday to challenge the new Syrian government, during his first audio message issued in the last two years.
According to his spokesperson, Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansarithe members of the group in Syria must fight against the new regime, and make that fight their priority
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The last intervention of the IS was in January 2024, in response to the war started by Israel in the Gaza Strip after the attack on October 7, 2023. In a recording titled “And kill them wherever you find them”urged his supporters to attack the Jewish community around the world.
In 2014, IS seized vast territories in Syria and Iraq, He committed massacres and enslaved women and girls for sexual purposes.
Backed by a cUS-led coalitionIraq declared the group defeated in 2017.
In Syria, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)dominated by the Kurds, defeated IS two years later.
However, the organization maintains csleeping cells in desert areas and carries out sporadic attacks.
The fall of Bashar al-Assad
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad In December 2024, the new Islamist president of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaawho directed Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former Syrian branch of Al-Qaedahas sought to distance itself from its jihadist past.
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Last year, Damascus joined the international coalition against IS.
In recent weeks, the US military has moved more than 5,700 alleged detainees of the group from Syria to Iraq to ensure its surveillance.
The prisons where they were previously held were controlled by the FDS, which withdrew from some of them. under pressure from the Syrian armywhich raised concerns about possible security flaws.
The authorities also evacuated the camp Al-Where this week to another place in the northern syriaafter the escape of thousands of relatives of foreign jihadists.
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