Turkey has categorised the SDF as a terrorist organisation and launched attacks against its forces.Ī massive but deadly operation by ISIS sleeper cells in an SDF-run prison earlier this year raised alarm bells about the potential threat still posed by ISIS long after their reign ended. #StrongerTogether #DefeatDaesh - Coordination & Military Ops Center - SDF JanuLack of action on this by the #Int_Community towards terrorist groups operating in the area will continue to raise the threat of #Daesh on the security and see terrorist cells more active in #NES. The Al Hol camp in north-east Syria houses at least 64,000 ISIS-affiliated women and children, and is thought to have become a breeding ground for terrorist ideology. “Some women there are trying to recreate another so-called caliphate. They make sure that the conditions under ISIS live on and part of that is to police other women,” Amarnath Amarasingam, an extremism researcher at Canada's Queen's University, previously told The National. Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Damascus, in January.
APĭespite controlling the majority of the country, the Syrian government is faced with a number of problems as its Russian ally focuses on its invasion of Ukraine.Ī long way from 2013, when the Assad regime controlled only a fifth of the country, now two thirds of Syria is under government rule - 12 million of the country’s population of 17 million.Īside from fuel and food shortages and an economic crisis that has been worsened by the situation in neighbouring Lebanon and US sanctions, Syrian government territories have faced renewed attacks by Israel and ISIS in recent weeks.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has also put another nail in the coffin for Syria’s livestock sector, which relies on maize and barley imports from Russia. Russia has been sanctioned relentlessly by the US, EU and others since it invaded Ukraine on February 24, pushing up prices for livestock fodder.
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