Daesh is re-structuring into a criminal organization - Takfiri Terrorism is the ocidental continuation of International anti-Islamist proccess

According to UN, the former ISIS, now called Daesh is re-organizing into a global treatening continuous criminal networking, convering into shadow scenarios. Changing the structure of a governmental organization with military capability.

Also, the group is stronger in Iraq. As in Syria, the situation of the war is constant, the group has more power in Iraquian soil, for Russia and alies, also, USA and alied groups, break the group in Syrian territory, the gaps of military operations gave oportunity to Daesh gain territory in Iraq, also the vacuum of power that after Sadam Hussein's death, USA left behind.

Daesh re-ordered in provinces actualy with a positive number of warriors in Syria, to enforce the emerging power of the net in Iraq.

The core of Daesh grows from the necessary strenght to face the international forces in coordinated attacks.

UN classified the group as a global treatening, even with the military downs in Iraq and Syria, the capability of coordinate criminal actions and recruitment for Lone Wolves and supporters of their cause, is very well managed.

Paralel to Daesh, Al-Qaeda is considered still the bigger menace in Middle East, with more projection than Daesh, and continuates to act as paramilitary group in support of local terrorist attacks. With the constant defeats of Al-Qaeda, the constant fear is about how this defeats can increase the numbers of fighters in Daesh, according to the contracting of foreigners and mercenaries to promote local warfare and contract of ex Al-Qaeda combatants to the Daesh group.

The term Takfiri terrorism is for Islamists that consider other Islamists traitors, accusing them of apostasy.

The denial of the basic tenets of Islam is counted and this is used to groups of Ahamiyya, Daesh, to consider the sectarian groups, like the fighting current of the Sunis against Kurds and Shia, Shia that promotes political adverse against other groups, against teh Salafis, Wahabis, and nowadays is very seem in the case of Daesh terroristic actions and assaults against the muslim population, specialy in Syria.

With the growing number of the Wahhabist and Salafist groups, some scholars classifies them for spliting the orthodox method established takfir through the process of Sharia, and regret them to the right to declare any Muslim of apostate as well non-Muslim.

In general the consideration of the term, to many groups is a continuum politic of American-Zionist politic to promote a clash in Islam, dividing the groups and sub-groups and raise ethnic conflict and religious war between them, dividing the nations and weakening the government in promote the Islam Unity.

The claim of Daesh is to promote the crisis in Europe, promoted by Obama's government and support to ISIS's actions, and nowadays the Europe divide with globalist-philantropists promoting the migration and multiculturalism in Europe to raise a Islamic program, divided Europe and made the ultra-right wing promte actions of nationalism and xenophobia, dividing more the countries.

In Iraq the vaccuum of power that USA left in country, after the take down of Sadam Hussein, raised the extremist group with a State configuration, that could raise into a nation, capable to have it's own economy and army, for international actions and direct clash between nation's armies. The program of USA with Obama administration was to put down the European nations and spawn a vaccuum proccess in Middle East that they could operate in. The clash of many Europeans nations economies made USA capable to usa the scenario for their own interest.

To the Arab nations, the group Daesh/former ISIS is considered a group formed by NATO and other alied from USA to promote a political clash between Islamist nations.

That's why Iraq has a better strategical position than Syria of Daesh. Syria became the most complex scenario in Middle East with the first time Russia's presence into a war in Middle East agaisnt the USA. The proxy that USA and Russia explores through the terrain of Syria goes more and more comples as the actors are dividing their actions like Turkey and Iran promoting geopolitical presence through country.

Also the mercenary operations counts on Sadat force of Turkey, NATO forces. Turan as a psywar of ChVK Wagner's and the Wagner group operating in full capacity. The Malhama Tactical with the promotion of jihadist training and the rebel forces anti and pro-government, can weakens Daesh in territory.

Daesh changed the operative methoods for the a criminal group in country and with a kind of school for Lone Wolves and private actions, claiming their presence through attack, like Sri Lanka's attack in Easter, promoted by other group claimed to be alied.

With this level of actions, the Daesh is being observed through international analysts. New generation of combatants can raise in Iraq around the Syria terrorists aren't take down. The return of Iraqian combatants to Syria and foreigners raise security questions if Iraq has the capacity of clash with this armed group and worries about human's rights and humanitary protection NGOs.

Since 2014 the country has being targeted by many terrorist groups and many regions occupied by Jihadists of Daesh. Since 2017 the country celebrates a restore of the control of the Syria-Iraq borders in country.

Daesh collapses in Syria but “regime continues to play the extremist card”

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Daesh was not only an opportunity for the Syrian regime to push its rhetoric of “fighting extremism”, but it also redefined the alliances in Syria's war.

After the Syrian regime brutally responded to peaceful protesters who took to the streets in March 2011, its leader Bashar al Assad said he would “relentlessly fight terrorist groups”—referring the pro-democracy protesters.

Meanwhile, the regime released imprisoned Al Qaeda members beginning in 2011, right after the protests turned into an uprising. The released Al Qaeda militants later created the backbone of Daesh leadership, which spread to Syria in 2014 from Iraq.

“Before ISIS (Daesh) ascended to power, there were a number of Western and regional states which were determined to overthrow the Damascus regime,” Giorgio Cafiero, an expert on the Middle East and founder of Gulf State Analytics told TRT World. 

He said that the focus of numerous countries, including the US, European countries and Jordan, has changed after Daesh took control of a huge amount of territory—considering the defeat of Daesh was their primary interest in Syria instead of overthrowing the regime. 

“This development was a valuable opportunity for Assad because the rise of ISIS enabled the regime to portray itself as a bulwark against the forces of ‘radical Islam’,” he said.

The Assad regime and its ally Russia conducted air strikes in Syria, which they claimed were only aimed at Daesh or Al Qaeda-affiliated groups. Almost two years after Daesh entered Syria and declared Raqqa as its de-facto capital, the US said that more than 90 percent of the Russian air strikes in support of the Assad regime had targeted the moderate Syrian opposition. Right groups and observers also reported that regime fighter jets often targeted civilian areas.

With the backing of Russian air strikes and Iranian support on the ground, most of the opposition-held areas, including Aleppo, were captured by the Syrian regime by the end of 2017.

In late 2017, Daesh was defeated from all the urban areas in the country and was pushed to two small desert areas in the east. But the existence of former Al Qaeda affiliate HTS continues in Idlib, in the northwest of Syria.

And the Syrian regime intensified its attacks on eastern Ghouta in the suburbs of Damascus, one of the last remaining opposition-held areas in Syria, as Damascus continued to say it was fighting Al Qaeda affiliates.

“There is much dispute about the extent to which the regime is actually fighting such extremists in eastern Ghouta,” said Cafiero.

“Nonetheless, the regime will still continue to play this card as it seeks to convince Western governments that if the regime were to ever fall, which doesn't seem likely, the ‘extremists’ would be the first ones to usurp power.”

Shifting alliances?

For Cafiero, Daesh’s entrance in Syria not only affected the conflict between the opposition and the regime, but also shaped the relationship between international players and how they approach the conflict locally. 

Russia and Iran have supported the Syrian regime since the beginning of the conflict, but Russia started its military intervention in 2015, after Daesh grew in Syria. 

“Russia, since day one of the Syrian crisis, has been committed to protecting the Damascus regime. And Russia saw American support for Syrian rebels as a great threat to Moscow's interests,” said Cafiero.

Turkey and the US, on the other hand, have been supporting the Free Syrian Army (FSA), an umbrella organisation for armed opposition groups in the country against the Assad regime. But it changed when Daesh became another actor in the conflict. 

Starting in September 2014, Washington put the fight against Daesh as its priority, and began co-operating with the YPG as its forces on the ground in the fight, instead of the FSA. The YPG is the PKK’s Syrian affiliate, which is a designated terrorist organisation by Turkey, the US and the EU. The move angered Turkey and led to tensions between the US and Turkey.

“Now that ISIS has lost its strongholds in Iraq and Syria, the question of America's relationship with the YPG is getting increasingly controversial and sensitive,” said Cafiero. 

In an effort to address Turkey’s concerns to protect its borders, Washington promised Ankara to keep the group to the east of the Euphrates River. But the US-backed force, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is dominated by the YPG, crossed the river to the west and took control of Manbij, and has still not withdrawn, despite the US’ promise to Turkey.

“Turkey is now more upset with the American leadership for continuing to back the YPG in a post-ISIS era, because Ankara sees this foreign policy as an existential threat to the territorial integrity of the Turkish nation-state.”

Daesh's presence in Syria since the beginning of 2014 changed the focus of war in the country and created tensions between global and regional powers, and there are still many unsolved issues between those countries.