Some European countries, especially Britain and France, are more insistent these days than Americans on the possibility of rebuilding ISIS in Iraq and Syria.
Media surveillance shows that the British and French media, in addition to statements attributed to senior officials from the two countries, are more insistent than the Americans themselves that the ISIS terrorist group is rebuilding its elements in Iraq. It is also reflected in the BBC in the United Kingdom, the most obvious living example of this claim.
The publication claims that the ISIS terrorist group is rebuilding its elements in the heart of Iraq in the area south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, among the underground caves, heights and hills of the region.
The publication claims that four years after the terrorist group’s defeat in the Mosul war, the terrorist group’s armed elements are gathering forces and attacking Iraqi security and military checkpoints in the area in small groups. Some local figures are assassinated and power transmission towers and oil facilities are blown up.
According to the publication, this group of ISIL is smaller compared to the period when this terrorist group occupied a part of Iraq and Syria, and is unable to face the Iraqi armed forces due to the loss of a social base in the region and that is why he has turned to nomadic life.
The British publication also expressed concern about the possibility that ISIL could rebuild itself and change the security situation in Iraq.
The British and French media, at the same time as the withdrawal of Americans troops from Afghanistan, which they claim has relatively similar security conditions to Iraq, and the occupation of a significant part of the country by the Taliban extremist group, published these horrifying reports about ISIL.
France and the claim of the re-emergence of ISIS
French Defense Minister Florence Barley said in a statement earlier this year that Paris believed ISIS was still alive and could emerge in a new form in Iraq and Syria.
On April 9, 1400, the French Ministry of Defense announced that ISIL had reappeared in Iraq and Syria, coinciding with the British announcement of British airstrikes against ISIS positions in Iraq.
The French Ministry of Defense added that the ISIS terrorist group has been defeated geographically but is still able to move.
Britain: ISIL’s teachings are rooted in the region
The British are more concerned about the risk of a return to ISIS than the French.
The British sent Elizabeth ships with a number of navies and submarines and 14 fighter jets and several helicopters to fight ISIS on May 4, 1400, in response to Katyusha attacks on a US military base in Baghdad.
The British Ministry of Defense had already bombed what it called ISIL positions in the Makhmour highlands in northern Iraq for 10 days last March.
Marshall Mike Wijston, commander of the British Air Force, said in early May: I have no doubt that the violent extremism and poisonous teachings cited by the ISIS terrorist group are still rooted in the region.
Iraq: ISIS no longer has the power to confront us
Claims that ISIS teachings are rooted in Iraq’s Sunni areas are contrary to Iraqi beliefs, and even less so to Americans.
“The Taliban still have a large social base in Afghanistan, unlike ISIL,” wrote Ahmad Abdul Sadeh, a leading pro-resistance journalist, tweeting about the comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq, which European media are trying to portray.
According to him, without this base and social acceptance, the Taliban would never have been able to return to the Afghan political scene and occupy a large part of its territory, but in Iraq, ISIL has completely lost its base and social acceptance.
The recent US Foreign Policy report on ISIS women in Syria’s Al-Hul camp is also interesting.
Following the observation of the ISIS women’s telegram group in Al-Hul camp, the publication added: They only talk about common issues such as cooking, clothing, tents, medical jewelry, and raising animals such as dogs and cats.
The summary of the Americans publication’s report is that it wants to say that ISIS women are no longer a potential threat and have completely turned away from terrorism and terrorist thoughts.
Return of British colonization to Iraq and French to Syria
Iraqi experts believe that the British and French fears about the danger of rebuilding ISIS are a kind of platform for the return of the old British and French colonization to Iraq and Syria.
According to this belief, given the US decision to leave the region and focus on the rising power of China, London and Paris, as at the beginning of the last century, are trying to dominate the historical areas of their colonization in the region.
Earlier, some Iraqi experts, such as Samir Obaid, had explicitly stated that since the 2018 elections, the United States has largely ceded Iraq to Britain, which is why most members of Haidar al-Abadi’s cabinet were British and dual (Iraqi-British) figures.
“Iraq and France are trying to redistribute the region so that Iraq is the British quota and Syria is the French quota,” said Kazem al-Hajj, an expert on Iraqi political and security issues, in an interview with IRNA.
He stressed that the fears are not real about the dangers of ISIL because, firstly, ISIL no longer has the fighting elements as in 2014 and all the small groups are scattered, and secondly, the military power of Iraq has become more mature.
He considered the existence of different armed forces as well as Al-Hashd al-Shabi as a guaranteeing force against ISIL and emphasizes the fact that in the three-year battle with ISIL (2014-2017), the international coalition forces had the least presence in the war.
Al-Hajj pointed out that from the point of view of Iraq, and especially the resistance groups, the United States, Britain and France are both on the same side of the coin, and that ISIL is planning and justifying their occupation and plunder in the region, hence the distribution of roles is happening.
According to Al-Hajj and many Iraqi experts, Britain and France are trying to fill the future vacancy of the United States in the region so that Washington is more free to confront China.