United Nations: ISIS has used drones significantly in the past year
Vladimir Voronkov, the UN’s top counter-terrorism official, told the UN Security Council on Tuesday local time that despite the loss of territory and casualties among its leadership, ISIS remains a threat to international peace and security.
This UN official said: The group has also significantly increased the use of drones, including in northern Iraq. ISIS has managed to do this by relying on a largely decentralized internal structure.
He added: This terrorist group is active not only in Iraq and Syria, but also in Afghanistan, Somalia and Lake Chad.
According to the latest UN report, about 10,000 ISIS terrorists operate along the border between Iraq and Syria, and the leadership of this terrorist group still has 25 to 50 million dollars in assets.
According to IRNA, with the defeat of the terrorist group “Daesh” as the military arm of the United States in Syria in December 2016, the American forces directly replaced them and started extracting and stealing Syrian oil and resources in place of Daesh.
The areas occupied by American forces and militias supported by Washington known as “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF) in al-Hasakah and other northern regions of Syria have always witnessed the protests of Syrian citizens against the presence of terrorist actions by the occupiers and militias against the residents of these areas.
The Syrian government has repeatedly emphasized that these militias and Americans in the east and northeast of Syria have no other purpose than to loot the country’s oil and their presence is illegal.
Iraqi security forces continue to search, clear, pursue and arrest the remnants of terrorists throughout the country to ensure that ISIS and its fugitive elements do not re-emerge.
In December 2017, after about 3.5 years of fighting and fighting with ISIS, which had occupied about a third of the country, Iraq announced the liberation of all its territories from the clutches of this terrorist group.
Remaining elements of ISIS are still active in areas of the capital Baghdad, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Kirkuk, Nineveh and Anbar.