Report: ISIS launched 100+ attacks in Iraq in August

The American "Fox News" network said that ISIS remnants claimed 100 attacks in Iraq throughout the month of August alone, according to an assessment issued by the Terrorism Research and Analysis Association (TRAC) Thursday, which represents an increase of 25% from the month of July.

(TRAC) confirmed that the attacks were focused primarily in areas previously considered liberated from the presence of extremist groups.

The increase in attacks indicates a worrying trend, which is the steady re-emergence of ISIS through a group of sleeper cells, which is a cause for regional and global concern, despite its regional defeat in Iraq more than three years ago.

In neighboring Syria, where the city of Raqqa, which was the center of the alleged "caliphate" of ISIS until its official defeat was announced in March of last year, groups of ISIS loyalists continue to launch deadly attacks.

Last Sunday, the Syrian Democratic Forces announced the killing of four of its fighters at the hands of ISIS mercenaries near the Dashisha area near the Iraqi border.

A day after the attack, ISIS claimed responsibility for another attack in Al-Tuwaimin, near the Iraqi border.

The "organization" is still spreading in the sprawling Syrian Badia, which extends from the eastern countryside of Homs to the Iraqi borders, where it launches attacks against government forces.

Iraq had declared "victory" over the extremist "organization" at the end of 2017, after bloody battles for more than three years.

However, ISIS remnants are still able to launch attacks on security forces in remote areas in the north and west of the country, and experts and military leaders have always warned that defeating the organization and stripping it of its areas of control does not mean its final elimination.

J.O