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08-11-2020, 08:12 PM
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ISIS in Iraq
ISIS now consists of 14 wilayat, five ministries and one department (for immigration and administration of the remote wilayat). At the height of its strength in Iraq and Syria, in December 2014, ISIS had 36,000 fighters divided into three “armies:” Jaish al-Khilafa (the Caliphate Army), Jaish al-Usra (named after the last campaign ordered by Prophet Muhammad), and Jaish Dabiq (named after the town in northern Syria mentioned in reports attributed to the Prophet’s sayings). During the group’s last battles in the Euphrates River Valley, ISIS’s fighting force was reduced to only one, renamed Jaish Khalid (after the famous 7th-century Muslim commander Khalid bin al-Waleed), with around 4,000 active fighters. Today, ISIS has between 3,500 and 4,000 active fighters and 8,000 inactive ones spread across 11 regional sectors in Iraq. Of the active fighters, just more than 2,000 are concentrated in a set of “triangles of death” in different parts of the country. This new structure is a function of mobility, security operations, generation of funds, recruitment, and finding safe havens. Good luck to the Popular Mobilization Forces i guess.
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