ISIS has created a new elite cell of jihadis to plan and carry out attacks on the west, a terror expert has claimed. Though its so-called caliphate was reduced to rubble by US-backed Kurdish forces at the end of 2017, the evil group has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years.
Last year, the UN warned that ISIS was beginning to reassert itself in Iraq and Syria as it drew on vast cash reserves. Its new leader Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli al-Salbi has also overseen a mass recruitment drive, with the terrorists feared to have 7,000-10,000 fighters at their disposal.David Otto, counter-terrorism and organised crime expert at Global Risk International, told the Daily Star that ISIS had “exploited” the coronavirus pandemic to recruit.
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