A post-Assad Syria offers a golden opportunity for the Islamic State group’s jihadists, who are likely to seek to exploit the chaos to reclaim territory they once held and free fighters imprisoned in the Kurdish region of northeastern Syria. The Islamic State jihadists love uncertainty, war and broken states more than anything else. Islamic State fighters, now entrenched and organized in small cores in the eastern Syrian desert, could only emerge victorious from a failed political transition in Syria, a prospect many worry about after 13 years of civil war. “Chaos and anarchy will inevitably be a boon for the Islamic State, which bides its time, slowly but surely rebuilding its networks across the country,” warns Colin Clarke, scientific director of the Soufan Center in New York. Already on Sunday, Washington carried out “dozens of airstrikes” against “more than 75 targets” […]
Source: News Beast
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