And in the latest developments in the dossier of the confrontation with the remnants of the Islamic State, the Iraqi Joint Operations Command confirmed that the development of security and intelligence capabilities has blocked the way to terrorism.
ISIS retreats
Spokesman for the Joint Operations Command, Major General Tahsin Al-Khafaji, revealed to the Iraqi News Agency the following:
Great efforts by security forces in Nineveh, southwest of Kirkuk, Diyala, Salah al-Din and other areas cut off the path to the remnants of ISIS terrorist gangs and prevented them to commit any terrorist act. The security situation in the country is currently good and much better than before, and the security forces have high capabilities which have been enhanced by intelligence development and concerted efforts to prevent IS gangs from committing abuses. to safety. Security forces carried out searches, searches, chases, raids and pursuit of smuggling gangs, outlaws and wanted persons. The security that all governorates currently enjoy is due to the sacrifices of the security forces, and they continue to provide security.
Employment of military success
Observers believe that the relentless Iraqi security and intelligence efforts have resulted in curbing ISIS’s attempts to reorganize its remnants and sleeper cells in Iraq, noting that the Iraqi offensive initiative succeeded in dispersing the remnants of the Islamic State and to abort its terrorist plans and operations. They called to take advantage of this great momentum and these military and security successes and to place them within the framework of an overall national vision and strategy for the fight against terrorism and the drying up of its intellectual and social sources. , pursuing comprehensive development policies and tackling the crises of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy and other problems, which create a fertile environment for the resumption of climates of extremism, terrorism and crime.
The director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, Ghazi Faisal Hussein, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia:
It is clear that Iraq is winning successive great victories against terrorism, especially in areas where the remnants of ISIS and its remnants are active, such as Kirkuk, Diyala, Salah al-Din, Mounts Hamrin, Nineveh and Anbar, in addition to intelligence successes in combating trafficking in drugs, human organs, petroleum derivatives and other forms of organized crime. This means that we are faced with organized campaigns not only to confront terrorist groups, but also against organized crime, smuggling and mafias, which represents an important development on the road to security and stability in an Iraq faltering since 2003.
Drying up the sources of terrorism
However, with these successive military and security victories over the hotbeds of terrorism, serious solutions must be found at the same time to the problems of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, the spread of corruption, the spread of slums and neglected peripheries, and to tackle the effects and scars of the complex crises left by the long wars in Iraq. For example, the number of illiterates in the country is more than 11 million, and there are more than 6 million orphans and about 2 million widows. All these chronic problems naturally constitute fertile ground for the production of various and complex forms of social, psychological and behavioral deviance, which feed terrorism, extremism and crime in all its forms. Although Iraq declared the defeat of the Islamic State in the summer of 2017 after the terrorist organization had taken control for more than 3 years since 2014, over large areas in the north and west of the country in particular, the organization’s cells and its remnants are still active in many of these regions and successively carry out bloody attacks against Iraqi military and civilian centers.
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