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China warns of next jihadist wave in Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] China has warned of "terrorist organizations" including remnants of ISIS* rising again in Syria if the international community ignores the "early warning" signs.

Xie Xiaoyan, Beijing’s envoy in Syrian, said: "There is now a danger of terrorist organizations like ISIS (ISIS) being revived. The international community should pay attention."

He was meeting in Geneva with the United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
 Special Envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen.​After the so-called Arab Spring, rebels challenged the government of President Assad in 2011 and three years later ISIS, an murderous Moslem Sunni Moslem militia, overran a huge chunk of eastern Syria and northern Iraq and proclaimed a "caliphate."

Eventually ISIS was forced to retreat and in March this year it relinquished its last stronghold, Baghouz, to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF).

The focus has now turned to Idlib, which since January has been administered by the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
 alliance, led by jihadists from Syria’s former al-Qaeda affiliate.​The UN has warned President Assad and his Russian allies an assault on Idlib could trigger a humanitarian catastrophe.

Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters who fled the region around Raqqa last year are believed to have infiltrated Idlib and are preparing for a last stand against the Syrian Army.

Mr Xie said the situation in Idlib was "very complicated".

​He said: "We all know that this is the last stronghold of some of the terrorist organizations... so this is an issue that needs to be dealt with. The fight against terrorism is not finished yet."


Posted by: Fred 2019-08-22
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