French services fear a revival of the Islamic State organization in Syria

Muslim faithful, during the first Friday prayers held since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad, at the Great Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, December 13, 2024. ABDULMONAM EASSA FOR “THE WORLD”

Intelligence services hate uncertainty, even if good news causes it. Bashar Al-Assad’s regime of terror in Syria has barely fallen when they are already worried about seeing this territory once again become a jihadist sanctuary and make this known in summary notes sent, in particular, to the Quai d’Orsay, and of which The World was able to have knowledge.

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If, according to the General Directorate of External Security (DGSE) and the General Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI), no risk of « projection » of Islamist commandos on European soil is to be feared in the immediate future, this regional upheaval could allow the Islamic State (IS) organization to reconstitute its troops and its means, as well as competing jihadist groups to affirm.

As of December 5, the services report, the Islamic State in Syria (IS-S) said, in a press release, all the bad things it thought of Ahmed Al-Charaa (known by his nom de guerre Abou Mohammed Al -Joulani), and his armed Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al-Cham (HTC, Levant Liberation Organization), which ended the reign of Bashar Al-Assad. Calling HTC’s victory a “unholy revolution incapable of establishing sharia”, IS recalls that it considers Ahmed Al-Charaa, the founder of the Al-Nusra Front – a former Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda having broken with the parent company and renounced global jihad – as an enemy who must fear for his life.

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