The Syrian war and the IS resurgence in Deir Ez Zor, October 2018. Tim Tufuga

(Al Jazeera)

There is a strong resurgence of ISIS militancy in the Deir Ez Zor region in Syria, with over 60 Kurdish fighters within the Syrian Democratic Front (SDF) supported by US Special Forces having been KIA. Operation Inherent Freedom has run into a roadblock with very strong resistance by the IS Sunni fighters. The war against the IS is far from being eliminated because it is not about a particular foreign contrived Islamic State that is continuing the war in the region its an overtly Sunni Jihad against the Kurds and their allies. In this instance, Turkey and Saudi Arabia are not overtly contributing to the extermination of the IS menace, since many of the Fedayeen are Sunni mercenaries who are supported unofficially by Sunni nations. This support is primarily through turning a blind eye on the movements of IS forces in areas of influence by Sunni spheres of influence in the Rojava region and southward towards Deir Ez Zor.

In the meantime, the unofficial military material advice and support by the US military for the SDF seems to be hampered by Americas official no boots on the ground stance and the neutrality from directly supporting the Peshmerga, the YPG and the Kurds whom have been identified by a NATO ally, Turkey, as a terrorist organisation for atrocities committed in Turkey in recent years. The Americans have officially recognised this apparent lack of restraint by certain Kurdish militants in their fight for self determination, prompting the Americans and other NATO member nations to distance themselves from the Kurdish self determination cause. Needless to say, with the your enemy-is-my-enemy-makes-you-my-friend reciprocity of understanding has seen the Kurds as allies with the West in the fight against the Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) and the global Sunni Jihad. In saying that, the prolongation of the war against the IS can only be attributed to the greater foreboding sense of a global Sunni Jihad which has meant that we are most certainly are viewing a truly near and ever present danger of a wider and a pervasive religious warfare of that will become intergenerational as similar as the medieval Crusades of centuries gone and, insodoing, the vacuum left with the absence of the iron curtain from the Cold War period will be sufficiently replaced with a global Jihad between Western Abrahamic religions, mainly from the Judeo-Christian faith, and, the Islamic faith. And, with this overarching purported religious conflict, will be filled with distractions of geo-spatial political skirmishes, within regional proximity, to fully engage the seemingly ideologically vacuous pluralistic world that is our present day society.

As the present IS resurgence in the Rojava region demonstrates, the distractions of regional skirmishes have adequately occupied the attention of the West in Syria from the yet another rising spectre of the Shia Islamic Jihad which would be promulgated by the Assad Syrian forces and their allies from Iran backed by the Russians. In this more precarious situation America and their NATO allies are facing a two pronged enemy in which the IS may indeed be considered a mere irritable vermin compared to the Shia and their Russian ally.

source:

The New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/27/world/middleeast/syria-islamic-state.html 27th October, 2018

Tim Tufuga

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