More than six years after declaring victory over the terrorist organization, Iraqi intelligence reports now indicate that thousands of ISIS fighters are emerging unscathed, under the protection of US forces in two regions of western Iraq.

At its height, ISIS consisted of more than 35,000 fighters in Iraq – 25,000 of these were killed, while more than 10,000 simply “disappeared.”

The Iraqi Intelligence Agency said:

Iinfiltrating that border is not an easy task, because of Iraqi Border Guards and surveillance. It therefore became necessary for the terror group to identify intermediaries capable of breaking through or bypassing these fortifications to transport its fighters across borders.

The US plays a vital role in enabling these border violations:

US Chinook helicopters transporting fighters from eastern Syria to the Anbar desert in western Iraq and Jebel Hamreen, in the country's east.

Houran Valley is the largest of its kind in Iraq, extending 369 kilometers from the Iraqi-Saudi border to the Euphrates River near the city of Haditha in Anbar Governorate. Its topography is marked by soaring cliffs ranging in height between 150 to 200 meters.

US-backed terrorist groups use Houran Valley as a safe haven because of its desert terrain, and distance from congested urban areas.

Iraqi MP Hassan Salem has called for launching a military operation to clear Houran Valley of terrorist fighters. He confirmed to The Cradle that “there are thousands of ISIS members in the valley receiving training in private camps, under American protection.”

America has trained and financed proxy militias in West Asia and Latin America, often utilizing these organizations to overthrow governments in target countries. A well known case is the arming and financing the Afghan Mujahideen, from which the Taliban and Al Qaeda emerged.

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ISIS' founding and second rank leaders were at Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. The roster of high-value terrorists captured, then set free by the Americans is quite extraordinary:

Camp Bucca, brought together extremist elements between 2003-2009, then let the now well-networked extremists go free. The religious officials of ISIS even say they used their time at the prison to obtain vows from prisoners to join the terrorist group after their release.

US intelligence also protected ISIS by allowing their convoys to move between cities that were under its control. The US also blocked death sentences issued by Iraqi courts against detained ISIS members, and establishing safe havens for the organization’s members.

Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned against US support of ISIS in Jan 2024. Activity amongst extremists in Lebanon, communications between them and their counterparts in Iraq and Syria, and suspicious money transfer activities among them have all been reported.

Lebanese Army Intelligence also recently arrested a group of Lebanese and Syrians who were preparing to carry out security operations.

Importantly, this surge in terror activities comes at a time when the Hezbollah is engaged in a security and military battle with "Israel", which may expand at any moment into open war.

It is also notable that renewed ISIS activity is concentrated in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran; that is, in countries that support the Palestinian resistance politically, militarily, and logistically.

On 4 January, 2024 American proxy ISIS bombed the Iranian city of Kerman that targeted memorial processions on the anniversary of the assassination of Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani by US forces.

The dual explosions killed around 90 people and injured dozens, in an unprecedented attack targeting the biggest US-"Israeli" adversary in West Asia – just one day after Tel Aviv killed top Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut.

Before that, on 5 October 2023, ISIS drone-attacked an officers graduation ceremony at the Military College in the Syrian city of Homs, killing about 100 people.

These attacks, and others in Iraq, Syria, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Africa, indicate that fresh blood, money, and weapons are being pumped into the ISIS organization’s arteries again.

US forces are also preventing legitimate Iraqi forces from approaching Houran Valley by attacking any security forces approaching the area. According to one high-ranking PMU Officer:

“This happened when American aircraft targeted units of the PMU that were attacking ISIS in the region,” Iraqi intelligence reports confirmed the presence of dozens of ISIS members in the valley, where they receive training and equipment from America.

It should be noted that US forces are deployed in Iraq under the umbrella of the International Coalition to Combat ISIS. 🤡

Four years after the Iraqi first voted to expel foreign forces, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani weighed in on the “destabilizing” impact of US troops and demanded a “quick and orderly” exit of those combat units.

US NO PLANS TO WITHDRAW Washington not only countered by saying it has “no plans” to withdraw from Iraq, but announced on 14 January that it would be sending an additional 1,500 troops to Iraq and Syria illegally, and without the consent of either nation.

The extraordinary synergies between the Americans and the world's foremost terror group can no longer be ignored: their targets are one and the same.