One very striking finding is that a single district in Syria, Deir ez-Zor province or ISIS’s al-Khair sector of al-Sham wilaya, accounts for an exceptionally high proportion of these claimed operations, suggesting that the contest between ISIS and its enemies is particularly intense in that highly volatile sector where the Syrian Democratic Forces' intelligence workers are the main target of ISIS counter-espionage operations.īased on “Soldier Harvest” analytics data gathered from the ISIS weekly newsletter al-Nabaa in 2020, ISIS claimed 3,033 violent operations that left 9,555 people dead and wounded globally. While the group’s self-reported attacks should not necessarily be taken at face value, the emphasis on these operations demonstrates a clear attempt to send a message towards those seeking to perform espionage activities on the group. The way in which these efforts amplify its messaging can be seen through a statistical analysis of ISIS operations as published by the main ISIS weekly newsletter, al-Nabaa, in 2020. ISIS media allocates considerable effort towards magnifying its ongoing fight against anti-ISIS intelligence workers-intelligence officers and secret agents or spies.
ISIS publications reveal the geographic location and concentration of its counter-espionage operations.
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