“A member of the Asayish was shot dead by a gunman of ISIS on a motorbike at the entrance of Tal Hamis town in Hasaka,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor.
The monitor also said that a member of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) was killed and two others injured in an IED attack by ISIS near Hasaka’s Shadadi town.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land in a brazen offensive in 2014, declaring a so-called “caliphate.”
While the group was declared territorially defeated in 2017 and 2019 respectively, it still continues to pose serious security risks through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions, especially across the vast expanses of the Syrian desert as well as several Iraqi provinces.
In late March, the SDF warned that ISIS still poses a threat to the world and the region as its defeat “requires dismantling its ideological breeding ground.”
“ISIS is still trying to recruit new terrorist elements, attempting to radicalize them into its ranks,” said the SDF, calling on the international community to “collaborate effectively” with its forces.
