What is ISIS doing during the COVID-19 pandemic?

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Terrorist groups all over the world are watching for an opening due to the pandemic. For instance Chad is wavering in support of anti-terror operations in the Sahel, withdrawing it troops from Nigeria border, Canada is pulling some troops from anti-ISIS training in Iraq; French troops in Iraq handed over a post and are leaving, Spanish troops also left as have UK and Czech troops. ISIS is taking advantage, launching more attacks north of Baghdad near Kirkuk, Military academy of most nations have suspended recruitment.



ISIS also seeks to leverage troubles in Syria to rile up supporters in the Al-Hawl camp and sleeper cells near Deir Ezzor.

In Libya armed groups are going wild with new attacks amid the pandemic. Turkish and Qatari backed members of the Tripoli-based government have upped their activity.

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The Digital Media Center in Iraq revealed an increase in the number of accounts belonging to the so-called “Islamic State” (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) and their supporters on social media platforms, especially Facebook.


The center said in a press release that “this return came during the past months that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic and led to a delay in the response of Facebook’s support to delete accounts.”


“The members of ISIS and those who support them took advantage of the opportunity and started creating new accounts or reactivating old accounts, and they published and promoted their terrorist operations through the platform,” they said

The Center warned users not to interact with these posts even if it was criticizing them through comments or sharing them, which leads to unintentionally free promotion.

They called on users to make “the necessary concerted efforts to counter the terrorist tide through extensive reporting of these accounts so that Facebook closes them.


The terrorist group have been inciting its followers that Corona Virus can only catch infidels, not people that pledge loyalty to the caliphate. especially from a video of an ISIS woman in an interview claim, coronavirus is just one soldier sent by Allah.

source:JPost