France warning against ISIS resurgence in Syria

The French Ministry of Defense has warned against the resurgence of the Islamic State group (ISIS) in Syria, for the first time after it lost its stronghold in the country, namely the eastern village of Baghuz.
French
Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly said that her country believes that
ISIS is still present.
She
added in an interview with a number of French media outlets that the terrorist
organization is returning in Iraq and Syria.
ISIS
has already reappeared in Syria, especially in the Syrian Desert, amid reports
by the United Nations that around 10,000 ISIS terrorists are still active in
Syria.
ISIS
declared recently that it had launched 593 attacks in the past period. The
attacks, it said, left 1,300 people dead and injured.
In
Iraq, counterterrorism forces keep hunting down ISIS terrorists.
The
forces succeeded recently in arresting an ISIS terrorist in the western
province of Anbar.
The
Iraqi intelligence also succeeded in arresting a senior ISIS operative. The
operative also gave the authorities information about the places where ISIS
remnants are hiding their weapons.
The
intelligence also arrested two ISIS elements in Fallujah, a city of Anbar
province.
This
brings the number of ISIS terrorists arrested by Iraqi authorities in the past
few days to five.
The
media department of the Iraqi Interior Ministry also declared the killing of
seven ISIS terrorists and the destruction of an ISIS tunnel in Kirkuk.