This is popular front, a podcast focused on the niche details of modern warfare and

underreported conflict with me Jake Hanrahan.

Today we're speaking to analyst and writer Hassan Hassan.

He's going to be speaking about the re-emergence of ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

Now you might have seen for a while every time there's some

kind of ISIS clash somewhere in the deserts of Syria or around Mosul or

wherever in Iraq. People say right, right, ISIS are back.

That wasn't exactly the case, but now things are definitely looking like they are gaining steam

again.

They never went away despite what Trump said, despite what various world leaders are saying,

sure they lost their territory, they lost Raka, Mosul and then, you know, finished off in

Bogus, but actually a lot of ISIS fighters got away.

So yeah, Hassan Hassan is going to be speaking to us about that.

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So there's a lot of people have been saying for a while now like ISIS are on their way back you know and it didn't really look like that was the case for a while with it was kind of sporadic

attacks but now you know you've just

written this report and it looks like actually they they are kind of trying to

make a comeback maybe you can talk to us about that what are they up to?

Yeah I think that's a good way of putting it. They are on their

way back. They're not there yet. Which is kind of a subtle mix between recovery,

insurgency, resurgence of the ISIS insurgency in the past few months.

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