{"id":6767,"date":"2017-01-17T02:58:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T23:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dheyaa-alwakel.com\/en\/?p=6767"},"modified":"2017-03-15T03:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T00:01:27","slug":"why-does-isis-attack-deir-al-zor-how-does-it-affect-the-operation-field-on-iraq-did-the-sahara-war-start-initial-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dheyaa-alwakel.com\/en\/?p=6767","title":{"rendered":"Why does ISIS attack Deir Al-Zor? How does it affect the operation field on Iraq? Did the Sahara War start? (Initial report)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the past days, Deir Al-Zor city in Syria has been \u2013and still is \u2013 under sudden extensive attack held by ISIS after a two years siege during which ISIS seized approximately 60% of the city. And the battle is still heating between the Syrian army and ISIS up to the moment of writing these lines. So, what are the goals and reasons that drove ISIS to launch this attack at this stage?<\/p>\n

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This attack has military, financial, and psychological reasons. We summarize it in the following:<\/p>\n

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Military reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. ISIS tries to gain military benefits using the troubled military and political situation in Syria and the area.<\/li>\n
  2. ISIS aims to expand the defensive geographical depth and the critical field of the areas under its control, so as to prepare for the next battle.<\/li>\n
  3. ISIS realizes the strategic importance of Deir Al-Zor government, as it close the Iraq\u2019s borders towards the upper Mesopotamia and the northern and western Al-Anbar\u2019s desert.<\/li>\n
  4. The after Al-Mosul\u00a0 stage begun with ISIS\u2019s return to \u201cguerilla warfare\u201d strategy and returning to the desert, and that tactically require ISIS to gain control over its extensions, critical areas, and Deir Al-Zor \u2013the advanced Western Sahara\u2019s platform \u2013.<\/li>\n
  5. Dier Al-Zor city \u2013 which is besieged by ISIS from the beginning of 2015 \u2013 is considered a strategic passage for operations and reinforcements between Al-Raqqah and Al-Bukamal \u2013which is adjacent to Al-Qa’im city at the Iraq\u2019s borders \u2013.<\/li>\n
  6. ISIS seeks after obtaining weapons and ammunition by controlling the large weapons stores in Dier Al-Zor military airport.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    Financial reasons:<\/p>\n

    ISIS considers Dier Al-Zor one of the most important funding resources and calls it (the stat of goods – Wilayat Al-Khayr), as it contain oil and gas wells, agricultural regions, and a human tank. And it\u2019s determined to complete its control over it after its bankruptcy and failure of its revenue economy.<\/p>\n

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    Psychological reasons:<\/p>\n

    ISIS aims to create a field equivalent by gaining military profits \u2013 even limited ones \u2013 to make up for its loss in Al-Mosul, and to give its elements, fitters, and allays a moral and psychological motive that can reconstruct the massive damage which infected its collapsing morale body.<\/p>\n

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    The Sahara war:<\/p>\n

    The defense analysis and strategic evaluation of ISIS movements tell that it has continued moving its activity to the Sahara and return to (the stage before empowerment) and (the guerrilla warfare, fight-or-flight response, and the spreading terrorism). And that require more control over some areas and points of essential aspect, so as to control the Sahara and with it Dier Al-Zor, Tadmor, the Syrian border with Iraq, and Al-Qa’im. We can reason out ISIS\u2019s new strategy from the new terrorist attacks on the cities close to the Sahara like Al-Najaf Al-Ashruf, Karbola’ Al-Muqadsah, Samora’, Al- Shirqat, and Balad.<\/p>\n

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    And that require planning and preparation to authorize ISIS\u2019s projects and demolish its violent intentions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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