![]() He said that the same conditions that had allowed Isis to manipulate local anger and garner support persists. “They went underground to regroup and reorganise it took them less than three years to come back stronger.” “Isis now are in the same situation as al-Qaida after their defeat in 2009,” the tribal leader said. If they were left unchecked, they would soon manage to organise and regroup. ![]() One tribal leader whose men had fought against Isis in this region said that although the militants’ numbers are small at the moment, they are working to recreate the conditions that allowed them to control the area. ![]() “It’s in the centre of Iraq and connects the hills and mountains in the east, a perfect place to hide, to the deserts in the west that would lead to Syria. A senior intelligence officer stationed in the region said that this area, a triangle of land between Kirkuk in the north, Baiji in the west and Samara in the south, is very important to the group.
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