Islamic State Report on Operations against the SDF in Syria

Although the Islamic State has repeatedly railed in its propaganda against the new central Syrian government under President Ahmad al-Sharaa (Abu Muhammad al-Jowlani), seeing it (unsurprisingly) as an 'apostate' entity that should be fought and overthrown, the group has yet to claim any military operations against it. This may be because planned attacks have been disrupted and/or the group does not wish to compromise the security of its cells operating within the central government-held territory.

In contrast, the group continues to claim attacks against the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) based in the north and east of Syria, where the group still remains autonomous, in control of strategic resources and responsible for day-to-day management, despite the March agreement with the central government seeking to merge the SDF into the new Syrian state.

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