Syrian Coalition Warns of ISIS Expansion in Syria if Squeezed in Iraq

Khatib Badlah, member of the political committee, denounces “the crime committed by ISIS in Syria, the latest in which 20 tribesmen were summarily executed in the town of Al Shaitat in rural Deir Ezzor. The international community has a moral obligation to intervene to end the suffering of the Syrian people, who have been subjected to the terror of the Assad regime and his allies as well as the extremist ISIS. It is strange how the international community lost no time in announcing its intention to carry out air strikes against ISIS militants in Iraq, while it continues to overlook ISIS’s crimes and violations in Syria. The international community’s double-standard approach dealing with the threat imposed by ISIS makes it look like peaceful and meek ​​ in Syria but savage and brutal in Iraq. The growing threat of ISIS in Syria has to be addressed through empowering the moderate Syrian rebels who have been relentlessly fighting ISIS and the Assad regime despite being outnumbered and outgunned.” Badlah warned that launching air strikes against ISIS in Iraq might lead to its expansion in Syria. ISIS imposes cross-border threat it seeks to establish its dictatorial theocracy which is as bad as the Assad regime.” In a similar vein, the Syrian Coalition warns of ISIS’ repeated attempts to attack the city of Al-Hasakah in northeastern Syria as part of its plans to expand and occupy more swathes of land, using terror and intimidation to impose its own of ideology which is alien to the Syrian people. They are also seeking to force non-Muslims to adopt their obscurantist and fanatic version of Islam. These attempts represent a serious threat to civil peace in the city of Al-Hasakah, home to various components of the Syrian society. ISIS’s violations in Al Hasak are an extension of the heinous crimes they committed in Al Raqqa and Deir Ezzor, the expulsion of the Syriac Assyrian Christians from the city of Mosul, the attacks on Yazidis in Sinjar area in Iraq, down to the daily violations against the Kurds in Kobanî.” (Source: Syrian Coalition)