7/8/2023 0 Comments Isoul isis![]() It has also been accused of selling arms and intelligence to ISIL, as part of its campaign against the People's Protection Units (YPG). The Turkish government has been criticised for allowing ISIL to use Turkish territory for logistics and channelling recruits. According to the report, "43 percent of all Islamic State fighting in Syria was directed against President Assad's forces, 17 against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the remaining 40 percent involved fighting rival Sunni opposition groups". In April 2017 report by UK information provider IHS Markit stated that the Islamic State fought Syrian government forces more than any other opponent between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2017. The president of the Syrian National Coalition, Khaled Koja, accused Assad of acting "as an air force for ", with the Defence Minister of the SNC Salim Idris stating that approximately 180 Syrian government officers were serving in ISIL and coordinating the group's attacks with the Syrian Army. In 2015, the United States embassy in Syria stated that the Syrian government was "making air-strikes in support" of an ISIL advance on Syrian opposition positions north of Aleppo. The National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces has stated that the Syrian government has operatives inside ISIL, as has the leadership of Ahrar ash-Sham. Īn unpublished IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Center database analysis showed that only 6% of Syrian government forces attacks were targeted at ISIL from January to November 2014, while in the same period only 13% of all ISIL attacks targeted government forces. In 2017, US and European officials said that oil sales to the Syrian government were ISIL's largest source of revenue. Furthermore, ISIL allowed grain to pass from Rojava to government-controlled areas at the cost of a 25% levy. ![]() A report in 2015 suggested that ISIL kept gas flowing to Assad regime-controlled power stations. The facility supplied electricity to government-held areas, while sources claim government-run power plants supplied Al-Nusra held areas. ![]() and jointly ran a gas plant in Tabqah using intermediates. The Syrian government has reportedly paid for the protection of oil pipelines and importation of oil from Al-Nusra after Al-Nusra’s capture of two major oil pipelines in Banias and Latakia. Many Islamist prisoners were released from Syrian prisons during the Arab Spring protests in 2011, which many authors have suggested a indicated strategic attempt to strengthen jihadist factions over other rebels, and eventually contributed to forging ISIL. During the ongoing Syrian Civil War, President Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian government have been accused by activists of collusion with ISIL.
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