Foreign children and important persons for ISIS could be present in Idlib – Politician
Washington – North-Press Agency
Hadeel Oueiss
After a search trip that lasted four years and a half in an attempt to find his two kidnapped children by their American mother, who's affiliated with the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS), Bashir Shikdar told North-Press that he had accessed information suggesting that his two children were in Idlib, within the areas outside the control of the Syrian government. Bashir lost his two children after his wife left their house in Miami in the United States to join the Islamic State in 2015, taking her children (Yousef and Zahiya) with her.
After coordination with the U.S. authorities for years, and a period of search that lasted four years and a half with close coordination with the government agencies and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Bashir, did not reach any information confirming the presence of his children in al-Hawl camp with the families who left the areas that were controlled by ISIS, as he expected. After several trips by the father to search for his children, Joel Rayborn, the U.S. State Department special envoy for Syria’s affairs, confirmed to North-Press that the children had not been found in al-Hawl camp, despite a special operation in Syria conducted by the U.S. military in al-Hawl camp to search for the children, where Rayborn suggested that the children did not arrive at al-Hawl camp from the start.
The American political analyst Max Abrams told North-Press that finding ISIS leader in Idlib has opened the door to many questions that were not raised for many years, as the international community was calling on the Syrian government and Russia to stop their efforts to recover Idlib, despite its being the largest hometown of al-Qaeda terrorist organization in the recent years. One of the most important of these questions is how and when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had arrived in Idlib and how he managed to obtain a safe home in an area considered to be hostile to ISIS, without realistically taking into consideration that al-Qaeda's hostility towards ISIS does not mean that it shares the same moderate and global American vision of the Islamic State group, as the differences between the two organizations have different causes and roots.
Abrams believes that the two organizations that emerged from the same faces and ideas in Iraq and Syria will not refrain from joint coordination and mutual benefits in the face of a huge threat against their existence, which was represented by the U.S., Russian and Syrian campaigns on the dwellings of both organizations, and therefore there is a high possibility that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and other important figures of ISIS, and through high-level lines of communication between the two organizations had begun to move into Idlib and to take Idlib as a safe alternative, as a plan which has been prepared for it for many months, even before the fall of the last stronghold of ISIS.