ISIS weapons depot located by the Iraqi army north of Baghdad.
Rockets found in the weapons depot (Facebook page of Iraqi Army Spokesman Yahya Rasoul, December 20, 2020)
Three ISIS operatives detained by the Iraqi Counterterrorism Apparatus (Facebook page of the Iraqi Counterterrorism Unit, December 19, 2020)
Main events of the past week
Routine attacks continued in ISIS’s various provinces in Syria, Iraq and throughout Africa and Asia. Noteworthy examples:
Syria: routine activity continued in the area of Deir al-Zor and Al-Mayadeen and in the desert region west of the Euphrates Valley. Prominent modus operandi of ISIS’s attacks included targeted killings and the activation of IEDs against vehicles and soldiers of the SDF and the Syrian army.
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The Covid-19 pandemic raised new fears for counter-terrorism experts: a virus just as devastating could be deliberately unleashed on the world.
There is a scenario in which they use a war-game drill as a basis for emergency planning.
In the exercise, money is paid to rogue scientists to use a level three biosecurity laboratory to develop a synthetically manipulated pathogen that is highly contaminating but low in toxicity, similar to Covid-19.
Using the equivalent of a suicide bomber, the terrorists inject the pathogen into three victims around the Easter holidays. One goes to a refugee camp where it is passed on to aid workers who later fly to their various home countries.