ISIS has been very active in Syria now that the Assad regime has been toppled, to the point that members of the Assad regime have had to pay ISIS money for safety, as we read in al-Hurra:

Farhad Shami, director of the media center of the Syrian Democratic Forces, announced that the advance made by the Syrian Democratic Forces towards Deir Ezzor comes “within the framework of the campaign to combat the terrorist organization ISIS.”

He said in a special interview with Alhurra website that ISIS elements are concentrated in large numbers in the Deir Ezzor and Homs deserts, “where intensive movements of ISIS organizations have been recorded in these areas during the past period.”

Shami said that there is a great danger from ISIS in the areas of Homs and Deir Ezzor, saying, “ISIS in Syria is now out of control, especially after the withdrawal of the regime forces.”

He explained that ISIS has a large control over the roads in those areas, “so much so that they have recently imposed on the regime to pay sums of money in return for not attacking the movement of transportation on the public roads there.”

As I said two months ago, “When chaos comes back to the Middle East, the United States is going to tell Turkey, ‘Control those areas.’ And Turkey will say, ‘Gladly.'” I said this in a video in which I talked about the revival of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, and how it will lead to a US exhausted by war to give the green light to Turkey to advance further into Syria to prevent Russian influence in Syria. Turkey will gladly oblige as part of the revival of the Ottoman Empire:

In this same video I said (8:40): “Turkey already has a military presence in northern Syria … but I think that Turkey is going to expand more, and I think this is going to be a part of the major conflict that is looming between Russia and Turkey.”

As I wrote back in May of 2022: “Turkey wants to replace Assad’s regime with a proxy state … Turkey’s interests are to dominate the Middle East as part of the vision of reviving the Ottoman Empire. There is no way that such interests do not conflict with Russia’s interests. Eventually the two countries will clash.”

This is what we are currently witnessing: Turkey wants to take over Syria through its Islamist rebel proxies.