Kurdish officials say the organization has given up on the desire to build a state and focuses on planning terrorist attacks • "They are reorganizing, there is no effective government in the country"

• Peshmerga soldiers near ISIS flag at base occupied near Mosul // Photographer Reuters

Is the Islamic State organization re-expanding in Iraq? The answer to this is probably positive and very worrying. One of the heads of the two Kurdish intelligence organizations in the Kurdistan region, Lahore Talbani, conveyed the warning.

According to the Kurdish Peshmerga official, "There are many indications that the people of the Islamic State are regrouping, they are buying better equipment, vehicles, weapons and this time they are much more trained terrorists. Because of this, their experience will be more difficult to identify, they will Keida on steroids, "he explains.

"Following the failure of the Islamic State, the terrorists have learned lessons and are now not planning to establish a state but to carry out serious terror attacks throughout the country. We have been identifying them for 12 months and have now reached a new stage of their power building," Talbani warns.

One of the reasons for the reorganization of the organization is the growing tension within Iraq itself between the Sunnis and Shiites as well as between the central government in Baghdad and Iran. In addition, many areas in Iraq, such as the Kurdistan autonomous border region and Iraq itself, are under no control and are a paradise for terrorists. The senior also notes Iraq's topography in various parts of the country that helps Daash refugees reorganize. "In the Marin and Mountains, high mountain ranges with many caves in the country, it is possible to hide well and there is no effective Iraqi rule," he states.

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Major General Kyrwan Brazani's Kurdish forces are also very worried. "You see a lot of its activity in the field and I fear that what is happening today is like what happened in 2012. So the people of the Islamic State began to organize, collect taxes and were ready to go. At this rate in 2020 they will organize with a very strong intensity and with a lot of experience and get going."

Kurdish fighters near the tunnel excavated by ISIS personnel in Iraq // Photo: Reuters

According to the Kurds in Iraq, there are around 10,000 Islamic State activists today, with 4,000 of them being terrorists who move and operate today and the rest are dormant cells.

However, Brigadier General William Seeley, a US commander in the country, says Iraqi and Kurdish forces are now better trained and better confronted by Islamic State officials. He says "Today the Iraqi army is more trained and will not repeat the situation of conquering Mosul and one third of the country" he states.