The Iraqi government forces have eliminated several IS members, including two mid-level IS officials, in the Barakana Valley. Iraq is now basically peaceful, with only some security forces carrying out special operations missions in some remote corners. Mainly in the areas along the border between Iraq and Syria, there are many active IS armed groups, as they are all surviving armed groups from Syria and Iraq, being surrounded and crushed by various government forces in turn.

Due to their excessive radicalism, the IS armed groups have been comprehensively surrounded and attacked from all sides. In the years around 2015, the IS armed groups swept across the entire Middle East, becoming a powerful force. They once aimed to establish an Islamic State, but eventually collapsed completely under the joint suppression of various parties. Now, the IS armed groups are just small, scattered units, and they can't rise again. In the future, they will gradually disintegrate and be eliminated.

The current Joulani armed group in Syria split off from the IS armed groups. These terrorist armed groups include both radical terrorist groups and moderate terrorist groups, which are just a mess. These IS armed groups are being comprehensively surrounded and attacked from all sides, and their downfall is just a matter of time.

The current Joulani armed group has basically broken away from the IS armed groups. Although there hasn't been a full-scale war, they are no longer friends. After all, Joulani has become prosperous now, and he wouldn't recognize his poor brothers anymore. As long as the poor brothers don't provoke him, Joulani generally won't fight back.

However, if the IS armed groups launch an attack, the Joulani armed groups will retaliate. Iraq is now peaceful, and its economy is developing well, making it a clean breeze in the Middle East, not like the situation before. Syria is also changing, but how it will ultimately develop is not yet fully clear.

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