The terror organisation has lost most of the territory it once controlled but its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has urged his fighters to reestablish a ‘caliphate’ in the region. According to the Institute for the Study of War, al-Baghdadi insisted that his ISIS warriors “free its loyal fighters” in a terrifying threat to the West.
Thousands of fighters for the terror cult remain captured in displacement camps but according to reports they have begun to organise while being held in captivity.
In the recording, the terror leader called on his followers to free jihadis and their brides from the camps run by “crusaders”.
He added: “The prisons, the prisons, soldiers of the caliphate!
“Do your utmost to rescue your brothers and sisters and break down the walls that imprison them.”
The bold warning comes as US President Donald Trump insisted that he could release jihadi prisoners from the displacement camps.
On Friday, Trump demanded that EU countries do more or that the US will “release them at the border”.
He told reporter at the White House: “They mostly come out of Europe, and we’ve done them a tremendous favour.
“So they have to make their decision.
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“You could envision all sorts of other scenarios playing out.
“We don’t want to assume that the relative stability that we see today is an enduring feature.”
The news of the potential threat of a resurgent ISIS comes as Shamima Begum has again requested to be allowed to return to the UK.
Recently, ISIS recruit Begum lost her UK citizenship and has said that she needs therapy to deal with the grief of losing three children in the space of five months.
Begum is now situated in a Syrian camp where she informed the Daily Mail that her mental state was not in a good way.
She added: “Mentally I am in a really bad way. I need therapy to deal with my grief.
“It is so hard. I have lost all my children.
“I have no real friends. I have lost all the friends who came with me.
“Now I do not have anyone.
“I would like to be at home. There is more safety in a British prison, more education and access to family.”