The
town of Abu Kamal defies simple characterizations. Indeed, pace
Elizabeth
O’Bagy’s misleading map in her now infamous Wall Street
Journal op-ed, it would be wrong to think of Abu Kamal as a mere
stronghold for “extremist groups.” The reality is that there are
factions of a range of orientations in Abu Kamal, from
non-ideological (Liwa al-Mujahid Omar al-Mukhtar and Liwa Allahu
Akbar) to standard Islamist (Kata’ib Allahu Akbar) and
pan-Islamist/jihadist (Kata’ib Junud al-Haq/Jabhat al-Nusra and
Katiba Bayariq al-Sunna). This kind of arrangement can similarly be
found in a number of towns with an ISIS presence, such as Tel Abyaḍ
in Raqqa governorate, and Idlib towns like Saraqeb, Salqin and
Ma’arat an-Na’aman.
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