According to him, the militants of the so-called moderate opposition joined the new organization. Now they are trying to capture Idlib. Kolobov said that in an effort to take control of the territory of this province, extremists from Jebhat al-Nusra struck at the Ahrar al-Sham group (an opposition organization that is banned in Russia), after which, in order to avoid complete destruction, On the side of terrorists. The general colonel believes that "thus, the leaders of" Djebhat an-Nusra "are trying at this stage to prevent the creation of a zone of de-escalation in this part of Syria and thereby frustrate the process of peaceful settlement of the conflict".

But this organization, Kolobov notes, is even more radical than the IG (banned organization in the Russian Federation - ed.. ), Its goals are more specific - it is the change of the regime of Bashar Assad and the establishment of a Sharia state in Syria, and not the creation of a mythical Islamic caliphate from Morocco to Malaysia.

Experts and earlier expressed the opinion that after the main forces of the "Islamic state" will be routed in Syria, the terrorists will not surrender. Moreover, a new association of terrorists may prove even more dangerous.

"Now the IG as a powerful armed formation with a corresponding hierarchy of management is defeated, so the US is likely to close this project. But this does not mean that they will renounce terror as a way to achieve their goals. IG is likely to be divided, a powerful global network terrorist organization will emerge that will not conduct separate explosions, but operations in those countries whose destabilization benefits the United States, including Russia, Central Asia, Europe, and t. ", The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, the president of the international center for geopolitical analysis, the doctor of historical sciences, colonel-general Leonid Ivashov.

In addition, the speech is rather not about the final closure of the IG project, but about its serious reformatting, as a result of which it will remain a global network terrorist structure. In this sense, perhaps, the current organization will be modernized, some new directions will appear there, the expert admits.

"They will gradually retreat. They have enclaves in North Africa, for example, in Sinai and in Libya. There are powerful positions in Afghanistan, Somalia, Nigeria. Many communities in Western Europe. And unfortunately, we also have Igiliovs, "the orientalist, professor of the Moscow State Linguistic University Roman Silantev suggested in an interview with" Morning ".

According to him, there will be those who will remain and join other terrorist organizations, the same "Djebhat Fatah ash-Sham" (the former "Djebhat an-Nusra").

In addition, a new terrorist organization will be created on the basis of IGIL. Militants will take into account previous experience. Analyze what were the successes and miscalculations.

"The Islamic state seems to me an evolutionary stage of terrorists. And the step, unfortunately, is far from the last. We must seriously think about what will come to replace the IG.

A new organization may prove even more dangerous. Once Al Qaeda was the standard of terrorists, but now it faded against the background of the IG, "recalls Silantyev.

The fact that the terrorist organizations "Islamic State", "Jabhat an Nusra" and other groups began to use new tactics, at the VI Moscow Conference on International Security, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov. Speech, he said, is about the formation of a new major terrorist network of a global nature.