Despite the use of social media to mobilise, foreign nationals, there has been pushbacks from states in allowing volunteers to return to their home country.
2019: ‘[Home Affairs] Minister may seek to keep someone who has been fighting in the Islamic State group out of the country’
Decreasing Power of ISIS
In 2021, ISIS averaged 84 attacks and 148 casualties per month in Iraq, while it claimed an average of 38 attacks and 64 casualties per month in 2022, according to al Naba.
