Attacks attract capital from investors, which ISIS desperately needs

Experts warn that ISIS will use its vast networks of followers to stage terror

As its quasi-state weakens, the terrorist group will turn to guerrilla attacks

ISIS lost 12% of its territory during the first six month of this year

ISIS terror attacks are likely to intensify as its self-proclaimed caliphate loses ground, according to security analysts.

Having lost 12% of its territory within the first six months of 2016, the terror group is now preparing for life after the caliphate it gleefully announced two years ago.

The proliferation of recent ISIS-claimed violence signal a loss of power, according to US analysts cited by the Washington Post.

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ISIS once had a thriving caliphate, but recent territorial losses in Syria and Iraq are forcing the extremists to rethink their strategy

Terror spiked during the holy month of Ramadan this year, when ISIS-linked attacks claimed 5,200 lives

During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which ended last week, ISIS-linked violence spiked.

ISIS claimed responsibility for bombings at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, the execution of 20 hostages in Bangladesh, and the deadliest suicide bombing in Baghdad’s recent history.

The recent increase in attacks signals vulnerability, experts told the Post.

As ISIS dissolves from a functional semi-state with significant territory, the terror organisation will place greater emphasis on its vast network of followers, which spans at least three continents.

‘Where al-Qaeda was hierarchical and somewhat controlled, these guys are not. They have all the energy and unpredictability of a populist movement,’ Michael Hayden, a retired Air Force general who headed the CIA from 2006 to 2009, told the Washington Post.

We do have, every day, people reaching out and telling us they want to come to the caliphate. But we tell them to stay in their countries and rather wait to do something there.

While its significant territorial losses in Iraq and Syria will inhibit ISIS’ ability to train terrorists, raise money, and espouse their lifestyle, the decentralised nature of the organisation means that ISIS can still organise attacks across the world.

An anonymous ISIS operative recently said in an interview: ‘While we see our core structure in Iraq and Syria under attack, we have been able to expand and have shifted some of our command, media and wealth structure to different countries.’

ISIS recently admit their 'minister for war' Omar the Chechen is dead, which marked another major loss for the extremist group

ISIS fighters saw their once-exorbitant salaries cut in half in January, and some lost access to TV and internet

‘We do have, every day, people reaching out and telling us they want to come to the caliphate.’

‘But we tell them to stay in their countries and rather wait to do something there.’

However, the once-opulent caliphate is showing signs of weakness: last month, one ISIS province shut down internet cafes and another ordered the destruction of TVs and satellite dishes, according to communiques issued in Syria.

A leaked ISIS document from January revealed that the group cut its fighters’ salaries in half.

According to Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI), ISIS is exacerbating terrorism to attract further investment.