The world is likely to experience deadly attacks by ISIS after the offensive attacks on the terrorist in Mosul

Terrorist group with explosive belts

There are predictions that the Islamic terrorist group might come out with full force to carry out deadly attacks on countries just to send a message to the world, that they are the still the group to be scared off even while the group is about to wiped out, terrorist experts have suggested.

Dr Natasha Underhill

A terrorism expert who is a lecturer from middle east at Nottingham Trent University, has claimed that ISIS will be more deadlier because currently the terrorist group is facing a defeating in Iraq city of Mosul, Dr Natasha Underhill said.

"If Mosul were to be retaken by the allied coalition, a desperate IS may increase its levels of suicide attacks and other such methods to try to show its strength, but in reality the group is already weakened and has made little real ground in the last year.

"If anything they have been pushed back to levels not seen since it rapid emergence in 2014. It may be the beginning of the end for IS as we know them," Dr Natasha Underhill added

There are almost 30,000 Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmera troops currently launching an attack on the stronghold of Mosul were ISIS has largely occupied and 8,000 of the jihadis reducing with the over powering of the 1,500 convoy of the senior commanders seem heading to Syria with their families and a victory in the city of Mosul will be a huge success for the army and bad one for the terrorist group, Dr Underhill stated.

She said: "If the campaign to retake Mosul is a success, it would not only be a massive military defeat for IS but more importantly it would be massive blow to its ideological stance. Mosul symbolizes the heart of the caliphate for the group and removing this would mark the beginning of the end for a group who is already struggling for survival.

"The group is no longer the powerhouse that it once appeared and is in fact struggling not only to gain support but to keep the support in place that it currently has."

She added: "The international community needs to be extremely careful in how it approaches this campaign, keeping in mind that this is not just a fight for territory, but also a fight for the hearts and minds of those who are the most fragile the citizens of Iraq.

"In order for this to be a success there cannot be a repeat of the debacle that followed the 2003 invasion where the US-led coalition were essentially understaffed and unplanned for the scope of instability that would emerge across Iraq.

"For IS this would almost certainly be the hardest blow and would make it almost impossible for them to continue their propaganda campaign built around their creation of the caliphate."

The offensive attack by the Iraqi and Kurdish troops is going to last for months because the stronghold of ISIS, Mosul is going to be handled with utmost care, also the terrorist group have a network of tunnels under the city and will be difficult to take on then.