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MACER Gifford watched as bloodied ISIS terrorists limped out of the bombed-out city of Raqqa and into the Syrian desert, broken and defeated. After three years of brutal street fighting against unhinged jihadists across Syria and seeing his friends killed in ambushes and car bombs, the Brit soldier had finally seen the Islamic State fall to its knees.

Image Credit: The Sun [Macer Gifford, a British volunteer fighter with the Kurds against ISIS in Syria.]

Macer, who had quit his job as a banker in London in 2014 and left his girlfriend to travel 3,000 miles to Syria to join the fight, had finally achieved his goal - the defeat of ISIS - by 2017. Or so he had thought. In the stifling deserts of Syria and Iraq, the caliphate has been festering in the background - waiting for the right moment to come back stronger and deadlier than before.

Image Credit: The Sun [Masked militants with weapons in Syria.]

Macer fears ISIS will take advantage of the security vacuum sparked by rebels toppling Bashar Assad's brutal dictatorship after 53 years. He warns that the civil war could continue for years - allowing ISIS to rise up and break free the 100,000 battle-hardened jihadists and their families languishing in Syrian camps amid the chaos.

Image Credit: The Sun [Men accused of being affiliated with ISIS sit on the floor of a Syrian prison.]

The banker-turned-fighter fears the terrorists could launch a new wave of deadly terror attacks in Britain and across the world in a matter of months if ISIS is allowed to gain force and escape the camps. Macer, not his real name, told The Sun: "If the Syria civil war continues and the Islamic State rises up, we'll see a huge burst in terror attacks around the world.

Image Credit: The Sun [Syrian Kurdish Asayish security forces inspecting tents at a refugee camp.]

"ISIS has made it clear that they will continue to fight and they will continue to kill until their long-term aims are realised. "And since they are a death cult, their aim is the complete destruction of all diversity in the world, all culture and all learning.".

Image Credit: The Sun [A Syrian Democratic Forces fighter monitoring prisoners accused of being affiliated with ISIS via surveillance screens.]

The Brit added: "The stakes here are enormous - there are 100,000 ISIS prisoners including their families still under captivity in Syria. "And if they're released, many of them - tens of thousands - could come to Britain so it's a horrifying future if we don't get this right.".

Image Credit: The Sun [A man in camouflage pants sits in a damaged room with a machine gun leaning against the wall.]

Among the 100,000 Islamic State prisoners in Syria are Brits including infamous ISIS bride Shamima Begum who fled the UK in 2015. Officials have repeatedly warned that the grim detention centres - like the infamous al-Roj and al-Hol camps - are a breeding ground for radicalisation.

Image Credit: The Sun [A British volunteer fighter with the Syriac Military Council in Raqqa, Syria, holds a rifle in a damaged building.]

And Macer said jihadists could be freed from the detention centres, which are controlled by the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in a series of different ways and wreak havoc on the world. The US State Department has already warned that the jihadists will use the void created by the fall of Assad's regime in just two weeks to reconstitute again.

Not helping matters is US President Donald Trump's unexpected cuts to foreign aid - and that meant security and administration around the two camps was withdrawn. There were reports of camp guards not showing up to work - and they only did when the US State Department quickly brought back their funding at the last minute.

Image Credit: The Sun [Syrian women and children leaving a camp in Hasakeh province.]

It's raised questions about the security of the camps and fears that an ISIS army is waiting to pounce and launch a prison escape. Macer said: "The Islamic State could release the 100,000 terrorists - including people like Shamima Begum. "That could happen if there is increased turmoil and violence in the country and the SDF is no longer able to protect the camps, which are a huge burden for them.

Image Credit: The Sun [A young girl in a pink hijab stands among women in black niqabs at the al-Hol camp.]

"The Islamic State could free them and give them arms, and that would be terrible.". But Macer also pointed to how the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) rebels, who toppled Assad's regime in a lightning assault in December, could make matters worse. He said the West has no idea what is running through the mind of Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the militant leader of HTS, which was formed out of a former al-Qaeda affiliate.

Image Credit: The Sun [Masked militant holding a knife.]

Macer warned: "If al-Jolani takes control of the camps, if this new government in Damascus performs in the future as they have done in the past, then there's a real risk that they'll let ISIS prisoners go. "And they'll talk about there being no evidence, they can't try them and they've already done their time - they'll come up with excuses for the West.".

Image Credit: The Sun [Syrian Kurdish militia firing guns in Raqqa.]

The ideology of hate and evil still exists in Syria and Iraq. It just fled to the desert, weaker but more aggressive and just as ambitious as it ever was. He claimed that the HTS and Free Syrian Army (FSA), a group which helped the rebels topple Assad, had previously helped release ISIS jihadists from camps and "allowed them to go missing".

Image Credit: The Sun [Drone footage of damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria.]

The former public schoolboy said: "If that happens to these camps, that's 100,000 battle-hardened ISIS fighters potentially being released by either the new government or some violent faction in the future.". Macer added: "So making sure that we support local people that are holding these people, make sure they have the resources to hold them, and then eventually put them on trial, spares us this huge risk that they could be released and come to Europe.".