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ISIS troops flees Mosul for Raqqa
Fire Sack 101[ARA News] Mosul – Hundreds of Islamic State’s (ISIS) militants have escaped Iraq’s Nineveh Governorate through the Ba’aj road to Syria, officials and military sources reported on Tuesday. Kurdish Peshmerga commander Qassim Shesho confirmed that a large number of ISIS fighters have fled the Mosul countryside through the Ba’aj road to Syria. The Bajaj road is an unofficial route used by ISIS to move between Mosul in northern Iraq and Raqqa, the group’s capital in Syria. Another senior Kurdish official also confirmed: “Yes, there were cars going from Ba’aj to Syria. Maybe they were civilians, not Daesh [ISIS].” On Saturday, dozens of Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists arrived in the Syrian border town of Margada along with their families. The jihadists came from positions in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh Governorate, which have been evacuated. Local sources told ARA News that more than 90 ISIS members, along with their families, arrived in Margada town–near the administrative borders between Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor Governorates. Eyewitnesses reported that there were at least 25 families in the ISIS convoy. Also, several ISIS military vehicles passed through al-Qa’im crossing on the Syrian-Iraqi border. The vehicles continued on to al-Bukamal city in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor Governorate. “The vehicles crossed the border in the early morning on Saturday, carrying weapons and dozens of ISIS fighters,” local media activist Ahmed Hamwi told ARA News. In the meantime, Kurdish Peshmerga forces told ARA News that there are no plans so far to attach southern Sinjar to cut the road between Raqqa and Mosul. Reporting by: Ahmed Shiwesh & Wladimir van Wilgenburg | Source: ARA News Syrian Army Command Warns Terrorists Attempting to Flee Mosul into Syria [AlManar] The General Command of the Syrian Army and the Armed Forces said the supporters of international terrorism are trying to secure safe routes and corridors for the ISIL terrorists who are fleeing Iraq’s Mosul to cross into Syria. In a statement on Tuesday, the Command said a “malicious scheme” by the backers of international terrorism, mainly the US and Saudi Arabia, is unfolding and becoming clear after military operations were launched by the brotherly Iraqi army and its supporting forces to liberate Mosul city from the gangs of ISIL terrorist organization. The scheme, the statement explained, is to provide safe routes for the groupings of ISIL terrorists who are reeling under the Iraqi army’s strikes in Mosul-Iraq’s second largest city-to cross the border into the Syrian territory. The aim of providing such corridors, it added, is to provide protection to the terrorists on the one hand and boost the terrorist presence inside the Syrian territory on the other hand in a bid to impose a new military reality in the eastern region in the direction of Deir Ezzor, Raqqa and Palmyra. The General Command of the Army stressed in its statement that the battle of liberating Mosul and the whole territory of Iraq from terrorism is its own battle. The Command warned that it would consider any attempt at crossing into its border as “an attack on the sovereignty of the Syrian Arab Republic,” and that those who attempt to do that would be regarded as terrorists and would be dealt with all the forces and means at its disposal. Posted by: badanov 2016-10-19 |
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