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ISIS leader arrested in Deir ez-Zor: SDF
[Rudaw] An Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) leader was arrested in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor by internal security forces (Asayish), the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Monday. The Asayish arrested an ISIS leader "known to plan liquidations and finance terror," read a tweet from the SDF. The SDF added that weapons and equipment were also seized in the operation. ISIS seized control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014. The last of its so-called caliphate was defeated in Syria in 2019, but the group remains a threat on both sides of the border, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, which is controlled by both the SDF and regime forces. The terror group maintains a "significant presence" in rural farming areas under SDF control, the Pentagon said in its latest quarterly report on anti-ISIS operations. A spate of murders have been recorded across the province in recent months. Several of the dead were part of the SDF. The SDF arrested 22 ISIS suspects in a two-day military operation in Deir ez-Zor late last month. Earlier in June, the force said that they had arrested eight ISIS members in multiple operations, including a leader who was planning operations in Deir ez-Zor. In late May, they arrested 24 ISIS suspects across 53 locations in the province. A total of 34 operations were conducted against ISIS in the first half of this year, the SDF said on Wednesday, with 245 suspects arrested and three killed. Related: Deir ez-Zor: 2021-07-12 Iranian-backed factions deploy rockets in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor: 2021-07-11 Person found dead after kidnapped by gunmen in Syria's Deir ez-Zor Deir ez-Zor: 2021-07-11 An Iraqi refugee was found dead in Al-Hole camp in northeastern Syria Related: Asayish: 2021-07-12 Three people were injured in explosion in Syria's Raqqa Asayish: 2021-07-11 An Iraqi refugee was found dead in Al-Hole camp in northeastern Syria Asayish: 2021-07-10 Asayish arrested a member of an ISIS cell during a security operation carried out in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, Posted by: trailing wife 2021-07-14 |
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