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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Suspected ISIS leader arrested in Hasaka

2023-05-17

[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Monday announced that they had dismantled an alleged 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) cell in the countryside of northeast Syria's (Rojava) Hasaka with the support of the global coalition, apprehending the leader of the cell and one of his ~~lover~~ companions.

The SDF accused the detainee of being "directly responsible" for the group’s activities in south of Hasaka and north of Deir ez-Zor, saying he had been actively planning attacks against security forces and civilians and posed a threat to the region’s stability.

"The operation was supported by air surveillance and ground support by the international coalition forces," said the SDF in a statement, adding that weapons and technical equipment were found at the site of the operation, as well documents confirming the suspect’s affiliation to the hard boy group.

The US-led coalition is yet to comment on the operation.

At least 13 suspected ISIS operatives were killed in April in operations carried out by the global coalition and local forces in Iraq and Syria, with an additional 28 suspects also arrested during that month, according to a report by the US Central Command (CENTCOM).

The coalition said late last month that ISIS activities in Syria and Iraq had significantly decreased since the beginning of the year.

Successive leaders of the group have been targeted in their hideouts in Syria. Earlier this months, ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire...
announced it had killed suspected ISIS chief Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi during an operation in Jindires, northwest Syria.

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