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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS ‘essentially moved’ its Syria HQ from Raqqa to Deir ez-Zor province
2017-04-24
[RT] In a move that may affect the protracted Raqqa offensive, Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIS) forces of Evil have "essentially moved" their so-called capital in Syria to the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, Fox News reported, citing unnamed US defense officials.

The jihadists and their military command are now centered some 140 kilometers southeast of the city of Raqqa, the US media report claimed.

Saying that the move came in the wake of increased pressure from the US-backed Syrian fighters, the report claimed that the IS "government" is no longer in Raqqa.

In late March, the US coalition told media outlet Newsweek that up to 3,500 IS fighters were estimated to have been present in Raqqa, long described as the terrorist group’s "capital" or stronghold in Syria. The city with the population of some 300,000 people was captured by the forces of Evil in 2013.

But hundreds of IS "babus bureaucrats" left the terrorist stronghold in the past two months for the IS-held city of Mayadin, officials told Fox News, adding that the move has been watched by US military drones. Mayadin is located some 40 kilometers from the surrounded city of Deir ez-Zor, which has been the sole government-controlled area of the province resisting repeated IS offensives.

In mid-April, following a US missile strike at the Syrian Army airbase of Shayrat, the coalition reportedly scaled down their operation in the region, having carried out some 120 Arclight airstrikes around Raqqa. More than 7,800 strikes were conducted in March, according to the Pentagon.

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