...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
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(ISIS) in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.
A military source in the town of Thiban, 50 km east of Deir ez-Zor, said that special units of the SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, arrested two ISIS members in the al-Latwa neighborhood in the center of the town.
The source added that the two members are from the Thiban town and are ISIS intelligence members, where they confessed, during the initial investigations, of carrying out liquidations and attacks against SDF military points.
The SDF units found Kalashnikovs, PK machine guns and various ammunitions, in addition to ISIS documents and papers, threatening letters and giving businessmen an option between paying in the name of zakat royalties or being killed, according to the same source.
On August 14, the SDF and the Global Coalition forces arrested an ISIS leader in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
Recently, the SDF and the Global Coalition have intensified their security operations to pursue ISIS sleeper cells in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.