SDF arrests local ISIS leader with coalition support
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the arrest of a local ISIS leader in Deir al-Zor on Thursday.
“The detained individual was planning to carry out terrorist assaults, assassination, and attacks against civilians, security/military units, and tribe leaders,” said the SDF’s Coordination and Military Operations Center.
The SDF also said weapons and equipment were seized.
The official Twitter account of the CJTF-OIR (Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve), the US-led coalition against ISIS, said the success of the SDF and the US-led coalition against ISIS in northeast Syria this week “will impede the terrorists group’s ability to recruit members and finance its terrorist activities.”
Anti-terror units linked to local Syrian Kurdish-led Internal Security Forces (Asayish in Kurdish) arrested two suspected ISIS facilitators near the Iraqi border this week.
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The SDF and the coalition regularly carry out such operations against ISIS to prevent the militant group from making a resurgence in the region. The number of ISIS attacks in northeast Syria has increased since the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in April.