...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) members in a security operation in northeast Syria’s Qamishli city.
"Following extensive investigations, intelligence gathering, and surveillance, our forces identified the cell’s hideout and successfully raided the location, dismantling the terrorist cell and capturing two terrorists, Osama Muhammad al-Ahmad and Issa Muhammad al-Ahmad," the SDF said in a statement.
It accused the alleged ISIS members of plotting to carry out explosions in Qamishli "to spread terror and sow chaos among the civilian population."
The SDF and its international allies have fought to prevent an ISIS resurgence since the group attempted to take advantage of the Islamist-led rebel takeover of Damascus and the fall of the former Syrian regime last month.
On Friday, the SDF said that they arrested two ISIS leaders in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
On Tuesday, the SDF revealed they had arrested more than 270 ISIS members in 2024.
The SDF announced on Tuesday that it carried out nearly 100 operations against ISIS in 2024, resulting in the capture of 270 suspected members, including high-ranking leaders.