...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) leader in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported.
The operation, conducted with support from the US-led global coalition, "resulted in the arrest of a prominent ISIS leader," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, adding that it took place in the town of al-Shuhail.
The SDF has carried out numerous operations this year to counter what they say is a resurgence in ISIS activity targeting both their forces and civilians.
The Observatory noted that the suspect was whisked away "to a security agency for further investigation."
Backed by the US, the SDF functions as the de facto military force in the Kurdish-majority northeast Syria (Rojava). It remains a key partner of the US-led global coalition against ISIS.
ISIS and its so-called "caliphate" was declared territorially defeated in 2019, but the group has recently sought to regain ground, taking advantage of instability in Syria following the fall of Bashir
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Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs...
’s regime.
Earlier this month, the SDF announced the capture of a "dangerous" ISIS sleeper cell member in the northern Raqqa province.
In July, an SDF spokesperson told Rudaw that an estimated 2,000 ISIS Death Eaters remain active in the Syrian desert.