Global Coalition confirms 39 operations anti-ISIS operations Syria and Iraq
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – Global Coalition Spokesman Colonel Wayne Marotto said on Friday that their partners in Syria and Iraq carried out 39 operations against the Islamic State (ISIS) during May.
Marotto shared a post on Twitter that “thus far in May our partners completed 39 operations against Daesh, preventing 11 Daesh leaders and 59 henchmen from committing acts of terrorism against the people of Iraq and Syria.”
The Coalition’s partners in Iraq and Syria include the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga, and the Iraqi counter-terrorism service (STC).
On May 24, SDF announced that they had arrested 24 alleged ISIS members during a security operation with the participation of the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria.