SDF arrests ISIS members, agents of Turkey in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Yesterday, on Friday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) arrested 18 people in Abu Khashab area, 70 km in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor, on charges of belonging to the sleeper cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) and working for the Turkish intelligence.
“The SDF launched a two-day security campaign, during which they were able to arrest 18 people,” a military source of the SDF in the town of Abu Khashab, told North Press on Saturday.
The source added that a number of detainees were on charges of belonging to ISIS, and others on charges of working as sleeper cells recruited by the Turkish authorities to carry out assassinations and destabilize the region for money.
In a statement published on its official website on Saturday, the SDF said that a quantity of weapons and documents were seized. These weapons prove the terrorists’ involvement in many assassinations and bombings at the orders of Turkish parties within the “occupied” areas and intelligence centers in Turkish territory.
The statement pointed out that the security campaign came “after an intelligence and field effort to pursue members of terrorist cells and their collaborators.”
The arrested terrorists admitted to carrying out several bombings and assassinations in the area, according to the same source.
Yesterday, on Friday, the SDF arrested wanted individuals on the charge of belonging to ISIS in two different operations in the towns of al-Baghouz and al-Jazra in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor.
On August 24, the SDF arrested two ISIS members in al- Latwa neighborhood in the Thiban town, 50 km east 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.