Syria’s Sere Kaniye IDPs demand Coalition to expel ISIS from their city
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press) – On Thursday, displaced people from Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain), northeast Syria, demanded the Global Coalition and the concerned authorities to expel the Islamic State organization (ISIS) from their city.
In a statement to the journalists, the IDPs of Washokani camp, west of Hasakah, called on the Global Coalition to the necessity to eliminate dozens of ISIS militants.
“ISIS banners and symbols were raised in Sere Kaniye, and the Global Coalition targeted an ISIS leader in the village of Adwaniyah,” Ala’ Ali, co-chair of Washokani camp council, told North Press.
Ali called on “the international community and human rights organizations to oust the Turkish occupation and ISIS militants from the city and the return of the indigenous population with international guarantees.”
On October 25, a senior leader of ISIS was killed as a result of a drone attack, said to be American, in the countryside of Sere Kaniye (Ras al-Ain).
As a result of the airstrike, three individuals including an ISIS leader known as Sabahi al-Ibrahim al-Mesleh “Abu Hamza al-Shuhail”, who hails from al-Shuhail village in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, were killed in addition to two of his companions.
Al-Shuhail, who is a member of the Shura Council of ISIS, fled Deir ez-Zor after the SDF took control over the entire region east of the Euphrates River in 2018, and was appointed as a leader of the Turkish-backed Division 20, according to the source.
Washokani Camp, which was established following the Turkish invasion of Syria in 2019, includes about 13,000 IDPs from Sere Kaniye and its countryside.
The Turkish attacks on the regions of Sere Kaniye and Tel Abyad, accompanied by the Turkish-backed armed Syrian factions, caused the displacement of about 300,000 civilians, according to the statistics of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES).