NE Syria faces new challenges against ISIS, Ilham Ahmad
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Areas in Syria’s northeast are having bad days as they are facing new challenges against the Islamic State Organization (ISIS), president of the Executive Committee of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmad, said Monday.
This came on the margins of the annual meeting of the Executive Council of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), on its second day, with the participation of members of the executive council’s co-chairs and other executive councils in the autonomous and democratic institutions.
ISIS sleeper cells are still active contrary to what had been stated last year about it was being defeated, Ahmad noted.
She stressed, “Fighting against terrorism is still continuing,” and the ISIS last attack on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah has clearly proved that ISIS threat is still there.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells launched an attack on al-Sina’a prison, where thousands of ISIS extremist militants were detained, in an attempt to escape their fellow inmates from the prison.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) with the Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asyaish) have countered the attack for seven days in neighborhoods surrounding the prison.
The Syrian territories captured by Turkey have turned to be a center where military operations against the region are launched from, Abdulkarim Omar, co-chair of the Department of Foreign Relations of the AANES, said yesterday on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the AANES Executive Council.