Internal Security forces deactivate explosives in Manbij
Manbij – North-Press Agency
The Internal Security Forces in the city of Manbij in cooperation with the Global Coalition to defeat ISIS have deactivated today a number of explosives which were placed next to the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces in the city.
While the engineering teams of the security forces in cooperation with the Global Coalition specialists deactivated the explosives, the security forces imposed a security cordon around the place, according to Manbij Military Council.
In a special statement to North-Press, the spokesman of Manbij Military Council, Shervan Derwish said that: “The recent period has witnessed many operations by our security forces in pursuit of ISIS sleeper cells, as we continue to pursue those terrorist cells who try to destabilize the city,” adding that they’ve already arrested some members of those cells, confirming that most of them are related to Turkey-backed Euphrates Shield forces, while some of them belong to the Islamic State and the Syrian government as well.
Derwish stressed that the city of Manbij lives in safe conditions and that life goes on as normal, pointing out that several parties are trying to hit this stability through bombings, where the security forces seized a variety of explosives, sticky devices, and silenced pistols during the past period.
The western Euphrates city’s spokesman pointed out that people in the area play a large role in detecting and pursuing those cells and that this cooperation helps to firm stability in the city while expressing his gratitude to them.
In another context, Shervan Derwish stated that despite the joint patrols between the Turkish army and the US-led Global Coalition forces in the separating area, “but Euphrates Shield groups target their forces on the line of As-Sajour River on a daily basis by provoking them with medium and light weapons, and sometimes with heavy weapons.”
“These groups are trying, by various means, not to let the people of this region live in stable conditions,” stressing that “Manbij Military Council keeps self-restraint and does not respond to those provocations only if necessary,” Derwish added.