ISIS claims attack on SDF checkpoint in Syria’s Deir ez-Zor
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, Islamic State (ISIS), through close outlets, claimed responsibility for targeting a checkpoint of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town east of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria.
ISIS-run Amaq news agency said in a statement, “The group’s militants targeted, with a missile and machineguns, an SDF checkpoint at the entrance to the town of Shuhail, 40 kilometers east of Deir ez-Zor.”
The statement claimed that the attack resulted in the wounding of a number of the SDF fighters, who were at the checkpoint.
The countryside of Deir ez-Zor witnesses increasing assassinations against SDF fighters, employees of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), tribe leaders, and civilian population despite intensive security operations by the SDF and the Global Coalition.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor, eastern Syria, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS militants were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.