A prominent lawyer involved in a deal that saw some Daesh (ISIS) militants given safe passage out of their Syrian bastion Raqqa last year was found dead Thursday, authorities said.
Omar Alloush helped negotiate an agreement with tribal leaders that allowed some Daesh fighters to leave Raqqa before it was overrun by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Oct. 17.
He was a senior member of the Raqqa Civil Council, a provisional administration for the city set up by the SDF.
The Democratic Union Party (PYD), the main Kurdish party whose armed wing dominates the SDF, gave no details of the circumstances of Alloush's death.
"Omar Alloush was found dead at his home this morning," the PYD said on Twitter.
The SDF captured Raqqa after a months-long campaign that saw them thrust south from their northern stronghold along the Turkish border with support from U.S.-led air strikes and ground advisers.
Alloush served both as a publicist for the SDF and as a liaison officer with the U.S.-led coalition.
Raqqa was the scene of some of the militants’ worst atrocities, including gruesome executions, public displays of corpses and sex slavery.
AFP
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