(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-led International coalition on Sunday has killed the spokesman of Daesh (ISIS) in northern Idlib province hours of the US dawn-raid that eliminated daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, rebel commander told Zaman al-Wasl.
Ziad jarad, head of the political office in Turkish-backed Ahrar Al-Sharqiya group, said the death of Abu Al-Hassan Al-Muhajir in the village of Ain al-Baida near Jarablus came over coordiantion by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces who facilitated his escape from Raqqa to Idlib.
the death of the right-hand of Baghdaid, was a result of a coordinated operation between SDF intelligence and the US army,” the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces commander, Mazloum Abdi, tweeted.
American officials did not confirm the reports and it was unclear if the operation was pre-planned, or enabled by the material found in Baghdadi’s compound.
Trump said US fighters collected highly sensitive material and information, including on Isis’s future plans, before they left Baghdadi’s compound.
Muhajir issued his last statement in March, calling for retaliation for the mass shooting of 50 worshippers at a mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch allegedly by an Australian white nationalist.
Kurdish forces said they expected revenge attacks by Daesh (ISIS) following the U.S. announcement Sunday that al-Baghdadi had been killed.
"Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi's death," Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces - the de facto army of the Kurdish administration that holds thousands of Daesh fighters in custody - told AFP.
"This is why anything is possible, including attacks on prisons," he said.
The SDF, who were the U.S-led coalition's main partner on the ground in Syria during years of operations against Daesh, hold an estimated 12,000 Daesh suspects in a number of different facilities in northeastern Syria.
An SDF-led operation eliminated the last scrap of Daesh's self-proclaimed "caliphate" - which once covered vast territory in Syria and Iraq - in March.
The territorial defeat of the extremist group did not however mean the death of the organisation or of its ideology.
Small units of fighters have since gone underground and continued to carry out guerrilla-style attacks in the region.
U.S. President Donald Trump, who announced Baghdadi's death in a solemn address from the White House Sunday, had said last year that he intended to pull his troops from Syria.
U.S. forces have indeed withdrawn from some areas in northern Syria, although they are remaining in regions of eastern Syria that include oil wells.
The vacuum created by the U.S. redeployment and a subsequent operation launched by Turkey and its proxies against Kurdish forces has heightened fears of mass Daesh prison breaks.
Attacking prisons to free large numbers of senior operatives has been a signature tactic in resurgence drives by Daesh's earlier iterations.
Trump thanked the Syrian Kurds "for certain support they were able to give us" in the operation against Baghdadi.
Mazloum had said in a earlier post on social media that the operation against the Daesh supremo had resulted from joint intelligence work.
Zaman Al Wasl
Comments About This Article
Please fill the fields below.