(Zaman Al Wasl)- US-backed Kurdish forces on Tuesday have arrested nine people in eastern Deir Ezzor province, claiming they have links with the Islamic State (Daesh).
Residents told Zaman al-Wasl that the Syrian Democratic Force had stormed the town of al-Baghouz in Albukamal region and detained nine people whom mostly cattle dealers.
But Kurdish news accounts said the detained people are members of a sleeper cell that carried out a series of car bombs in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
The YPG-led forces say Daesh sleeper cells are still active in Deir Ezzor, claiming that tens of families are still receiving salaries from the ultra-hardline Sunni militant group.
Daesh has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings there and still poses a threat along its border with Syria.
Last week, Daesh killed 19 regime troops in a desert town near Palmyra city.
The Islamic State still controls a territory in the gas-rich desert lies between Homs and Deir Ezzor provinces.
Daesh has resorted to guerrilla tactics since it abandoned its goal of holding territory and creating a self-declared caliphate straddling Iraq and Syria.
Zaman Al Wasl
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