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Kurdish-led forces arrest 4 ISIS suspects in Syria’s Deir al-Zor Special counter-terrorism units of Kurdish-led forces in Syria. (Photo: SDF’s Coordination and Military Operations Center) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) - The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Saturday that special counter-terrorism units had captured four ISIS suspects in Syrias Deir al-Zor province. #ISF special units (#Asayish) detained 4 individuals of #Daesh cells, the cell was active in carrying out assassin...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Monday counterterrorism units had captured a ranking ISIS leader Syria’s in Deir al-Zor province. An important leader of #Daesh has been detained, he was active in planning for assassinations, recruiting, and facilitating cells activities, in an operation for #ISF (Asayish), in #Al_Shafaa area in #Deir_Ezzor eastern countryside, #Int_Coalition also supplied air surveillance. pic.twitter.com/6mckyhVCbv — Coo...

Syrian Kurdish Asayish arrest 3 ISIS suspects in Deir al-Zor with Coalition support    2021/04/29 13:13 Special units from the Syrian Kurdish Asayish, part of the SDF, arrested 3 ISIS suspects in Deir al-Zor, Syria on April 29, 2021. (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Center/Twitter) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Special units from the Internal Security Forces in northeast Syria recently detained three suspected ISIS in Thiban, eastern Deir al-Zor province. “The cell h...

   6 Hours Asayish security forces said they uncovered an ISIS warehouse in Raqqa, Syria on April 25, 2021. (Photo: Asayish/Facebook) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The internal security forces in northeast Syria said they had secured explosives in a warehouse once used by ISIS near the terrorist group’s former Syrian capital. In a statement on Monday the Asayish said it had recovered more than 100 mortars, gas cylinders, missiles, and homemade rockets at the site, apparently used to...

April 23, 2021 Fighting escalated between Syria’s Kurdish-led forces and members of a pro-regime militia in the northeastern city of Qamishli on Friday after a local community leader was shot dead returning home from a meeting about reducing tensions in the city. Shaykh Hayes al-Jaryan, also known as Abu Lawrence, was killed late Thursday night near his home near Qamishli airport, an area controlled by the pro-regime National Defense Force militia, according to local officials. One local so...

Government, Kurdish forces clash in northeast Syria The pro-government National Defense Forces fired on Kurdish Asayesh forces at a checkpoint in Qamishli, according to Kurdish sources. Members of the Kurdish Internal Security Police Force, also known as Asayesh, man a checkpoint in the northeastern Syrian Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli Jan. 31, 2021. Clashes broke out in northeast Syria last night between Kurdish and government forces. The violence began in the Qamishli neighborhood ...

Killings in Syria’s al-Hol camp down after SDF security operation ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The number of targeted killings in the al-Hol displacement camp in northeast Syria have fallen slightly following a sweeping security operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces, according to a new report from the Rojava Information Center.  Sixteen people, including two women, died in the camp in March, the RIC’s monthly report said, “a slight decrease since February.” The SDF’s Coordination and...

The new measures coincide with Ramadan and follow a relatively high number of new COVID-19 cases in the autonomous region.

In the early morning darkness, a militiawoman loosens her braid under her balaclava before grabbing a rifle and taking up a frontline position with a group of the Anti-Terrorist Units (known by their Kurdish acronym YAT). This is a mixed force of men and women who were partially trained by the US Marines, and which is now leading a broad “humanitarian and security” operation against sleeper cells of the Islamic State (ISIS) hiding among the sea of tents at Al-Hol, the biggest detentio...

SDF special forces units (Photo: SDFs Coordination and Military Operations Center) ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Sunday arrested nine suspects affiliated with the so-called Islamic State, as the terrorist group continues attacks in northeast Syria, especially in the Arab majority Deir al-Zor province. The SDFs Coordination and Military Operations Center on Sunday said on Twitter that SDF special forces units had in a raid arrested nine Islamic Sta...