Kurdish-led SDF arrests 4 ISIS suspects in eastern Syria with Coalition support 2021/02/03 16:28
Special units of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have carried out several operations against the Islamic State in recent weeks (Photo: SDF Coordination and Military Operations Centre)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Tuesday that it had arrested four suspected members of the so-called Islamic State in Syria’s Deir al-Zor and Hasakah provinces in separate operations this week.
The SDF Media Centre said in an online posting that its forces had arrested three of the militants “in al-Fidyn village, south of Al-Swar town, Deir Ezzor (Deir al-Zor) countryside.”
Col. Wayne Marotto, Spokesman for the US-led Coalition, speaks to Kurdistan 24 over Skype.
WASHINGTON DC (Kurdistan 24) – “We remain committed” to “our partner forces” in “the enduring defeat” of the so-called Islamic State, Col. Wayne Marotto, Spokesman for the US-led Coalition, affirmed to Kurdistan 24.
“In conjunction with our partner forces the ISF (Iraqi Security Forces), the Peshmerga, and the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces),” we are continuing our fight against the terrorist organization, the Spokesman for the Coalition, formally known as Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR), stated earlier this week.
Marotto’s statement came on the eve of the first anniversary of the US assassination of the head of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Gen. Qassim Soleimani, an occasion which pro-Iranian elements in Iraq exploited to reiterate their demand for the expulsion of US forces from Iraq.