After IS request of reviewing “the security centers”, it arrests about 40 men and young men in al- Raqqa
Al- Raqqa Province:
It is cleared that the Russian warplanes that struck the vicinity of al- Raqqa city yesterday targeted places in the Division 17 on the northern outskirts of the city of al- Raqqa, which is the main stronghold of IS in Syria, no information about casualties.
Reliable sources informed SOHR that IS arrested 40 men and youngmen yesterday in the city of al- Raqqa dragging them to unknown destination, no information about the reasons of arrest so far. Reliable sources express their fearing to SOHR that the arrest came on the backdrop of IS intention to recruit those detainees. SOHR published yesterday that SOHR activists in the city of al- Raqqa had been informed that dozens of families have started to displaces from the city of al- Raqqa after information about preparation for attacking the city of al- Raqqa, the sources confirmed that most of families moved towards the western countryside of al- Raqqa and IS-held areas in the northeastern countryside of Aleppo. Reliable sources also informed SOHR that IS demanded from the boys, who are over the age of 14, to go and make review it “the police and recruitment centers taking with them their identities. The sources said, it is most probably that IS have done this for “recruiting those boys in the future”, where this procedure make a lot of young men to leave the city that led to make IS militants stop, check and ask them about their destination. The same sources confirmed that IS members of al- Tabaqa checkpoint get those who confessed that they want to travel outside “the Islamist State lands” back, while they check and investigate those who want to go to the northeastern countryside of Aleppo.