For “belonging and dealing with ISIS” | SDF arrests 11 people in Deir ez-Zor

SOHR sources say that the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) carried out several raids in various areas in Deir ez-Zor countryside. SDF raided the village of Tayeb al-Fal and arrested three people for “belonging to the Islamic State”, including a former ISIS member. SDF also raided the areas of Al-Azba and Muayzileh and arrested eight people for the same charges, including former ISIS members.

In addition, a displaced young man working as a blacksmith was arrested after raiding a camp for displaced people in the village of Al-Subha, without knowing the reasons for his arrest.

On January 19, SOHR activists reported that the “Anti-Terrorism Forces” of the Syrian Democratic Forces, arrested yesterday a leader of the “Islamic State”, who is responsible for planning assassinations and planting IEDs targeting fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces. The leader was arrested from the village of Al-Falaha in eastern rural al-Hasakah, where IEDs and some individual weapons were found in his possession.

On January 18, SOHR sources said that a military unit of the Syrian Democratic Forces raided, in the early hours of Monday morning, a house in the village of Al-Zarr in eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, and arrested the brother-in-law of a leader of the Islamic State.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored the intensive deployment of military checkpoints belonging to SDF in the towns of Granij and Al-Shuhayl, east of Deir ez-Zor.