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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
SDF Launches 'Al-Jazeera Thunderbolt' To Pursue ISIS Cells In NE Syria
2022-12-30


Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Thursday launching Operation "Al-Jazeera
...an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS...
 Thunderbolt" in the countryside of both Hasakah and Qamishli, northeast Syria, to pursue sleeper cells of Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 Organization (ISIS).

The SDF Media Center said at about 01:00 am the SDF, with the participation of Internal Security Forces of North and East Syria (Asayish) and in coordination with the US-led Global Coalition, targeted the areas of Hawl and Tel Hamis in Hasakah and Qamishli.

The SDF revealed in a statement that the campaign has been launched in the areas from which "recent terrorist attacks" were launched against Hawl Camp, Hasakah and south of Qamishli and that "could be source for possible attacks."

The statement stressed that ISIS "criminal activity" has recently emerge against residents of the region in tandem with continuous Ottoman Turkish attacks against areas of northeast Syria.

On Nov.20, Ottoman Turkish forces launched fierce assault, using warplanes, drones and artillery against areas in north Syria, targeting infrastructures and public facilitates in addition to killing and wounding a number of civilians and military personnel of the SDF and the government too.

The group has recently increased "the arming and financing activity" and attacks the last of which were the attack on a prison where ISIS "criminal elements" are held and another attack on an Asayish center in the city of Raqqa, in addition to eight "failed attempt
...Curses! Foiled again!...
ed attacks" on Hawl Camp and areas in Deir ez-Zor and Hasakah following the recent Ottoman Turkish assault, the statement read.

On Dec. 26, ISIS sleeper cells attacked Asayish headquarters in Raqqa, claiming the lives of six members of Asayish and the SDF and wounding others.
Al Ahram adds:
The SDF statement said that in addition to the thwarted Raqa attack, IS fighters had recently carried out eight assaults in the northern Syrian areas of Deir Ezzor, Hasakeh and the Al-Hol camp for displaced people, which houses family members of IS militants.

IS continues to claim attacks in Iraq and Syria, and the SDF regularly launches operations against the jihadists in Syria.

The group said Monday's attack on Raqa aimed to avenge "Muslim prisoners" and female relatives of jihadists living in the Al-Hol camp.

In September, Kurdish authorities arrested more than 200 people in Al-Hol following the discovery of tunnels and an arsenal of weapons used by jihadists.
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