Last ISIS units evacuated from Qalamoun to Syria’s Deir Ez-Zor province


nsnbc : Hundreds of the last remaining ISIS fighters and their families were evacuated from Jroud Qara in western Qalamoun  in Syria’s Damascus province towards the Deir Ez-Zor province where ISIS is expected to make a last stand for control of a contiguous territory.

Qalamoun_Damascus_Buses for ISIS evacuation_Aug 2017The evacuation was launched on the basis of an agreement reached between the government and military of the Syrian Arab Republic, Hezbollah, and the remaining ISIS fighters in the Qalamoun region of Damascus province. The agreement was reached after the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah launched a major offensive against ISIS on the Syrian side of the border while the Lebanese National Army drove ISIS out of the last areas it held on the Lebanese side of the Syria – Lebanon border.

Buses which carry the terrorists and their families reportedly left Jroud Qara after completing preparations to get them transported into the Bou Kamal area in the eastern countryside of Syria’s eastern Deir Ez-Zor province bordering western Iraq.

Earlier on Monday, preparations to evacuate ISIS terrorists along with their families from Juroud Qara area in Western Qalamoun in Damascus Countryside towards the eastern region in Syria were completed.

Buses used to transport ISIS terrorists have gathered at al-Sheikh Ali/al-Rumiyat crossing in Western Qalamoun, in addition to 11 ambulances affiliated to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC). Withdrawing ISIS units reportedly set ablaze the vehicles and logistical supplies, documents and other material to prevent that material and intelligence fal into the hands of the Syrian Arab Army or Hezbollah.

On Sunday a Syrian military source informed the press that a deal reached between the Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah and ISIS on the withdrawal of the remaining ISIS fighters from Western Qalamoun towards the eastern region of Syria was agreed on.

In April 2013 the EU lifted its ban on the import of Syrian oil from "rebel held territory to finance the opposition".

Deir Ez-Zor province. In April 2013 the EU lifted its ban on the import of Syrian oil from “rebel held territory to finance the opposition”.

Last July, units of Syrian Arab Army, in cooperation with the Lebanese resistance, started operations against ISIS gatherings in Western Qalamoun area, that have resulted in establishing full control over Juroud Flita and most of the main passages and axes and strategic heights and hills in the area after inflicting heavy losses upon ISIS terrorists.

Syria’s oil and resource-rich Deir Ez-Zor province is expected to be the last major area where ISIS will attempt to control a contiguous territory. ISIS already has a realatively strong presence around Deir Ez-Zor city as well as in the countryside. ISIS fighters who are being displaced from Raqqa by the Syrian Democratic Forces are expected to be scrambling for Deir Ez-Zor, and the SDF already announced that it is making preparations to launch a campaign to oust ISIS from Deir Ez-Zor as well.

ISIS forces from Tal Afar in Iraq, westof Mosul and about 60 kilometers from the Syrian border are reportedly also scrambling for Deir Ez-Zor province. It is believed that a deal was also reached to allow some ISIS units to withdraw from Tal Afar to minimize the impact on non-combatant civilians in the city. The Syrian Arab Army and the Syrian and Russian air forces increased operations against ISIS in Deir Ez-Zor.

CH/L – nsnbc 29.08.2017



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