The US-led coalition airlifted two high-ranking commanders of the ISIL terror organization from a region in Syria’s eastern province of Deir Ezzor, where Iraqi pro-government fighters are tightening the noose around the extremists, to a safe sanctuary.
Local source, requesting anonymity, told Syria’s official news agency SANA that two US-led military helicopters conducted the operation in the Twaimin area, and transported the pair to a US base in al-Shaddadi town of the northeastern province of Hasakah.
Last August, the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that US-led choppers had transported four ISIL members and a civilian from a house used as an arms depot in Beqres, a suburban area east of Deir Ezzor, to a safe area.
According to the report, the five people included a European bomb expert, three Egyptian ISIL members and a local resident of Beqres.
The US-led coalition has been conducting airstrikes against what are said to be ISIL targets inside Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from the Damascus government or a UN mandate. But since then it had repeatedly targeted Syrian army forces and civilians without causing any harm to the terrorist group.
Source: SANA
