Security forces in northern Syria’s Raqqa city said on Sunday they had uncovered an ISIL sleeper cell which was plotting series of large attacks across the devastated city.
A spokesman for the Raqqa Internal Security Forces set up by the SDF said it had killed two members of an ISIL cell and detained five others during an operation Saturday.
“Special forces and explosives experts carried out a counter operation … to confront plans which were about to be executed by a terrorist cell affiliated with mercenaries of ISIL in a neighborhood in Raqqa city,” the unit’s spokesman Mohammad Ibrahim said at a news conference.
The forces raided two residential apartments where the cell members were hiding and confiscated grenades, pistols and explosives, the spokesman said.
They also found a car bomb at the site of the operation and unearthed a large cache of arms and land mines buried nearby.
Source: Reuters
