“Following extensive investigations, intelligence gathering, and surveillance, our forces identified the cell’s hideout and successfully raided the location, dismantling the terrorist cell and capturing two terrorists, Osama Muhammad Al-Ahmad and Issa Muhammad Al-Ahmad,” the SDF said in a statement.
It accused the alleged ISIS members of plotting to carry out explosions in Qamishli “to spread terror and sow chaos among the civilian population.”
The SDF and its international allies have fought to prevent an ISIS resurgence since the group attempted to take advantage of the Islamist-led rebel takeover of Damascus and the fall of the former Syrian regime last month.
On Friday, the SDF said that they arrested two ISIS leaders in eastern Syria’s Deir ez-Zor province.
On Tuesday, the SDF revealed they had arrested more than 270 ISIS members in 2024.
The SDF announced on Tuesday that it carried out nearly 100 operations against ISIS in 2024, resulting in the capture of 270 suspected members, including high-ranking leaders.
ISIS jihadists swept through large swathes of Syria in 2014. Despite their territorial defeat in 2019, bombings, hit-and-run attacks, and abductions attributed to the group are common.
