ISIL Withdraws from Western Deir Ezzur after Agreement with Kurds

TEHRAN( defapress)The ISIL withdrew its forces from 3 villages in Western Deir Ezzur after striking an agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), local sources said on Thursday.

News ID: 66555

Date: 19 October 2017 - 18:00

The sources reported from Western Deir Ezzur that the ISIL terrorists retreated from the villages of Muhaymideh, Safireh and al-Hesan on the Western bank of the Euphrates river towards the villages in Eastern Deir Ezzur after an agreement with the SDF.

In a relevant development on Wednesday, the US and the SDF reached an agreement with the ISIL to transfer a number of terrorists to oilfields in Northeastern Deir Ezzur for a new round of combat against government troops in the region, a Syrian media outlet reported.

The Arabic-language al-Watan daily reported that a number of ISIL terrorists have been transferred to the al-Amu oilfield in Northeastern Deir Ezzur 12 km away from the town of al-Mayadeen to slow down the Syrian army advances after striking a deal with the US and the SDF.

In the meantime, al-Alam news website quoted sources as saying that the US has paved the way for the ISIL terrorists to leave the villages of al-Hosseiniyeh and al-Salehiyeh for the al-Amr oilfield.

Field reports said that despite rumors by the US-led coalition, the ISIL terrorists have not been transferred to al-Tabaqa prison in Raqqa or Ein al-Arab (Kobani) in Northern Syria.