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Farsnews US-Backed Forces Preparing to Declare End of ISIL in Eastern Euphrates

The US-led coalition and Washington-backed militants are preparing to declare the end of the ISIL presence in the region as thousands of the terrorists and their families have left their last positions there, media reports said.

The Arabic-language Al-Watan news agency pointed to the exit of the ISIL terrorists and their families under an agreement with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and said that the US-led coalition and the SDF plan to repeat the scenario that they staged in Raqqa and claim victory over the ISIL in Eastern Euphrates, “while in reality they have not defeated the terrorist group and have only relocated them to western Iraq.

The SDF has, meantime, claimed that it has taken control of several positions in Baghouz Farms in Eastern Deir Ezzur in the battle with the terrorists.

The Kurdish forces said that they have held as captive 157 terrorists and seized their military equipment in the region.

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), meantime, reported that 61,760 people, including 6,870 ISIL terrorists, have left the last areas remaining under ISIL’s control in Baghouz in Eastern Euphrates.

In a relevant development on Friday, the US-led coalition forces and their allied militant groups helped over 2,000 ISIL terrorists and their families to get out of Eastern Deir Ezzur as Washington and the SDF are preparing to declare the end of the ISIL in Eastern Euphrates.

The SDF announced that over 1,300 ISIL terrorists and their families left the town of Baqouz in Southeastern Deir Ezzur.

The SOHR, meantime, announced that about 2,200 ISIL terrorists from different nationalities have exited the last regions under their control in Baqouz town in Eastern Deir Ezzur over the past 24 hours.

The SOHR noted that a sum of 61,300 ISIL terrorists and their families have left Eastern Euphrates since the early December 2018.

In a relevant development last week, the US Army and its allied militants helped a large number of the ISIL terrorists to get out of Deir Ezzur province.

“Over 60,000 ISIL terrorists and their families have been helped out of Baghouz region in Eastern Deir Ezzur by the US and the US-backed militants since the beginning of last December,” the Kurdish-language Bas news website quoted an informed SDF source as saying.

He noted that over half of the terrorists leaving Eastern Euphrates are Iraqi nationals, and the rest come from a variety of nations.

This comes as the US-led coalition and their allied militants are eyeing an agreement with terrorists to exit the areas under their control in Eastern Euphrates in a bid to declare the end of the ISIL in the region.

In a relevant development in late February, the Syrian sources said that the US Army transferred senior ISIL commanders to safe places in lieu of receiving over 50 tons of gold treasure from the terrorists.

According to the initial information obtained in Deir Ezzur, the US Army troops stationed in Al-Jazeera region of Eastern Euphrates agreed with the ISIL commanders to relocate them to safe places after receiving tens of tons of gold ingot that the terrorists had stolen from different parts of Syria and Iraq, the state-run SANA news agency reported.

The local sources, meantime, reported that the US Army took control of ISIL’s 50 tons of gold treasure in Baqouz region in Southeastern Deir Ezzur after it had reached an agreement with the terrorists.

They pointed to the recent intensified movements by the US choppers concurrent with flights over several ISIL-controlled regions in Eastern Euphrates, and said that the US has conducted important heliborne operations in key areas where the ISIL commanders’ hideouts are located and where the gold treasure was hidden.

In a relevant development earlier last month, a source close to Kurdish forces said that the US Army was taking ISIL’s gold treasure that is estimated to weigh around 50 tons from Eastern Syria to America.

Bas News quoted a Kurdish source as saying that the Americans have transferred tens of tons of the gold ingots they have seized from the ISIL terrorists in Baqouz region in Southeastern Deir Ezzur to their own country and only kept a small portion of the treasure to be given to the Kurdish fighters.

The source who spoke on the condition of anonymity reiterated that about 50 tons of ISIL’s gold has been sent to the US from the US military base in Kobani in Northeastern Aleppo.

The report comes as the US has been using the airport in Southern Kobani for transferring consignments and military equipment in recent years.

In a relevant development earlier last month, the US Army troops took out a sum of 40 tons of gold ingots belonging to the ISIL in heliborne operations after agreeing with the terrorist group and while Washington is preparing to announce the end of ISIL in Eastern Euphrates.

“The US troops in concordance with the ISIL terrorist group relocated big boxes packed with ISIL’s gold treasure on several helicopters from al-Dashisheh region in Southern Hasaka,” the SANA news agency quoted local sources in Eastern Deir Ezzur as saying.

The sources pointed to boxes containing 40 tons of gold ingots that the ISIL had hidden in the Eastern part of al-Shadadi city, and said that the ISIL had stolen the treasure of gold from the Iraqi city of Mosul and different parts of Syria.

The US troops reportedly took out a group of ISIL terrorist commanders from Eastern Syria in two heliborne operations in Hajin region of Eastern Deir Ezzur and al-Dashisheh in Southern Hasaka and they were directed to the place where the gold treasure was hidden.