ISIL Commanders Transferred to Safe Areas in Syria by US Helicopters: Report

The US forces deployed in Syria transfer a large number of ISIL commanders and senior members to the safe areas and military bases controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in the country, a Turkish daily reported on Sunday.

The Turkish-language Sabah newspaper reported that the ISIL commanders and terrorists are transferred to the SDF bases to undergo advanced trainings to carry out terrorist acts.

It quoted the local sources as saying that the US helicopters, carrying the ISIL commanders, land in the SDF bases in Deir Ezzur and Hasaka mostly mid night.

Relevant reports said on Friday that several military helicopters of the US-led coalition carried out another heliborne operation in Eastern Deir Ezzur to evacuate a number of ISIL members from the region to Northeastern Syria, local sources reported.

The sources said that several US helicopters that had taken off from Northern Deir Ezzur were flying over Assad Refugee Camp and later landed near the al-Basel Dam in the Southern countryside of Hasaka city.

The sources said that the helicopters were transferring a number of ISIL commanders that had asked the Syrian Democratic Forces to let them stay in the regions under their control.

Also, earlier today, local sources disclosed that several military helicopters of the US-led coalition carried out another heliborne operations in Southern Hasaka to evacuate a number of ISIL members from the region to an unknown location.

The sources said that several US helicopters that had taken off from the surrounding areas of al-Basel Dam in Southern Hasaka were flying over Assad Refugee Camp and transferred the ISIL terrorists from the camp to an unknown location.

The sources said that the helicopters were transferring militants who had been previously transferred from the Eastern outskirts of Deir Ezzur, al-Shaitat region in particular.