Several senior ISIS commanders escape from Deir Ezzur amid Syrian Army advances

A number of notorious commanders of the ISIS terrorist group have escaped from different battlefields in the Eastern province of Deir Ezzur as the Syrian Army troops continued their anti-terrorism operations in the region, local sources confirmed Sunday.

The sources said that the army’s rapid advances in Deir Ezzur province have caused a number of ISIL’s commanders to escape the battlefields.

ISIS’s senior Mufti (religious leader) in Western Deir Ezzur Bashar al-Hanish nom de guerre Abu Mo’aviyeh and Hassaan al-Orwah, one of the notorious financial men of the terrorist group have escaped.

They added that Abdulkarim AbdulHamid Assaf, one of the security commanders of ISIS, has also left Eastern Deir Ezzur along with Abu Osam al-Fardan, another ISIS commander, for regions out of the terrorist group’s rule.

Earlier reports said that the army soldiers pushed ISIS back from the artillery battalion base, al-Shalabi farms and al-Mayadeen airport in the Southwestern outskirts of al-Mayadeen.

The army men killed tens of suicide attackers and destroyed three bomb-laden vehicles.

Also, the Syrian Air Force carried out several combat sorties over ISIS’s positions and destroyed several military vehicles, killing a large number of terrorists that were fleeing towards the town of al-Esharah between al-Mayadeen and the town of Albu Kamal.

Source: Farsnews