Syria: Infighting intensifies among Daesh-affiliated groups in Raqqa

At least 70 terrorists were killed and many more were wounded in clashes among the Daesh-affiliated terrorist brigades in the capital of self-proclaimed Caliphate, Kurdish sources said Sunday.

"Escalation of clashes between Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Brigade and al-Kazzemi Brigade killed at least 70 militants in Raqqa city," the sources said, adding, "Al-Kazzemi is one of the notorious commanders of the Daesh group."

"Most of the killed terrorists in the infighting were non-Syrian," the sources went on to say.

One of the senior tribal leaders in eastern Syria disclosed on Saturday that the Daesh security forces and senior leaders seize civilians' identity documents in Raqqa to use them for leaving Syria.

"The Daesh forces, under different pretexts, order the civilians in Raqqa to deliver their identity documents to the groups' officials and tell them that the Hasaba (the Daesh monitoring system) will call them later to give their identity cards back," Sheikh Mohammad al-Daham said, adding, "But this is a big lie and Hasaba gives the documents to the senior officials of the terrorist group to use them while leaving Syria to find a safer place in other countries."

"A large number of the Daesh officials and commander have sold their expensive cars and trying to issue fake passport to flee Raqqa and find shelter in Turkey or Iraq," al-Daham said.

"The Daesh forces are aware that al-Tanf border crossing to Jordan and Iraq will be closed in the coming weeks as a results of the pro-government forces' advances against the terrorists and only a small group of the Daesh will remain in central deserts of Syria," he went on to say.

EA