Saudi Emir of ISIL Terrorists Killed in Popular Uprising in Eastern Syria

Rasa - Salem Rabah al-Zafiri, a Saudi commander of ISIL terrorist group, was killed in people's attack on his car in Southeastern Deir Ezzur, local sources reported on Monday.

News ID: 431998

Date: 28 August 2017 - 19:02

RNA - The sources reported that a number of residents of the town of Albu Kamal attacked an ISIL vehicle near al-Mesriyeh square and set fire at the car, killing al-Zafiri nom de guerre Abu Rabah al-Hejazi, head of ISIL's propaganda office in Albu Kamal, and several more terrorists.

ISIL terrorists' weapons were seized by people after the attack, the sources said.

They went on to say that a new group of terrorists, including Abu al-Aziz al-Halabi, one of the ISIL's commanders in the town of Mouhassan in Eastern Deir Ezzur, escaped the region along with his family members amid rapid advances of the Syrian Army troops towards Deir Ezzur in several flanks.

Relevant reports said on Sunday that the army troops, backed up by the country's Air Force, repelled ISIL's heavy attack on pro-government forces' strongholds in the Eastern city of Deir Ezzur on Sunday, killing and wounding a number of terrorists.

The army soldiers, supported by the warplanes, engaged in fierce clashes with the ISIL and warded off their attack in al-Roshdiyeh neighborhood.

ISIL left behind a number of dead and wounded members and retreated from the battlefield.

In the meantime, the army units shot down a bomb-laden drone of the ISIL flying over the village of al-Jafrah in Eastern outskirts of Deir Ezzur city.

Also, the fighter jets pounded ISIL's positions in al-Roshdiyeh, around Tamin Brigade base, and in the two towns of al-Mayadeen and Mouhassa, in the villages of al-Shamitiyeh, al-Tabni, al-Masrab and al-Khariteh, destroying several positions and killing a number of terrorists.

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