US Hides ISIL Commanders in Al-Rukban Camp Near Border with Iraq

The American Army has hidden notorious ISIL terrorist commanders in al-Rukban Camp in the occupied al-Tanf region near the border with Iraq as civilians are prevented from leaving the camp by Washington-backed militants.

News ID: 443884

Date: 13 March 2019 - 17:04

RNA - The Arabic-language al-Alam news website reported that as per reliable information in al-Tanf region which is under the occupation of the US Army troops over 80 percent of the residents of al-Rukban Camp are willing to return to their villages and homes in different parts of Syria.

Meantime, the Syrian army continued its military advances in other parts of Syria over the past 24 hours.

Tens of terrorists were killed and dozens more were injured during the Syrian army's operations in several provinces across Syria.

Aleppo

The US Army has hidden the notorious ISIL terrorist commanders in al-Rukban Camp in the occupied al-Tanf region near the border with Iraq as civilians are prevented from leaving the camp by Washington-backed militants, media reports said.

"As per reliable information in al-Tanf region which is under the occupation of the US Army troops over 80 percent of the residents of al-Rukban Camp are willing to return to their villages and homes in different parts of Syria, the Arabic-language al-Alam news website reported.

Al-Alam pointed to the US' policy to prevent the exit of civilians from al-Tanf region, and said that the US occupying forces are using this region to hide the ISIL commanders who have fled from Eastern Deir Ezzur.

The Al-Alam reported that most of the ISIL commanders have been relocated to al-Rukban Camp by some people from Badiyeh (desert) region of Eastern Deir Ezzur.

The report comes as over 50,000 of Syrian refugees in al-Rukban Camp near the border with Iraq have been under siege of the US Army troops and their allied militants since 2014.

The Rukban refugee camp is located in the Al-Tanf security zone, where a US military base is stationed. Entrances to the zone are controlled by opposition militants. According to the World Health Organization, the camp currently hosts about 40,000 refugees, mostly women and children.

Idlib

The Syrian air force fighter jets pounded and destroyed the command centers and venue of a meeting of the commanders of foreign terrorists and White Helmets in Idlib in response to continued attacks from the demilitarized zone by militants.

The Arabic-language service of the Russian Sputnik News Agency quoted a Syrian military source as saying that the Syrian air force pounded the military convoys and important positions of the terrorists, including arms and ammunition depot as well as concentration of military convoys of Tahrir al-Sham al-Hay'at (the Levant Liberation Board or the Al-Nusra Front) in the outskirts of the towns of Khan Sheikhoun, Ma'arat al-Numan, Kafr Nubl, Ma'arat Shomarin and the surroundings areas of the city of Saraqib to the South and West of Idlib.

According to Fars News Agancy, it noted that the Syrian warplanes also destroyed the meeting of commanders of Turkistani and White Helmets in Sahr al-Rouj to the West of Idlib which resulted in the death and injury of a number of them.

Meantime, the Syrian Army's missile and artillery units also pounded the terrorists' military positions in al-Latamineh, Kafar Zita and al-Arbaeen, inflicting heavy losses and casualties on them.

This is while the terrorists hit Masayef region near the National Hospital in Northern Hama with rockets.

Deir Ezzur

A large number of civilians were killed and wounded in airstrikes and artillery attacks by the US-led coalition and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on a refugee camp in Eastern Deir Ezzur, the Arabic-language media reported.

"About 60 civilians, including children, were killed and 15 others were wounded in the US-led airstrikes and SDF artillery attacks on residential areas in a refugee camp located in the town of al-Baqouz in Eastern Deir Ezzur," the SANA news agency reported.

It said that the US-led airstrikes on al-Baqouz refugee camp left more than 50 civilians, including children, killed.

Meantime, pro-militant Baldi news website also reported that seven civilians, including a number of children, were killed and over 15 others were wounded in artillery attacks by SDF on al-Baqouz.

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