ISIL Flees Al-Qaim City at Iraqi-Syrian Border

“The ISIL has evacuated its members from al-Qa’em city at the Iraq’s border with Syria,” the source was quoted as saying by the Arabic website of Sputnik news agency on Monday.

The source said ISIL leaders and members have all been relocated to the Western deserts in Iraq, and the reason is that great number of casualties of the terrorist group in recent airstrikes.

Military sources confirmed earlier this month that tens of ISIL terrorists have been killed and tens of others have been injured in the Iraqi Air attacks on militants’ positions in a region near the border with Syria.

The sources said that 100 ISIL terrorists were killed and hundreds more were wounded in the Iraqi fighter jets’ combat sorties in Anbar province at Iraq’s border with Syria after Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi declared the start of a fresh round of cleansing operations in desert regions at Iraq’s border with Syria to restore sustainable security to common border.

The Arabic-language Elam al-Harbi reported that eleven Iraqi warplanes targeted ISIL’s gathering centers in the towns of Anah and al-Qa’em.

The source added that 47 ISIL terrorists were killed in Anah and 53 more were killed in al-Qa’em, adding several positions used by the terrorists to make missiles and bomb-laden suicide vehicles and a depot of drones were destroyed in the air raids.