Syria: ISIL Dismisses so-called Raqqa Governor

The websites said that a month after hundreds of ISIL’s foreign members were evacuated form the cities of Mosul in Iraq, Raqqa in Northeastern Syria and al-Bab in Northern Aleppo and were relocated to the Eastern regions of the Euphrates River, including the towns of Albu Kamal and al-Mayadeen in Deir Ezzur province, the ISIL replaced its governor of the Euphrates Abu Abdul Rahman al-Araqi with Abu Hossein al-Araqi.

They added that Abu Abdul Rahman al-Araqi was appointed as the governor of Raqqa only a few months ago.

The websites went on to say that recent tensions in Raqqa that had roots in repeated execution of ISIL’s members and escape of a large number of the groups’ members were the main cause of Abdul Rahman al-Araqi’s dismissal.

In February, ISIL executed one of the group’s security commanders in the ISIL’s self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, on charges of assisting people to escape terrorist-held regions.

The sources said that ISIL killed one of the commanders of al-Moqs checkpoint at the Western entrance of Raqqa city on charges of helping people leave the Caliphate’s territories.

ISIL’s Security Council had previously arrested the commander on the same charges, the sources added.

They went on to say that ISIL considered strict security measure to prevent people from leaving Raqqa city, changing its checkpoints’ commanders after a recent mass fleeing of people from the city.

People in Raqqa are not even allowed to move inside the ISIL-held regions without the group’s license.