US Helicopters Evacuate More ISIL Commanders from Deir Ezzur Following Syrian Army Advances

The websites reported that a US helicopter landed on al-Madhoul international highway in Hasasi Abu Hamid region South of the salt mine in Western Deir Ezzur, adding that the US helicopter took away two European commanders of ISIL and their family members from the town of al-Shamitiyeh in Western Deir Ezzur to an unknown destination.

Local sources reported earlier today that Salem Rabah al-Zafiri, a Saudi commander of ISIL terrorist group, was killed in a mob attack on his car in Southeastern Deir Ezzur.

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.