Turkey, main entry point and lifeline for ISIL – expert

September 15, 2014 By administrator

Press TV has conducted an interview with Zayd al-Isa, Middle East expert from London, about a newly-released footage and confessions by militants showing that Turkey remains the main route for ISIL terrorists to enter Iraq and Syria.

Press TV: Tell us about Turkey’s role in all of this. On the one hand we see from this latest Iraqi footage with these terrorists basically that they are saying they cross over into the country, originally their trip or their recruitment started in Turkey. How do you see Turkey’s role in all of this?

Al-Isa: Well what is indisputable and incontestable is the major if not the pivotal and crucial role played by Turkey in order to act as main entry point or actually we could call it a lifeline for the most extreme groups in Syria that is Jabhat al-Nusra and also the ISIS group.

Without those resources and lifeline I do not think that those two groups would have been able to turn into the most aggressive and potent army. It is basically the congruent for all the arming, financing, logistical support and even salaries paid by Saudi Arabia and all those mercenaries, Wahhabi, Salafi mercenaries who basically converged on Syria using the route of Turkey and with full knowledge of the Turkish authorities that that basically is going to continue because we have seen that Turkey has adamantly refused as they claim to take part in the so-called broad-based coalition which by the way includes the main and the principle countries that armed, financed, provided the logistical support and also which bear the same ideology which is the Wahhabi Salafi ideology which is propagated, exported and supported by the very Saudi government and which is based, the ideology Wahhabi Salafi, the establishment, the principle is based in Saudi Arabia. So it is highly hypocritical.

Press TV: So let me just jump in here with just something you have just said Mr. al-Isa. On the one hand you talked about Turkey as for supporting these terrorists, on the other hand you just mentioned that they have refused to join in this so-called coalition against this terrorist group.

Why do you think that is the case? Why has well according to appearances Ankara refused Washington’s request?

Al-Isa: That basically shows and sheds enough light that the Americans are actually not serious in that pursuit of taking apart of what they call degrading fully the capability of ISIS.

ISIS has served them well. It has enabled them to regain their influence that they lost in Iraq completely after they were forced to leave Iraq and that is what Obama said on the 18th of June that al-Maliki refused to give us or grant us immunity from prosecution.

It has helped Americans to form what they call a more inclusive broad-based government that is giving more influence and revolting those parties that have actually turned their areas into sanctuaries and safe havens for al-Qaeda in Iraq and also teaching Iraqi politicians that is mainly the Shias that if they choose or if they simply defy the US orders then they should pay a heavy price by losing their jobs and by simply regaining the Saudi influence.

And we have seen the Saudis scramble after Martin Dempsey said that it is not possible to defeat ISIS without targeting in Syria that the Americans scrambled to say that we are not going to target ISIS in order to strengthen the Syrian regime because it is an integral part of the Saudis strategy to topple the Assad regime.

Report: ISIL using ammunition produced by Turkey

September 9, 2014 By administrator

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the ISIL group on Aug. 27, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows masked gunmen of the ISIL group shooting seven men kneeling on the ground in front of them, in the aftermath of the group’s takeover of the Tabqa air base in Raqqa province, Syria. (Photo: AP)

Terrorist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants fighting against Kurdish forces in Iraq have been using ammunition marked as coming from the Turkish Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKE), according to the Taraf daily.

Taraf reported on Tuesday that the MKE-marked ammunition was found out after a recent fight between the ISIL militants and the Kurdish forces in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq.

According to the report, the US experts who examined the ammunition were surprised to see the MKE mark on the ISIL ammunition. Following this discovery, US officials have begun to investigate how this ammunition ended up in the hands of ISIL militants.

The daily also claimed that the MKE-marked ammunition has caused problems for Turkey on international platforms such as at last week’s NATO summit in Wales and that Turkey was forced to defend its activities.

US President Barack Obama warned President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan that Turkey’s policies in the Middle East must be aligned with NATO and the US when the two met for an extensive talk on the sidelines of the NATO summit, according to Taraf.

Warning Erdoğan about Turkey’s current alignment, Obama reportedly told Erdoğan, “We would like to see you on the same page as NATO and the US.” Throughout the Erdoğan-Obama meeting, the Turkish delegation tried to defend Turkey’s position but at the end of the NATO summit, Turkey reluctantly joined the coalition against ISIL, the Taraf report claimed.

While US security experts have been trying to track down the source of the ammunition which was found on dead ISIL militants, the US military has launched airstrikes against ISIL targets. At the same time, several bombing attacks were launched in Arbil by ISIL militants and US experts have discovered that the bombs which were used in the Arbil attacks were also MKE-marked. In addition, some of the ISIL members who were involved in the bombing attacks were killed during clashes with the Kurdish forces were found to be carrying MKE-marked ammunition. According to Taraf, it’s not clear how the ammunition ended up in the hands of ISIL militants. The report speculated that it could be theft or smuggling or that the arms allegedly sent to Syrian opposition forces by Turkey somehow found their way to ISIL.

Taraf said that US officials are working on preparing a file on the ISIL issue which will be shared with Turkey later on.

Turkey has been pushing for the fall of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since 2011, initially predicting that the fall of the Assad regime would come in a short time. Despite this expectation not having been met, the government has failed to adjust its policies accordingly.

Furthermore, many foreign officials and Western media have started to voice concerns over Turkey’s alleged support of al-Qaeda splinter group ISIL and the al-Nusra Front. According to some press reports, Turkey allegedly sent a number of trucks carrying aid and possibly military equipment to the radical groups.

Western press outlets have also been reporting stories suggesting that Turkey has turned a blind eye to the foreign fighters who cross the Turkey-Syria border to join ISIL. Ankara categorically denies these claims.

The Obama administration has been working on building a coalition against the ISIL threat in the region for sometime. The US pushed for a 10-nation core-coalition against ISIL during the NATO summit in Wales. The coalition — which includes Turkey — will fight ISIL militarily and financially. Turkey is a reluctant partner in the coalition due to its critical hostage situation, as ISIL still holds 49 people who were kidnapped from Turkey’s Mosul Consulate General in June.

ISIL Turkey office recruits militants: Turkish officers have been arrested in the city of Falluja in Iraq,

September 2, 2014 By administrator

The ISIL Takfiri group recruits volunteer militants to join the ongoing battles in Syria and Iraq through a liaison office in the Turkish city of Istanbul, a German television station says. report Presstv

German television station ARD revealed recently that office, run by ISIL-affiliated Turks, helps foreign militants cross the Turkish border to join the terrorist group’s militants in Iraq and Syria. The report said that militants have been paid up to 400 euros, to join the battles.

“There is a liaison office of the terrorist organization in Fatih [district]. Militants have been given money, up to 400 euros and provided help to cross the border,” the report said.

The German state TV station also said that there are more than 2,000 militants joining ISIL who come from Europe, adding that they enter Istanbul as a tourist and then cross borders into Iraq and Syria.

This is not the first time that media expose links between the Turkish government and Takfiri militants.

A member of the Republican People’s Party in Turkey revealed earlier at the Turkish parliament that the government has been treating ISIL leaders in Turkish hospitals.

Meanwhile, Turkish media reported that four Turkish officers have been arrested in the city of Falluja in Iraq, adding that the officers were engaged in training ISIL militants.

The crisis in Iraq escalated after the ISIL militants took control of the city of Mosul in a lightning attack on June 10, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit. Tikrit was later taken back by the Iraqi army forces.

The Syria crisis began in March 2011, and many people have been killed in the violence. ISIL terrorists have been behind many of the attacks across Syria over the past three years.

Has Turkey helped ISIL? yes ample proof that has been published by international media outlets.

August 31, 2014 By administrator

By EMRE USLU
e.uslu@todayszaman.com

Turkish authorities and pro-government academics have been busy in recent days, visiting world capitals in an effort to convince them that Turkey has not provided assistance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) forces. This has been a nice effort, but it is far from convincing major foreign powers. Such efforts are nothing but a reflection of a state that was caught helping a brutal terror organization.

Visiting Washington, London and Brussels to protest that Turkey has never helped ISIL is a lie that even Turks are not buying. Beyond the evidence collected by foreign intelligence agencies, there is ample proof that has been published by international media outlets.

While the dirty relationship between Turkey and ISIL is clear, Turkish authorities think that Western observers might be stupid enough to believe their tall tales.

If there was no hard evidence concerning Turkey’s dark relations with ISIL-like terrorist organizations, the court testimony of the drivers who were carrying ammunition to Syria is convincing enough to make a case that Turkey is helping al-Qaeda-affiliated extremists in Syria.

For example, truck driver L.K., who was arrested carrying 9,000 mortar rounds, testified in Adana in 2013 saying, “I carried similar loads more than once, unloading them at a gendarmerie station on the border. The load did not belong to the Turkish Armed Forces.” The court in Adana determined that the direction which the truck drivers reported that their loads were being taken to was that of an al-Qaeda camp.

When the police and gendarmerie stopped the trucks full of ammunition at the Reyhanlı border, Turkish authorities claimed that the trucks were carrying aid to Turkmens in Syria. It is ridiculous for any reasonable person to believe that these trucks were carrying aid to Turkmens.

This was an obvious lie for two simple reasons: Turkmens in Syria live right across the border from the Turkish town of Yayladağı, which is located at the very southern corner of Hatay province. However, the trucks were stopped at the Cilvegozu Gate, which is at the top of Hatay province. The distance between Cilvegozu and Yayladağı is 100 miles.

More importantly, extremist al-Qaeda-affiliated groups were controlling the Syrian side of the Cilvegozu gate, Bab-Al-Hawa at that time. ISIL forces were controlling the highways on the Syrian side in 2013, when the trucks were stopped.

Pro-government academics and analysts who want us — and the world community — to believe that Turkey has not helped al-Qaeda affiliated groups want us to believe that those trucks full of ammunition were carrying aid — even military aid — to Turkmens, not through Turkish territory, but through Syrian territory controlled by al-Qaeda and ISIL forces.

Dealing with terrorists and helping terrorism is like a boomerang; sooner or later it will come back on those who engage in it. This was Turkey’s argument back in 1990, telling the countries of Europe that helping the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) would hurt them in the long run, which was true.

Yet, the “new Turkey,” as pro-government analysts love to say, has forgotten its own argument in helping al-Qaeda-affiliated terror groups to topple the Assad regime. Not surprisingly, the boomerang has come back to strike Turkey quite severely. Now 49 Turkish diplomatic staff and dependents are being held captive by ISIL and Turkey has not even lifted a finger to rescue them thus far.

There is little doubt that government authorities violated international law pursuing aggressive policies to topple the Assad regime. If there is a price to be paid, it should not be Turkey; rather, it should be those who made such decisions and played such dangerous games.

Unfortunately, Turkey’s contribution is one of the reasons ISIL wields so much power today. This is not only limited to Turkey’s passive support by turning a blind eye to ISIL fighters using Turkish territory to cross into Syria, but it is also due to these shadowy arms transfers from Turkey to Syria. ISIL officials are not even shy about confessing that they carried their weapons through Turkey on their way to jihad.

Egyptian newspapers: Turkey supports Daash (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria

August 29, 2014 By administrator

Ahmed Ragab

29/08/2014

Egyptian newspapers attributed to the Egyptian security apparatus for monitoring information that contacts are underway between the Turkish intelligence services and the organization (Daash)(Islamic State). report iraqhurr.org

She pointed out that these newspapers, “the Turkish government provide full support to the organization and help him in recruiting fighters Europeans into Iraq and Syria in the framework of the organization’s efforts to control the two countries and establish an Islamic emirate, according to the alleged scheme.”

Local newspapers reported that the hardware information in Egypt continues to track the movements (Daash- Islamic State) within the region as a whole, and found that the intelligence Turkish supplied (Daash) during the last period with information and maps of the most important banks and exchange offices in Syria and Iraq to the armed robbery them and harvested from the large sums of money assist them in spending on terrorist operations carried out by.

She newspapers that the Turkish government helped (Daash) also in robberies on several wells for oil Baham and sale of oil using the Turkish border with Iraq and Syria, and even benefited Turkey of oil, which steals (Daash) of the wells the two countries and transferring it to the Turkish soil cheaply less than its real .

To the president of the Astronomical Institute of Science, Dr. Hatem return of “The Institute strongly monitor earthquakes first 4 and 7 per ten degrees on the Richter Mkabbas last weak and very strongly less than two degrees in the early hours of Friday morning.”

On the other hand, reports said unidentified fired in the early hours of Friday morning fire on a police station Fayoum, while the forces insurance circumference them back to the police department was an exchange of fire in the vicinity of the section, provided the unsung without causing any injuries between the two parties.

As violent clashes broke out between the Central Security Forces, and elements of the Muslim Brotherhood, in the vicinity of Helwan metro station, and Central Security forces fired tear gas canisters to disperse the elements of the Brotherhood received items pelted troops with stones. The police dispersed the march of the elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the area of Dokki.

This announced the public prosecutor that it started an investigation with 141 defendants, members of the Ultras Zamalek Club “White Knights”, arrested in clashes with security forces rotation of Shubra on Thursday evening (August 28), following the exit of tens of “White Nights” in rotation Shubra to go in the march to the Office Attorney General to demand the release of 11 members of their colleagues who were arrested last week on charges of trying to assassinate Prime Zamalek Murtada Mansour, and clashes resulted in the injury of three recruits and 6 members of the Ultras Zmalkkawi.

أحمد رجب

29.08.2014

نسبت صحف مصرية الى أجهزة الأمن المصرية رصدها معلومات تفيد عن اتصالات تجري بين أجهزة المخابرات التركية وتنظيم (داعش).

واشارت هذه الصحف الى إن “الحكومة التركية تقدم دعما كاملا للتنظيم وتساعده في استقدام مقاتلين أوربيين إلى داخل العراق وسوريا فى إطار مساعي التنظيم للسيطرة على الدولتين وإقامة إمارة إسلامية وفقا لمخططه المزعوم”.

وأضافت الصحف أن أجهزة المعلومات في مصر تواصل تتبع تحركات (داعش) داخل المنطقة ككل، وتبين لها أن أجهزة مخابرات تركية أمدت (داعش) خلال الفترة الماضية بمعلومات وخرائط عن أهم البنوك ومكاتب الصرافة في سوريا والعراق لكي تقوم بسطو مسلح عليها وتحصد من ذلك أموالا طائلة تساعدها في الإنفاق على العمليات الإرهابية التي تقوم بها.

وتابعت الصحف أن الحكومة التركية ساعدت (داعش) أيضا في عمليات السطو على آبار عديدة للنفط بالشام وبيع النفط باستخدام الحدود التركية مع العراق وسوريا بل واستفادت تركيا من النفط الذي تسرقه (داعش) من آبار الدولتين وتقوم بنقلها إلى الأراضى التركية بثمن رخيص أقل من سعره الحقيقي.

إلى ذلك اعلن رئيس معهد العلوم الفلكية الدكتور حاتم عودة إن “المعهد رصد زلزالين أولهما بقوة 4 و7 بالعشرة درجة على مقباس ريختر وآخر ضعيف للغاية بقوة أقل من درجتين في الساعات الأولى من صباح اليوم الجمعة”.

من جهة أخرى ذكرت تقارير ان مجهولين اطلقوا في ساعة مبكرة من صباح الجمعة النار على قسم شرطة الفيوم، فيما قامت قوات التأمين بمحيط قسم الشرطة بالرد عليهم وتم تبادل إطلاق النار في محيط القسم، وفر المجهولون دون وقوع أية إصابات بين الطرفين.

كما نشبت اشتباكات عنيفة بين قوات الأمن المركزي، وعناصر جماعة الإخوان، في محيط محطة مترو حلوان، وأطلقت قوات الأمن المركزي قنابل الغاز المسيل للدموع على عناصر الإخوان لتفريقهم وردت العناصر برشق القوات بالحجارة. وفرقت قوات الشرطة مسيرة لعناصر جماعة الإخوان في منطقة الدقي.

هذا واعلنت النيابة العامة انها باشرت التحقيق مع 141 متهما من أعضاء ألتراس نادى الزمالك “وايت نايتس”، المقبوض عليهم فى اشتباكات مع قوات الأمن بدوران شبرا مساء الخميس(28آب)، إثر خروج عشرات الـ”وايت نايتس” في دوران شبرا للتوجه في مسيرة لمكتب النائب العام من أجل المطالبة بالإفراج عن 11 عضوا من زملائهم الذين تم إلقاء القبض عليهم الأسبوع الماضي لاتهامهم بمحاولة اغتيال رئيس الزمالك مرتضى منصور، وأسفرت الاشتباكات عن إصابة 3 مجندين و6 من أعضاء الألتراس الزمالكاوي.

ISIL recaptures Mosul Dam yet again, takes 200 Kurdish Peshmerga prisoners

August 26, 2014 By administrator

Mosul (IraqiNews.com) According to an informed source in Nineveh province, on Tuesday, that the militants of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant took control of the Mosul Dam fully for the second time after fierce battles with the Peshmerga forces, while stressing that ISIL captured 200 elements of those forces.

The source said in a statement for IraqiNews.com that “The violent clashes broke out yesterday night and continued until dawn today, between the militants of ISIL and Peshmerga forces in the region of Mosul Dam (50 km north of the city) , resulted in the control of the dam fully by the element of ISIL.”

The source, who asked not to be named, said: “the militants of ISIL announced the capture of 200 members of the Peshmerga during those clashes.”

The Ministry of Peshmerga issued a denial of these claims: Peshmerga denies ISIL’s control on Mosul Dam

ISIL militants tipped off to US operation when Americans asked about hostages in Turkish city

August 23, 2014 By administrator

BEIRUT/WASHINGTON – Reuters

A Syrian source close to the Islamic State told Reuters that the militants had been tipped off to the July 4 operation when Americans were seen asking about the hostages in the Turkish city of Antakya

Residents point to warplanes operated by forces of Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad during what activists said was an air raid around al-Tabqa military base at a government-controlled airport that is surrounded by militants, west of Raqqa city, August 21, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer

It was just after midnight on July 4 when at least two dozen U.S. Delta Force commandos arrived on heavily armed Black Hawk helicopters in Akrishi, a small town near the eastern Syrian city of Raqqa on the bank of the Euphrates River.

Before they landed to search for American hostages including journalist James Foley, they destroyed a crucial target: anti-aircraft weapons at a jihadist base about 3 miles (5 km) southeast of the city, a stronghold of militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), now simply known as the Islamic State.

The above account and other details of the raid have emerged from witnesses who spoke with a member of a Syrian opposition activist group, who identified himself as Abu Ibrahim al Raqaoui. Raqaoui told the information to Reuters in an interview via Skype from inside Syria.

His group also posted witness accounts of the raid on Facebook soon after it took place. The posts, which were viewed by Reuters, have since been taken down.

“The raid happened just after midnight,” Raqaoui said. “The helicopters first started destroying anti-aircraft weapons.” Reuters could not verify the account.

The White House publicized details of the raid on Wednesday, a day after Islamic State jihadists posted a video showing Foley being beheaded. The White House said the commandos failed to find Foley or other hostages and that it was prompted to make the announcement after several U.S. news organizations learned of the operation.

The U.S. military incursion into the heart of Islamic State territory, made on U.S. Independence Day, ended in disappointment when the soldiers found no prisoners.

Burned the camp

After landing, the commandos blocked the main road to Raqqa and moved toward a makeshift jail believed to hold Foley and other hostages, Raqaoui said. Discovering Foley wasn’t there, they attacked the base, which the militants had named “Bin Laden”, after the former al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden, Raqaoui said. They lit it on fire, he said.

“According to villagers, they burned the camp and killed all the ISIS fighters,” he said, using one of the acronyms that refer to the Islamic State.

U.S. officials said “many” Islamic State fighters were killed and one American soldier was wounded when a helicopter came under fire. Raqaoui’s account puts the number of wounded U.S. soldiers at two.

The mission was authorized by President Barack Obama and based on U.S. intelligence, including information from hostages who have been released, the administration said. U.S. officials would not confirm that it was on July 4.

It was first direct ground engagement between the United States and Islamic State militants, and the first known U.S. ground operation in Syria since the start of its civil war in 2011.

The raid’s failure to bring hostages home underscores the limits of U.S. intelligence about Syria’s chaotic conflict.

“We believed we had a good case for where they might be,” said one U.S. official who declined to be identified.

Militants tipped off

A Syrian source close to the Islamic State told Reuters that the militants had been tipped off to the planned operation when Americans were seen asking about the hostages in the Turkish city of Antakya, about 12 miles (20 km) from the Syrian border.

“The Americans were looking for their hostages and desperately looking for any information,” said this person, who spoke to Reuters on the condition of anonymity.

“They met people in Antakya and asked questions. Afterwards, the operation became expected. The (Islamic) State anticipated the operation and took precautions. They expected it and that is why they have probably changed the location of the hostages.”

Rami Abdelrahman, founder of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors violence in the Syrian war via a network of activists across the country, said that at the time of the operation last month, his activists in Raqqa received a report from a single source close to the Islamic State saying that there had been a raid in the area by American troops.

“The residents said they heard the noise of aircraft and gunfire but did not know more than that,” he said.

The source close to the Islamic State had said at the time that some of the Americans had been killed, Abdelrahman said. The source said Islamic State fighters also had been hurt. “They said some of the brothers were wounded.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists, a U.S. independent group, estimates that two dozen kidnapped journalists, both local and foreigners, remain in Syria, including American Steven Sotloff who was shown at the end of the Islamic State video on Tuesday. The militant who killed Foley warned that Sotloff would be next if U.S air strikes persist.

U.S. warplanes and drones have continued daily attacks on Islamic State positions in Iraq. U.S. officials say they have not ruled out escalating military action against the jihadists, who have increased their threats against the United States since the air campaign in Iraq began two weeks ago.

August/23/2014

100s of Yazidis convert to Islam under threat of death (Video)

August 21, 2014 By administrator

REUTERS / BAGHDAD

Militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which witnesses and officials say has executed hundreds of members of Iraq’s Yazidis, has released a video that seeks to show it enlightened hundreds of members of the religious minority by converting them to Islam.

The production was issued not long after the group, which later renamed itself as the Islamic State (IS), released a video showing one of its black-clad fighters beheading American journalist James Foley, sparking international outrage.

The Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion derived from Zoroastrianism who are part of the country’s Kurdish minority, have paid the highest price for ISIL’s dramatic advance through northern Iraq.

ISIL militants, widely seen as more hardline than al-Qaeda, storm into villages armed with machine guns and give Yazidis a simple choice: convert to Islam or die.

Witnesses have said most of their hundreds of victims were shot dead at close range, while others including women and children were buried alive. Women who avoided death were rounded up and taken away as slaves, witnesses said. The threat to the Yazidis was one reason cited by US President Barack Obama when he launched US air strikes against ISIL in parts of Iraq earlier this month.

United State bypass Turkey’s military bases use Aircraft carrier instate

August 19, 2014 By administrator

It is time that US close military air bases in Turkey and save billions of taxpayer $$$. aircraft carrier are supper alternative.

A still image captured from US Navy cockpit video shows an F/A-18F Super Hornet assigned to the Fighting Black Lions of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 in a mid-air refueling after launching from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Gulf on August 10, 2014 in this video released on Aug. 11. A series of US airstrikes since last week has slowed the operational tempo of the Islamic State but is unlikely to substantially weaken the group, the Pentagon said on Monday. (Photo: Reuters)

ISIL Takfiris kill 700 in eastern Syria: Observatory

August 16, 2014 By administrator

ISIL Takfiri terrorists have executed 700 people of a tribe in their fight against a tribe in eastern Syria, a monitoring group says.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday that many of the victims from the al-Sheitaat tribe, in the Deir al-Zor province, were beheaded.

Clashes between ISIL and the tribe intensified after the militants captured an oilfield in July.

Observatory director Rami Abdelrahman said, “Those who were executed are all al-Sheitaat,” which has a population of 70,000 people.

“Some were arrested, judged and killed,” Abdelrahman added.

The UK-based monitoring group said that “there are more than 1,800 members of the tribe, who are still missing.”

On Friday, the United Nations Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution against the ISIL militants in Syria and Iraq, calling on them to “disarm and disband with immediate effect.”

The ISIL terrorists currently control a swathe of eastern Syria and western Iraq.

Syria has been gripped by deadly violence since 2011.

More than 170,000 people have been killed and millions displaced due to the violence fueled by Western-backed militants.

The Western powers and their regional allies — especially Qatar, Saudi Arabia and, Turkey — are reportedly supporting the militants operating inside Syria.