![]() ![]() The Western intelligence officer who confirmed the account of Agal's assassination, and the lengthy period of tracking by tribesmen before the strike, has been briefed on tribal support for counter-insurgency activities by the U.S.-led coalition. "This is something that required a deep network in the region," said the official, who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak publicly about the matter. ![]() military official said that in the operation against Agal, the targeting was almost entirely based on human intelligence. "Informants from the same tribe are tipping off about their own cousins in Islamic State," he said.Īsked about the role of tribal informants in Syria, a U.S. "These networks of informants are working with the Americans who are planting them everywhere," said Yasser al Kassab, a tribal chief from the town of Gharanij in the Deir al-Zor area. military's campaign to further degrade the group, three Western intelligence sources and six tribal sources said. The Arab tribesmen in Syria seeking vengeance are now part of a growing network of tribal spies playing a significant role in the U.S. While Islamic State is a shadow of the group that ruled over a third of Syria and Iraq in a Caliphate declared in 2014, hundreds of fighters are still camped in desolate areas where neither the U.S.-led coalition nor the Syrian army, with support from Russia and Iranian-backed militias, exert full control. In one of its bloodiest atrocities, Islamic State massacred more than 900 members of the Sheitaat tribe in three towns in Syria's eastern Deir al-Zor region in 2014 when they rebelled against jihadist rule. ![]() "It has healed the burning in our hearts." "I exacted revenge in blood for those of my tribe whom Daesh crucified, executed and beheaded without mercy," the person, who declined to identified for security reasons, told Reuters by phone from Syria. The tribesman, whose account was confirmed by a Western intelligence officer in the region, said tribal relatives in contact with the Islamic State commander's immediate family had secretly been keeping tabs on him for months in northern Syria. Still thirsty for vengeance eight years after the group, which is also known as Daesh, massacred hundreds of their clan, Sheitaat tribesmen in Syria had planted a tracking device on the motorbike Agal was riding when he was killed, one of the people who tracked him down said. With Islamic State's last battle-hardened forces holed up in remote areas, the United States is turning to the aid of tribesmen burning to exact revenge for the atrocities unleashed by the group when it ruled over swathes of Syria and Iraq. military targeted Islamic State commander Maher al-Agal with a drone strike in northern Syria in July, there was little chance it would miss. FILE PHOTO: A suveillance image shows a compound housing the leader of the Islamic State jihadist group Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, who had led Islamic State since the death in 2019 of its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in northwest Syria prior toĪMMAN (Reuters) - When the U.S. This game is no game, just a stat calculator with some visuals.© Reuters. This game reminds me about some browser games in the early 2000s, which were completely text based and didn’t need you to actually pay, but just give orders. From then on it’s all rinse and repeat, as this is the only thing the game has got to offer. When you’ve won a battle, you will take home some resources and get a battle report back, showing how many were killed. This was very disappointing, especially after having spent so much time waiting and building. This all happens behind the scenes and you will never actually get to see a battle. When your army is built up, you can start attacking other tribes. The game doesn’t explain the social aspect very well, and joining another tribe in an alliance is possible, but never explained. This can be quite annoying and I got bored rather quickly, as there is not much else to do within the game then just to wait. You can only queue two different building orders at once, meaning you will have to come back when the queue is empty again. You won’t have an army yet, as you need to build certain structures first, and the higher these structures need to be, the longer the wait. When you first start the game, you will be constantly waiting for buildings to complete. ![]()
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