US-Kurdish force captures ISIS dep chief in E. Syria

A special force of US Marines and Kurdish YPG militia has captured Osama Awaid Al-Ibrahim, aka Abu Zeid, ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s second in command. He was caught in the village of al-Tayyana in the Deir ez-Zour region of Syria, east of the River Euphrates, hiding in a secret tunnel under a house. The tunnel also contained 20 cell phones, gold and large sums of cash.

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