15 June 2016 - 05:19
Senior ISIS treasury official flees from Syria’s Raqqa

Informed sources disclosed that the top treasury official of the ISIS terrorist group in the capital of the self-proclaimed Caliphate has left the city for an unknown destination with a large amount of cash.

AhlulBayt News Agency -  Informed sources disclosed that the top treasury official of the ISIS terrorist group in the capital of the self-proclaimed Caliphate has left the city for an unknown destination with a large amount of cash.

Local sources said that Hatim al-Utaybi, a Saudi national, has stolen the entire money, gold and other precious jewelry of the Takfiri group and has left Raqqa for an unknown destination.

Military sources said last week that the Syrian Army troops and popular forces' rapid advances and their race towards the ISIS-held city of Raqqa from different directions testifying that the ISIS was on the verge of a complete fall in Syria.

"The ISIS now faces a serious threat to its capital, Raqqa city," the sources said, adding, "However, the more immediate objective seems to be the capture of al-Tabaqa Airbase or a push Northwards to the Euphrates River; the latter move would have all ISIS-held areas in the Aleppo province cut off from the ISIS mainland."

"In the past week, about 100 ISIS fighters have been killed in Western Raqqa while government forces have advanced 45 kilometers along the Ithriya-Raqqa road," the sources added.

"With the ISIS capital under increasing pressure, the group's commanders are forced to prioritize their scarce manpower between the Manbij frontline and the Western Raqqa frontline," they went on to say



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