The filthy secret of the “capital” of ISIS

The BBC has discovered the details of a secret agreement that led to hundreds of I fighters. SIS and their families leave Raqqa, under observation of the coalition led by the United States and Britain, as well as by Kurdish forces controlling the city.

A convoy has transported the most famous ISIS members along with dozens of foreign fighters, some of whom may now have been scattered across Syria or even Turkey.

The agreement on removing ISIS fighters from Raqqa, capital “de facto” of their self-declared potassium was reached by local officials. It came after four months of fighting, causing the city to be destroyed and almost emptied of people.

The deal would save lives and end the fighting. The lives of Arab fighters, Kurds and others who opposed the Islamic State would also be spared. But she made it possible for hundreds of ISIS fighters to leave town.

At the time, neither the US-led coalition nor the Kurdish fighters agreed to be part of it. But it seems that the pact, considered the filthy secret of Rakqa, has posed a danger to the world, allowing militants to spread even beyond Syria.

Efforts to keep it secret have been huge, but the BBC has talked to dozens of people in the convoy, seen it, even with people negotiating the deal.

Kurdish forces first cleared Raqana of media. The removal of the Islamic State from its base did not become television. Publicly, Kurdish fighters said only a few fighters would be allowed to leave, all local, but according to evidence provided by the BBC, that was not true.

This was, according to the BBC, not an evacuation, but an ecstasy of the so-called Islamic State. It had been said that no foreign fighter would be allowed out of Raqqa alive, but they too had climbed into trucks. Following the BBC investigation, the United States-led coalition now acknowledges it has played a role in the deal.

About 250 ISIS fighters were allowed to leave Rakqaja. A spokesman for the Western coalition against the Islamic State says they wanted no one to leave Rakqa, but in the end were local leaders on the ground -- those who said the last word. It was those who fought and died and they had to make decisions, followed the TCh.

Although a Western official has been present in negotiations, he has had no active role in the discussions. War I The SIS had a double goal: first to destroy the so-called potassium by regaining territories, and second to prevent terrorist attacks in the world beyond Syria and Iraq.

Raqqa was effectively the capital of I SIS, but there was also a kind of cage that the fighters were trapped in. The deal to save Raqqa may have been of value. But it has also caused militants to spread throughout Syria and beyond, and many have not closed accounts with the war yet.