Hundreds of defectors from Islamic State have massed in Syria’s Idlib province, with many planning to cross the nearby Turkish border and find ways back to the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Last Isis stronghold in Syria could fall by October, says UN envoy Read more“Most want to leave, like me,” said the 26-year-old, who called himself Abu Saad. “That was when I left,” said Abu Saad, speaking days after he arrived in southern Turkey. Tens of thousands of Isis fighters are believed to have been killed in the battle to retain territory it seized from mid-2014, and thousands more homegrown extremists are believed to have returned to their communities. It wasn’t what I expected.”As the group’s fate worsened, tensions increased within its ranks, Abu Saad claimed.

Source: The Guardian September 12, 2017 10:52 UTC