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BREAKING: US-led coalition in #Iraq #Syria suffering "a decrease in visibility" as it continues to track/counter #ISIS while consolidating forces in both countries, per acting @DoD_IG Sean O'Donnell

@CJTFOIR also tells IG, its forces face a “significant risk” from ISIS prisoners
"It said that the #SDF faces continued difficulty guarding detention facilities & #ISIS-affiliated camp residents continue to facilitate ISIS activities" per acting @DoD_IG O'Donnell

Also difficulties in trying to "prevent the spread of ISIS ideology in the camps"
"CJTF-OIR reported that #ISIS continued to wage a 'low-level insurgency in both #Iraq & #Syria this quarter, but remains unable to hold territory and continues to rely on small-arms attacks" per @DoD_IG O'Donnell
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I did some research on factional affiliation of al-'Uqaydat tribal confederacy's al-Bu Kamal branch in #DayrAzZawr province before the takeover of #IS and got some surprising results:
1) The most influental local Brigade in the area between al-Bahrah and the Iraqi border clearly appears to have been Liwa' Ahl al-Athar (@Alathr2012).

The Brigade was explicitly an al-'Uqaydat tribal brigade of the #FSA.

2) Another local faction was Liwa' 'Umar al-Mukhtar. It had a few members from the environs of ash-Sha'fah, but its headquarters were located in al-Bu Kamal city and it's support base also was predominantly urban.

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