ISIS Claims Three Ops Against Kurdish Forces in North Syria

The jihadist Islamic State (ISIS) assumed responsibility on 2 January for three operations against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria’s Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor, reported North Press Agency. The three consecutive statements began by claiming responsibility for an operation that targeted an SDF military vehicle with machine guns on the road into Ain Issa, north of Raqqa, wounding two people. The ISIS run- media also claimed that ISIS militants detonated an explosive in an SDF vehicle near Hazima north of Raqqa. Lastly it was claimed that the ISIS militants targeted an SDF checkpoint near the entrance of the…