Sophisticated immigration operation by Daesh on Turkey-Syria border

Daesh ran a sophisticated immigration operation through a Syrian border town with Turkey until its defeat in the area by Kurds this summer, said The Guardian quoting documents.

Passenger manifests dated between December 2014 and March 2015, which were seized by Kurdish commanders in Tel Abyad, carry the stamps of Daesh’s “department of immigration” and “department of transport”. They show that buses passed through the town having submitted the names, dates of births, ID numbers and even birthplace of scores of travellers

Most of the registered passengers were travelling from within Daesh-held territory. One manifest shows a group of five male and female Tunisians aged 23-36 entering the area. They are registered as coming from Kairouan, a city south of the Tunisian capital, Tunis, known to be a hotbed of radicalism. Kairouan is where gunman Seifeddine Rezgui, who massacred 30 British tourists on a Sousse beach in June, was studying.

Source: MENA