The Syrian Democratic Forces arrest a Moroccan ISIS fighter

Six people suspected of fighting for ISIS were captured during an operation led by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), reports Emirati online newspaper The National.

«Six foreign jihadists of various nationalities who had actively participated in terrorist activities of the group for years were captured alive in an operation», the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement released on Saturday.

One of these fighters is Moroccan, while others are from Russia, Germany, Turkey, Sweden and Latin America.

According to SDF, the area controlled by ISIS has shrunken to just four kilometers square.

For the record, more than 36,000 people fled the «Hajin pocket» after SDF «assault began in early December», the same source indicates.