Who & What are the ISIS’ special Forces, Caliphate Army or “Dabeq Army”?

Who and what are the ISIS’ special Forces, Caliphate Army or “Dabeq Army”? (raqqa-sl).

Although global media focuses every day on ISIS group, and dozens of TV channels and newspapers are publishing news and every new about the group, but always there are unknown secrets.

ISIS group in its turn also is publishing many propaganda videos and comic reports and news, but always remain careful to hide one thing, which is elite forces or the so-called “Caliphate Army ” or “Dabeq Army”, so why does the group hide this army away from news and newspapers? and who is the army of the Caliphate?

After ISIS control on the areas of the eastern countryside of Aleppo and withdraw from northern countryside, Omar Chechen with Abu Mohammed the American and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, decided to establish an army and named it “Caliphate Army”.

They began bringing Chechen and Uzbek and African fighters in general, where Jarrah Military Airport “Ksheesh airport in Aleppo eastern countryside” was the basic headquarters for training, in the beginnings the fighters were residing at the airport and when the numbers increased so dramatically, training camps expanded to include the city of Maskana and the camp of Osama bin Laden in the countryside of Raqqa.

In addition to the airport, section of these fighters resides within the camps while the other part lives in Menbij, Al Bab, Jarablus, the dam of Tishrine and Raqqa countryside, the number of this army arrived in the last period to almost 4,000 fighters, but they have not been involved at any battle because their mission was training and nothing else.

This army, who are estimated about 1,500 soldiers, the other sections were distributed in the eastern countryside of Raqqa, the dam of Tishrine and the Iraqi borders, but the army remained secretly and it can be collected at any moment, if necessary.

General commander of this army is Omar Chechen and his aides, Abu Mohammed American who was the ex-leader of the group in A’zaz area and killed recently, and Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, so the military leadership of this army consist of five persons, three are Uzbeks and two of Chechnya, all of them are present in the countryside of Aleppo.

They have a private communication network and private radio equipment, which are separated from the devices used by other members of the group.

Syrians are not allowed to join this army, where its members are selected accurately and with a special recommendation of the religious judiciary, Chechen and Caucasians form about 50% of this army which is considered the elite army of the group.

But it did not participate at any of its battles so far, it seems that the group waiting for the right opportunity to engage the Caliphate Army in its big battles, especially that high military exercises for this army are unprecedented and all fighters are from highly experienced in fighting and battles. Read the full story here.