Who are ISIS’ special Forces ” Caliphate Army or “Dabeq Army”?

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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.

The idea of control on the city of Aleppo and the experience of Caliphate Army has crystallized at Omar Chechen and many preparations were under way, but the dream of Chechen has stopped because of the Battle of Ain Arab “Kobanî”, although this army did not involve in this battle, positions and camps affiliated to Caliphate Army were evacuated by the group, soldiers spread among people especially in the city of Menbij which contains the largest number of 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.

media activist from the city of Raqqa, student at the Faculty of Law at the University of the Euphrates. Director of the Media Office of Raqqa, founding member of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently", founding member of the documentary project of "Sound and Picture". I work in documenting violations committed by Assad's regime and ISIS group and extremist organizations inside the city of Raqqa, as I work in programming, design and visual media. I hold a certificate of coach in digital security, and a certificate of journalist coach, and a certificate in documenting violations against human rights, and a certificate in electronic advocacy. I underwent a training under the supervision of "Cyber-Arabs" in collaboration with the Institute for War and Peace "IWPR", about the management of electronic websites and leadership of advocacy campaigns, and a training of press photography under the supervision of the photojournalist "Peter Hove Olesen".