- The Turkish Foreign Ministry has slammed a U.S. statement which OK'd a deal allowing ISIS troops to flee across Syria
- The news comes following an agreement between the U.S.-backed YPG and ISIS, which saw around 4,000 ISIS fighters evacuated to Syria and Turkey from Raqqa
- The move comes just days after Muslim hackers vowed to wipeout the so-called Caliphate online
- Some are now questioning whether the U.S. is serious about tackling terrorism by ISIS
Pressure is mounting on the U.S. to condemn a deal which allowed scores of ISIS troops to flee Raqqa and left many questioning whether the White House is truly committed to defeating the terror group.
The news comes at a time when Muslim hackers have been attempting to destroy the so-called Islamic State online.
On Sunday, a BBC report claimed that 4,000 ISIS fighters were evacuated as part of an agreement and resettled across Syria and neighboring Turkey.
In the hours following the news, a U.S. Department of Defense statement said that the country respected the deal between the U.S.-backed YPG militias and ISIS.
The news has raised eyebrows across the world with some questioning whether the U.S. is truly committed to defeating the terror group.
Nowhere was the ire felt more than from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, which branded the U.S. policy is ‘appalling’.
“Seeing that statements from the spokespeople of the international coalition against Islamic State and the U.S. Department of Defense have not denied the existence of the given agreement, but to the contrary said they ‘respected’ it is appalling,” Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
The U.S. policy of supporting the withdrawal deal is directly at odds with moves put forward by Muslim hackers aimed at wiping out ISIS in cyberspace.
The Di5s3nSi0N hacktivist group, otherwise known as “the steadfast youth of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah” has declared war on ISIS online and announced plans to attack ISIS websites and servers on Nov. 17.
The planned stunt forms part of the group’s #SilenceTheSwords campaign.
“Daesh stained our streets and fields red from our martyrs,” the group tweeted last week. “The tears of the ummah will wash them clean. And we wash them from their internet hiding places! Our vengeance will be on 17.11.17,” the group tweeted last week.
The hacktivist group has already carried out cyber attacks against the website for ISIS’s Amaq news agency and exposed a 2,000 email subscriber list.
The defiant hack came after ISIS boasted last week that the list was unhackable.
“Challenge complete - too easy! 2000 email subscribers hacked from Amaq... What is next??,” the group tweeted following the attack.
Meanwhile, another post aimed at ISIS added: "As your failed evil Khalifate gets wiped off the map we will wipe you off the internet. Watch this space."
In previous years, ISIS carried out cyber attacks against opponents but the group’s online prowess has dramatically decreased following the deaths of high profile hackers affiliated with the group.
