A top U.K. commander said Monday that a large batch of intelligence documents belonging to the Islamic State group was recovered during
Major General Rupert Jones, the most senior U.K. commander in Iraq and Syria, first made the announcement Sunday while addressing politicians and diplomats on the current fight against the militant group also known as ISIS. He said some 10,000 documents, which included hard drives, USB flash drives and other forms of data storage, were seized following the push by Western-backed Syrian rebels to drive ISIS out of the city of Manbij in August. The contents were being processed at the Kuwaiti headquarters of the Western-led operation to defeat ISIS, whose self-proclaimed caliphate has suffered territorial defeats after taking large swathes of land in Syria and Iraq.
Without revealing any specific plots, Jones confirmed Monday to reporters at the Al Assad Air Base in Iraq that the recovered documents did involve international terror operations. He stated that Manbij, along with the Syrian city of Raqqa and the de facto capital for ISIS, acted as headquarters for coordinating terror efforts abroad.
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