Islamic State ISIS vacated a village in Lebanon where it prophesied end times battle.
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Syrian rebels regained power on the village Dabiq from Islamic State after they vacated this village on sunday October 16, 2016 forcing the jihadist group from a stronghold where it had promised to fight a final, apocalyptic battle with the West.
The Syrian rebels, with the backup of Turkish tanks and warplanes, took Dabiq and neighboring Soran villages after a big fight on Sunday morning, said Ahmed Osman, head of the Sultan Murad group, one of the Free Syrian Army (FSA) factions involved in the fighting.
“The Daesh myth of their great battle in Dabiq is finished,” he told Reuters, using a pejorative name for Islamic State.
American Defense Secretary Mr. Ash Carter appreciated the victory against ISIS at Dabiq and thanked Turkey for its help. He said, “Its liberation gives the campaign to deliver ISIL a lasting defeat new momentum in Syria,” using an alternative name for the group.
There’s an Islamic prophecy that says Dabiq as the site of a battle between Muslims and infidels that will presage doomsday, a message Islamic State used extensively in its propaganda, going so far as to name its main publication after the village. It also chose Dabiq as the location for its killing in 2014 of Peter Kassig, an American aid worker held hostage by the group, by Mohammed al-Emwazi, better known as Jihadi John.
