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In yet another new for ISIS, it has managed this time to draw public eye towards it not through its brutality, but as a result of its drugging a large number of gazelles.

The terrorist organization used to be in control of the city of Rutbah, which also has a wildlife preserve nearby, home to thousands of gazelles. However ISIS was recently forced to withdraw from the city, which also possesses a wildlife preserve, useful for the abundance of wildlife in it and its open spaces, allowing the organization to sustain itself.

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ISIS recently opted to make more use of the preserve, possibly reflecting desperation, or just utter carelessness, as it proceeded to drug some watering holes used by the gazelles so that they would be easier to capture.

Imad al-Daylami, Al-Raqqa provice's deputy governor recently accused ISIS of stealing over 2000 gazelles from the al-Rutba wildlife preserve, stating that the terrorist organization then proceeded to move these gazelles from the preserve using its own automobiles, and into Syria. They opted for this theft after Iraqi forces completed their preparations to retake the city, because they would be forced to subsequently retreat from the preserve.

Iraqi sources have also confirmed the fact that the gazelles have been stolen from the preserve, whose borders stretch until the border with Saudi Arabia.

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ISIS has also caused some civilian casualties through a suicide bombing and some additional bombs they detonated along the way leading outside of Heet, Iraq, in order to prevent the civilian population from fleeing the city, as Iraqi forces were fighingt a fierce battle to drive ISIS out of the city. Six people were killed, and another 12 were injured in the explosions, with women and children among the casualties.

The Iraqi forces have recently announced their success in liberating the city from ISIS, dealing a major blow to the organization.