On 21 June 2017 , YAT captured five ISIL sleeper agents who were preparing a terrorist attack in Manbij . In January 2018 , the Anti-Terror Units killed the mastermind of the July 2016 Qamishli bombings , Hisen Ayid el-Bilebil Ebu el-Walid , during operations in Deir ez-Zor Governorate . In the same month , they also captured around twenty international members of ISIL as they attempted to flee from Syria to Turkey . One of those arrested was Thomas Barnouin , a French jihadist who is considered to be one of the planners of the 2012 Toulouse attack and the November 2015 Paris attacks
2012 Toulouse attack
Toulouse and Montauban shootings
Anti-Terror Units