'He is a liar': Anti-ISIS group in Syria calls out Trump for saying Assad is fighting terrorists

An activist organization opposed to ISIS called out US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday for saying during the previous night's presidential debate that Syrian President Bashar Assad was focused on fighting ISIS and other terrorist groups in the country.

"I don't like Assad at all, but Assad is killing ISIS," Trump said while debating Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent.

While Assad's forces do target ISIS and other terrorist groups occasionally, their real focus has been wiping out the moderate opposition groups.

ISIS and Al Qaeda-linked groups in Syria also oppose the Assad regime, but because they don't have legitimacy in the West they pose less of a threat to Assad on the international stage than the more moderate rebels.

And Syrian civilians generally regard the Assad regime as their greatest enemy, since his forces have killed more civilians than any terrorist group in Syria.

The activist group, Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, which draws its name from the Syrian city that became ISIS' de facto capital, explained the holes in Trump's statement in a series of tweets:

Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently is an activist group that opposes both Assad and ISIS. Its citizen journalists have exposed the terrorist group's human-rights abuses in Syria.