SOHR: 7 Fighters from Kurdish-led Pressure Killed in Syria IS Assaults

 

Not less than seven fighters from a Kurdish-led pressure have been killed Sunday in two Islamic State group assaults in japanese Syria, a warfare monitor stated.

‘Six fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed’ in an IS assault alongside the street linking Deir Ezzor province with Hasakeh, stated Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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A seventh was shot useless by IS-linked gunmen within the west of Deir Ezzor province, the Observatory stated.

The assaults have been carried out in areas underneath the management of the SDF, which is a key U.S. associate in combating IS and is the Syrian Kurds’ de facto military.

IS seized swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, declaring a ‘caliphate’ to manage the millions-strong inhabitants.

A protracted and bloody fightback by Syrian and Iraqi forces with backing from the US and different powers led to its eventual defeat in March 2019, however sleeper cells of the Sunni Muslim extremist group nonetheless perform assaults in each international locations.

On Thursday, the SDF stated two of their fighters have been killed and 6 IS jihadists arrested following clashes in a risky Syria camp the place a safety operation was underneath approach.

Syria’s warfare started in 2011 and has killed practically half 1,000,000 individuals and compelled round half of the nation’s pre-war inhabitants from their properties.

 

 

Source: fresh society