SOHR: Seven fighters of Kurdish-led forces killed in IS attack in Syria

Two Islamic State attacks in eastern Syria on Sunday killed at least seven fighters in Kurdish-led forces, war monitors said. Stated.

Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the IS attack along the road linking Deir ez-Zor province to Hasakeh had killed six Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters. I did,” he said.

According to The Observatory, in western Deir Ezzor state, a seventh person was shot dead by a gunman with ties to his IS.

The attacks took place in areas under the control of his SDF, a key US partner in the fight against IS and the de facto army of the Kurds in Syria.

IS ruled over Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a “caliphate” over a population of millions.

A long and bloody counterattack by Syrian and Iraqi forces, backed by the United States and other forces, led to their final defeat in March 2019, although Sunni Islamic extremist groups Sleeper cells continue to carry out attacks in both countries. He said six IS jihadists had been arrested.

Syria’s civil war began in 2011, killing nearly half a million people and displacing about half of its pre-war population.