Islamic State militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday, the U.S.-backed militia besieging them said, after U.S. President Donald ...
PALM BEACH, FlORIDA/BAGHOUZ, Syria: Islamic State militants in eastern Syria still held out late on Friday , the US-backed militia besieging them said, after US President Donald Trump said the jihadist group had lost its last scrap of territory.
Islamic State's loss of Baghouz ends its grip over populated territory in the third of Iraq and Syria it once ruled, but the group remains a threat with fighters operating in cities and remote areas elsewhere and able to mount insurgent attacks. Some Islamic State fighters remain holed up in the central Syrian desert, an area entirely surrounded by the Syrian army."Here's ISIS on Election Day. And here's ISIS right now," Trump said, using the acronym for the group, as he displayed the map with the 'before' portion full of red dots and the after map empty.
The SDF has been battling for weeks to defeat Islamic State in Baghouz on the Euphrates riverside at the Iraqi border. This week it announced it had captured a jihadist encampment that represented most of the remaining enclave. The jihadists were holed up in what appeared to be caves in a rocky shelf overlooking Baghouz and in trenches by the river, he said."Our forces are trying to force them to surrender, but so far the clashes are continuing."
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