DEIR EZZOR PROVINCE, SYRIA (REUTERS) - US-backed fighters besieging the last shred of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) territory in eastern Syria said on Tuesday (March 19) they had captured 157 mostly foreign fighters as they tracked efforts by Islamists to escape the enclave.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
DEIR EZZOR PROVINCE, SYRIA - US-backed fighters besieging the last shred of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria territory in eastern Syria said on Tuesday they had captured 157 mostly foreign fighters as they tracked efforts by Islamists to escape the enclave.
It is the last populated area remaining with ISIS from the third of Syria and Iraq it suddenly seized in 2014 before its cruelties and attacks brought together local and foreign countries to push it back. However, while the capture of Baghouz will mark a milestone in the battle against ISIS, regional and Western officials say the group will remain a threat.
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