U.S.-backed Syria offensive kills 35 ISIS fighters

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U.S.-backed Syria offensive kills 35 ISIS fighters

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Fighting has killed 414 jihadists and 227 SDF fighters in total since the assault began on September 10, says the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

BEIRUT, Lebanon – An offensive by US-backed forces against the Islamic State group’s last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 jihadists on Saturday, October 20, a Britain-based war monitor said.

Twenty-eight ISIS members were killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition around the town of Hajin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Another 7 jihadists were killed in ground fighting with the Syrian Democratic Forces, who launched a coalition-backed offensive against the ISIS-held pocket in the Euphrates Valley last month.

Fighting has killed 414 jihadists and 227 SDF fighters in total since the assault began on September 10, the Observatory said.

Coalition air strikes on ISIS targets in another part of the pocket on Thursday and Friday killed at least 41 civilians, 10 of them children, the monitor said.

ISIS overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a “caliphate” across the land it controlled. (READ: ISIS frees 6 Syria Druze women, children after 3-month ordeal)

But the jihadist group has since lost most of its territory to various offensives in both countries.

In Syria, its presence has been reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the Hajin pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border.

Syria’s war has killed more than 360,000 people since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. – Rappler.com

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