BEIRUT —
At least seven fighters from a Kurdish-led force were killed Sunday in two
Daesh attacks in eastern Syria, a war monitor said.
اضافة اعلان
“Six fighters from
the
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed” in a Daesh attack along the
road linking Deir Ezzor province with Hasakeh, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director
of the Syrian Observatory for Human rights.
A seventh was shot
dead by Daesh-linked gunmen in the west of Deir Ezzor province, the observatory
said.
The attacks were
carried out in areas under the control of the SDF, which is a key US partner in
fighting Daesh and is the Syrian Kurds’ de facto army.
Daesh seized
swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, declaring a “caliphate” to
administer the millions-strong population.
A long and bloody
fightback by Syrian and Iraqi forces with backing from the US and other powers
led to its eventual defeat in March 2019, but sleeper cells of the extremist
group still carry out attacks in both countries.
On Thursday, the
SDF said two of their fighters were killed and six Daesh terrorists arrested
following clashes in a volatile Syria camp where a security operation was
underway.
Syria’s war began
in 2011 and has killed nearly half a million people and forced around half of
the country’s pre-war population from their homes.
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