The Islamic State group killed six US-backed Syrian fighters in japanese Syria saying on Monday that the killing was in retaliation for an ongoing operation inside a sprawling camp housing tens of hundreds of relations of the extremist group.
The IS-linked Aamaq information company launched a video exhibiting the taking pictures of the six members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces close to the japanese village of Ruwaished the place they had been captured alive and later shot lifeless late Sunday.
Regardless of their defeat in Syria in 2019, when IS misplaced the final sliver of land its fighters as soon as managed, the extremists’ sleepers cells have continued to hold out lethal assaults in Syria and Iraq the place they as soon as held massive components of the 2 nations.
The most recent assault occurred in Syria’s japanese province of Deir el-Zour bordering Iraq, and the place US troops are based mostly at an oil facility referred to as the Omar Discipline.
Final week, the US navy mentioned SDF fighters arrested dozens of IS militants and rescued 4 girls who had been being held chained inside tents on the huge al-Hol camp that homes IS households.
The operation that has been ongoing for 3 weeks is a part of an effort to dissolve a serious IS community on the camp, which is broadly seen as a breeding floor for the following era of IS extremists.
The al-Hol camp in Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh Province, has lengthy been seen as a rising drawback and there have been numerous navy operations and raids there to root out IS threats.
Some 50,000 Syrians and Iraqis are crowded into tents within the fenced-in camp. Practically 20,000 of them are youngsters; many of the relaxation are girls, the wives and widows of IS fighters. In a separate, closely guarded part of the camp referred to as the annex are a further 2,000 girls from 57 different nations – they’re thought of essentially the most die-hard IS supporters – together with their youngsters, numbering about 8,000.
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