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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Deir Ezzor: US-backed forces make significant advance in ISIL’s Euphrates pocket (video)
2018-09-16
[AlMasdar] The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) continued their field operations in the southeastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate this week.

Backed by the French and US air forces, the SDF managed to score a major advance inside the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
’s (ISIS) large Euphrates pocket.

According to the official media wing of the SDF, their troops have seized several points inside the towns of Baghouz Fouqani and al-Sosah in a bid to cutoff the terrorist group’s main supply lines.

In addition to the ground advance, the Syrian Democratic Forces also captured one Islamic State terrorist alive.

The SDF said the Islamic State bully boy is an Algerian national that had been fighting with the terrorist group for several years.
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