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’s last bastion, east of Euphrates, leaving tens of
The strikes came in response to attacks by the
In a statement, SDF said "fierce confrontations broke out between our troops and Islamic State members in Hajin city, in the wake of an attack carried out by he
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The statement also indicated that the Coalition "carried out 27 strikes against Islamic State in Hajin city, leaving 49 members killed, locations and weapons destroyed."
SDF had announced suspending its operations against Islamic State after the
The last stronghold of Islamic State in east of Euphrates include each of al-Bagouz, Hajin, al-Shaafa, al-Soussa, abul Khater and abul Hassan regions.
In September, each of the Coalition and SDF announced the launch of operations, east of Euphrates.
SDF controls 28 percent of the Syrian lands, becoming the second controller of lands, after the regime forces, which control around 60 percent.
Coalition strikes kill 20 IS fighters in eastern Syria — monitor
[IsraelTimes] US-led coalition air strikes against the Islamic State
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reallyMoslems....
group killed 20 of the jihadists Wednesday as they attacked an oil field in eastern Syria, a monitor says.
"Coalition air strikes killed 20 IS fighters during their attack on the Tanak oil field" where US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are based, says the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
IS Suffers Heavy Syria Losses despite Kurd Pause
[AnNahar] At least 45 Islamic State group fighters have been killed around their last enclave in Syria despite a pause in a two-month Kurdish-led assault, a monitor said on Wednesday.
A Kurdish-led alliance backed by Washington announced the pause in its offensive in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor last week in protest at Turkish shelling of Kurdish areas along the northern border.
But waves of US-led air strikes since Monday have killed 28 jihadists, including during an abortive IS assault on Tuesday on an oilfield north of the enclave, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces killed another 17 IS fighters while defending their base in the village of Al-Bahra just outside IS-held territory on Monday, the Britain-based monitoring group said.
Alliance spokesman Kino Gabriel had stressed that the pause in offensive operations did not mean SDF fighters would not defend themselves.
The SDF launched its offensive against the IS enclave around the Euphrates valley town of Hajin on September 10.
But after making slow progress, they suffered a major setback last month when IS took advantage of sand storms to launch a series of counter-attacks.
By the end of the month, they were back at square one with all of the territory they had won recaptured by the jihadists.
The Hajin enclave is the last significant remnant of the "caliphate" IS proclaimed in 2014 across a vast swathe of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
The rest has all been lost to offensives by multiple alliances on both sides of the border.
Outside the Hajin enclave, the group's operations are confined to sleeper cells and to hideouts in unpopulated desert and mountain areas.