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| Baghouz: Three female ISIS jacket wallahs strike SDF screening area, ISIS down to a few hundred turbans & turbanettes |
| 2019-03-16 |
| [Rudaw] Suicide bombers attacked an area used by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to screen people surrendering from al-Baghouz on Friday, killing three SDF fighters. "ISIS terrorists" conducted three simultaneous suicide kabooms at a staging ground for people surrendering from Baghouz to the SDF, Mustafa Bali, the head of the SDF Press Office tweeted on Friday night. The SDF says the attacks killed six people who were surrendering, maimed others, while killing three SDF fighters and slightly injuring some more. They also announced that more "ISIS terrorists" from Baghouz had surrendered on Friday. ISIS is being pounded with US-led international coalition strikes, while simulataneously facing a three-axis ground offensive by the SDF which is supported by the coalition. They have resorted to suicide attacks on a nearly hourly basis within the past two days. The SDF is keeping open a corridor for families to evacuate and turbans to surrender. On Thursday, 1,300 people ‐ families and fighters ‐ turned themselves in, Bali tweeted. More than 60,000 people have evacuated the Baghouz area since December, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. SDF spokesperson Kino Gabriel also denied on Friday that it has reached an agreement with Baghdad to hand over thousands of ISIS turbans and family members held in SDF custody. Baghouz town and its outlying villages lie in Syria's eastern Deir ez-Zor governorate near the border with Iraq. The area in the Middle Euphrates River Valley long has been described as the group's "final stand" by senior US military officials. Suicide attack strikes people leaving last Islamic State enclave in Syria [AlAhram] A suicide kaboom targeted people leaving the last 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... enclave in eastern Syria on Friday, a witness and the U.S.-backed forces besieging the area said. The witness said three women had detonated explosives at a position where people who had left the enclave were surrendering, causing deaths and injuries. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is besieging the enclave, said there had been a suicide attack, but gave no further details. Daesh down to last few hundred fighters in eastern Syria [ALMASDARNEWS] US Special Representative for Syria James Franklin Jeffrey said that the US is appealing to countries to take back ISIS imported muscle and their families captured by the US-backed SDF in Syria, to share the burden of prosecution and re-education. Jeffrey added that the US believes there are 15,000-20,000 ISIS adherents in Syria and Iraq, with many of them in sleeper cells. According to him, ISIS is down to a few hundred fighters and less than a square kilometre of land. "We are just about finished with the campaign along the Euphrates to defeat the last territorial holdings of the Caliphate. They’re down to a few hundred fighters and less than a square kilometre of land," Jeffrey said. Recently, the SDF has been carrying out operations against ISIS gunnies in Syria, with support from the US-led coalition. The US-led coalition, which consists of over 70 countries, is conducting military operations against ISIS in Syria and Iraq. The coalition’s operations in Syria are not authorised by the Syrian government nor the UN Security Council (UNSC). ISIS women join battle in eastern Syria as terrorist group experiences shortage of fighters [ALMASDARNEWS] 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) is in a world of trouble in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley as they are not only besieged from all sides, but it appears they have a shortage of fighters to press on. As a result of these circumstances, the Islamic State has allowed women to participate in the defense of the Baghouz Camp against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). ISIS typically prohibits women from fighting on the front-lines; however, due to their current circumstances in eastern Syria, they have made an exception to this rule. |
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