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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria force continues to carry out evacuation from last Islamic State holdout
2019-02-26
[IsraelTimes] US-backed forces evacuated over 40 truckloads of people from 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....
group’s last Syria redoubt on Monday, as they sought to clear out civilians before a final push to crush the jihadists.

The Syrian Democratic Forces has slowed down its offensive on the final pocket due to the presence of civilians, with just a scrap of the IS "caliphate" remaining from a territory that once spanned Syria and Iraq.

An AFP correspondent saw at least 46 trucks crammed with men, women and kiddies approaching an SDF outpost, 20 kilometers (12 miles) north of the jihadist bastion.
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