...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....
group in eastern Syria 10 days after declaring victory over the holy warriors.
Mustafa Bali, a front man for the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, says the troops are rooting out groups of
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the US-led coalition is still conducting
s against IS. It adds that senior IS commanders and prisoners held by the bully boyz are believed to be in the caves on the east bank of the Euphrates River.The SDF declared military victory over IS on March 23 after liberating what it said was the last pocket of territory held by the bad boys.
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"In support of back-clearance operations, the coalition continues to conduct precision strike support in coordination with SDF," he said.
The official said anti-IS operations are now focusing on "eroding" IS' "capacity to regenerate and collaborate."
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based war monitor, said that more than a dozen coalition air strikes have targeted IS hideouts in Baghouz since Sunday. Strikes hit caves and farmlands in the village where holdout jihadists are believed to be hiding, it said.
IS fighters also retain a presence in Syria's vast Badia desert and various other hideouts, and have continued to claim deadly attacks in SDF-held territory.
Last week, IS killed seven U.S.-backed fighters in an attack on a checkpoint in the northern city of Manbij, which is controlled by a local council linked to the SDF.
The Observatory on Tuesday said that nine suspected jihadists were captured in the former IS bastion of Raqa since Sunday.