Fierce fighting as SDF pounds last ISIL-held pocket in Syria

[Devil Child]

Source: Al-Jazeera

US-backed Kurdish forces say they are locked in heavy fighting with ISIL fighters in northeast Syria, using artillery fire and air raids as they press ahead to capture the armed group's final patch of territory in the country.

Columns of black smoke on Sunday billowed from the village of Baghouz, in Deir Az Zor province, where commanders of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said fierce clashes were under way.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) was fighting back with snipers, suicide bombs and booby traps.

An SDF commander in Baghouz told Reuters news agency that the armed group had sent explosive-ridden vehicles towards advancing forces on Saturday night.



Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/fierce-fighting-sdf-pounds-isil-held-pocket-syria-190303152032101.html

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SDF cleaning out one of the last ISIS rat's nests in Syria.

[oldsoftie]

1. Just bomb them back to the 700s, where they want to be, and be DONE with it.

Of course they'll still be around blowing themselves up in restaurants and schools

[okaawhatever]

2. I wish them luck. Can't get rid of the cancer that is ISIL soon enough. nt