fighter of the Kurdish-Arab Alliance continued on Saturday their decisive Offensive against the last Bastion of the jihadists militia Islamic state (IS) in Eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) joined in the fight area around the village of Baghus in the province of Deir Essor to the Iraqi border on strong resistance from the jihadists.

In the area on the Euphrates river Saturday morning gunfire and the Rattle of machinery were heard the guns, as AFP reported, a Reporter from the Front. “There is currently fierce fighting,” said an SDF officer. The Kurdish-led SDF before the troops advanced from two directions against the jihadists. The advance was slowed by the fact that the IS fighters Tunnel and explosives used traps and suicide bombers use.

The SDF expect according to your speaker Adnan Afrin so that it could take up to a complete victory over the jihadists in Baghus, depending on the development of one to three weeks. The US-led Anti-IS coalition supported the SDF, the backbone of the Kurdish people’s defense units (YPG), besiege Baghus since last September.

In the past few days, were brought to the SDF-information around 5000 people – men, women, and children – from the Region of Baghus. The last IS entrenched militants in an area of less than one square kilometer. Among the Evacuees are also many women and children of IS-fighters.

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remained Of your “Caliphate”, had to call the jihadists militia in the summer of 2014 in Parts of Iraq and Syria, almost nothing left. In the past two years, the IS-fighters were given various Offensive is constantly on the retreat.

traces of the cruel tyranny of the Islamic state appeared repeatedly, even in such areas, where the jihadists have been defeated a long time ago militarily. The SDF announced this week the discovery of a further mass grave by IS the Victims – this time in the vicinity of Baghus. There are also separate heads of the women had been found, it said.

the dead were not identified, but some evidence that the women were murdered because of their belonging to the religious minority of Yazidis. The Kurdish-speaking minority has been persecuted because of their faith, again and again, IS-trailer murdered in 2014 in the Iraqi home of the Yazidis, thousands of jesidische men, forced the boys to fight as child soldiers for you, and raped and abducted women and girls.

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The Nobel peace prize laureate of the year 2018, Nadia Murat, a Yazidi from Northern Iraq, was – like many of their suffering comrades – jihadists kidnapped and raped. Since their escape abroad, she advocates for the rights of Jesidinnen and the punishment of their tormentors. On Friday you said that the Anti-IS coalition must ensure to save the Yazidis who were still missing. It is believed that jesidische women could still be in Baghus in the violence of IS fighters. (AFP)