The once large parts of Syria and Iraq “Caliphate” of the terrorist militia Islamic state (IS) has shrunk, according to the Kurdish-run Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) on a four-square-kilometre patch in the East of Syria.

Among the fighters who defended them, were “some of the high-level IS leaders,” said SDF-commander Heval Roni to the AFP news Agency on Monday. Of IS-chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi “we have heard nothing,” he added.

The military of the United States supported the SDF troops knew “exactly who” was in the Rest of the”Caliphate,” said Roni. It was-but mainly to the commanders from Iraq. It is assumed that the IS-leader al-Baghdadi is still alive. In may, Iraq had declared against the secret service representatives, the most wanted man in the world to hold on Syrian territory close to the Iraqi border.

SDF-attack shortly before the end of

The SDF troops are on the verge of the four months ago, launched an attack on the last IS-Bastion complete. This was only from a handful of hamlets in the valley of the Euphrates, said the SDF commander Roni. “Geographically, only four square kilometres between the Baghus and the Syrian border, under IS-control.”

According to the Syrian Observatory for human rights, have been since the beginning of the Offensive on 10. Of September more than 1200 jihadis and about half as many SDF militants killed. More than 400 civilians had died, most of them air in the US attacks-led coalition.

(sda)

Created: 28.01.2019, 18:21 PM