SDF still battling ISIS

SDF still battling ISIS
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) battled ISIS militants holed up in the Baghouz area overnight, supported by US-led coalition air strikes, the SDF said on Friday (March 22), seeking to defeat the last pockets of ISIS, Reuters reported.

The SDF has been battling for weeks to defeat ISIS at the Baghouz enclave in southeastern Syria at the Iraqi border, all that remained of the territory the militants ruled, which once spanned a third of Syria and Iraq.

While the US-backed SDF has captured most of the area, Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF media office, told Reuters SDF militiamen were clashing late on Thursday with ISIS militiamen in more than two positions where they were refusing to surrender.

ISIS members were holed up in what appeared to be caves in a rocky shelf overlooking Baghouz, and in trenches by the nearby Euphrates River, he said. US-led coalition war planes had conducted two raids on Thursday evening against ISIS movements.

“Our forces are trying to force them to surrender, but so far the clashes are continuing,” Bali said.

Though the defeat of ISIS at Baghouz ends its grip over populated territory, the group remains a threat, with members operating in remote territory elsewhere and capable of mounting insurgent attacks.

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