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Eugene

(62,626 posts)
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 02:20 PM Mar 2019

Victory over Islamic State to be announced after enclave searched: SDF

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MARCH 21, 2019 / 3:26 AM / UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

Victory over Islamic State to be announced after enclave searched: SDF

BAGHOUZ, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian forces were sweeping on Thursday through the final enclave that had been held by Islamic State fighters, and said they would declare the group defeated once a search for hidden mines and jihadist holdouts was complete.

“Our forces are still conducting combing and search operations and as soon as they are finished we will announce the liberation,” Mustafa Bali, spokesman for the Syrian Democratic Forces, said in a note to journalists.

Bali told Reuters the operation included sweeping for mines and combing for fighters still hidden in trenches and tunnels dug beneath Baghouz, the last patch of Islamic State territory.

The last clashes reported by the SDF were on Tuesday, indicating that major fighting is over in the last big battle of a five year international campaign against a self-proclaimed caliphate that once comprised a third of both Iraq and Syria.

The SDF, backed by U.S. air power, swept on Tuesday into a camp where hundreds of fighters had been making their last stand with thousands of civilians, many their own wives and children.

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Victory over Islamic State to be announced after enclave searched: SDF (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2019 OP
They should announce it on an aircraft carrier. Socal31 Mar 2019 #1

Socal31

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1. They should announce it on an aircraft carrier.
Thu Mar 21, 2019, 02:21 PM
Mar 2019

Who wants to help make the banner?

In all seriousness, Daesh is shifting into an insurgency, which is better than being a State.

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