U.S.-led Coalition Set to Launch Final Fight Against ISIS in Syria
By Lara Seligman
Report
The jihadi group has lost nearly all its territory but is still seen as a threat.
A firing line of Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers take aim and fire at targets during a marksmanship training exercise to prepare for Operation Roundup, an SDF-led campaign to clear the last Islamic State strongholds, near Shaddadi, Syria, on May 27. (Staff Sgt. Timothy R. Koster/U.S. Army)
A firing line of Syrian Democratic Forces soldiers take aim and fire at targets during a marksmanship training exercise to prepare for Operation Roundup, an SDF-led campaign to clear the last Islamic State strongholds, near Shaddadi, Syria, on May 27. (Staff Sgt. Timothy R. Koster/U.S. Army)
The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State for the past four years is closing in on the last pocket of militants in eastern Syria and is expecting the battle to flush them out to be a tough one, according to a top officer involved in the campaign.
More than 1,000 Islamic State fighters are holed up in the city of Hajin in eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border, including a number foreign fighters, said British Army Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, who is the deputy commander for strategy and support for the U.S.-lead campaign to defeat the Islamic State.
Read more at: https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/01/u-s-led-coalition-set-to-launch-final-fight-against-isis-in-syria/
"Final fight", I doubt that though I'd welcome it. It's hard to do that against Guerillas.
