Islamic State group 'kills 68 US-backed fighters in eastern Syria' (SOHR)

[TomSea]

SOHR, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, pretty accurate but not always. Pretty bad news.

Islamic State group 'kills 68 US-backed fighters in eastern Syria'
MEE and agencies

IS fighters have been taking advantage of sandstorms to stage attacks, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

 Deadly attack came week after 35 Islamic State fighters were killed by US-backed forces (AFP)

Saturday 27 October 2018

The Islamic State (IS) group killed 68 US-backed fighters near Syria's Hajin, an eastern IS holdout on the Iraqi border, an activist group said on Saturday.

IS late on Friday used suicide bombers as part of a counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who have been fighting the group with US backing, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human rights said.

Read more at: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/group-kills-fighters-eastern-syria-1673584388

CBS reports, at least, 40 US-backed fighters were killed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-gunmen-kill-at-least-40-u-s-backed-fighters-in-eastern-syria/

[TomSea]

U.S.-backed Syria group says 14 of its fighters killed in clashes...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fourteen fighters from the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces were killed east of the Euphrates river in Syria in a battle with Islamic state militants, an SDF spokesman said on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-kurds/u-s-backed-syria-group-says-14-of-its-fighters-killed-in-clashes-with-islamic-state-idUSKCN1N10S1

Our side says only 14 were killed.