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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on April 01, 2018, 10:49:19 pm
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Islamic State kills 19 pro-government fighters in east Syria
MEE and agencies
IS still clings to pockets of territory in eastern Syria and maintains ability to launch deadly attacks
Sunday 1 April 2018 20:47 UTC
Militants from the Islamic State (IS) group have killed at least 19 pro-government fighters in a spate of attacks in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said on Sunday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks over the past 24 hours struck in and around the town of Albu Kamal, near the border with Iraq.
IS has largely been defeated since storming across the region in 2014, but still clings to pockets of territory in eastern Syria and maintains the ability to launch deadly attacks.
Albu Kamal was a long-time stronghold of IS that they lost in the face of a Russian-backed offensive at the end of 2017.
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