Near IS holdout, Syrian fighters face women suicide bombers

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Near IS holdout, Syrian fighters face women suicide bombers
By Afp

Published: 09:54 EST, 27 January 2019 | Updated: 09:55 EST, 27 January 2019

Driving towards the frontline of what remains of the Islamic State group's self-declared "caliphate" in eastern Syria, US-backed fighters pass huge craters from air strikes and buildings reduced to rubble.

Backed by air strikes of the US-led coalition, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are battling to expel IS from a few hamlets in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor.

But cornered in a final remote pocket of territory near the Iraqi border, the jihadists are staging a fierce fightback, hiding in tunnels and deploying suicide bombers -- including women.

Read more at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-6637407/Near-IS-holdout-Syrian-fighters-face-women-suicide-bombers.html

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Women exploding? That's something new?