Beirut, June 17
A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance today ousted the Islamic State group from a bastion in northeastern Syria near the Iraqi border, it said.
The Syrian Democratic Forces, supported by US-led coalition air power, have been battling to expel the jihadists from the last villages they hold in eastern Syria.
“The SDF were able on Sunday to liberate Dashisha village” in the northeastern province of Hasakeh, the alliance said in a statement.
SDF fighters “are now just three km from the Syrian-Iraqi border”, it said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said fighting for the village since Saturday had killed 30 jihadists. — AFP
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