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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Islamic State's last pocket under fire on all sides in Syria
By Rodi Said NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JeffLee
Trump's withdrawal deadline, announced a couple of months ago, now seems to make sense.
Blacklabel
Has Trump defeated ISIS? Nah, can’t be.
RichardPearce
I must have missed the articles detailing the deteriorating medical services, the bombed hospitals, the horrors of life under unrelenting bombardment, the growing civilian death toll...
Oh, wait, forgot, it is 'our guys' doing the firing, so everyone but the terrorists and extremists are happy eating cake and ice cream and cheering.
Chip Star
"The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial," Trump said in a tweet, using another acronym for IS.
*"The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them. The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go."*
https://www.yahoo.com/news/back-jihadists-trump-tells-europe-070027213.html
Oh my . . .
Trump wants to release terrorists so they can continue to terrorize. HAR!
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lostrune2
Good job SDF coalition. But remember, this is just about ISIS enclaves in eastern Syria, where the SDF operates.
There's still ISIS enclaves but in western Syria.
And the civilian death tolls continue because ISIS always leave hidden bomb traps in residential areas on their way out. That's why it's always hard for residents to return to their homes that ISIS had occupied.
The Baghouz fighters are ISIS. First, do you consider ISIS to be all of opposition?
To answer your question: it's a mix. It started out as domestic opposition that's been simmering since the 1950s when Assad's father ruled. Even Turkey, why do ya think they wanted to help the ethnic-Turk Syrians in northwest Syria? But ISIS is so different from other opposition groups in that ISIS actively recruit foreigners --particularly Western foreigners-- to come join them. But most opposition are not ISIS.
Also, in further context just in case lost to ya, the fighters left in Baghouz are foreigners because the domestic ISIS fighters still alive already blended away into the local population. But foreigners cannot blend in with the locals because they would be obvious. So the ISIS foreigners are the ones left to stay and fight.