U.S.-backed Syrian force launches 'final battle' against IS

Then turkey will kill them, then people will rise up against turkey and IS will come back and....

Didn't somebody tell us ISIS had been defeated? Who was that guy?

Our wars in the Middle East are never going to be over because the generals love it and the munitions contractors love the money. We'll be fighting to kill the revenge-motivated sons and grandsons of our death campaigns until the money runs out.

@Burning Bush

“When Assad controlled this area, he kept a lid on all this nonsense.”

“Nonsense” or “legitimate rebellion”? “Bad guys” or “good guys”?

Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad, put down a “rebellion”/“nonsense”, said to be instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood, in Homs in 1982 at a cost of 2,000 - 40,000 lives (rather big disagreement on the numbers).

Saddam Hussein was also quite effective in putting down “rebellions”/“nonsense”.

The problem is distinguishing between “rebellions” and “nonsense”, “good guys” and “bad guys”. I’m no expert.

Good job, SDF coalition; the world gives thanks

The SDF had handled the last 10 days "patiently" as more than 20,000 civilians were evacuated from the besieged IS enclave, Bali said.

The SDF are actually treating those ISIS refugees better than other countries would

"ISIS has been defeated. We've beaten them, and beaten them badly." Miss Emily Litella: "Never mind."