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Daesh terrorists kill 60 US-backed SDF militants in Syria’s Dayr al-Zawr

Saturday, 27 October 2018 4:19 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 27 October 2018 5:19 PM ]

Members of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are pictured in the village of al-Sousa in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr, near the Syrian border with Iraq on September 13, 2018. (Photo by AFP)

Dozens of US-backed militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been killed after members of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group launched a surprise attack on them in Syria’s eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr near the border with Iraq.

The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on Saturday that Daesh extremists had dispatched a group of bombers as part of a counter-attack against SDF militants, killing at least 60 and wounding more than 100 of them overnight.

Daesh, in a statement published on the Telegram messaging application, said it had attacked the village of al-Sousa late on Friday, and detonated a car bomb near the village of al-Bagouz further south.

On September 15, the SDF said its fighters had stormed Bagouz and were close to the center of the village.

The forces added that they planned to open another front in Sousa area along the Euphrates River to build up pressure on the extremists.

The development came only a day after at least 20 SDF militants were killed in a Daesh ambush around the town of Hajin in Dayr al-Zawr province.

PressTV-Syria frees several villages from US-backed militants

Units of the army freed the villages from the SDF militant group in the eastern province of Dayr al-Zawr.

“The fighters were advancing during a sandstorm, they were surrounded, Daesh members used explosives and opened fire,” the SOHR said.

SDF militants, mainly active in the eastern part of the Euphrates River, are purportedly fighting against the remnants of Daesh, which has already been driven out of all its urban bastions both in Iraq and Syria.

However, the Damascus government regards the SDF as unwelcome armed forces occupying parts of Syrian territory without the consent of the central government.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The Syrian government says the Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri terrorist groups wreaking havoc in the country.

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