The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia, backed by the United States, has said on Monday they had taken positions over all the Islamic State’s (IS) enclaves in eastern Syria as well as the Euphrates Rivers, where air strikes pounded the Syrian region, a Reuters journalist reported.
According to Reuters news reports, the US-backed SDF militia spokesperson Mustafa Bali took it to Twitter late on Sunday and has said, “Several positions captured and ammunition storage has been blown up.”
Smoke rose in the tiny Islamic State’s enclave as artillery and warplanes bombarded it, a witness has said. Another witness has said that the jihadists had earlier mounted a counter attack.
Western and regional officials have said that while the SDF defeat at Baghouz will eventually end its control of the populated region in the third of Iraq and Syria that it had captured in 2014, but the group will remain a threat.
Since January 9, more than 60,000 people have left the enclave with about half of them surrendering Islamic State supporters and including some 5,000 fighters, the SDF has said on Sunday.
The SDF said that a suicide attack on Friday has targeted families of the Islamic State militants attempting to leave the enclave and surrender.