QAMISHLI, Syria: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Daesh group militants in Syria’s east killed five of its members.
IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF with support from an international coalition.
But they have maintained cells that have launched attacks mostly on Kurdish-controlled areas.
The SDF is the de facto army of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria.
It said in a statement five of its fighters were killed and another wounded when “a Daesh-affiliated terrorist network” targeted forces east of Deir Ezzor.
The SDF said its fighters thwarted a larger attack that the jihadists had attempted to carry out, adding that its forces were conducting operations to “pursue the terrorist elements and eliminate them in the area.”
More than six years after the group’s defeat in the country, Kurdish-run camps and prisons in Syria’s semi-autonomous northeast hold tens of thousands of people, many with alleged or perceived links to the Daesh group.
On Friday, the US military said it killed a senior Daesh operative in a raid in Syria.
Syrian Kurdish forces say five members killed in Daesh attack
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Syrian Kurdish forces say five members killed in Daesh attack
- Deaths came during clashes between Syrian Democratic Forces and extremist militants east of Deir Ezzor
Turkiye urges peaceful Syria-SDF talks, warns patience running out – foreign minister
ANKARA: Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday that Turkiye did not want to resort to military action again against Syria’s Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), but warned that the patience of the actors involved was running out over what he described as delays in implementing an integration deal.
“We just hope that things go through dialogue, negotiations and peacefully. We don’t want to see any need to resorting to military means again. But SDF should understand the patience of the relevant actors are running out,” Fidan told an interview with TRT World.
“They should come to a place where their commitment to the agreement of 10th of March should be honored. Everybody is expecting from them to honor that agreement without any delay and without any twisting because we don’t want to see a deviation from this agreement,” he added.
