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Arab News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
One SDF fighter killed in attack by Daesh in eastern Syria
CAIRO: The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a militia group led by Kurdish fighters, said on Monday that one of its fighters was killed and another injured in an attack by Daesh in Syria's eastern Deir el-Zor region. The SDF was the main fighting force allied to the United States in Syria during fighting that defeated Daesh in 2019 after the group declared a caliphate across swathes of Syria and Iraq. The SDF reached an agreement in March to integrate with the Syrian government, now led by former militants who toppled President Bashar Assad last year. Syria's new authorities have clashed with Daesh fighters, particularly in the east. Last month, Daesh killed five SDF fighters in one of the deadliest recent attacks against the group.
Al Arabiya
10-05-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
ISIS kills five Kurdish fighters in eastern Syria
ISIS said on Monday it killed five Kurdish fighters in an attack in eastern Syria's Deir el-Zor, according to the group's news agency. The spokesperson for Syria's Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces Farhad Shami confirmed to Reuters that five members were killed in the attack which he described as 'one of deadliest' against the group in a while. Deir el-Zor city was captured by ISIS in 2014, but the Syrian army retook it in 2017. The militant group imposed hardline extremist rule over millions of people in Syria and Iraq for years. Former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate over a quarter of the two states in 2014 before he was killed in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria in 2019 as the group collapsed. It has been recently trying to stage a comeback in the Middle East, the West and Asia. With Reuters
