The Islamic State group killed six U.S.-backed Syrian fighters in eastern Syria on Monday. There was retaliation in the ongoing operation inside a sprawling camp housing tens of thousands of family members of the extremist group. The U.S. troops are based in an oil facility known as the Omar Field.
The IS-linked Aamaq news agency released a video showing the shooting of the six members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces near the eastern village of Ruwaished where they were captured alive and later shot dead late Sunday.
The IS lost control over the people during their defeat in Syria in 2019. They lost the last piece of land recently and have continued to carry out deadly attacks in Syria and Iraq where they once held large parts of the two countries.
The U.S. military has had this operation going on for three weeks now and counting, as this is part of an effort to dissolve a major IS network at the camp, which is widely seen as a breeding ground for the next generation of IS extremists.
The al-Hol camp in Syria’s northeastern Hassakeh Province has been viewed as a growing problem and there have been several military operations and raids there to root out IS threats.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
