US-led forces today bombed the route traveled by Islamic State (IS) fighters withdrawing from the Lebanese border under a cease-fire deal with Hezbollah, leaving them stranded in territory controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.
Some 300 fighters and their families were being bused to Syria’s IS-controlled Deir ez-Zor province near the border with Iraq under the agreement reached earlier this week. The airstrikes took out a small bridge and cratered the road through Syria, while also taking out another group of IS fighters on their way to meet the convoy.