Islamic State kills two dozen pro-regime fighters in Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Feb 9, 2021

Members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are pictured on a rooftop in the village of Baghouz, near Syria's border with Iraq, in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province on March 11, 2019, during their continuing battle against the last pocket of Islamic State group (IS) jihadists. Baghouz is the latest major battlefront in Syria's complex civil war, which has killed more than 360,000 people since 2011. Beyond it, the Islamic State group retains a presence in eastern Syria's vast Badia desert and sleeper cells in the northeast. — DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

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