by: sdf-press.com
In an official statement released on February 28, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that ISIS had released 24 of its fighters. The terrorist group captured these fighters during a series of counter attacks in the middle Euphrates River Valley in late 2018.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), ISIS released the SDF fighters in exchange for food supplies. The remaining terrorist group’s fighters have been besieged in a 600m2 pocket north of the town of al-Baghuz al-Fawqani with no supplies for more than a month now.
The SDF also confirmed that it had paused its operations against ISIS in the Euphrates Valley. The Kurdish-dominated group said that his step was taken to facilitate the evacuation of the civilians from ISIS last stronghold.
“We decided to pause the clashes with the terrorist group after we besieged it in order to avoid any civilian casualties,” the SDF’s statement reads.
The US-backed group is not evacuating civilians only, but also ISIS fighters who are willing to surrender. In the last 72 hours, more than 350 terrorists, mostly foreigners, were seen leaving the terrorist group’s pocket.
The evacuation process is expected to continue over the upcoming few days, as thousands of civilians and hundreds of ISIS fighters are still hiding in the narrow pocket near al-Baghuz al-Fawqani.
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The SDF also confirmed that it had paused its operations against ISIS in the Euphrates Valley. The Kurdish-dominated group said that his step was taken to facilitate the evacuation of the civilians from ISIS last stronghold.
Hmm, I interpret this as the SDF knows these guys will fight to the bitter end, so it will mean heavy casualties. And that it either doesn’t want to suffer heavy casualties, or that its troops are not that willing to fight a determined enemy in close quarter battle.
Either that, or the 24 US soldiers/CIA…er, ‘SDF’ hostages are not the only ones left. The head-choppers must have someone really valuable to keep CENTCOM at bay for this long. If the hostages were ‘just’ expendable Kurdish SDF, the entire village would have been carpet-bombed to dust by now.
“Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi” ?, you know the boss, that the US have claimed killing 3 x and severely wounded 279 x, + many European and US special forces.
I think the US extracted all their important head-chopper assets a while back. Al-Baghdadi now lives under an assumed name “Juan Guaido” in a quiet little town just outside of Arlington, Virginia and works in a the kitchen of an upscale restaurant. Here’s a picture of him. Not the chef in black. Baghdadi is the salad prep guy with the blue hairnet in back. Nobody talks to him – he’s kind of an ass and smells funny. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/98d05916fc1b126534bfd61f1a215766ff8e35f12312dee5f7c504a588135ddd.png
hahaha – very good.
PS You could be onto something there ….