{"id":19242,"date":"2018-10-20T19:23:26","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19242"},"modified":"2018-10-20T19:23:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:23:26","slug":"us-backed-syria-offensive-kills-35-daesh-fighters-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19242","title":{"rendered":"US-backed Syria offensive kills 35 Daesh fighters: monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1391026\/middle-east\" readability=\"66\">\n<p>BEIRUT: An offensive by US-backed forces against Daesh\u2019s last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 militants on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said.<br \/>\n<br \/>Twenty-eight Daesh members were killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition around the town of Hajjin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>\n<br \/>Another seven militants were killed in ground fighting with the Syrian Democratic Forces, who launched a coalition-backed offensive against the Daesh-held pocket in the Euphrates Valley last month.<br \/>\n<br \/>Fighting has killed 414 militants and 227 SDF fighters in total since the assault began on September 10, the Observatory said.<br \/>\n<br \/>Coalition air strikes on Daesh targets in another part of the pocket on Thursday and Friday killed at least 41 civilians, 10 of them children, the monitor said.<br \/>\n<br \/>Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a \u201ccaliphate\u201d across the land it controlled.<br \/>\n<br \/>But the militant group has since lost most of its territory to various offensives in both countries.<br \/>\n<br \/>In Syria, its presence has been reduced to parts of the vast Badia desert and the Hajjin pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor near the Iraqi border.<br \/>\n<br \/>Syria\u2019s war has killed more than 360,000 people since it erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: An offensive by US-backed forces against Daesh\u2019s last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 militants on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said. Twenty-eight Daesh members were killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition around the town of Hajjin, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Another seven militants were killed in ground fighting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}