{"id":21111,"date":"2018-11-05T00:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21111"},"modified":"2018-11-05T00:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T00:22:48","slug":"daesh-attack-kills-12-us-backed-fighters-in-east-syria-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=21111","title":{"rendered":"Daesh attack kills 12 US-backed fighters in east Syria: monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1399046\/middle-east\" readability=\"60\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT: US forces on Sunday patrolled an area in northeastern Syria bordering Turkey after renewed tensions between Ankara and Syrian Kurds, a spokesman and an AFP reporter said.<br \/>Three armoured vehicles carrying soldiers wearing the US flag on their uniform arrived in the Kurdish-held northeastern border town of Al-Darbasiyah, the correspondent said.<br \/>Turkey last week raised threats against Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, shelling their positions and flagging a possible new offensive.<\/p>\n<p>\nMeanwhile, the Daesh group killed 12 US-backed fighters in a surprise attack Sunday from the militants\u2019 holdout in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said.<br \/>Twelve fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed and 20 wounded in a suicide car bombing and subsequent clashes in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.<br \/>An SDF spokesman, however, denied any members of his Kurdish-led alliance had been killed.<br \/>\u201cThere are counter-attacks every day and the clashes are ongoing, but the talk of martyrs among our ranks is not true,\u201d Mustefa Bali said.<br \/>According to Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman, Sunday\u2019s attack \u201cstarted with a car bomb driven by a suicide attacker against an SDF position between Hajjin and Al-Bahra.\u201d<br \/>The attack allowed Daesh to advance toward Al-Bahra from its holdout around Hajjin, and push back the first lines of defense of the SDF, which is backed by the US-led coalition, the Observatory said.<br \/>The SDF, with the support of coalition air strikes, in September launched an offensive to wrest the Deir Ezzor pocket including Hajjin from Daesh, making slow advances.<br \/>But the alliance suffered a major setback as they retreated last week from the entire pocket after Daesh suicide bombings and low visibility due to sand storms.<br \/>Last Wednesday, the SDF suspended its fight against the militants after Turkish forces fired on the group\u2019s positions in northern Syria.<br \/>The coalition estimates that 2,000 Daesh fighters remain in the Hajjin pocket.<br \/>A total of more than 360,000 people have been killed since Syria\u2019s multi-front war erupted in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT: US forces on Sunday patrolled an area in northeastern Syria bordering Turkey after renewed tensions between Ankara and Syrian Kurds, a spokesman and an AFP reporter said.Three armoured vehicles carrying soldiers wearing the US flag on their uniform arrived in the Kurdish-held northeastern border town of Al-Darbasiyah, the correspondent said.Turkey last week raised 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