{"id":23094,"date":"2018-11-24T18:23:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23094"},"modified":"2018-11-24T18:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T18:23:25","slug":"daesh-attack-kills-24-us-backed-fighters-in-east-syria-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=23094","title":{"rendered":"Daesh attack kills 24 US-backed fighters in east Syria: monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1410356\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nLONDON: Daesh has killed 24 US-backed fighters in two days in an attack launched from its embattled holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.<br \/>The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Kurdish-led alliance backed by the US-led coalition is battling to expel the militants from a pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on the Iraqi border.<br \/>The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said the jihadists broke out of that pocket on Friday to attack a nearby village where SDF fighters and coalition advisers are based.<br \/>\u201cIS launched a broad attack on the village of Al-Bahra next to its holdout, taking advantage of the fog,\u201d Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said using a name for Daesh.<br \/>Abdel Rahman said 24 SDF fighters were killed in the attack, and violent clashes continued to rage on Saturday as coalition air planes carried out air strikes in the area.<br \/>Twenty-seven Daesh militants were killed in clashes and air strikes in the same period, according to the Observatory, which says it relies on sources inside Syria for its information.<br \/>The monitor said coalition raids has also killed 17 civilians, including five children, in the Daesh-held pocket since Friday.<br \/>Coalition spokesman Sean Ryan said he had not received any reports of civilian casualties, and insisted its air strikes had been \u201cvery limited due to the weather.\u201d<br \/>The anti-Daesh alliance has repeatedly denied previous reports of civilians killed in its air strikes, and said it does its utmost to avoid targeting non-combatants.<br \/>Deir Ezzor activist Omar Abu Leila said the attack on Al-Bahra was \u201cvery scary\u201d and that Daesh fighters were able to move quickly \u201ctaking advantage of the fog.\u201d<br \/>Daesh overran large swathes of Syria and neighboring Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a \u201ccaliphate\u201d in land it controlled but has lost most of it to offensives by multiple forces in both countries.<br \/>In Syria, the militants are largely confined to the pocket in Deir Ezzor, but they also have a presence in vast Badia desert that stretches across the country to the Iraqi border.<br \/>Since 2014, the US-led coalition has acknowledged direct responsibility for over 1,100 civilian deaths in Syria and Iraq, but rights groups put the number much higher.<br \/>Syria\u2019s war has killed more than 360,000 people and displaced millions since its started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Daesh has killed 24 US-backed fighters in two days in an attack launched from its embattled holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Kurdish-led alliance backed by the US-led coalition is battling to expel the militants from a pocket in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on 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