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2025-04-30 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Kurdish-led forces in eastern Syria say five fighters killed in ISIS attacks
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[IsraelTimes] Kurdish-led forces say they have lost five fighters to Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group attacks in eastern Syria, adding that they have intensified security measures in the area.
"Five of our fighters were martyred and several maimed while repelling two attacks" in Deir Ezzor province, the Syrian Democratic Forces says in a statement.
They were among "a series of organized terrorist attacks" in the province, the SDF says, adding: "Our forces... have intensified security measures and increased patrols throughout the region."
The SDF played a key role in the US-backed campaign against ISIS, which culminated in the jihadists’ loss of their last territory in Syria in 2019.
But holdouts continue to wage deadly attacks from hideouts in remote areas and are particularly active in the vast Syrian Desert.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported a decrease in ISIS attacks in areas under the control of the central government in Damascus since Islamist-led rebels toppled longtime ruler Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
in December.
The SDF-controlled northeast, however, has seen an increase in attacks, according to the Britannia-based war monitor.
The Kurds established de facto autonomy in the northeast in the early years of the civil war, which broke out in 2011.
But SDF chief Mazloum Abdi signed an agreement with interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa last month to integrate Kurdish institutions into the Syrian state. 
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