Daesh fighters still in Syria's Raqqa, US envoy says

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07 August, 2017

"Today in Raqqa ISIL is fighting for every last block. and fighting for their own survival", McGurk told reporters.

The coalition also announced the killings of two ISIS external operations officials, Abd Al-Ghafur and Abu Hammam, and an explosives specialist Abu Futtum, in eastern Syrian airstrikes. He was the part of ISIS' network, he used to encourage others to take the same destructive actions, using the homemade explosives he instructed the lone wolf attacks across the globe.

Coalition strikes most likely have killed more than 600 civilians since the start of the US-led operation against ISIS in Syria and Iraq almost three years ago, the U.S. military said. It's worth noting that the USA has publicly said they don't have plans for what to do with former ISIS fighters after the war, because they figure on killing them all, which doesn't leave a lot of room for surrender.

He was known as the most prominent and radical ethnic Albanian fighter in Syria and was directly responsible for inciting jihadist ideology within European communities and encouraging foreign fighters to travel to ISIS-controlled territory.

The global forces said they "carried over 180 open reports of possible civilian casualties from previous months and received 72 new reports resulting from Coalition airstrikes in support of partner forces operations to defeat ISIS (Islamic State, IS) in Iraq and Syria". Though U.S. -backed fighters suffered heavy casualties in Raqqa, humanitarian groups say civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. Ramadani was responsible for actively planning external terror attacks from Syria.

Irfan Hafiqi, a fellow ethnic Albanian and deputy to Muhaxheri, was killed by a Coalition airstrike on June 7 near Qayira, Syria.

Orhan Ramadani was killed by a coalition airstrike May 21 near Mayadin, Syria. He was involved in facilitating and recruiting the ISIS fighters from Southeast Europe into Syria.

The government said the Washington-led coalition had been formed "illegitimately... under the pretext of fighting terrorism, while the coalition attacks infrastructure and commits massacres".


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