ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At least five members of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) were killed on Saturday in separate Islamic State (ISIS) attacks in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province, a war monitor reported.
“Islamic State cells carried out three operations during the past 24 hours that resulted in the killing of 5 members and the wounding of a leader within the Hajin Military Council, which is part of the Syrian Democratic Forces,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based war monitor.
Hours prior, another SDF fighter was killed by ISIS gunmen in Deir ez-Zor, near the town of Dhiban, according to the monitor.
ISIS rose to power and seized swathes of Iraqi and Syrian land amid a brazen offensive in 2014, declaring a so-called “caliphate”.