Isis diehards squeezed in pincer movement for last stand via IrishTimesWorld
Washington has about 2,000 troops in Syria, mainly to support the SDF in fighting Isis. Mr Trump announced in December he would withdraw all of them but the White House partially reversed itself last month, saying some 400 would stay.
A 27-year-old Indonesian widow who emerged on Friday said she would have liked to stay in Isis territory but conceded that conditions had become untenable. “I have no money, I have no food for my baby, no medicine, nothing for my baby, so I must go out,” she said.Meanwhile, in Syria’s Idlib province on Saturday 10 Isis fighters were summarily executed by Tahrir al-Sham, according to Ebaa News Agency, a news outlet that supports the rival jihadist alliance.
Isis and the groups that comprise Tahrir al-Sham, including al-Qaeda’s former affiliate the Nusra Front, have opposed each other for years. Isis has lost almost all of its territory to the Syrian army, backed by Russia, Iran and Shia Muslim militias in conjunction with a campaign by Kurdish and Arab groups in the north supported by the United States.
It published images showing masked gunmen in fatigues firing handguns at the heads of 10 bearded men who sat in front of them on the pavement. The agency’s report could not be independently verified.
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