ISIS claims responsibility for killing SDF fighter in Syria’s Hasakah
HASKAH, Syria (North Press) – The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed on Monday responsibility for targeting a military vehicle belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town south of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
ISIS-linked Amaq News Agency said in a statement that “ISIS militants targeted a military vehicle of the SDF with machine guns near the town of Sa’ada, south of Hasakah.”
The statement added that the attack resulted in the killing of one SDF fighter and the injury of another.
Two days before, a military source from the SDF told North Press that a military vehicle belonging to the SDF was attacked with machine guns, killing a fighter and injuring another.
ISIS lost its final stronghold in Syria in March 2019. The SDF, with the support of the US-led Global Coalition, defeated ISIS after fierce battles in the town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of Deir ez-Zor Governorate, eastern Syria, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS fighters were transferred to prisons, while their families were transferred to Hawl and Roj camps in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES)-held areas.