Operation Inherent Resolve thanks SDF for its continuing efforts to defeat ISIS
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR) expressed its gratitude for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for their ongoing efforts in defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization and helping to protect northeast Syria.
OIR is the US military’s operational name for the international military coalition’s intervention against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, which started in August 2016.
“Thank you to our SDF partners for working to maintain the lasting defeat of Daesh and for helping secure NE Syria,” OIR said in a post on its Facebook page.
Recently, ISIS has intensified its attacks on the SDF and civilian workers in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor as part of a campaign called the “Battle of Revenge for the Two Sheikhs” launched on April 18. North Press was able to verify 15 operations by the terrorist group during the second half of April.
The most violent of these attacks was an attack targeting the head of the Foreign Relations Office of the Deir ez-Zor Civil Council. The assault killed 11 people gathered at a table for iftar, the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramadan fast at sunset, in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor.