ISIS targets SDF vehicle in Syria’s Hasakah causing casualty
DEIR EZ-ZOR, Syria (North Press) – Islamic State (ISIS) claimed on Friday responsibility over targeting a military vehicle of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a town south of Hasakah Governorate, northeast Syria.
ISIS-run Amaq news agency said, in a statement, that ISIS militants targeted a military vehicle of the SDF with machineguns on the route connecting the towns of Mesra and Shadadi, soutn of Hasakah.
The attack resulted in the injury of an SDF fighter at least and the damage of the vehicle, according to Amaq.
In April, ISIS claimed responsibility for targeting an SDF military vehicle in a town, south of Hasakah, wounding four SDF fighters.
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, eastern Syria, bringing an end to the so-called caliphate declared by the terrorist ISIS.
After Baghouz, thousands of ISIS militants 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.
The AANES was first formed in 2014 in the Kurdish-majority regions of Afrin, Kobani and Jazira in northern Syria following the withdrawal of the government forces. Later, it was expanded to Manbij, Tabqa, Raqqa, Hasakah and Deir ez-Zor after the SDF defeated ISIS militarily there.