US coalition helps evacuate IS “officials”
The US-led international coalition has driven militants of the Islamic State terrorist group out of Syria's Deir ez-Zor province, SANA news agency reported citing local sources.
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| A corner of Deir ez-Zor province, Syria. |
"The coalition carried out a landing near the village of al-Murashida in the southeastern part of Deir ez-Zor province, where IS militants were concentrated, and took the terrorist group's "officials" out of the area to an unknown direction," the news agency said.
The United States and its allies have been conducting operations in Iraq and Syria against IS since 2014, operating in Syria without the consent of the local government. Since 2015, Russia has been conducting anti-terrorist operations in Syria at the request of Damascus.
