The Syrian democratic forces led by the Kurds in Syria have described the attack as “one of the deadliest” against it for a while.
The Isil (ISIS) group killed five Kurdish fighters in an attack in the east of Deir Az Zor in eastern Syria, reported the group’s news agency, highlighting the concerns about its resurgence.
Farhad Shami, spokesperson for Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) led by Syria, confirmed on Monday at the Reuters news agency that five of its members had been killed in the attack, which he described as “one of the deadliest” against the group in a certain time.
Deir Az Zor City was captured by ISIL in 2014, but the Syrian army took it over in 2017.
The Isil group formerly controlled large expanses of Syria and Iraq – including Raqqa, about 160 km (100 miles) east of Aleppo and Mosul, in northern Iraq – imposing a hard rule for millions of people.
Former ISIL chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said a caliphate in the two countries in 2014 before being killed in a raid by the United States special forces in northwestern Syria in 2019 while the group collapsed.
At its peak, the group reigned in an area half the size of the United Kingdom and was notorious for its brutality. He beheaded civilians, massacred 1,700 Iraqi soldiers in a short time, and enslaved and raped thousands of women in the Yazidi community, one of the oldest religious minorities in Iraq.
A coalition of more than 80 countries, led by the United States, was trained to fight the group in September 2014. The alliance continues to make raids against ISIL hiding places in Syria and Iraq.
The war against the group officially ended in March 2019, when fighters supported by the United States and led by the United States of the SDF captured the eastern Syrian city of Baghouz, which was the last ribbon of the earth with controlled Isil.
The group was also defeated in Iraq in July 2017, when the Iraqi forces took over Mosul. Three months later, ISIL suffered a hard blow when the homeless took over the north-in northern Raqqa, which was the group’s de facto capital.
ISIL recently attempted to organize a return, continuing to recruit members and claim the responsibility of deadly attacks in the world.
