US-backed SDF forces conduct deadly operation in eastern Syria Kurdish News

U.S.-backed Kurdish forces say operations in Deir Az Zor were targeted by ISIL fighters, but the SANA news agency says civilians were killed in the attack.

Kurdish special forces backed by the U.S. military have killed five suspected fighters in an eastern air operation. Syrian Deir Az Zor province, according to Kurdish forces.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US-backed alliance of Kurds and Arab fighters that controls the Kurdish semi-autonomous region of northeastern Syria, said in a statement on Monday that the attack was near the town of al-Busai.

with the support of US-led coalition, the attack was aimed at a hideout used by the ISIL (ISIS) armed group “a dangerous terrorist cell”, the SDF said in a statement. The ISIL group, which took over large areas of Syria and Iraq in 2014, ended up as a territorial unit in 2019 with the support of an international military coalition.

The SDF said gunfire erupted and killed five ISIL members, most of whom were wearing explosive belts.

“Today, the SDF has launched an operation in the Deir Ezzor governorate, removing four Daesh fighters from the battlefield and controlling the destruction of explosives. Daesh acronym in Arabic.

“Several civilians were kidnapped”

The Syrian News Agency (SANA) had earlier said that the forces had “kidnapped many civilians”. “a major air operation” near Deir Az Zor on Monday morning.

The state agency said U.S. troops fired on the homes, killing three civilians who were members of one family.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor based in the UK with a wide network of sources, said at least four people had been killed.

The dead were members of the same family, including two who were shot dead by a helicopter while trying to escape on a motorcycle, Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the observatory, said.

Al-Busaira is a town on the banks of the Euphrates River, between the two main cities of Deir Az Zor and Mayade, in the heart of the original heart of ISIL.

ISIL has continued to carry out attacks, frequently attacking and fleeing desert hiding places on both sides of the Iraqi border.