OMAR OIL FIELD (SYRIA) - Kurdish-led forces launched a final assault Friday on the last pocket held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, their spokesman said. The "operation to clear the last remaining pocket of ISIS has just started", SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali, said in a statement using another acronym for the jihadist group. It was the final batch, according to Bali, who said only jihadists remained holed-up inside the shrinking redoubt. "We just took over — you know, you kept hearing it was 90 percent, 92 percent — the caliphate in Syria. In Syria, it maintains a presence in the vast Badiya desert and it has claimed attacks on SDF-held territories.

Source: Bangkok Post March 01, 2019 17:37 UTC