Posted on 03/11/2019 8:18:57 PM PDT by BeauBo
Islamic State’s final enclave in eastern Syria was pounded with air strikes and artillery on Monday in a U.S.-backed assault aimed at wiping out the last shred of its territorial rule that once spanned a third of Syria and Iraq...
The SDF has held off from a full assault for most of the past few weeks as many thousands of people poured from the enclave, including surrendering fighters, Islamic State supporters, other civilians and some of the group’s captives.
By Sunday evening, no more people had come out, prompting the SDF to start its attack.
(Excerpt) Read more at uk.reuters.com ...
Last night (Monday night) was a big fireworks show. Machine gun music was near constant accompaniment. Looked quite serious.
Anybody streaming the battle?
I don’t know anyone streaming.
They are six hours ahead of the US East Coast (dawn now), but some brief clips are on twitter from overnight.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1105269681919680512
https://twitter.com/AzadiRojava/status/1105208147181035520
Apparently, formal notification to ISIS was made of their timeframe to surrender, and they were formally notified that their time was up. A public announcement was made by the SDF’s official spokesperson for the Operation, Mustafa Bali, on Monday.
3:30 Sky News video report from the scene, shows some of the night fighting: https://news.sky.com/story/hardcore-fighters-are-all-that-is-left-in-islamic-states-slither-of-land-11662656
On to Minneapolis and Detroit after this.
Kill every last one of them.
No quarter.
No mercy.
No prisoners.
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And no dental records. No DNA. Thermobaric all the way.
I love those airplanes. They make the air around them so dirty.
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