Kurdish-drove contenders have caught the last Syrian town held by Islamic State, activists said.
The fall of Hajin pursues long periods of serious fights in Isis' final fortification close to the Iraqi fringe in eastern Syria. The gathering still holds a few towns close-by.
The US-sponsored Syrian Democratic Forces have been battling to take Hajin and the encompassing towns in Deir ez-Zor area for over three months. The hostile increased as of late with the landing of fortifications from northern Syria.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the SDF took Hajin at an opportune time Friday morning, after wild battling under the front of US-drove airstrikes. It said a few Isis warriors had pulled back to the towns and that battling was all the while going in the fields encompassing Hajin.
Omar Abu Layla, of the Deir Ezzor 24 observing gathering, which is likewise situated in Europe, said Hajin had been taken, and that a few Isis contenders were still stayed in little pockets on the edge of the town.
The zone is home to around 15,000 individuals, including 2,000 Isis contenders who have been mounting suicide assaults and counteroffensives against the SDF. Several regular people have fled the enclave lately toward territories controlled by the SDF east of the Euphrates and government-controlled locales on the west bank of the stream.
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