Some 2,000 ISIL members surrender to US allies in Syria

Some 2,000 members of the terrorist group ISIL (Daesh, in Arabic) surrendered to forces known as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDS) in eastern Syria.

SDF spokesman Adnan Afrin said on Tuesday that the terrorists were being transferred to a detection center. Many ISIL families, including thousands of women and children, have already been transferred to the Al-Hol detention camp in northeastern Syria.

The operation is being conducted amid the advance of Kurdish-Syrian forces, backed by the United States, towards the city of Al-Baghuz, the last bastion of Daesh in Syria.

For the past two weeks, the SDF has been carrying out an offensive to regain control of Al-Baghuz in the province of Deir Ezzor, a small redoubt still in the hands of ISIL.

Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the SDF, confirmed that air attacks and artillery attacks against Al-Baghuz continued Tuesday and killed 38 ISIL members. The Kurdish spokesman also said that the total defeat of the last remnants of the terrorist group in Deir Ezzor is "very close".

Although deeply weakened and expelled from most of its strongholds in Syria thanks to Syrian army operations, the terrorist group ISIL continues to pose a threat to the security of the Arab country.

While the SDS continues to strengthen the siege against the ultraviolet band at Al-Baghuz, the Syrian army and its allies are attacking the group on another front: the west of the Euphrates.

The Syrian government does not accept as illegal the presence of the SDS in the east of the Euphrates. He believes that these militias not only complicate the country's situation, but also hinder any possible peaceful solution, since they are fighting in the subsidiary war unleashed by third countries, the United States. and their allies among them.