The Caliphate of the Islamic State Endangered: Kurds Attack Baghouz, Last Jihadist Bastion

At least 38 Islamic State group (ISIS) jihadists have died in recent attacks as part of the resumption of the offensive of the Syrian Democratic Forces (FSD), the alliance led by the Kurds, against the last enclave of radicals in Syria.

"Our forces fought terrorists in more than one axis and the comandancia confirms the death of 38 terrorists", wrote on his Twitter account, Mustafa Bali, spokesperson of the FSD, victim of three injuries.

The Baghouz enclave, located in the eastern province of Deir ez-Zor, constitutes a small part of the territory 700 meters long and 700 wide.. It is located on the side of the Euphrates, close to the Iraqi border.

The SDS raid was scheduled for several days. But he was arrested several times to allow the evacuation of civilians.

In recent weeks, thousands of people, many of whom are wives and children of Islamic State fighters, they left the enclave.

Mustafa Bali, head of the SDF press office, said that more than 4,000 activists went to SDF last month and tens of thousands of civilians were evacuated. But since Saturday, no one came out, so they began to attack.

The aviation carried out 20 air raids in Baghouz, causing the destruction of a "number of military vehicles, shelters, two ammunition depots and a command center" from ISIS, said Bali.

The spokesman did not specify if "aviation" belongs to the international coalition led by the United States, which supports the FSD in the offensive.

During these last hours, columns of smoke are continually seen at Baghouz. after resuming an offensive that started a month ago and that was paralyzed on different occasions due to the presence of civilians in the border area of ​​Iraq.

Bali said that the terrorists counterattacked and launched two Baghouz two-axis thermal tracking missileswhich resulted in the death of 3 FSD members and 10 wounded.

The FSD, a group in which Arabs and Kurds fight, is surrounded on three fronts by radicals, except on the Euphrates side, where extremists would have no chance of escaping because the Syrian army is on the other side of the river.

Thousands of fighters have surrendered and surrendered in recent days under pressure from the FSD as well as orders leaders of the Islamic State, who would have decided to leave their parents and members injured or unable to fight until the end.

Baghouz is the last city that is in the hands of the radical group, having lost all his estates in Syria, where he is still present in some desert areas of the center of the country.

Thus, the "caliphate" proclaimed by the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq on June 29, 2014 was reduced to a few hundred meters in Al Baguz.

With information from EFE and Reuters