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The last pocket held by the IS in Syria is home to thousands of civilians caught between two fires.
Brett McGurk, envoy of the White House for the war against the Islamic State, said Saturday at a conference in Bahrain that "the military mission in Syria represents the lasting defeat of the Islamic State. ".
"It's very difficult because we're in the final stages, where almost all ISIS fighters are in a suicide belt," McGurk said. "These are very difficult fights but we will get there."
On Saturday, a summit on Syria, attended by the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Turkey, began in Istanbul. The four issued a joint statement agreeing that there could be no military solution to the war.
The civil war in Syria, originally a popular uprising, then dissolved into a fractured and complex conflict, raged for more than seven years and destroyed the country, leaving hundreds of thousands dead and millions of displaced people .
Last week, a UN humanitarian official, Jan Egeland, said in Geneva that some 15,000 people, including Islamic State fighters and their families, were living in the area.
"Many civilians are attacked from all sides," Egeland said.
McGurk said the United States and the SDF detain some 700 foreign fighters in Syria, adding that they are determined to "stop these people from leaving Syria to threaten their home country or the country." your". country to ensure that "we could try to repatriate these people".
Mr. McGurk added that during the process, the United States ensured that they were housed in facilities inside Syria that met international standards "so that these people could not mix and repeat the problems we have seen in the past. "
SDF spokesman Kino Gabriel told the Kurdish ANHA news agency on Friday that an international tribunal should be set up to try foreign Islamic State fighters that his group holds. He said the FDS had apprehended more than 700 non-Syrian Islamic State fighters in addition to their families.
