Summary
US-backed forces push Syria offensive against last Daesh pocket
Syrian fighters backed up by artillery fire from a U.S.-led coalition pressed their assault Monday to retake a last morsel of territory from Daesh (ISIS), a monitoring group said.
Since December, tens of thousands of people, most women and children related to Daesh fighters, have fled to SDF territory.
Another 600 people were able to reach SDF territory on Sunday after fleeing the fighting, the Observatory said.
In January a Daesh suicide bomber attacked a U.S. patrol in the northeastern city of Manbij, killing four Americans, five SDF fighters and ten civilians.
The losses were the worst combat losses for the U.S. in war-torn Syria since it launched the coalition to fight Daesh in 2014 .
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