East Syria battles kill 200 in three days

A major attack by Daesh in eastern Syria has killed 92 US-backed forces in three days while 51 civilians also died in the fighting, a war monitor said yesterday.

It was the highest death toll the terrorist group has inflicted on the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in a single offensive, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

“It’s the largest number of SDF fighters killed (by Daesh) in a single battle since it was founded” in 2015, it said. It said 61 terrorists were also killed. (AFP)