terror group has killed nearly 4,100 civilians and combatants in Syria since the 2019 demise of its radical cross-border caliphate in Syria and Iraq, according to a new report.by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights , says Islamic State fugitives have carried out 2,500 operations in areas controlled by the Syrian government and an autonomous zone held by the US-backed Kurdish militia, the Syrian Democratic Forces , since the caliphate collapsed.
SOHR documented 914 attacks since then, killing 2,744, including 215 civilians, in the Syrian government-held eastern desert, an area of 4,000sq km , where Islamic State, also known as Isis, is countered by the Syrian army and allied militias. At the height of its power in 2014 Islamic State ruled an area half the size of the UK, drew tens of thousands of volunteers from across the world, carried out atrocities against soldiers and civilians, and destroyed ancient and medieval monuments and scores of religious sites. It massacred, raped and enslaved thousands of women from Iraq’s non-Muslim minority Yazidi community, which has not recovered from the outrage.
Islamic State “remains a threat to international security”, US taskforce commander JB Vowell told the Associated Press. “We maintain our intensity and resolve to combat and destroy any remnants of groups that share ideology,” he said.
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