US-backed Syria force announces final push against IS

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Force says is in its 'final battle' to push IS out of Syria.

US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighters prepare to fire a mortar shell, in Raqqa, northeast Syria on 27/7/17. Source: AAP

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said it had begun the "final battle" to oust the Islamic State group from the last scrap of territory it holds in eastern Syria.

IS overran large parts of the country and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, declaring a "caliphate" and imposing a severe version of Islamic law, but after various military offensives, only a fragment remains.

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