WASHINGTON: The US-led coalition in Syria destroyed on Saturday a mosque inthe town of Hajin which had been used as an Islamic State command andcontrol center, the US military said.
Hajin is the last big town that the Islamic State holds in its remainingenclave east of the Euphrates River. The US-backed Syrian DemocraticForces, spearheaded by the Kurdish militia, have battled to eliminate thejihadists there for several months.
The U.S. coalition said that 16 heavily armed IS fighters were using themosque as a base to attack. “This strike killed these terrorists whopresented an imminent threat, and eliminated another deadly ISIS (IslamicState) operational capability from the battlefield,” the US military saidin a statement.
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Lilwa al-Abdallah, spokeswoman for the offensive in eastern Deir al-Zorprovince, said on Friday that the coalition would soon re-take Hajin.
