Live Update 
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 11, 2019
From the Liveblog of
Monday, February 11, 2019
Fierce fighting for last Islamic State foothold in eastern Syria
Syrian fighters backed by artillery fire from a US-led coalition battled a fierce jihadist fightback as they push to retake a last morsel of territory from the Islamic State group.
Mushrooming black clouds are rising over the embattled jihadist holdout in eastern Syria, as missiles and a warplane streak through the sky.
More than four years after the extremists declared a “caliphate” across large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq, several offensives have whittled that proto-state down to a tiny holdout.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on Saturday announced the final push to expel hundreds of diehard jihadists from that patch on the Iraq border.
— AFP
