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TWO BRITISH SOLDIERS were wounded yesterday in eastern Syria by a missile fired by the Islamic State group, an NGO said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the pair were part of the international anti-jihadist coalition, led by the United States.
“The two British soldiers were transported by helicopter to receive medical care,” the Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
A Kurdish fighter from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) died in the attack in the village of Al-Shaafa in Deir Ezzor province, one of the last pockets of territory still controlled by IS in the Euphrates River valley.
The SDF, a coalition dominated by Kurdish fighters, has spearheaded the fight against IS, supported by several Western countries including the United Kingdom.
The international alliance seized the key IS holdout of Hajin in December after months of fighting that has seen the jihadists launch vicious counter-attacks.
IS, which once controlled swathes of Syria and Iraq, has been pounded by multiple offensives.
Since September, more than 1,000 jihadists have been killed in the fighting compared with just under 600 SDF members while 15,000 people have fled Hajin, according to the Observatory.
Last month US President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of around 2,000 soldiers from Syria, deployed to support the SDF, claiming IS had been defeated.
The Syrian war, which began in 2011, has caused more than 370,000 deaths and forced millions of people to flee their homes.
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Disgraceful, can they do anything right?
@Eddie O’Neill: No.. they absolutely can NOT do ANYTHING right.
@Eddie O’Neill: and it seems it was the rookiest of rooky mistakes too. An average 12 year old knows how to hide email addresses.
Waiting for the (Learn Lessons) excuse now to come next. Unbelievable but not shocked by this
Innocent women and children reall don’t stand a chance in the country!
If they sat down and planned it they really couldn’t mess up this entire mother and baby homes issue any more than they actually have,
And of course it’s a system’s error. So no one held accountable yet again. I would love to know who has the final say in outsourcing these contracts.
Do we not have enough people working in these Departments eg Health, Children etc to handle things in-house? Why do we ALWAYS have to out-source everything? Is it so that no individual can be held to account for these cock ups? This Govt has to be the most inept ever.
@Jane Waters: yes John. It’s so they can land the blame on the external party. Highly frustrating!
I assume they Cc’d instead of Bcc’d in the email invite.
Another article a few days ago people were complaining that the departments subject access request SARS looking for ID of those requesting information was to intrusive and cumbersome for those applying who will be elderly, and now there are complaints that there was a data breach email addresses were seen at an invitation to a meeting that members of the public could attend?
Complaints it’s too strict and then not strict enough?
Ffs. Are we really surprised by the incompetence
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