usled coalition has no plans to target isis in syrian governmentcontrolled areas
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US-led Coalition has no plans to target ISIS in Syrian government-controlled areas

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Commander of Task Force Al Asad, observe a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System strike that destroyed a building housing ISIS fighters near Haditha
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Despite saying that the Syrian government is not doing enough to stop ISIS militants from moving through its territory, the US-led coalition fighting the group does not intend to target militants in those areas, a senior coalition official said on Wednesday.

The comments by British Army Major General Felix Gedney indicate that the coalition will rely on the Syrian government to go after ISIS militants in areas controlled by forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

US officials have said in the past that the Syrian government forces are too few, too poor and too weak to fight ISIS.

Gedney, the deputy commander of strategy and support for the coalition, said the fight against ISIS was not over, and militants had been seen moving west of the Euphrates river.

“They seem to be moving with impunity through regime-held territory, showing that the regime is clearly either unwilling or unable to defeat Daesh within their borders,” Gedney said, using an Arabic acronym for the militant group.

Syrian government forces and their allies, backed by Russian air power, are mostly on the western side of the Euphrates, while forces backed by the coalition are on the eastern bank.

When asked whether the coalition will target the militants in areas controlled by the Syrian regime, Gedney said they did not plan to.

“We will continue to deconflict with the Russians, but we have got no intention to operate in areas that are currently held by the regime,” Gedney said.

Russia and the United States have set up a communications channel to reduce the chance of fighting between the two rival campaigns against ISIS.

“We would call on the Syrian regime to clear ISIS from those areas that are currently under their control,” he added.

The coalition estimates that fewer than 1,000 ISIS fighters remain in Iraq and Syria.

Iraq and Syria have both declared victory over ISIS in recent weeks, after a year in which the two countries’ armies, a range of foreign allies and various local forces drove the fighters out of all the towns and villages that once made up the militant group’s self-proclaimed caliphate.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has said the US military will fight ISIS in Syria “as long as they want to fight.” He said the US military’s longer-term objective would be to prevent the return of an “ISIS 2.0.”

Source: Alarabiya

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