Middle Euphrates River Valley, Syria 0
27 November 2018

A Pentagon spokesperson indicated that "U.S. forces are establishing observation posts in north east Syria to... deny escape routes to ISIS, who may try to flee the MERV into Turkey to the north". He also assessed that "we're seeing about 2,000 [ISIS] fighters still left in the MERV area... we're seeing some foreign terrorist fighters that have nowhere else to go, so they're going to fight to the end". 

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