Syrian Kurdish forces say five members killed in Daesh attack

QAMISHLI, Syria: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Daesh group militants in Syria’s east killed five of its members. IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF with support from an international coalition. But they have maintained cells that have launched attacks mostly on Kurdish-controlled areas. The SDF is the de facto army of the Kurdish administration in northeast Syria.