Heavy reinforcements are arriving in the area around the Hajin pocket, including heavier combat vehicles. Air campaign intensifying.
Coalition Statement on the Mid-Euphrates River Valley operations:
Fighting in the MERV is tough and the SDF loss will be regained. “It is very difficult because we are in the last stages, where almost every ISIS fighter is in a suicide belt,” said @brett_mcgurk, Special Envoy to D-ISIS. “It’s very difficult fighting but we will get it done.”
It cannot end too soon.
It is a shame to loose good men to exterminate such evil vermin.
I wonder, are there civilian’s being held as human shields at this point?
Kurds were very careful in liberating Raqqa to minimize those losses. It was hard. ISIS would kill the civilians if they ran. It cost SDF lives doing it. They are not given enough credit for that. Our military knows, but the public does not understand it.