Airstrikes have targeted Islamic State weapons stores as the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched an attack against the jihadists’ enclave in Baghuz near the Iraqi border.
An SDF official, Mustafa Bali, said the attack began at 6 p.m. local time and “direct and fierce” clashes were under way.
The assault by the SDF aims to wipe out the last vestige of Isis’s self-declared “caliphate” that once spanned a third of Iraq and Syria.
