US-led strike in Syria blocks ISIS "fighters" evacuated from Lebanon. Cratered the road and destroyed a small bridge

The US-led coalition has carried out an air strike to block Islamic State group "fighters" evacuated from Lebanon from reaching eastern Syria, its spokesman told AFP on Wednesday.

Hundreds of IS fighters were evacuated Monday from the border region between Lebanon and Syria under a ceasefire deal and were headed to an IS-held town near Syria's eastern frontier with Iraq.

"Irreconcilable #ISIS terrorists should be killed on the battlefield, not bused across #Syria to the Iraqi border without #Iraq's consent," wrote Brett McGurk, the US presidential envoy to the anti-IS coalition.

"Our @coalition will help ensure that these terrorists can never enter #Iraq or escape from what remains of their dwindling 'caliphate'," he wrote on Twitter.

Coalition spokesman Ryan Dillon confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that a US-led bombing raid had blocked the convoy's route.

"To prevent the convoy from moving further east, we cratered the road and destroyed a small bridge," Dillon said, without providing further details on their location.

"IS is a global threat; relocating terrorists from one place to another for someone else to deal with is not a lasting solution," he said.
 [ahram.org.eg/AFP]
30/8/17
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• A US-led coalition conducted airstrikes to block a convoy of Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) fighters and their families from reaching IS-held territory in eastern Syria