"With American support, especially from airstrikes, since 2016 the Kurds have pushed the Islamic State out of most of the territory it held in eastern and northern Syria, reducing the extremists to a pocket of about 20 square miles on the Iraqi border, near the town of Hajin, far from any cities. Fighting continues in that area, although the S.D.F. last week claimed to have ousted the Islamic State from Hajin.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/world/middleeast/isis-syria-prisoner-release-trump.html?partner=rss&emc=rss