Daesh kills 12 pro-US fighters

Beirut: The Daesh terror group on Sunday killed at least 12 US-backed fighters as the extremists launched an attack from their holdout in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border, a Britain-based monitor said.

The Syrian Democratic Forces fighters were killed in a car bombing and subsequent clashes between Al Bahra and Hajin in the eastern province of Deir Al Zor, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.