INFOGRAPHIC – Daesh in Syria remains only in regime-controlled area

By Levent Tok and Selen Temizer</p> <p>ANKARA (AA) – After being pushed by the U.S.-backed YPG/PKK terrorists from east of the Euphrates River, the only area of existence for Deash terror group in Syria is the region under the control of Bashar al-Assad regime.</p> <p>Even though the U.S. President Donald Trump announced Thursday that they had taken over 100 percent of the Daesh territory in Syria, the terrorists still have a presence in a desert area near Homs city, according to a local source.</p> <p>The area is estimated to host around 1,500 terrorists that were earlier evacuated by the YPG/PKK and the Assad regime from the center of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor provinces, said a source, who asked not to be named due to restrictions on speaking to the media.</p> <p>Taking benefit of the experience it gained in the desert area in Iraq’s Anbar province, Daesh only keep fighters in the area.</p> <p>The terrorists attack a highway in Sukne town located between Homs and Deir ez-Zor from time to time, the source added.</p> <p>Despite attacks, the regime forces prefer not to respond to the terrorists and it only carries out partial operations instead of determined ones.</p> <p>The Daesh now controlled 2 percent of the Syrian territory after it lost the area east of the Euphrates.</p> <p><br></p> <p>On the other hand, some 28 percent of Syrian lands are under the YPG/PKK’s occupation.</p> <p>The regime forces control some 60 percent of the country, while the military opposition and anti-regime armed groups control around 10 percent of the Syrian territory.</p> <p>Ankara has repeatedly criticized the U.S. for supplying weapons to the terrorist YPG/PKK ostensibly for fighting the Daesh terror group, arguing that using one terrorist group to fight another makes no sense.</p> <p>In its 30-year terrorist campaign, the PKK has taken some 40,000 lives, including women and children. The YPG is its Syrian branch.