SDF Press Center issued a statement on the Baghouz operation and said 43 ISIS members have been killed in clashes since Tuesday in the Operation Cizire Storm.

The SDF statement included the following:

“Our forces continue their operations against the positions ISIS terrorists hold in Baghouz. Our forces continue to advance amid intense clashes. Our forces use all weapons in their operations and take up positions in new locations. The terrorists attacked our forces’ positions, but the attack was broken when our forces retaliated. Many terrorists were killed and wounded there.

In another front, our forces carried out an action against terrorist locations and many gang members were killed in the ensuing clashes. Our forces took positions in new locations. Coalition jets carried out air strikes against terrorist locations and gathering areas.

Our fighters carried out actions against the gathering places and positions of the terrorists and in the intense clashes that ensued, 43 terrorists were killed. The terrorists then carried out suicide attacks, and 8 attackers detonated the explosives they had on their persons close to our forces’ positions.

4 fighters were martyred and 7 were wounded in the attack.”