{"id":43068,"date":"2017-09-05T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/09\/05\/isis-bus-convoy-still-surrounded-in-the-syrian-desert\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:20:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:20:48","slug":"isis-bus-convoy-still-surrounded-in-the-syrian-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/09\/05\/isis-bus-convoy-still-surrounded-in-the-syrian-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS bus convoy still surrounded in the Syrian desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 A bus convoy carrying ISIS fighters and family members is still sitting in the Syrian desert with nowhere to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fighters are being evacuated from the Lebanon-Syria border as part of an agreement hatched with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lebanese military launched a military campaign nearly two weeks ago near its border with Syria to cleanse the region of ISIS militants. The operation resulted in a negotiated settlement to relocate the ISIS fighters near the ISIS strongholds of Abu Kamal and Deir el-Zour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The convoy consists of nearly 17 buses and several hundred ISIS fighters and family members. The coalition has been adamant that it and the Iraqi government oppose the deal and are not party to the agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, coalition planes cratered a section of road toward Abu Kamal, causing the convoy to halt and turnaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, \u201cone group of 11 buses remains in the open desert to the northwest of Abu Kamal, and the other group has headed west toward Palmyra, back into Syrian regime territory,\u201d Col. Joseph Scrocca, a spokesperson for Operation Inherent Resolve told Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coalition is actively communicating with the Russians that the \u201ccoalition will not condone ISIS fighters moving further east to the Iraqi border,\u201d Scrocca said. The coalition has offered suggestions to save the women and children, but would not elaborate further on what those suggestions were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the last week, coalition warplanes have slowly picked off ISIS fighters and vehicles attempting to approach the convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe coalition has struck approximately 85 ISIS fighters and about 40 ISIS vehicles in the vicinity of the convoy, to include a tank, an artillery system, armed technical vehicles, and transport vehicles seeking to facilitate the movement of ISIS fighters to the border area of our Iraqi partners,\u201d Scrocca said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coalition warplanes have even targeted ISIS fighters straying away from the buses to relieve themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s to evade by foot or to relieve themselves, if they make it far enough out there for us to strike, then we will,\u201d Dillon told<a href=\"http:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2017\/09\/05\/prowling-the-syrian-desert-u-s-picking-off-isis-fighters-in-stranded-convoy\/?platform=hootsuite\"> Foreign Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coalition has not struck the convoy itself, since the buses are carrying innocent women and children, according to Scrocca, and food and water have been provided to the convoy, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coaltion says it \u201cwill continue to monitor the convoy, but not allow it to link up with ISIS in the Euphrates River Valley. 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