(Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Owen Holdaway - "ISIS has hundreds of fighters around Hajin and along the Euphrates...and these are the most dedicated, the most experienced of the ISIS fighters in Syria," said Havel Ronnie, a top local commander in Deir-ez-Zor province. "Among the local tribes and villages, ISIS also has many more active supporters as well." "They have had five years to prepare, so they have dug many tunnels and planted many IEDs....This battle will continue for years, if not decades. And even if it is defeated here [in Hajin], it is not the end. ISIS is an ideology and can recruit more supporters."
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