(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six members of the US-backed forces were killed by an improvised explosive device in eastern Deir Ezzor province on Wednesday, local activists said.
The IED hit the vehicle of the Syrian Democratic Forces between al-Tanak and al-Omar oil fields in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor.
Activists said one of the slain militants was a senior commander in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Also in Deir Ezzor, the YPG-led forces have urged Daesh jihadists to lay down their arms and to leave the town of al-Hajeen, local activists said Tuesday.
Talks are still underway between the SDF and Daesh to evacuate the town of al-Hajeen at the eastern Bank of Euphrates River.
Activist Taj al-Allow said the negotiations followed heavy artillery fire by the US-led International coalition on the town.
Daesh militants are supposed to head the Syrian Desert, also known as badiya, in central Syria.
Assad's regime now controls nearly two-thirds of Syria and is determined to reassert its authority over Kurdish-held territory, which forms the lion's share of the rest.
But Kurdish leaders and their supporters are desperate to salvage what they can of their painstakingly built institutions.
Syria's war has left more than 350,000 people dead and displaced millions since it broke out with the brutal repression of an initially peaceful uprising in 2011.
Zaman Al Wasl
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