SANA said that al-Boukamal “was meant to be a springboard for the Israeli-U.S. project of imposing hegemony on the region,” and that this attempt had now been “foiled, [along] with Daesh’s grand dream of establishing an ‘Islamic Caliphate.’”
The report added that “towards the end of the army’s operation in al-Boukamal, “Deash terrorists who felt the noose tightening on them fled the city under the protection of the US-led coalition, whose forces tended to jam satellite communications to prevent the Syrian and Russian air forces from targeting Daesh supply convoys.”
With the full liberation of al-Boukamal, ISIS is now restricted to the west of the Euphrates River in the area stretching from the northwest of the Badia of al-Boukamal to the southeast of al-Sukhneh and in the area on the eastern bank of the River from the north of al-Boukamal to the south of Markadeh in the northeastern Hasaka province, the report concluded. Most of this area is desert, and strategically worthless.