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             In a deal, remains of Lebanon soldiers held by IS located



            By SARAH EL DEEB             for DNA tests to determine
            Associated Press             their identities.
            BEIRUT (AP) — The remains  Locating  the  soldiers’  re-
            of  eight  Lebanese  soldiers  mains  was  part  of  a  deal
            kidnapped  by  the  Islamic  that  comes  a  week  af-
            State  group  three  years  ter  the  Lebanese  military
            ago were located Sunday,  launched  a  campaign  to
            a  senior  Lebanese  official  drive  out  IS  militants  from
            said,  in  a  negotiated  deal  some  120  square  kilome-
            that followed a military of-  ters  (46  square  miles)  in  a
            fensive to drive the militants  rugged  mountainous  area
            out of the border area with  that  straddles  the  Leba-
            Syria.                       nese-Syrian  border.  Sepa-
            Abbas Ibrahim, the chief of  rately  but  simultaneously,
            Lebanese  General  Secu-     the  Lebanese  Hezbollah
            rity, said six bodies buried in  militia, in cooperation with
            Lebanon  near  the  border  the  Syrian  army,  launched
            with  Syria  were  removed.  another  offensive  to  pres-
            He said the operation con-   sure the IS militants in Syrian
            tinued to pull out two more  territories  along  the  same
            bodies  but  the  fate  of  a  border area.
            ninth  soldier  remained  un-  The  U.S-backed  Lebanese
            known.                       army  denies  it  coordinat-
            The  soldiers’  remains  were  ed with the Syrian govern-  Abbas Ibrahim, center, chief of Lebanese General Security, speaks during a press conference in
                                                                      front of tents set up by families of missing soldiers who were kidnapped by Islamic State group
            transported  later  Sunday  ment.The  deal  also  entails   militants, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017. Ibrahim said that bodies believed
            to  Beirut’s  military  hospital  the  transfer  of  remaining   to be of soldiers kidnapped by IS militants three years ago have been found buried near the bor-
                                                                      der with Syria.
                                                                                                                                      (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
                                                                      IS militants on both sides of  After  a  week  of  fight-  the fate of the soldiers.
                                                                      the  border  to  eastern  Syr-  ing,  cease-fires  were  an-  Hezbollah  and  Syrian  me-
                                                                      ia’s  Deir  el-Zour  province,  nounced  on  both  sides  of  dia said the cease-fire was
                                                                      which  is  mostly  controlled  the  border  earlier  Sunday.  to  allow  for  the  compre-
                                                                      by  the  extremist  group.  The  Lebanese  army  said  hensive deal.
                                                                      The  Syrian  government,  the  halt  in  fighting,  which  Hezbollah,  which  Western
                                                                      backed by Russian air pow-   came  after  100  square  ki-  nations  view  as  a  terror-
                                                                      er  and  Iranian-organized  lometers  (38  square  kilo-  ist  organization,  has  been
                                                                      militias,  is  preparing  an  of-  meters)  were  cleared  of  fighting  alongside  Presi-
                                                                      fensive to recapture the oil-  militants,  was  to  allow  for  dent Bashar Assad’s forces
                                                                      rich province.               negotiations  to  determine  inside Syria since 2013.q

                                                                        Iraq: 90% of Tal Afar retaken from IS



                                                                      BAGHDAD (AP) —               clare   areas    liberated  the  extremist  group  on  a
                                                                      Iraq’s  military  said  Satur-  before  the  fighting  has  number of fronts in recent
                                                                      day  it  has  driven  Islamic  completely  ended,  and  months with the help of a
                                                                      State  militants  out  of  90  the  militants  have  been  U.S.-led coalition.
                                                                      percent  of  the  northern  known  to  carry  out  sur-   U.S.-backed  and  Kurd-
                                                                      town  of  Tal  Afar  and  re-  prise counterattacks.      ish-led  forces  are  cur-
                                                                      taken the town center.       Iraq launched the opera-     rently  battling  IS  inside
                                                                      Brig. Gen.                   tion to retake Tal Afar on  the  group’s  self-declared
                                                                      Yahya  Rasool,  a  military  Sunday,  a  month  after  it  capital,  Raqqa,  in  north-
                                                                      spokesman,  spoke  hours  declared the northern city  ern Syria.
                                                                      after  Iraq’s  foreign  min-  of  Mosul,  its  second  larg-  IS still controls large areas
                                                                      ister,  Ibrahim  al-Jaafari,  est, to be fully liberated.   in  Syria  and  a  handful  of
                                                                      said  that  70  percent  of  Tal  Afar  is  about  150  ki-  towns in Iraq.
                                                                      the  town  west  of  Mosul  lometers  (93  miles)  from  In  the  past,  it  has  man-
                                                                      had been retaken.            Syria’s  border  and  it’s  aged  to  inspire  or  carry
                                                                      Al-Jaafari  spoke  during  a  among  the  last  IS-held  out attacks in Europe and
                                                                      news conference with his  towns in Iraq.                  elsewhere even while suf-
                                                                      French counterpart.          Iraqi  and  Syrian  forces  fering battlefield setbacks
                                                                      Iraqi  officials  often  de-  have  advanced  against  in the Middle East. q
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