US-led coalition says still monitoring ISIS convoy in Syria
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BEIRUT - A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families being evacuated into jihadist territory in east Syria remained in government-held areas of Syria on Friday, US-led forces said.
"It has not managed to link up with any other ISIS elements in eastern Syria," said Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State.
There are about 300 fighters and about 300 civilians in the convoy, which the Syrian army and Lebanon's Hezbollah group gave safe passage to after the jihadists surrendered their enclave on Syria's border with Lebanon.
But the coalition against Islamic State has used air strikes to block the convoy from crossing into the group's main territory straddling Syria's eastern border with Iraq.
"We are continuing to monitor that convoy and will continue to disrupt its movement east to link up with any other ISIS element and we will continue to strike any other ISIS elements that try to move towards it," Dillon said.
