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On Sunday, the US-led coalition announced that the 17 buses that are carrying ISIS fighters and their families who have been evacuated from the Western Qalamoun region are now between al- Sukhnah town and Humayma village in the eastern Homs countryside.
The US-led coalition also announced that it bombed many ISIS fighters and vehicles who attempted to reach the convoy.
Army Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesperson for the US-led collation, said that collation warplanes killed 85 ISIS fighters and destroyed 40 vehicles of ISIS that tried to reach the convoy.
Hezbollah-ISIS update: 85 Daesh killed, 40 separate ISIS vehicles destroyed; @CJTFOIR NOT targeting or preventing aid to civilians.
— OIR Spokesman (@OIRSpox) 3 September 2017
Colonel Ryan Dillon also denied that the collation air dropped food and water for the trapped civilians in the convoy. The collation said that the Syrian government did provide aid for the civilians in the convoy.
Complete Rubbish! FALSE. @CJTFOIR NOT providing food/water to #ISIS. Coalition mission is clear: #defeatdaesh! https://t.co/1KsYaHEVzX
— OIR Spokesman (@OIRSpox) 3 September 2017
In its statement the US-led collation emphasized, that it will continue to block the convoy route towards the Syrian-Iraqi border. Moreover, the US-led collation claimed that it “offered” solutions to save the women and children in the convoy to the Russian side.
However, the US-led collation said that it will “take action” if the convoy moves. However, this will be done “without harming civilians”.
Last week Hezbollah agreed to allow about 300 ISIS fighters and their families to withdraw from the Western Qalamoun region on the Syrian-Lebanese border to al-Bukamal city on the Syrian-Iraqi border.
