No drones this time. No complaints? No UN anything?

Whenever there is a river involved that is transportation and escape. The USA may have pre-empted any movement/escape by Daesh to Iraq where USA troops are assisting Iraqi troops to protect their homeland.

Beirut — U.S. Special Operations troops (click here) carried out a ground operation in eastern Syria aimed at capturing an Islamic State militant, U.S. officials said Monday.

The raid took place Sunday near a small town along the Euphrates River valley, in the vicinity of the city of Deir al-Zour and deep in the heart of Islamic State territory, according to the officials and Syrian activist groups.

The troops, who landed on helicopters, spent about 90 minutes in the area, then left carrying Islamic State captives and bodies, according to witnesses quoted by the website Deir al-Zour 24, which monitors Islamic State activity in that province.

According to U.S. defense officials in Washington, the U.S. forces intercepted a vehicle carrying an Islamic State militant who the U.S. military hoped to capture and interrogate. One official, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an operation whose details have not been publicly announced, said that a firefight broke out, and the suspect, along with another person in the car, were killed. No Americans were injured....

Real good. This is the growing brain trust of Daesh. This is the great legacy to the children of the caliphate. Just take the children out of there. I know there are DSS workers with waiting and hopeful parents in the USA.

 A 4-year-old boy from the ISIS-led "Cubs of the Caliphate" shooting an alleged pro-Kurdish spy in Syria's Deir ez-Zor in a propaganda video.

January 9, 2017

Deir Ezzor – The Islamic State (ISIS) (click here) extremist group on Sunday executed three young men in Syria’s northeastern Deir ez-Zor city.

The victims, who were accused of spying for the Kurdish YPG forces, were executed at the hands of ISIS child soldiers–known as ‘Cubs of the Caliphate’.

The ISIS media office of Deir ez-Zor released a propaganda video showing the three men confessing that they’ve been spying for the Kurdish troops against the so-called Caliphate. Later in the video, ISIS child soldiers brutally execute the victims and shout “Allahu Akbar”.

The execution took place in a deserted playground in rural Deir ez-Zor....