SDF Expected To Avoid Deir Ezzor City

A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition force says the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) does not plan to enter the city of Deir Ezzor, where the Islamic State has been fighting government forces, reports Reuters.

Deir Ezzor province is one of the Islamic State's last strongholds in Syria. The Syrian army and its allies ended a siege of a government-held enclave in Deir Ezzor city earlier this month.

The SDF, an alliance of Arab and Kurdish groups, has been involved...