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Fewer than 3,000 ISIS fighters left in Iraq, Syria: coalition

There are fewer than 3,000 "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria" (ISIS) fighters clinging on in the remnants of the group's self-styled caliphate in Iraq and Syria, the international coalition said Tuesday (December 5th).

ISIS is currently fighting for survival in the handful of sparsely populated pockets of territory it still holds, a far cry from the vast swathes of ground it captured in 2014, AFP reported.

"Current estimates are that there are less than 3000 ISIS fighters left - they still remain a threat, but we will continue to support our partner forces to defeat them," coalition spokesman Ryan Dillon wrote on Twitter.

Iraqi government troops backed up by airstrikes from the coalition are pressing an offensive to wipe out the extremists' last foothold in the desert.

In Syria, ISIS has faced separate onslaughts in Deir Ezzor province and now controls just a tiny sliver of the region along the Euphrates river.

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