The Hunt for ISIS Pivots to Remaining Pockets in Syria

By ERIC SCHMITT from NYT World

AL UDEID AIR BASE, Qatar — Secretive automatons and reconnaissance planes are exhausting down on an expected 3,000 staying Islamic State contenders, who are stowing away in Syria along a short extend of the Euphrates River and encompassing deserts, as the American military crusade against the radical gathering enters its last stage. Yet, the emphasis on a 15-square-mile enclave close to the Iraqi fringe is entangled by skies congested with Russian, Syrian and Iranian airplane as opponent powers join on that last primary pocket of Islamic State activists in Syria.