“Like Moths To The Flame”: Fighters Cut Down While Approaching Stranded Convoy

Many false reports on #ISIS terrorist convoy. It has not reached #Iraq and will not reach Iraq. Buses still in open desert, with food/water.
— Brett McGurk (@brett_mcgurk) September 6, 2017

A convoy of buses containing hundreds of lightly armed ISIS terrorists and their family members remains stuck in the Syrian desert and pinned down as US and coalition planes continue to pick off militants who stray too far from the group. External ISIS vehicles have also tried to access and aid the group, but as US coalition spokesman Army Col. Ryan S. Dillon stated, coalition aircraft are picking them off as they come close “like moths to the flame.”
Dillon estimated that over 40 ISIS vehicles were destroyed, including nearly 100 terrorists killed, while heading toward the convoy as the coalition has been “able to continue to just observe and pick them off one at a time.’ But on Friday afternoon the US alliance announced the sudden withdrawal of its surveillance aircraft over the site at Russia’s request, publishing the following statement:
At approximately 7am GMT Sept. 8, Syrian pro-regime forces advanced past the 11-bus convoy of ISIS terrorists and non-combatants in the eastern Syrian desert. To ensure safe de-confliction of efforts to defeat ISIS, coalition surveillance aircraft departed the adjacent airspace at the request of Russian officials during their assault on Dawyr Az Zawyr.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Sep 9, 2017.