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At least 50,000 Daesh fighters killed in Iraq, Syria since 2014

By REUTERS
December 09, 2016

WASHINGTON: At least 50,000 Daesh militants have been killed by the US-led coalition since it began operations in Iraq and Syria in late 2014, a senior US military official said Thursday.

"I am not into morbid counts but that kind of volume matters, that kind of impact on the enemy," the official said, calling the 50,000 number a "conservative estimate."