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ISIS TRIES TO TAKE BACK IRAQ AS U.S. ALLIES SWITCH SIDES IN SYRIA

Fighters loyal to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) have attempted to relive their self-proclaimed caliphate by taking advantage of fleeing U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces to storm the Iraqi border, according to local reports.

A group of ISIS fighters active in one of the group's last remaining bastions in eastern Syria reportedly attempted to cross over into nearby Iraq on Sunday, but were quickly defeated by fighters of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an Iran-backed collective of mostly Shiite Muslim Iraqi militias that was officially inducted into the Iraqi military on Friday.

"The brigade's forces foiled a terrorist attack by ISIS gangs in armed vehicles driving toward the Al-Jaghifi border area," Popular Mobilization Forces First Brigade Commander Abu Jinan al-Basri told the group's official website.