<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" id="mwASw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces" id="mwAS0" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syrian Democratic Forces">Syrian Democratic Forces</a> (SDF) expel the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" id="mwAS4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a> (ISIL) from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq–Syria_border" id="mwAS8" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Iraq–Syria border">Iraq–Syria border</a>, concluding the second phase of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_ez-Zor_campaign_(2017–2019)" id="mwATA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Deir ez-Zor campaign (2017–2019)">Deir ez-Zor campaign</a>.<sup about="#mwt44" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./August_4#cite_note-7" id="mwATE" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATI">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt41" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFLeith_Aboufadel2018">Leith Aboufadel (4 August 2018). <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180804231713/https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-fully-expelled-from-syria-iraq-border/" id="mwBq4" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"ISIS fully expelled from Syria-Iraq border"</a>. Al-Masdar News. Archived from <a class="external text" href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/isis-fully-expelled-from-syria-iraq-border/" id="mwBq8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">the original</a> on 4 August 2018<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBrA">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBrE">4 August</span> 2018</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt41" class="Z3988" id="mwBrI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=ISIS+fully+expelled+from+Syria-Iraq+border&amp;rft.pub=Al-Masdar+News&amp;rft.date=2018-08-04&amp;rft.au=Leith+Aboufadel&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.almasdarnews.com%2Farticle%2Fisis-fully-expelled-from-syria-iraq-border%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAugust+4"></span></span>