US hunts for terrorists near Syrian border

US FORCES hunting down followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorist pushed into a lawless region north of the Euphrates River near the Syrian border yesterday.

They met unexpected resistance from insurgents hidden in remote desert outposts along the waterway’s southern shores, however.

Marines fought house-to-house against dozens of well-armed insurgents firing at them from balconies, rooftops and sandbagged bunkers in the border town of Obeidi and surrounding villages.