No US involvement in deal with IS fighters: Pentagon

The Pentagon said Friday it played no part in an unusual deal in which Islamic State jihadists were allowed to leave a key town in Syria -- only for some of them to be killed anyway.The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces had independently cut a deal with the jihadists that let a group of about 70 of them leave Tabqa, an important city by a dam near the IS stronghold of Raqa."This was an agreement for them to leave the Tabqa dam and to leave the remaining portions of the city that ISIS held," Pen