(Zaman Al Wasl)- A spokesman for the YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces said on Sunday that his U.S.-backed alliance of Kurds and Arabs fighters had driven ISIS from Tel Abyad town on the Turkish border, Killing 70 militants.
Colonel Tala Cilo, SDf 's spokesman told RIA Novosti that "All the attacks have been repulsed, and all the places where the terrorists have succeeded to gain a footing are mopped up."
In his turn, Brett McGurk, the anti-ISIS international coalition's special envoy, said ISIS attack on Tal Abyad was repelled by the U.S.-led air forces that responded immediately with devastating precision. An important point that was missed by media outlets, according to Hassan Hassan, Syrian analyst and co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.
Early Saturday, ISIS attacked YPG-controlled Tel Abyad town as well as the nearby towns of Suluk and Hammam al-Turkmen.
The YPG captured Tel Abyad from IS last year in an offensive backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
The Turkish security sources said the attack was launched in the early hours of Saturday on two fronts and that the sound of gunfire and explosions, audible from the town of Akcakale on the Turkish side, had continued for several hours.
The security sources and a witness in Akcakale said war planes thought to be from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State struck the jihadist positions and that the Turkish army had increased patrols on its side of the border.
During the attack, Islamic State has beheaded a top tribesman in Tel Abyad, saying he was collaborating with YPG, pro-ISIS accounts reported on Saturday.
Khaled Dahham Ragheb al-Bashir, cousin of Nawaf al-Bashir, head of the powerful al-Baqara tribe, the clan that has big influence north and east Syria.
ISIS posted a photo for the decapitated head on al-Bashir's Facebook page after seizing his cellphone.
In northern Aleppo province, Russian war planes attacked six towns early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said.
The cessation of hostilities, agreed as part of a U.S. and Russian plan, does not cover assaults on militants from Islamic State or the Nusra Front - an al Qaeda affiliate that has called for an escalation of attacks on Friday.
Other attacks hit the villages and towns of Qabtan al-Jabal, Andan, Hreitan, Kfar Hamra and Ma'aret al-Arteek, the Observatory said, all in the west of the province where insurgents from the Free Syrian Army, who are covered by the truce, have operated.
In the central provinces of Homs and Hama, Russia's warplanes on Sunday carried out ten raids on Harbanafesh town.
An Ahrar al-Sham field commander said regime and Russia have stepped up aerial and ground offensive on then northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of hama despite the U.S.-Russia ceasefire deal.
Abu Saqer said the his powerful Islamist group had thwarted regime attack, killing four regime militants.
Activists said three truce viloations recorded in rebel-held Homs on Saturday. (With agencies)
Colonel Tala Cilo, SDf 's spokesman told RIA Novosti that "All the attacks have been repulsed, and all the places where the terrorists have succeeded to gain a footing are mopped up."
In his turn, Brett McGurk, the anti-ISIS international coalition's special envoy, said ISIS attack on Tal Abyad was repelled by the U.S.-led air forces that responded immediately with devastating precision. An important point that was missed by media outlets, according to Hassan Hassan, Syrian analyst and co-author of ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror.
Early Saturday, ISIS attacked YPG-controlled Tel Abyad town as well as the nearby towns of Suluk and Hammam al-Turkmen.
The YPG captured Tel Abyad from IS last year in an offensive backed by U.S.-led air strikes.
The Turkish security sources said the attack was launched in the early hours of Saturday on two fronts and that the sound of gunfire and explosions, audible from the town of Akcakale on the Turkish side, had continued for several hours.
The security sources and a witness in Akcakale said war planes thought to be from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State struck the jihadist positions and that the Turkish army had increased patrols on its side of the border.
During the attack, Islamic State has beheaded a top tribesman in Tel Abyad, saying he was collaborating with YPG, pro-ISIS accounts reported on Saturday.
Khaled Dahham Ragheb al-Bashir, cousin of Nawaf al-Bashir, head of the powerful al-Baqara tribe, the clan that has big influence north and east Syria.
ISIS posted a photo for the decapitated head on al-Bashir's Facebook page after seizing his cellphone.
In northern Aleppo province, Russian war planes attacked six towns early on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and activists said.
The cessation of hostilities, agreed as part of a U.S. and Russian plan, does not cover assaults on militants from Islamic State or the Nusra Front - an al Qaeda affiliate that has called for an escalation of attacks on Friday.
Other attacks hit the villages and towns of Qabtan al-Jabal, Andan, Hreitan, Kfar Hamra and Ma'aret al-Arteek, the Observatory said, all in the west of the province where insurgents from the Free Syrian Army, who are covered by the truce, have operated.
In the central provinces of Homs and Hama, Russia's warplanes on Sunday carried out ten raids on Harbanafesh town.
An Ahrar al-Sham field commander said regime and Russia have stepped up aerial and ground offensive on then northern countryside of Homs and southern countryside of hama despite the U.S.-Russia ceasefire deal.
Abu Saqer said the his powerful Islamist group had thwarted regime attack, killing four regime militants.
Activists said three truce viloations recorded in rebel-held Homs on Saturday. (With agencies)
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