(Zaman al-Wasl)- Dozens of Islamic State fighters were killed and injured in the past two days by the U.S.-led air strikes on the radicals group's strongholds in Markada town in southern countryside of Hasaka province.
Activist Malaz al-Yousef said, the International alliance warplanes raided Isis stronghold Markada killing and injuring tens of Isis fighters.
The clashes escalated between Isis and Union Democratic Party (PYD)-led Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF) in surrounding of Abu Khashab area on the administrative borders of Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor provinces, al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl.
U.S.-backed SDFfighter recaptured the strategic al-Shadadi and al-Arysha towns from Isis late of February through major military campaign and that was very important battle for SDF alliance since its formation in October 2015 from militias affiliated with PYD and self-administration. United States backed the alliance and provided them with weapons.
Field activist al-Yousef added PYD armed personnel stormed al-Arysha town and arrested a significant number of young men for no clear reasons pointing out PYD closed all internet ships and confiscated devices in the villages located on the eastern line between Hasaka city and al-Shadadi.
The recent field developments come in conjunction with US Defense Secretary Ash Carter second meeting with Counter-Isis fight coalition defense ministers in U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart.
Carter said on Tuesday the Defense Department welcomes that local forces in Iraq are heading towards Mosul, even though supply lines will be longer and the logistics burden will be greater than it was in Ramadi and Hit.
“We’re adapting accordingly,” he said. “That kind of thing [will] keep going until we win.”
Extra troops that the department has sent to Syria have been valuable in identifying and enabling local forces of the kind that were successful in important fighting around the Tishrin Dam and the town of Shadadi, the secretary said, “so we want to build on that success.”
-Influx of Iraqi refugees to al-Haul camp-
In another context, 1200 Iraqi refugee arrived in al-Haul refugee camp in Hasaka eastern countryside from Mosul in Iraq fleeing battles between Isis on the one hand, and Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga forces, and Popular Mobilization forces on the other hand, according to refugees.
The refugees who arrived in al-Haul said hundreds of displaced are still on the way to al-Haul on the Iraqi Syrian borders. The camp suffers lack of food, water and medical care with the continuous influx of refugees.
Al-Haul refugee camp received 75 displaced families last week nearly 350 persons including 200 children coming from Mosul and nearby places in of Nineveh province. The displaced families live in difficult humanitarian conditions amid absence of effective medical care and humanitarian organizations regardless of the efforts of Hasaka Charity Organizations.
(Translation by Rana Abdul)
Activist Malaz al-Yousef said, the International alliance warplanes raided Isis stronghold Markada killing and injuring tens of Isis fighters.
The clashes escalated between Isis and Union Democratic Party (PYD)-led Syrian Democratic Forces alliance (SDF) in surrounding of Abu Khashab area on the administrative borders of Hasaka and Deir ez-Zor provinces, al-Yousef told Zaman al-Wasl.
U.S.-backed SDFfighter recaptured the strategic al-Shadadi and al-Arysha towns from Isis late of February through major military campaign and that was very important battle for SDF alliance since its formation in October 2015 from militias affiliated with PYD and self-administration. United States backed the alliance and provided them with weapons.
Field activist al-Yousef added PYD armed personnel stormed al-Arysha town and arrested a significant number of young men for no clear reasons pointing out PYD closed all internet ships and confiscated devices in the villages located on the eastern line between Hasaka city and al-Shadadi.
The recent field developments come in conjunction with US Defense Secretary Ash Carter second meeting with Counter-Isis fight coalition defense ministers in U.S. European Command headquarters in Stuttgart.
Carter said on Tuesday the Defense Department welcomes that local forces in Iraq are heading towards Mosul, even though supply lines will be longer and the logistics burden will be greater than it was in Ramadi and Hit.
“We’re adapting accordingly,” he said. “That kind of thing [will] keep going until we win.”
Extra troops that the department has sent to Syria have been valuable in identifying and enabling local forces of the kind that were successful in important fighting around the Tishrin Dam and the town of Shadadi, the secretary said, “so we want to build on that success.”
-Influx of Iraqi refugees to al-Haul camp-
In another context, 1200 Iraqi refugee arrived in al-Haul refugee camp in Hasaka eastern countryside from Mosul in Iraq fleeing battles between Isis on the one hand, and Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga forces, and Popular Mobilization forces on the other hand, according to refugees.
The refugees who arrived in al-Haul said hundreds of displaced are still on the way to al-Haul on the Iraqi Syrian borders. The camp suffers lack of food, water and medical care with the continuous influx of refugees.
Al-Haul refugee camp received 75 displaced families last week nearly 350 persons including 200 children coming from Mosul and nearby places in of Nineveh province. The displaced families live in difficult humanitarian conditions amid absence of effective medical care and humanitarian organizations regardless of the efforts of Hasaka Charity Organizations.
(Translation by Rana Abdul)
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