(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS launched Saturday major attack on U.S.-backed militias north of its stronghold of Raqqa province, as the Kurdish-led forces press new advances in the western countryside, local activists said.
Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and neighboring villages what pushed tens of families to flee heading the Turkish border.
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In its turn, backed by the international coalition warplanes, The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the village of Suweidiya near the Euphrates river that the alliance is also aimed to capture in the current phase of its campaign.
Raqqa Is Being slaughtered Silently campaign said 9 civilians were killed in the coalition's strikes on Suweidiya.
On Thursday, SDF captured Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake Assad from Islamic State in a strategically significant advance against the jihadist group.
Maamoun Abdulkarim, the Syrian regime's antiquities chief, told Reuters in Damascus the SDF's capture of the castle represented a "victory for the Syrian people because liberating the citadel from Daesh (IS) is saving Syrian heritage".
The SDF, which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, is the main partner for the United States in the campaign it is leading against Islamic State in Syria. SDF forces are just a few kilometres (miles) from a major dam also held by IS.
Islamic State is also being fought in separate campaigns by the Russian-backed Syrian army in Deir al-Zor province and near the ancient town of Palmyra, which IS seized for a second time in December, and by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in Aleppo province near the Syrian-Turkish border.
The SDF launched a multi-stage operation in Raqqa province in November aimed ultimately at capturing the city from Islamic State. The first phase gained territory to the north of the city and the current phase is targeting areas to the west of it. (With Reuters)
Activist Yasser al-Jasem said the radical group attacked Tel al-Samen town and neighboring villages what pushed tens of families to flee heading the Turkish border.
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In its turn, backed by the international coalition warplanes, The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) took the village of Suweidiya near the Euphrates river that the alliance is also aimed to capture in the current phase of its campaign.
Raqqa Is Being slaughtered Silently campaign said 9 civilians were killed in the coalition's strikes on Suweidiya.
On Thursday, SDF captured Jabar citadel on the banks of Lake Assad from Islamic State in a strategically significant advance against the jihadist group.
Maamoun Abdulkarim, the Syrian regime's antiquities chief, told Reuters in Damascus the SDF's capture of the castle represented a "victory for the Syrian people because liberating the citadel from Daesh (IS) is saving Syrian heritage".
The SDF, which includes the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, is the main partner for the United States in the campaign it is leading against Islamic State in Syria. SDF forces are just a few kilometres (miles) from a major dam also held by IS.
Islamic State is also being fought in separate campaigns by the Russian-backed Syrian army in Deir al-Zor province and near the ancient town of Palmyra, which IS seized for a second time in December, and by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels in Aleppo province near the Syrian-Turkish border.
The SDF launched a multi-stage operation in Raqqa province in November aimed ultimately at capturing the city from Islamic State. The first phase gained territory to the north of the city and the current phase is targeting areas to the west of it. (With Reuters)
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