(Zaman Al Wasl)- Powerful PYD militia on Tuesday has freed senior official in the political National Kurdish Council after 5 months of detention in the northeastern city of Qamishli, fellow official said.
Engineer Mohamed Ismail was kidnapped by the Kurdish Democratic Party during a funeral of Syrian Peshmerga fighter, Shamdin Nabi told Zaman al-Wasl.
Meanwhile, tens of the PYD rival Kurdish council still in detention over discords in political and military agendas.
In Raqqa province, Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Monday took three villages from ISIS near the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, sources said.
The SDF captured villages of Traikiya, Bayoud, and al-Takmani in the western countryside.
Backed by the the U.S.-led airstrikes, the YPG-led alliance of Kurdish and Arabs has pushed further into the western countryside where at least 45 tiny villages have been encircled.
Most residents have fled their villages as the aerial bombing intensifies.
In a two-month offensive, the SDF has taken large areas of northern Raqa province.
On December 10 it announced the second phase of the operation to oust the jihadists from their Syrian stronghold.
Engineer Mohamed Ismail was kidnapped by the Kurdish Democratic Party during a funeral of Syrian Peshmerga fighter, Shamdin Nabi told Zaman al-Wasl.
Meanwhile, tens of the PYD rival Kurdish council still in detention over discords in political and military agendas.
In Raqqa province, Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces on Monday took three villages from ISIS near the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, sources said.
The SDF captured villages of Traikiya, Bayoud, and al-Takmani in the western countryside.
Backed by the the U.S.-led airstrikes, the YPG-led alliance of Kurdish and Arabs has pushed further into the western countryside where at least 45 tiny villages have been encircled.
Most residents have fled their villages as the aerial bombing intensifies.
In a two-month offensive, the SDF has taken large areas of northern Raqa province.
On December 10 it announced the second phase of the operation to oust the jihadists from their Syrian stronghold.
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