(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS on Wednesday have recaptured 5 villages from the Kurdish-led Syria Democratic Forces west of Raqqa city, killing 30 SDF militants, the group's Amaq news agency said.
ISIS launched counter attack on Ja'bar citadel and surrounding villages but the U.S.-backed group says it has thwarted the attack at the banks of Assad lake.
SDF backed by the U.S. air strikes has tightened the noose on the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, seizing most of the western countryside.
SDF pressed rapid advances in the past two weeks, making the strategic Euphrates dam just few blocks from its sight.
The alliance of Kurds and Arabs on Saturday took the village of al-Suwaydiya al-Kabira at the banks of Euphrates dam, the country's largest dam at Tabqa on the Euphrates River.
Kurdish social media pages said the siege of ISIS major pocket will facilitate the military operation that began on Nov.25, and make ISIS collapse imminent in the Raqqa countryside.
In a two-month offensive, the SDF has taken large areas of northern Raqqa province.
On December 10,, it announced the second phase of the operation to oust the jihadists from their Syrian stronghold.
ISIS launched counter attack on Ja'bar citadel and surrounding villages but the U.S.-backed group says it has thwarted the attack at the banks of Assad lake.
SDF backed by the U.S. air strikes has tightened the noose on the group's self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa city, seizing most of the western countryside.
SDF pressed rapid advances in the past two weeks, making the strategic Euphrates dam just few blocks from its sight.
The alliance of Kurds and Arabs on Saturday took the village of al-Suwaydiya al-Kabira at the banks of Euphrates dam, the country's largest dam at Tabqa on the Euphrates River.
Kurdish social media pages said the siege of ISIS major pocket will facilitate the military operation that began on Nov.25, and make ISIS collapse imminent in the Raqqa countryside.
In a two-month offensive, the SDF has taken large areas of northern Raqqa province.
On December 10,, it announced the second phase of the operation to oust the jihadists from their Syrian stronghold.
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