(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 300 Iraqi and Syrian refugees fleeing ISIS-held areas have arrived to al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Hasaka province in the past two days, local activists said.
The Iraqi displaced were allowed by the Kurdish PYD militia to cross Rajm Sleibi checkpoint after months of blockading the border. The Iraqi displaced entered with their cars and basic belongings.
Around 50,000 Iraqi civilians took refuge in areas in the eastern and western countryside Deir Ez Zor and Hasaka amid difficult humanitarian situations and an increase in rents.
The administration of al-Hawl camp in eastern Hasaka said that the camp is hosting more than 20,000 Iraqi and Syrian refugees.
Meanwhile, Kurdish fighters are seeking to uproot ISIS fron Markada, its last stronghold in Hasaka as fierce clashes reported.
In Raqqa, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Thursday have seized full control of southern neighborhoods of Raqqa, tightening the noose of Islamic State, local monitoring group said.
Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently said the Kurdish-led alliance took Hisham Ibn Abdul Malek neighborhood and most of bundlings adjacent to Euphrates River.
By taking the southern districts, the islamic State has lost its last remaining path to the Euphrates River which is to the south of the city.
SDF fighters have also pressed gain in the western neighborhoods, the monitor said.
The SDF launched its U.S.-backed campaign to seize Raqqa in early June. The assault on Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria overlapped with the campaign to drive IS from the Iraqi city of Mosul, where IS was defeated last month.
The Kurdish official told Reuters SDF fighters advancing from the east and the west remain separated by a few streets where fighting continued.
Meanwhile, ISIS has called on young men to take up arms in eastern Syria.
In a statement distributed Thursday in Deir Al-Zor province that borders Iraq, Daesh called on all men between 20 and 30 who are able to fight to head to mobilization offices within a week.
The call comes as the extremists have lost large parts of areas they controlled in Iraq and Syria, where they declared a caliphate in 2014.
The statement, obtained by The Associated Press from activists in eastern Syria, warns that those who do not join will be undergo questioning and possibly be punished.
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