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From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 26, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Syria Kurd-Arab alliance enters IS-held Tabqa airport
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, Sunday enters an military airport held by the Islamic State jihadist group in northern Syria, a spokesman says.
“The SDF has taken control of more than 50 percent of Tabqa military airport. Fighting is ongoing inside the airport and its surroundings and full control of the airport is expected within the next few hours,” Talal Sello tells AFP.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor says IS forces had withdrawn from the airbase under heavy artillery fire and US-led coalition air strikes.
The jihadist group has held the military airport since August 2014, and it carried out one of its worst mass killings there, of some 200 government soldiers.
— AFP
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