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Tuesday, August 1, 2017
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
US-backed Syria force makes key advances in IS stronghold
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS-backed forces battling to oust the Islamic State group from its Syrian bastion Raqa advance in the city’s south, seizing a new neighborhood, a spokesman and monitor said Tuesday.
The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces militia (SDF) began a campaign to capture Raqa from IS last year, slowly encircling the city before breaking into it for the first time in June.
Backed by US-led coalition air strikes, the alliance now controls more than 50 percent of the city, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor.
“Overnight, the SDF advanced in the south of the city, after taking control of the Nazlet Shahada neighborhood,” says Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman.
— AFP
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