US-backed Syria forces say next IS target after Manbij is Al-Bab

US-backed Syrian forces say they have established a military council to push Islamic State group fighters out of their northern bastion of Al-Bab having ousted the jihadists from Manbij.

“We announce… the creation of the Al-Bab Military Council,” tasked with driving IS from the town in Aleppo province, says the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters in a statement, two days after driving the last jihadists from Manbij.

— AFP

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