Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of mainly Kurdish fighters, were reported to have taken “large areas of the strategic
northern Syrian city of Manbij.
Mustafa Bali, a Syria-based Kurdish activist, said ISIS still holds some areas in Manbij, including the major north-western area of Sarab.
If Manbij is captured by the SDF, it will be the biggest strategic defeat for the extremist group in Syria since July 2015, when the extremists lost the border town of Tal Abyad with Turkey.
If Manbij is captured by the SDF, it will be the biggest strategic defeat for the extremist group in Syria since July 2015, when the extremists lost the border town of Tal Abyad with Turkey.
The SDF, backed by airstrikes from U.S-led coalition, launched its campaign to take Manbij two months ago with the goal of ousting ISIS terrorists from a last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish border.
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