BEIRUT: Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from the Daesh group during fierce clashes north of the terrorists’ stronghold of Raqqa, a monitor said Sunday.
The extremists launched an offensive last Wednesday against areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces coalition near to Ain Issa, a town held by the SDF some 50 km from Raqqa, killing 21 Kurdish fighters.
Late on Saturday, “16 radicals were killed and 19 wounded” in clashes with the SDF near Ain Issa, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The SDF also recaptured an area seized by IS a few days earlier, he said.
The alliance, made up of units from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Arab fighters, has carried out several major operations against Daesh.
On Dec. 26, it seized the Tishreen Dam from Daesh along with several villages on the Euphrates’ eastern bank. The dam, held by Daesh since 2014, helps generate electricity for large parts of the northern Aleppo province, the Observatory said.
It was the alliance’s second major operation, after clearing Daesh from some 200 villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh.
On the Euphrates’ western bank, Daesh still controls swathes of territory stretching from Raqqa to Jarablus, on the border with Turkey.
The extremists launched an offensive last Wednesday against areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces coalition near to Ain Issa, a town held by the SDF some 50 km from Raqqa, killing 21 Kurdish fighters.
Late on Saturday, “16 radicals were killed and 19 wounded” in clashes with the SDF near Ain Issa, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The SDF also recaptured an area seized by IS a few days earlier, he said.
The alliance, made up of units from the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Arab fighters, has carried out several major operations against Daesh.
On Dec. 26, it seized the Tishreen Dam from Daesh along with several villages on the Euphrates’ eastern bank. The dam, held by Daesh since 2014, helps generate electricity for large parts of the northern Aleppo province, the Observatory said.
It was the alliance’s second major operation, after clearing Daesh from some 200 villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh.
On the Euphrates’ western bank, Daesh still controls swathes of territory stretching from Raqqa to Jarablus, on the border with Turkey.
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