Syria: ISIS Ousted From City Of Raqqa
The four-month battle for Raqqa was in its last stages.
US-backed militias have completely taken Syria’s Raqqa from ISIS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The fall of Raqqa city, where ISIS staged euphoric parades.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a US-led international alliance, has been fighting Daesh inside Raqqa since June.
Militia fighters celebrated in the streets, chanted slogans from their vehicles and raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium.
A local field commander said no Daesh fighters remained even in the stadium and the hospital, two central city points where 7 ISIS had been best entrenched.
“We do still know there are still IEDs and booby traps in and among the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas,” said Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition.
SDF spokesman said the alliance would capture the last ISIS areas in the city within hours.
The stadium and a hospital, the SDF said they had captured earlier on Tuesday, were the jihadists’ last bases.
It is now hemmed in to a tiny bomb-cratered patch of the city around the stadium that was being pounded from the air by a US-led coalition and encircled by SDF fighters.
The four-month battle for Raqqa was in its last stages.
US-backed militias have completely taken Syria’s Raqqa from ISIS, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday.
The fall of Raqqa city, where ISIS staged euphoric parades.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias backed by a US-led international alliance, has been fighting Daesh inside Raqqa since June.
Militia fighters celebrated in the streets, chanted slogans from their vehicles and raised a flag inside Raqqa stadium.
A local field commander said no Daesh fighters remained even in the stadium and the hospital, two central city points where 7 ISIS had been best entrenched.
“We do still know there are still IEDs and booby traps in and among the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas,” said Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition.
SDF spokesman said the alliance would capture the last ISIS areas in the city within hours.
The stadium and a hospital, the SDF said they had captured earlier on Tuesday, were the jihadists’ last bases.
It is now hemmed in to a tiny bomb-cratered patch of the city around the stadium that was being pounded from the air by a US-led coalition and encircled by SDF fighters.
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