[ALMASDARNEWS] US allies are making significant territorial progress on the outskirts of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
capital as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) annihilated two ISIS enclaves in the countryside of Raqqa on Wednesday.
Targeting an isolated ISIS-held area on the Euphrates River between Taqba and Raqqa, the SDF ‐ backed by the Manbij Military Council ‐ were able to impose full control over Kudayran and the Yamamah farms. Subsequently, Kurdish forces have now set their eyes on the strategic Baath dam, a prize Kurdish troops have fire control over.
United States airpower is playing on important role in clearing the way for rapid Kurdish ground advances.