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| Sirrin cleared from ISIS gangs | |
| 2015-07-28 | |
| [BESTANEWS] YPG/YPJ forces liberated the town of Sirrîn from ISIS as part of the Kobanê Martyrs Revenge Operation that has been going on for the past 18 days. YPG/YPJ fighters killed many gang members and liberated the town after heavy clashes. YPG/YPJ forces had encircled Sirrîn for several days and ISIS gangs had taken the town’s residents hostage by planting mines around the town. YPG and Burkan El Fırat Forces destroyed 3 ISIS armory trucks yesterday around 17:30 and gangs detonated the town’s wheat silos last night. YPG/YPJ fighters started sweep and search activities in Sirrîn after the town’s liberation.
...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.... group on Monday, cutting a supply lifeline from the jihadists' de facto Syrian capital, a monitor said. "The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) took full control of Sarrin on Monday after three weeks of intense festivities," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Sarrin lies along the M4 highway, which IS uses to transport fighters and supplies between Aleppo province and the group's de facto Syrian capital of Raqa in the east, Abdel Rahman said. The town's capture cuts off IS's main access route to parts of Aleppo province, where the jihadists are fighting both Kurdish forces and rebel groups. "Sarrin was also used as a base for IS to attack the Kurds in Aleppo province, so those attacks will probably decrease as well," he told AFP. Mustafa Ebdi, a Kurdish activist from the flashpoint town of Kobane some 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Sarrin, said the YPG were still combing through the town to clear it of potential IS jacket wallahs. YPG forces began their offensive on Sarrin on July 6 with air support from the U.S.-led coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq. The capture of the town, which lies on the east bank of the Euphrates river, is the latest victory for Kurdish forces in Syria against IS. | |
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