The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are clashing with ISIS terrorists in the city of Raqqah.
The SDF has seized the Grain Mill area and advannced on Andalus neighborhood. A fighting has also continued in the central part of Raqqah.
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Almost done now.
The last few quarters to be taken and then mopping up and demining. Might take a month to get it cleared.
Refugees are starting to return in the first quarters, soon reconstruction will begin.
Tabqah, cleared as of may this year, has seen the number of inhabitants rise from 15k to 110k, even more then before IS took the city and reconstruction has started.
In Manbij, the population doubled within a year after SDF retook the city (a plus of over 100k), some of them are refugees from Raqqah and likely will be returning later.
Civillians (DeZ) fleeing hardly go towards SAA, mostly towards SDF.
There were 100k civilians in Deir Ezzor for 3yrs, are you saying that they are fleeing to SDF territory or are you referring to the portion of Deir Ezzor north of the Euphrates, where are you getting your information on these population numbers?
I am not saying that at all. I am saying, hope you can read, that civillians fleeing around DeZ are fleeing mostly towards SDF.
As for numbers, it is you talking about numbers, not me. So answer your own question, like most of you do.
DeZ refugees (both countryside and north and south of the city, have been arriving for weeks in Ain Issa. Many thousands already arrived,
I suppose those living in the former besieged area of DeZ did not flee as they would have done so earlier if they had wanted to.
More BS being spun by the Hasbara fellowship student, too funny!
hasbara troll
I thought that there was an evacuation agreement pending with ISIS at Raqqa, fake news?
More fake news, pretty much like leading those Arab SDF into the US/ISIS ambush and killing anyone against them , just the way Kurds are in the end.