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On October 15, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced that its fighters captured al-Barid district in the center of Raqqa city. The SDF said that its fighters killed 10 members of ISIS, a half of them was foreigners.
Furthermore, the SDF announced that it has evacuated 550 civilians from the ISIS-held areas inside Raqqa. 4 ISIS fighters also surrendered to the SDF.
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After losing the strategic al-Barid district, the defense of remaining ISIS fighters inside Raqqa will likely collapse in the coming days.
Earlier on October 15, the SDF officially announced a start of the final phase of the battle for Raqqa after Syrian ISIS members had left the city.
Meanwhile in the northern Deir Ezzor countryside, SDF fighters reportedly repelled an ISIS attack on their positions in al-Sa’ad village south of al-Suwar town. According to pro-Kurdish sources, the SDF killed 7 fighters and destroyed a vehicle of ISIS while it was repelling the attack.
The sources added that the SDF repelled another attack of ISIS on its positions in the Jafra oil field also in the northern Deir Ezzor countryside. SDF fighters killed an ISIS suicide bomber during the clashes around the oil field.
From its side, the ISIS-linked news agency Amaq reported that ISIS fighters attacked 3 positions of the SDF on the al-Suwar-al-Salihiyah road in the northern Deir Ezzor countryside. Amaq said that ISIS fighters killed 6 fighters, and damaged a vehicle of the SDF during the attack on the road.
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Amaq also reported that ISIS fighters destroyed a SDF bulldozer with an IED in Mohamed village. The ISIS-linked news agency also released photos of ISIS attack on al-Sa’ad village.
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Lately, ISIS shifted some forces to counter the advance of the SDF in the southern al- Hasakah countryside and the northern Deir Ezzor countryside. However, after capturing Raqqa city, the SDF will be able to redeploy hundreds of fighters to boost its operations in al-Hasakah and Deir Ezzor governorates.
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Most things are more then 90% biased.
Not a word about the more then 2000 civile/hostages are taken out as well.
the only reliable news is from the russian led coalition – the rest are hollywood scripted garbage aka false flags/news/lies/deceptions
I cant see russians have more reliable information. Do they have journalists there and never lie too ? Oh yes the do too.
But I see many different comment from there, which is very hard to seperate because they are about very different groups from the ISIS part.
ABORTION RIGHTS IN KIRKUK! RAQQA! AND DIER EZZOR PROVENCE!