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Pro-Kurdish sources report that the ISIS terrorist group has lost up to 100 fighters in a failed counter-attack in the area of Ar Rus, south of Manbij, the strategic city in Syria’s Aleppo province. Now, ISIS militants are reportedly withdrawing in the direction of Jubb al Katashil.
Now, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces – Kurdish YPG units and some Arab militias – are redeploying forces for a fresh advance on the strategic city of Manbij. According to reports, it will be a major operation with a full-scale air support from the US-led coalition. Some sources say that the Kurds will advance on the city from four directions.
We remember, recently, the US-led coalition was pushed to intensify air raids in Manbij because of the SDF’s inability to break the ISIS defenses there.
SDF/YPG units preparing to storm center of #Manbij from four directions. pic.twitter.com/59irxSLHSv
— Afarin Mamosta (@AfarinMamosta) July 6, 2016
Heh, heh. THAT was easy… You know we know, right?