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Kurdish forces reach Euphrates River east of Raqqa amid massive ISIS collapse
Al-Masdar News ^ | 21/02/2017 | Chris Tomson

Posted on 02/21/2017 6:35:05 PM PST by Texas Fossil

Following the capture of 8 villages earlier in the day, the US-backed ‘Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) swept through another five ISIS-held villages in a huge offensive that now has Kurdish forward units stationed at the northern bank of the Euphrates River in a region some 40 kilometers east of the provincial capital of Raqqa.

Syrian Democratic Forces have officially reached the northern bank of the Euphrates River EAST of Raqqa… New batch of villages liberated pic.twitter.com/81MTH9WOi0

— Chris Tomson (@TheDaneChris) February 21, 2017

Effectively, the SDF were able to impose full control over the villages of Al Kajla, Judayat Khabur, Hamad Assaf, Al Kulayb and Al Kulayb and the latter’s Grain Silos.

Further operations are ongoing along the Euphrates River as ISIS militants have left behind several areas without firing a single bullet.

With phase III of the ‘Euphrates Wrath’ offensive firmly underway, the SDF are trying to set its forces up for the final assault on Raqqa city itself.

Meanwhile, 850 locals from Hasakah city were recruited into Kurdish YPG (People’s Protection Units) on Tuesday.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: collapse; euphrates; isis; raqqa
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To: Texas Fossil
Well... To be fair, Manbij was taken from ISIL by SDF forces last summer, with some US aid.

Apparently the fighting was intense:

U.S. Army Colonel Christopher Garver, chief spokesman for the US military command in Iraq and Syria, commented that fighting was "very intense", describing it as "different than what we've seen in Fallujah [or] Ramadi" and concluding that "this is a fight like we haven't seen before."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manbij_offensive

21 posted on 02/21/2017 11:42:16 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

Do you have a source for this calumny on the CIA?


22 posted on 02/22/2017 12:27:28 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Thanks for the ping. It’s odd how many seem to believe ISIS is invincible.


23 posted on 02/22/2017 12:29:09 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: Texas Fossil

You’re right; most of them will die in Raqqa. Their HQ’s or Caliphate is going to be taken. There still will be cells and danger from them, but they’ll own no land and will be pursued by their many enemies. America haters will attribute super powers to them, but they’re being destroyed.


24 posted on 02/22/2017 12:31:00 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: buwaya

Collapse. There is much more firepower being brought against them now.


25 posted on 02/22/2017 12:36:38 AM PST by elhombrelibre (Cogito ergo sum a conservative pro-American.)
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To: elhombrelibre

There’s this: http://nypost.com/2017/02/17/isis-is-going-broke/ No CIA angle, but...


26 posted on 02/22/2017 1:00:04 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: Texas Fossil

I hope that the Kurds have the good sense to kill every Isis fighter young or old. Extinction is the best remedy.


27 posted on 02/22/2017 2:01:53 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: elhombrelibre

Great EVIL is the source of their power. And it will devour them.


28 posted on 02/22/2017 4:39:11 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Paul R.

Thanks, I had not read that.


29 posted on 02/22/2017 4:40:19 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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30 posted on 02/22/2017 4:43:54 AM PST by csvset ( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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