Fierce fighting 20km from ISIS bastion in Syria
AFP, Bir Fawaz, Syria Thursday, 9 February 2017
SDF members gather near the village of Bir Fawaz, 20 km north of Raqqa, during their offensive on ISIS on February 8, 2017. (AFP)
Fierce fighting took place on Wednesday between militants and US-backed Syrian rebels just 20 kilometers from the ISIS’s self-proclaimed capital of Raqqa, an AFP reporter saw.
On Saturday, the rebels – a coalition of fighters known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) – announced a new phase in a bid to capture Raqqa, and mounted an attack from north and northeast. An AFP reporter at Bir Fawaz, 20 km north of Raqqa, heard machine-gun fire all day Wednesday as SDF attacked ISIS positions in the neighboring village of Maayzila.
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SDF; photo is of our
rebels make that fighters, fighters against ISIS, mostly Kurds in the past.
