Women rip off their burqas as Syrian residents of Manbij celebrate rescue from Isil

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Not sure if this was posted.

SDF, our fellows, Kurds, etc. freed the city.

Women rip off their burqas as Syrian residents of Manbij celebrate rescue from Isil

Women ripped off their black burqas and defiantly smoked cigarettes, while the men cut their beards as they gave the peace sign.

After two years living under the Islamic State, the last-remaining residents of the northern Syrian city of Manbij could not quite believe it when the US-backed forces arrived to rescue them.

“Why did you take so long?” sobbed one woman, who had been trapped in her basement for a week along with her two daughters and elderly father after Isil threatened to kill anyone who tried to escape.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared the city fully liberated on Friday, saying they were “starting a new history after closing the book of darkness”.

The battle, which has displaced nearly 100,000 civilians and left more than 400 dead, proved to be the fiercest of all the offensives to dismantle the group's self-proclaimed caliphate across Syria and Iraq.

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After the death of more than 1750 people, Syria Democratic Forces take over the last ISIS pocket in Manbij city
http://www.syriahr.com/en/?p=49283

Re: The 2nd vehicle in this picture.

US-backed Kurdish and Arab fighters advance into the Islamic State group bastion of Manbij, in northern Syria, in June 2016. (AFP/File)

This article actually says "Daesh, ISIS, released civilians", so??

Daesh fighters have released most of the civilians they took with them while retreating from the northern Syrian city of Manbij, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told dpa on Saturday.

The civilians were released in an Daesh-controlled territory outside Manbij and near the town of Jarabulus on the border with Turkey, Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman said.

Kurdish-led forces who gained full control of Manbij on Friday had said that the last remaining jihadists had abducted 2,000 civilians while retreating towards Jarabulus.

http://www.albawaba.com/news/daesh-frees-captured-manbij-civilians-syria-872482