Syrian Civil War (Graphic Photos/Vid Not Allowed)
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Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the "V" sign in Raqqa, Syria on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
A formal declaration of victory in Raqqa will soon be made, once the city has been cleared of mines.
U.S.-backed militias said they had defeated Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising their flags over the jihadist group's last footholds in the city after a four-month battle.
The fighting was over but the alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias was clearing the stadium of mines and any remaining militants, said Rojda Felat, commander of the Raqqa campaign for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
A formal declaration of victory in Raqqa would soon be made once the city had been cleared of mines and any possible Islamic State sleeper cells, said Talal Silo, SDF spokesman.
The fall of Raqqa, where the Islamic State staged euphoric parades after its string of lightning victories in 2014, is a potent symbol of the jihadist movement's collapsing fortunes.
Islamic State has lost most of its territory in Syria and Iraq this year, including its most prized possession, Mosul. In Syria, it has been forced back into a strip of the Euphrates valley and surrounding desert.
The SDF, backed by a U.S.-led international alliance, has been fighting since June to take the city Islamic State used to plan attacks abroad.
Celebration in streets
Another Reuters witness said militia fighters celebrated in the streets, chanting slogans from their vehicles.
The fighters and commanders clasped their arms round each other, smiling, in a battle-scarred landscape of rubble and ruined buildings at a public square.
The flags in the stadium and others waved in the city streets were of the SDF, its strongest militia the Kurdish YPG, and the YPG's female counterpart, the YPJ.
Fighters hauled down the black flag of Islamic State, the last still flying over the city, from the National Hospital near the stadium.
“We do still know there are still IEDs and booby traps in and amongst the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas,” said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition.
In a sign that the four-month battle for Raqqa had been in its last stages, Dillon said there were no coalition air strikes there on Monday.
Trapped by fighting
Fatima Hussein, a 58-year-old woman, sitting on a pavement smoking a cigarette, said she had emerged from her house after being trapped for months by the fighting. Islamic State had killed her son for helping civilians leave the city, she said.
The SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, took the National Hospital in fierce fighting overnight and early on Tuesday, said spokesman Mostafa Bali in a statement.
“During these clashes, the National Hospital was liberated and cleared from the Daesh mercenaries, and 22 of these foreign mercenaries were killed there,” said Bali, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
An SDF field commander who gave his name as Ager Ozalp said three militiamen had been killed on Monday by mines that have become an Islamic State trademark in its urban battles.
Another field commander, who gave his name as Abjal al-Syriani, said SDF fighters had found burned weapons and documents in the stadium.
The stadium and hospital became the last major positions held by Islamic State after the departure of some of its fighters on Sunday, leaving only foreign jihadists to mount a last stand.
The SDF has been supported by a U.S.-led international coalition with air strikes and special forces on the ground since it started the battle for Raqqa city in early June.
The final SDF assault began on Sunday after a group of Syrian jihadists quit the city under a deal with tribal elders, leaving only a hardcore of up to 300 fighters to defend the last positions.
Passports and money
Raqqa was the first big city Islamic State captured in early 2014, before its rapid series of victories in Iraq and Syria brought millions of people under the rule of its self-declared caliphate, which passed laws and issued passports and money.
It used the city as a planning and operations centre for its warfare in the Middle East and its string of attacks overseas and, for a time, imprisoned Western hostages there before killing them in slickly produced films distributed online.
The SDF advance, which began on Sunday, also took control over a central city roundabout, where Islamic State once displayed the severed heads of its enemies, and which became one of its last lines of defence as the battle progressed.
The offensive has pushed Islamic State out from most of northern Syria, while a rival offensive by the Syrian army, backed by Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias, has driven the jihadists from the central desert.
On Tuesday, a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah group said the Syrian army, on whose side Hezbollah fights, had pushed into the last Islamic State districts in Deir al-Zor.
The only populated areas still controlled by the jihadist group in Syria are the towns and villages downstream of Deir al-Zor along the Euphrates valley. They are areas that for the past three years Islamic State ran from Raqqa.
Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces gesture the "V" sign in Raqqa, Syria on Tuesday, October 17, 2017. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
A formal declaration of victory in Raqqa will soon be made, once the city has been cleared of mines.
U.S.-backed militias said they had defeated Islamic State in its former capital Raqqa on Tuesday, raising their flags over the jihadist group's last footholds in the city after a four-month battle.
The fighting was over but the alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias was clearing the stadium of mines and any remaining militants, said Rojda Felat, commander of the Raqqa campaign for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
A formal declaration of victory in Raqqa would soon be made once the city had been cleared of mines and any possible Islamic State sleeper cells, said Talal Silo, SDF spokesman.
The fall of Raqqa, where the Islamic State staged euphoric parades after its string of lightning victories in 2014, is a potent symbol of the jihadist movement's collapsing fortunes.
Islamic State has lost most of its territory in Syria and Iraq this year, including its most prized possession, Mosul. In Syria, it has been forced back into a strip of the Euphrates valley and surrounding desert.
The SDF, backed by a U.S.-led international alliance, has been fighting since June to take the city Islamic State used to plan attacks abroad.
Celebration in streets
Another Reuters witness said militia fighters celebrated in the streets, chanting slogans from their vehicles.
The fighters and commanders clasped their arms round each other, smiling, in a battle-scarred landscape of rubble and ruined buildings at a public square.
The flags in the stadium and others waved in the city streets were of the SDF, its strongest militia the Kurdish YPG, and the YPG's female counterpart, the YPJ.
Fighters hauled down the black flag of Islamic State, the last still flying over the city, from the National Hospital near the stadium.
“We do still know there are still IEDs and booby traps in and amongst the areas that ISIS once held, so the SDF will continue to clear deliberately through areas,” said Colonel Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the coalition.
In a sign that the four-month battle for Raqqa had been in its last stages, Dillon said there were no coalition air strikes there on Monday.
Trapped by fighting
Fatima Hussein, a 58-year-old woman, sitting on a pavement smoking a cigarette, said she had emerged from her house after being trapped for months by the fighting. Islamic State had killed her son for helping civilians leave the city, she said.
The SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, took the National Hospital in fierce fighting overnight and early on Tuesday, said spokesman Mostafa Bali in a statement.
“During these clashes, the National Hospital was liberated and cleared from the Daesh mercenaries, and 22 of these foreign mercenaries were killed there,” said Bali, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.
An SDF field commander who gave his name as Ager Ozalp said three militiamen had been killed on Monday by mines that have become an Islamic State trademark in its urban battles.
Another field commander, who gave his name as Abjal al-Syriani, said SDF fighters had found burned weapons and documents in the stadium.
The stadium and hospital became the last major positions held by Islamic State after the departure of some of its fighters on Sunday, leaving only foreign jihadists to mount a last stand.
The SDF has been supported by a U.S.-led international coalition with air strikes and special forces on the ground since it started the battle for Raqqa city in early June.
The final SDF assault began on Sunday after a group of Syrian jihadists quit the city under a deal with tribal elders, leaving only a hardcore of up to 300 fighters to defend the last positions.
Passports and money
Raqqa was the first big city Islamic State captured in early 2014, before its rapid series of victories in Iraq and Syria brought millions of people under the rule of its self-declared caliphate, which passed laws and issued passports and money.
It used the city as a planning and operations centre for its warfare in the Middle East and its string of attacks overseas and, for a time, imprisoned Western hostages there before killing them in slickly produced films distributed online.
The SDF advance, which began on Sunday, also took control over a central city roundabout, where Islamic State once displayed the severed heads of its enemies, and which became one of its last lines of defence as the battle progressed.
The offensive has pushed Islamic State out from most of northern Syria, while a rival offensive by the Syrian army, backed by Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias, has driven the jihadists from the central desert.
On Tuesday, a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah group said the Syrian army, on whose side Hezbollah fights, had pushed into the last Islamic State districts in Deir al-Zor.
The only populated areas still controlled by the jihadist group in Syria are the towns and villages downstream of Deir al-Zor along the Euphrates valley. They are areas that for the past three years Islamic State ran from Raqqa.
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Why he leave when 75% of people supported him .This map is crap. For example everything Israel attacked in Tripoli is port radars (using small anti tank rockets). This happened after Hezbollah used port radars to target Israeli corvete. But according to this map it looks like Israel bombed shit out of Tripoli.
If Iran and Russia told Assad to leave in 2011 the whole war would be spared.
I wonder which western leader have such support.
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Last free elections in Syria were in 1961. Baath thugs that u support got only 12% of Parliament seats.
Thats actual support of these thugs. Thats why despite thousands of tanks and hundreds of jets then need to import mercenaries from all over the world to fight vs poor peasants with rusty AK.
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Breaking: Prominent Syrian general Issam Zahreddine killed in Deir Ezzor
https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...n-general-issam-zahreddine-killed-deir-ezzor/
https://www.almasdarnews.com/articl...n-general-issam-zahreddine-killed-deir-ezzor/
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I cant believe this. This guy was legendary for how he helped defend DeZ from IS. Zahreddine was a true military hero, R.I.P.
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Strange , then why NATO data say something else
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/17/syrians-support-assad-western-propaganda
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/mehrunisa-qayyum/assad-syria_b_3393845.html
http://www.worldtribune.com/2013/05/31/nato-data-assad-winning-the-war-for-syrians-hearts-and-minds/
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LOL. spare be nonsense about imaginary NATO survey.
I am talking about fact: Last free elections in Syria were in 1961. And Baath thugs got just 12% of seats.
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speaking of isis, what happened to abu hajjar? does anyone know? cant remember if he was in iraq or syria but the last time i saw him he was rolling in the deep
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Baath thugs had 50 years to launch free elections, but they never did. So after killing million syrians and expelling other 12 million they all must be hand on trees like wild dogs.
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And cannibal army and qualition of tugs from 96 country killed none. And all the ones killed by saa were civilian.
Answer me if you can why fsa precondition for participating in election was Assad must not participate in that election . if they are so popular why they are so much afraid of him being a candidate
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Criminals dont have right ti run elections. Assad is confirmed criminal who committed uncounted crimes against humanity.
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Bullshit propaganda average Arab or Syrian women wouldn't even know who Ocalan is, some Kurdshitistani bitch dressed up as an Arab.
Funny Israelis support Kurdish terrorist independence so much yet oppress Palestinians.
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Pity that Turkey didn't choose to destroy ISIS itself and thus earn the Kurds' undying loyalty, don't you think?
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