Alwaght- ISIS Takfiri terrorist group is forbidding civilians from fleeing Syria’s Raqqa, which the Kurdish forces are poised to recapture.
According to Sputnik news, the positions of ISIS Terrorists in Raqqa are getting shakier while Kurdish militia (YPG) is reportedly looking to attack the city in the coming days.
In an interview to the outlet published on Friday, SDF representative Tackir Kobani said the Kurdish-led militia had been discussing the possibility of a dealing a final blow to the terrorists in Raqqa.
Meanwhile up to 70 ISIS terrorists were killed in internal fighting in the de-facto ISIS capital of Raqqa in northern Syria, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) said Saturday.
"Witnesses inside Raqqa stated that violent clashes took place between the battalions of [ISIS leader Abu Bakr] Baghdadi and Qassimi, resulting in the killing of 70 terrorists. It is said that none of the killed militants are Syrian citizens," the PUK media center said.
Eyewitnesses and local sources, that ISIS terrorists began evacuating their families in the direction of Deir ez-Zor ahead of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) liberation campaign.
Elsewhere, US Defense Department rejected Russia’s proposal to conduct joint bombing campaign against ISIS in Syria with Pentagon’s spokesman Navy Captain Jeff Davis saying the US forces does not “not collaborate or coordinate with the Russians on any operations in Syria."
"We are proposing to the US, as the head of the International Syria Support Group, to take part as of May 25 in joint operations between the Russian air force and the air force of the coalition," Russia’s defense minister, Sergey Shoigu, said Friday. The joint air campaign was supposed to target ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and other militant groups not included in the US-Russia brokered cession of hostilities agreement as well as “convoys containing weapons and ammunition (and) armed units that illegally cross the Syrian-Turkish border."
Since March 2011, the US and its regional allies, in particular Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey, have been conducting a proxy war by supporting terrorists to topple the Syrian government.
Nearly 500,000 people have so far lost their lives in the Syrian conflict with almost two million injured and millions of others displaced.
