Manbij

Erdogan vows to uproot 'terror nests'

Ankara - Muslimchronicle

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday vowed Turkey would soon begin an operation against towns in Syria controlled by Kurdish militia, calling the areas "nests" of terror. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia controls key Syrian northern towns including Manbij and Afrin and is an ally of the US but Ankara accuses the group of being a terror organisation. "Tomorrow, (or)Read more

US-backed Syrian, Kurdish rebels cut Daesh supply

Damascus - Arab Today

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has cut the road between the Islamic State (IS)-held province of al-Raqqa and the eastern province of Deir al-Zour, a monitor group reported on Monday. The IS has lost all routes out of al-Raqqa, save for one through the Euphrates River, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The SDF, a Kurdish-led group supportedRead more

Syrian forces carry out 400 raid on Aleppo

Damascus - Nour Khoam

The ISIS organization continues cutting off al-Khafseh area’s water in the eastern countryside of Aleppo of about a million and a half million persons in Aleppo city, the second largest Syrian cities, leaving hundreds of thousands of children and citizen women and civilians suffering thirst. However, with the first attempt to escape the raids of the regime; the ISIS organizationRead more

US forces look on as allies clash in north Syria

Manbij - ArabToday

US soldiers aboard Humvee armoured vehicles have been watching from a distance as two of their allies, Turkish-backed forces and a Kurd-Arab alliance, battle it out for control of Manbij in northern Syria. An AFP correspondent on Friday saw the American soldiers on patrol north of the city of Manbij, just miles from the fierce clashes taking place further west.Read more

Syrian fighter returns to the jail where Daesh tortured him

Manbij - Arab Today

In the dark basement of the Manbij Hotel, Ahmad Othman stares defiantly into the room where he spent 32 days strung up by a chain, tortured by the Islamic State group. "Our feet never touched the ground. Sometimes they pulled the chain up and down" to make the pain worse, Othman told AFP in the hotel-turned-prison that was run byRead more

Turkey Strikes Daesh and PYD Positions in Syria

Ankara - Arab Today

Turkey has bombarded targets for the ISIS and PYD group, the Syrian affiliate of the PKK organization, in northern Syria. According to sources, the Turkish army shelled ISIS targets near the border town of Jarablus, as well as PYD positions north of the nearby city of Manbij late on Monday, Turkish Anadolu Agency (AA) reported. Both areas are locatedRead more

Even after defeat, Daesh sows fear in Syria's Manbij

Manbij - Arab Today

When Fatima and Mohammad pushed open their front door -- elated to return to Syria's Manbij after it was retaken from jihadists -- their weeks-long dream of coming home turned into a nightmare. The blast could be heard across the ruined town in northern Syria, where US-backed Arab and Kurdish fighters chased out the last remaining Islamic State group fightersRead more