Forces of Syria Democratic (FSD) have taken the terrorist group Islamic State (EI) almost 80% of the area of the city of Manbech, one of the strongholds of the radicals in the northern province of Aleppo, said today Efe a rebel spokesman.
“Our progress continues, we are now less than one kilometer from the center of the city,” he told Efe by telephone spokesman of Military Council Manbech and its periphery, Shervan Derwish, whose organization fights alongside the FSD.
Derwish said his force is progressing from the south and east of Manbech where the FSD began an offensive to oust the EI late last May.
During the day today, more than two hundred families have fled the town in the direction of areas under the control of the FSD on the outskirts of the city, said the spokesman.
For its part, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights lowered to 60% controlled by the FSD within Manbech area.
He stressed that this Arab Kurdish force today achieved a strategic breakthrough, to conquer the road linking the town of Al Arima with Manbech (18 kilometers east) and extending to step border with Iraq Al Yarbia located in the northeastern Syrian province of Al Hasaka.
Manbech is in the northeast of Aleppo and is one of the two bastions of EI in the province near the town of Al Bab, about 20 kilometers away.
The EI proclaimed at the end of June 2014 a caliphate in Syria and Iraq and took over the northern and central parts of both states.
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