Syrian democratic forces supported by the United States announced on Tuesday that they captured the city of Rakka From the militants of the Islamic state.
“Everything is finished in Rakka, our forces completely controlled Raqqa,” said SDF representative Talal Talal Seglo AFPThe formal ad by the field will be announced after operations to clean any remaining sleeping cells and remove ground mines in the city, added the village.
This step is a serious failure for the Islamic state, which considered Rakka de facto the capital of his self-proclaimed caliphate. This happens in the third anniversary Global efforts to win ISIS.
Racca was the first provincial capital to fall from state control in March 2013 After this was captured by the rebel army. The army included both Syrian opposition groups and more stringent lines, including al-Nusra and Islamic state.
The civil government, which was created in the city, was divided two months later, and less than a year later ISIS captured Rakka and called their capital their capital CaliphateField
About 900 civilians were killed since the beginning of a five -month operation, including 570 people in the air raids of the coalition, according to Syrian Human Rights NetworkThe British -based British field Syrian Observatory on Human Rights Place the number by the death of a civilian line at 1130 people. American journalist James Foley He was beheaded in the mountains south of the city.
According to Reuters, SDF fighters removed the Black Flag of the Islamic State from the City National Hospital near the city stadium reportField
A special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat Isis Brett McGurk said In August, the United States will try to perform “stabilization” in Racca, including the reduction, removal of fragments from the main paths to skip trucks and equipment, as well as “basic electricity, wastewater, water, basic necessities that allow the population to return to their house.”
It is unclear when 300,000 civilians Which escaped from Rakka since April during the operation will be able to return.
