{"id":1049,"date":"2017-10-17T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madaresharghi.com\/us-backed-forces-capture-raqqa-from-daesh\/"},"modified":"2017-10-17T15:29:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T15:29:10","slug":"us-backed-forces-capture-raqqa-from-daesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madaresharghi.ir\/en\/us-backed-forces-capture-raqqa-from-daesh\/","title":{"rendered":"US-backed forces capture Raqqa from Daesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madaresharghi..com\">madaresharghi<\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><h2 class=\"lide\">US-backed forces said Tuesday they had taken full control of Raqqa from the Daesh group, defeating the last terrorist holdouts in the de facto Syrian capital of their now-shattered \u201ccaliphate.\u201d<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"76\">\n<p>\n\tThe Syrian Democratic Forces, who have been fighting inside the northern city since they broke in on June 6, flushed the few hundred Daesh members left in the city from their last positions in the main hospital and the national stadium.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cEverything is finished in Raqqa; our forces have taken full control of Raqqa,\u201d the alliance\u2019s spokesman Talal Sello told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHe said the SDF was combing the city for any remaining terrorists who had not surrendered or been killed, and added that a major mine-clearing operation was already under way.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe military operations in Raqqa have finished, but there are clearing operations now under way to uncover any sleeper cells there might be and remove mines,\u201d Sello added.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe announcement came just days after the SDF said it was launching the final phase of its operation to retake the city.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRaqqa was overrun by Daesh in March 2013 and was declared the terrorist group\u2019s \u201ccapital\u201d in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe SDF, which does not coordinate with the Syrian government and military, announced an operation against the terrorists in the city some four months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe presence of US troops on the ground in Syria lacks any mandate from the Syrian government. Damascus says it is a violation of its sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Situation in Deir ez-Zor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSeparately, Syrian government forces have reportedly liberated more than 80 percent of the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor from the control of Daesh terrorists, Press TV reported.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 81 percent of Deir ez-Zor is now under the control of Syrian forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDaesh overran large parts of Deir ez-Zor Province, including its many oil fields, in mid-2014 as it seized swathes of land in Syria and neighboring Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>madaresharghi US-backed forces said Tuesday they had taken full control of Raqqa from the Daesh group, defeating the last terrorist holdouts in the de facto Syrian capital of their now-shattered \u201ccaliphate.\u201d The Syrian Democratic Forces, who have been fighting inside the northern city since they broke in on June 6, flushed the few hundred Daesh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[639],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - 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