Morning Star.png YPG Forces Fight Their Way into ISIS-Controlled Manbij James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 24 June 2016 US-backed Kurdish separatist militia fought their way into the Islamic State (ISIS)-occupied northern Syrian town of Manbij yesterday. The YPG assault followed a two-week siege of the town near the Turkish border. Heavy clashes were reported in western districts after the guerrillas captured the Kutab roundabout about 1.5 miles from the town centre. ISIS counter-attacked with suicide car bombs. The armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a sister organisation of Turkey's Kurdistan Workers' Party, is nominally allied with small Arab militia under the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). US and French special forces are fighting alongside the SDF and YPG in its push towards the border town on Jarabulus, the main Isis supply route into Syria from the north. Syrian gains reversed Meanwhile the Syrian air force blitzed Isis forces to the south-east near Ithriyah, where their counter-offensive had driven government troops back dozens of miles from the outskirts of al-Tabqah. The soldiers have suffered heavy casualties since the weekend, when their recent gains were reversed. Al-Tabqah and its nearby air base on the southern banks of the Euphrates River are seen as key to liberating ISIS stronghold Raqqa. Meanwhile UN envoy Staffan de Mistura said the UN would discuss options for restarting elusive talks next Wednesday, following a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in St Petersburg last week. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-c1f4-Syria-YPG-forces-fight-their-way-i nto-Isis-controlled-Manbij#.V2y8w_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13698 (20160624) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/007a01d1cdfb%240ab7d440%2420277cc0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
