US -backed Syrian democratic forces in a statement on Tuesday He seized the city of Raqqa Islamic state militants.
“Everything is over in Raqqa, our forces took Raqqa under full control,” SDF spokesman Talal Sello said. AFP. Sello added that an official statement will be announced after the remaining sleeping cells and after the operations that will remove land mines in the city.
The movement is a great decline for the Islamic State, which accepts Raqqa’s self -authority as the actual capital of its self -authority. Coming in third place anniversary Global effort to defeat ISIS.
Raqqa became the first state capital to fall from government control March 2013 After being caught by a rebellious army. The army included both the Syrian opposition group and the harsh line parties, including Al-Nusra and the Islamic State.
A civil government in the city was divided two months later, and less than a year after a year, ISIS recaptured Raqqa and was called the capital of the caliphate.
Approximately 900 civilians have been killed since the beginning of the five -month operation, including 570 people in the coalition air raids. Syrian Human Rights Network. UK -based Syrian Human Rights Observatory Put the civilian mortality rate to 1,130 people. American journalist James Foley He was cut off in the mountains in the south of the city.
According to Reuters, SDF fighters dropped the black flag of the Islamic State from the national hospital of the city near the city stadium report.
ISIS Brett McGurk’u to defeat the Global Coalition for the Special Presidential Ambassador, the United States will try to realize a “stabilization” in Raqqa – the deminiş, truck and equipment to allow the majesty of the majesty of the major electricity, sewage, sewage, water, populations to allow the back of the houses, “he said.
When is not open 300,000 civilians Those who have fled Raqqa since April will be able to return.
