TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) are preparing to launch a large-scale operation to liberate a strategically important city in Northwestern Aleppo province from ISIL control.
According
to sources, the operation is aimed at liberating the city of Manbij,
about 35 km from the Turkish border, which serves as a major stronghold
for the ISIL in Northwestern Syria, and is an intersection of several
major highways, including M4.
The operation was expected to begin last month, but was delayed due to the Turkish opposition, sources explained.
Liberation of the villages around Al-Bab is
expected to eventually allow for the creation of a corridor between the
Syrian Kurdish cantons of Kobani and Afrin, presently separated by the
ISIL-controlled territory.
Scores of Takfiri terrorists were killed and wounded in the clashes with the YPG and SDF forces.
The Kurdish forces have made considerable military
gains against the ISIL in the Northern and Northeastern parts of Syria
in recent weeks.
The SDF that is comprised of mainly Kurdish
fighters as well as a few hundred Syrian Arab dissident forces have
received trainings from the US and have been provided with scanty
US-coalition air support in their battles in Raqqa province in
Northeastern Syria; but in Northern and Northwestern battlefronts, they
have been operating alongside the YPG and received the Russian air
backup in their Aleppo wars that started with the conquest of Tishrin
Dam on the Euphrates early in February.
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