New Syrian rebel alliance formed, says weapons on the way
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Kurdish militia in northern Syria has joined forces with Arab rebels and their new alliance has been promised fresh weapon supplies by the United States for an assault on Islamic State forces in Raqqa, a spokesman said on Monday.
The alliance calling itself the Democratic Forces of Syria includes the Kurdish YPG militia and Syrian Arab groups, some of which fought alongside it in a campaign that drove Islamic State from wide areas of northern Syria earlier this year.
The Arab groups in the new alliance are operating under the name "The Syrian Arab Coalition" - a grouping which US officials have said would receive support under a new US strategy aimed at fighting Islamic State in Syria.
