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US-backed fighters clearing war remnants in Syria's Raqqa

BEIRUT – The spokesman for US-backed forces fighting Islamic State militants in Syria says the fighters are removing land mines and clearing main roads in the city of Raqqa, a day after they announced it was captured.

 

Mustafa Bali, the Syrian Democratic Forces spokesman, says preparations are also underway on Wednesday for a formal declaration of the liberation.

 

SDF announced on Tuesday that their troops have taken full control of the city, once the heart of IS' self-styled caliphate.

 

Brett McGurk, the top US envoy for the coalition battling the Islamic State group, is in northern Syria. He posted a photograph of surrendering IS militants, saying: "once purported as fierce, now pathetic and a lost cause."

 

McGurk says the United States will help in clearing explosives and restoring services in the city.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.18.17, 11:31