Sat May 21, 2016 10:11:35
Islamic State (ISIL, also known as ISIS , IS and Daesh) terrorist have forbidden Raqqa residents from leaving the militants’ self-declared capital in Syria and have started evacuating their own families in the direction of Deir ez-Zor, Sputnik Arabic reports citing eye witnesses and local sources.
The families of foreign mercenaries were the first ones to leave the city on Friday afternoon. Inmates have been let free from Raqqa prisons.
Meanwhile Kurdish forces have established a stronghold about 37 kilometers (23 miles) north of Raqqa.
A spokesperson of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) told Sputnik Turkey on Friday that Kurds were planning to launch an offensive on Raqqa in the coming days.
Daesh, a radical Sunni group that has seized areas in Iraq and Syria, took control of the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2013.
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