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From: tejek6/13/2015 4:46:32 PM
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Hopefully, progress will continue against ISIS so that Rs will be prevented from embroiling this country in another senseless war.

Kurdish-Syrian force advances on key border town held by Islamic State

By Liz Sly June 13 at 4:05 PM


BEIRUT — A Kurdish-Syrian force is advancing toward one of the Islamic State’s most strategically vital possessions, capturing territory in the group’s landmark province of Raqqa and threatening to inflict what could potentially be the most significant defeat yet for the militants.

The Kurdish-led force, backed by U.S. airstrikes, closed in from the south, east and west on Saturday on the Syrian-Turkish border town of Tal Abiyad, a key Islamic State stronghold on which the militants rely for trade with the outside world and also the flow of foreign fighters who sustain their strength on the battlefield.

The Kurdish militias and their allies are now within six miles of the town and could soon be in a position to encircle it completely, isolating the Islamic State’s self-proclaimed capital in the city of Raqqa further south, according to statements from the People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the main Kurdish fighting force.

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