“Watch out, it’s coming!” Kurdish commander Hagit Qamishlo shouts to AFP journalists, from the terrace of a house that overlooks the battlefield some 800 metres away. It triggered an enormous and extended explosion, accompanied by a series of fireballs that were celebrated by Kurdish and Arab SDF fighters. Syria’s Kurds set free nearly 300 IS-linked Syrians“They are completely encircled,” another SDF commander, Sefqan, tells AFP. Several mines seriously wounded SDF fighters in the early hours of the assault. US, Russian military chiefs to meet on SyriaFellow commander Qamishlo says Iraqis figure are among the remaining hardcore, but foreigners are more numerous, including Russians, Turks, Tunisians, Central Asians and at least seven from France.

Source: The Express Tribune March 04, 2019 06:33 UTC