8.6.2017: Οι θέσεις των πρωταγωνιστών στη κούρσα για τη Ράκκα και τη Ντέιρ εζ-Ζορ
Δυνάμεις του συριακού στρατού κατάφεραν να εκδιώξουν τζιχαντιστές από ανατολικές περιοχές της επαρχίας Χαλεπίου και να μπουν σε χωριά που ελέγχει το λεγόμενο «Ισλαμικό Κράτος» στην επαρχία της Ράκκα, του πολιορκούμενου προπυργίου του στη Συρία.
Οι δυνάμεις του Άσαντ συγκρούστηκαν με σουνίτες εξτρεμιστές νότια της πρόσφατα απελευθερωθείσης απ’ τους τζιχαντιστές πόλης Μασκάνα και ανέκτησαν τον έλεγχο έξι σημαντικών χωριών στα σύνορα των δύο επαρχιών.
Ακτιβιστές αναφέρουν την ίδια ώρα ότι οι στρατιώτες μαζί με μαχητές της λιβανέζικης Χεζμπολάχ που υποστηρίζει το Ιράν κατέλαβαν μια σειρά από χωριά εντός της επαρχίας Ράκα, που απέχουν περίπου 80 χιλλιόμετρα απ’ την de facto πρωτεύουσα του ΙΚ και προωθούνται βαθύτερα.
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US-BACKED FORCES MADE MORE GAINS AGAINST ISIS IN RAQQAH CITY (MAP)
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| 7.6.2017, Ράκκα, η επίθεση των SDF από τα ανατολικά της πόλης |
Since yesterday, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured the Naznah and al-Mashalab areas in the eastern part of Raqqah and attacked the Harqalah area west of it after capturing the nearby the Harqalah Hill.
The remaining ISIS fighters will likely concentrate their defenses in the center of Raqqah. According to local sources, many ISIS members had been redeployed to Deir Ezzor and Homs provinces from the besieged city.
Raqqah has still not been encircled by the US-backed force and the southern direction is remaining open for fleeing ISIS members.
Ilham Ehmed, a co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council, (a political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF]) has accused the Syrian Air Force of carrying out airstrikes on the US-backed forces in the countryside of Raqqah.
The SDF press center has also not released a statement on the allegations. Some experts believe that this may indicate a start of a large-scale US-backed media campaign aimed at preventing any kind of cooperation between the Syrian government and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, which are a core of the SDF.
Meanwhile, the Syrian state-run news agency SANA reported that the Syrian Air Force carried out airstrikes on ISIS targets in the province of Raqqah.
“Air Force of the Army on Thursday destroyed positions and armored vehicles of ISIS terrorists in the villages of Deir Mleihan, Debsi Afnan and al-Qadisiya in the western countryside of Raqqa eastern province.
A military source told SANA that dozens of the terrorists were either killed or injured and their vehicles were destroyed in the Army’s strikes.
The source added that
several vehicles of ISIS terrorists were also destroyed in the sorties of the army on ISIS positions to the east of Wahiba Kabira village in the eastern countryside of Aleppo near the administrative borders with Raqqa,” the article
reads.
The Syrian Arab Army and its allies have been developing momentum against ISIS terrorists south of the recently liberated town of Maksanah. The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces are sotrming the ISIS self-proclaimed capital of Raqqah.
The Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) have liberated the villages of Marzouka, Tal Ghazal, Bouthat al-Madfa’, Joughaifi, west of the Al-Baaj area near the Syrian-Iraqi border. The PMU is now close from capturing the Tal Safouk border crossing, located at one of the most important ISIS supply lines between Syria and Iraq. During its advance, PMU managed to kill several ISIS fighters and capture VBIED.
8 civilians, including children, lost their life in Hit city near Ramadi as a result of an ISIS terrorist sattack.
In western Mosul, Iraqi forces continue a slow advance in Zinjili district. Iraqi forces have announced that their current objective is to connect the districts of Zanjili and Shifaa north of the Old Mosul area. Iraqi forces are also evacuating civilians from Zinjili district.
In western Mosul, three ISIS suicide attackers targeted a gathering of Iraqi forces in Al-Thawra district. ISIS claimed that the attack killed 20 Iraqi soldiers and destroyed two Humvee vehicles and two BMP-1 vehicles. ISIS also claimed that 15 Iraqi intelligence agents were killed by a suicide attack in Al-Moalemeen district of Baquba city in Diyala.
