Syria: anti-jihadist alliance announces "total resumption" of Raqqa
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The last two positions of the jihadists in the city, the hospital and the stadium, were resumed on Tuesday. The fall of Raqqa, which was expected, is an important setback for Daech.
An alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by Washington announced on Tuesday that it has regained "total control" of Raqqa. "Operations have come to an end, the city is entirely under the control" of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), said a spokesman for the alliance, Talal Sello.
"All is over in Raqqa ... There are currently sweeping operations to eliminate the dormant cells, if found, and to clear the city," he added. This fall is a setback for Daech who saw his "caliphate" almost collapse in neighboring Syria and Iraq following multiple offensives to dislodge it from the regions conquered since 2014
Early in the morning on Tuesday, the FDS had announced the taking of the hospital, one of the last reduced Daech in this city of northern Syria. "The national hospital was freed (...), 22 foreign fighters were killed," they explained on their website.
3250 people, including 1130 civilians
The fighting then continued near the stadium, before the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (OSDH) announced its take. "The Syrian Democratic Forces managed to capture the municipal stadium (in the city center) after having penetrated and raked most of the area," said Rami Abdel Rahmane, director of the OSDH, pointing out that "most jihadists had surrendered. "
The last fighting was particularly harsh, with some 300 foreign jihadis remaining in the city.
With the support of the air strikes by the international coalition led by Washington, the Syrian Democratic Forces entered Raqqa last June and have since struggled to resume every position of the jihadists. The fighting and aerial bombardment that ravaged the former capital of the jihadist Islamic State (EI) group in Syria, have cost the lives since June 5 to 3250 people, "1,130 civilians, including 270 children, and 2,120 combatants" the IA and forces supported by the United States, said the OSDH
With the resumption of the city, the question of the fate of the foreign jihadists arises. The civil council of Raqqa assured that, unlike the Syrian jihadites, they had not been allowed to leave the city.
French mothers: "We are cut off from the world, we want to go home"
France Info evokes this Tuesday morning the case of French who took refuge about fifty kilometers from the city. Mothers, accompanied by their children, recount that they had arrived from Raqqa where their passports had been confiscated. "We do not have a phone, we have no money, we are cut off from the world, we want to go home," they explain, assuring us that they made a "mistake" when they came to Syria.
"Back in France, all those who went to fighting territories will be judiciary," Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet told France Inter, confirming that "the subject was extremely delicate.
Sunday, questioned on the fate of the foreign jihadists of Raqqa, the French Minister of Defense, Florence Parly, hammered Paris's desire to "go to the end of this fight": "If jihadists perish in these fights, that it is so much better, "she added.
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