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Exclusive: U.S.-backed Syria forces launch offensive for Manbij pocket - U.S. officials
Topic Started: Jun 1 2016, 08:38 AM (196 Views)
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World | Wed Jun 1, 2016 8:22am EDT

WASHINGTON | BY PHIL STEWART

Thousands of U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are launching an offensive to capture from Islamic State a crucial swathe of northern Syria known as the Manbij pocket following weeks of quiet preparations, U.S. officials disclosed to Reuters.

The operation, which only just started to get underway on Tuesday and could take weeks to complete, aims to choke off Islamic State's access to Syrian territory along the Turkish border that militants have long used as a logistics base for moving foreign fighters back and forth to Europe.

"It's significant in that it's their last remaining funnel" to Europe, a U.S. military official said.
Reuters
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The heroic ISIS fighters in the Manbig pocket have a choice between dying at the hands of their enemy or at the hands of ISIS............. :rollseyes:
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U.S.-backed Syria force closes in on IS-held city; slow Iraq advance causes rift
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U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have surrounded the Islamic State-held city of Manbij from three sides as they press a major new offensive against the jihadists near the Turkish border, a spokesman for the fighters said on Monday.

But in a sign of the difficulty world powers have faced in building a coalition to take on the self-declared caliphate, the slow pace of a separate assault by the Iraqi army on a militant bastion near Baghdad caused a rift between the Shi'ite-led government and powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia.
(See here, too.)
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A fighter of the Syria Democratic Forces mans an anti-aircraft weapon in the southern rural area of Manbij, in Aleppo Governorate, Syria May 31, 2016. REUTERS/Rodi Said/File Photo
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