![]() The SDF have captured a quarter of Raqqa's neighborhoods in the three weeks since the offensive began on June 6. The encirclement occurred after the Kurdish-Arab fighters, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) captured two southern villages that ISIS fighters were using to flee amid the offensive. They have nowhere to go out," SOHR director Rami Abdelrahman told Newsweek by phone. "They have besieged ISIS from everywhere. In Syria, the Kurdish-Arab coalition fighting to reclaim the eastern city of Raqqa "completely encircled" the de facto capital of ISIS's caliphate on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a U.K.-based monitoring group with extensive contacts in Syria, confirmed to Newsweek. "The return of al-Nuri Mosque and al-Hadba minaret to the fold of the nation marks the end of the Daesh state of falsehood," he said in a statement, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. NewsweekĪfter eight months battling for Mosul, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the caliphate had collapsed on Thursday. The areas of control in Syria as of June 29.
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