by WorldTribune Staff, June 6, 2018 The YPG Kurdish militia has agreed to pull out of a key town in northern Syria under a deal between the United States and Turkey. The YPG, or People’s Protection Units, announced on June 5 that it would pull its military advisers out of Manbij, a small but strategic […]
by WorldTribune Staff, August 14, 2016 Jubilant women were seen tearing off their niqabs and burning them in the streets of Manbij after the northern Syrian town was liberated from the brutal rule of Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL). The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared Manbij fully liberated on Aug. 12, saying […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 29, 2016 Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) executed at least 24 civilians after regaining control of several villages in northern Syria. ISIL launched a “fierce assault” on July 28 in taking back the villages from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance, the Syrian Observatory for Human […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 24, 2016 An American who volunteered to fight alongside a Kurdish militia against Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Syria has been killed in action. Levi Jonathan Shirley was killed in fighting on July 14 as the Kurds fought to liberate the city of Manbij from ISIL. Shirley is […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 23, 2016 An alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, backed by U.S. airstrikes, advanced on an Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) stronghold in northern Syria on June 23. “Fierce street fighting” was reported as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) entered Manbij, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. “The SDF […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 19, 2016 Turkish border guards shot and killed at least eight Syrians, including four children, who were fleeing areas controlled by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), reports said. The Syrians were gunned down “while trying to flee their war-torn country” on June 19, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 12, 2016 Syrian helicopters dropped barrel bombs on the town of Daraya on June 10 just hours after its starving residents began receiving food aid for the first time in nearly four years. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault accused the regime of President Bashar Assad of “extraordinary duplicity” as the airstrikes […]
