Kurds advance against ISIS in northeastern Syria
Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes are pressing an attack on ISIS in northeastern Syria that has killed at least 170 members of the jihadi group this week, a Kurdish official and an activist group said Wednesday, Reuters reports.
The official said Kurdish YPG fighters and allied militia have encircled ISIS militants in a dozen villages near the town of Tel Tamr in Hasaka province. The region is important in the battle against ISIS because it borders land controlled by the jihadis in Iraq.
The Kurdish YPG appear to be trying to drive ISIS from a stronghold in the mountainous Jabal Abdul Aziz area to the southwest of Tel Tamr, said Rami Abdulrahman, who runs the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group.