The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

YPG and its allies advance and take control on more than 240 villages

SHOR was informed that YPG backed by al-Raqqa revolutionaries, Shams al-Shama, and Jabhat al-Akrad, were able to gain control on 242 villages in Kobane countryside including 19 villages inside al-Raqqa countryside, what makes the YPG on 25 km away from Tal Abyad city near Turkey. Clashes taking place around the Lafarge cement factory northwest of Ein Essa in al-Raqqa countryside. YPG and its allies were able to reach al-Hassakah – Aleppo international highway and took over 35 km of it. what makes them control 2000 square km. Amid air strikes by coalition warplanes on IS bastions, what killed 8 fighters from the IS.