The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Continued violent clashes result in the advancement of the Syria Democratic Forces and their control of 4 villages in the west and northwest of al-Raqqa city

The violent clashes are still taking place between the Syria Democratic Forces backed by the US Special Forces against the “Islamic State” organization in areas in the western and northwestern countryside of al-Raqqa city, which is the stronghold of the “Islamic State” organization in Syria, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the “Euphrates Wrath” forces managed to advance in the area and control the villages of al-Sakoura, al-Adnanyyah, and Beer al-Hasheem, while they are trying to advance and control the Farms of Yarob and Rabia, which will allow the Syria Democratic Forces to impose control over all the villages they advanced to today, which are al-Khatuniyyah, al-Adnanyyah, Beer al-Hasheem and al-Sakoura, while the clashes are taking place in Hawi al-Hawa village and the farms of Rabia and Yarob with the aim of controlling them and expelling the organization from them, which will allow the “Euphrates Wrath” forces to advance to about 3 km from the northwestern and the northern sides of the city, after they have advanced about 3 km days ago to the north of the city, and less than 2 km from the eastern side of the city, and the clashes are also coincided with airstrikes by the International Coalition’s warplanes that targeted the city of Al-Raqqah and its southern outskirts which injured a large number of people