The southern banks of the Euphrates River in the eastern countryside of Al-Raqqah, witnessed violent clashes between regime forces supported by Russian trained-and-armed clan forces and regime forces and gunmen loyal to them of Syrian and non-Syrian nationalities on one hand, and the members of the “Islamic State” organization on the other, and the Syrian … Continue reading ISIS takes the regime forces and the clan forces by surprise again east of Al-Raqqah and advances south of Ghanim al-Ali area