Taking the fight to ISIS. Update to this previous story.
Via Yahoo Com
Kurdish forces seized nearly full control of the Syrian town of Tal Abyad on Monday, fighting only pockets of jihadists on a vital supply line for the Islamic State group.
The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) advanced into Tal Abyad after taking a border post and cutting off the road south to the de facto IS capital of Raqa, a monitoring group said.
“The Kurdish fighters are in almost full control of Tal Abyad,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, director of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Abdel Rahman said there were still “some small pockets of resistance from small groups of Islamic State fighters who are still holed up inside”.
At least 40 jihadists were killed as they fled Tal Abyad for Ein Issa, another town still under IS control.
It came hours after the Kurdish forces said they had completely surrounded Tal Abyad.
“There is nowhere Daesh can escape to,” said YPG commander Hussein Khojer, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
The advance is a blow to IS, which had been battling to hold onto Tal Abyad and preserve its main supply line between Raqa and the Turkish border.