Kurds take Syrian base near IS stronghold

Kurdish fighters and their allies have captured a key Syrian military base once held by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, moving to within 50km of the extremists’ de facto capital of Raqqa
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Jun 22, Liwa 93: Kurdish forces – backed by U.S.-led airstrikes and other rebels – take army base and enter town of Ain Issa. Move further squeezes IS, who lost major supply line when Kurds took Tal Abyad on Jun 16

TURKEY

Aleppo

Idlib

Latakia

Hama

Tartus

LEBANON

Mediterranean Sea

Golan Heights

ISRAEL

Dera’a

Kobane

Tal Abyad

Ain Issa

Raqqa

Deir al-Zawr

Al-Hasakah

River Euphrates

Abu Kamal

IRAQ

JORDAN

As-Suwayda

SYRIA

Damascus

Homs

Palmyra

100km 60 miles

AREAS OF CONTROL (Jun 19)

Syrian regime

Islamic State group (IS)

Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda affiliated)

Other rebel groups

Kurdish People’s Protection Units
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Sources: Institute for the Study of War, wire agencies

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