BEIRUT, (APP/AFP) – Syrian troops pushed into
the Islamic State group’s bastion province Raqa on Saturday for
the first time since 2014, in an advance towards the country’s
largest dam, a monitor said.
The Tabqa dam on the Euphrates River, 40 kilometres (25
miles) upstream from Raqa city, is also the target of a separate
offensive launched by US-backed Kurdish-led forces advancing from
the north late last month.
“Regime troops backed by Russian air strikes and
Russian-trained militia entered Raqa province on Saturday morning
for the first time since August 2014,”, Syrian Observatory for Human
Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
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Syria army thrusts into IS bastion province Raqa
