Syrian Kurdish fighters, known as (YPG), gained on Monday more ground from the ISIS-held territories in northern Syria, posing a real threat to the group’s de facto capital of Al-Raqqa.
The Kurds, backed by the US-coalition airstrikes and some minor rebel groups (namely Borkan Al-Furat “The Volcano of Euphrates”), took over Brigade 93, and later stormed the town of Ayn Issa located nearly 50 km to the north of Al-Raqqa.