US-backed SDF ‘tightens noose’ on Syria’s Raqqa | Syria News

A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters has seized 350 square kilometres over the past week in Syria’s Raqqa province, “tightening their noose” on ISIL in an advance to isolate its base of operations, a spokesman for a US-led coalition said on Wednesday. Syrian Democratic Forces close in on ISIL in Raqqa Some 3,000 to 4,000 ISIL fighters are thought to be holed up in Raqqa