US-Backed Alliance Advances Against Islamist Groups in Syria's North: Spokesman

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurdish and Arab fighters advanced against Islamist insurgents in the north of the country on Friday, capturing at least one village in Aleppo province, a spokesman and a monitoring group said. Fighters from the Democratic Forces of Syria seized the village of Tanab near the town of Azaz after heavy clashes with the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front and the powerful Ahrar al Sham, spokesman Talal Selo told Reuters. "We liberated Tanab," he...

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