US-backed fighters enter IS-held airport in Syria: spokesman
- 26-Mar-2017
DAMASCUS: Fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces, a US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance on Sunday entered a military airport held by the Islamic State militant group in northern Syria, a spokesman said. The advance on Tabqa airbase comes as the alliance prepares an attack on IS’s de facto Syrian capital Raqa, seeking to effectively surround the city […]