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AFP
Beirut
US-backed fighters said they have seized a village where the Islamic State group had a training camp and base near the jihadist stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.
The advance comes as the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters, battles to oust IS from Raqqa, one of their last remaining bastions in Syria."The SDF has captured the village of Al-Akeryshi east of the city (of Raqqa) and IS car bomb attacks attempting to take it back have failed,"the alliance said late Monday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the village had been used by IS as both a military base and a training camp named after slain Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
But the militant group also carried out a massacre of up to 200 of its own members in the village in 2015.
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