{EKURD Daily / BEIRUT,— U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces have now seized control of almost 70 percent of Manbij in northern Syria from Islamic State after making rapid advances over the past two days, a spokesman said on Sunday. “They are now mainly in the old quarter of the city and parts of the north-eastern part of the city,” Darwish added. READ MORE OF THIS REPORT(Visited 44 times, 13 visits today)Commentscomments Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) have pushed back the ultra hardline Sunni militants into the old quarter after seizing most of the western, eastern and southern sectors of the city, Sharfan Darwish of the SDF-allied Manbij military council told Reuters in Beirut by telephone.

Source: GNN Liberia August 01, 2016 09:15 UTC