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Buses inside Raqqa to transport remaining Daesh terrorists

Reuters MIDDLE EAST
Published October 14,2017
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said Saturday that there were buses inside Syria's Raqqa which would be used to transport remaining Daesh terrorists and their families out of the city.

Around 100 Daesh terrorists have surrendered in Syria's Raqqa in the last 24 hours and were "removed from the city", a spokesman for the U.S-led coalition against Daesh told Reuters on Saturday.

"The battles are continuing in Raqqa city. Daesh is on the verge of being finished. Today or tomorrow the city may be liberated," Nouri Mahmoud, spokesman of the YPG terror group told Reuters by telephone.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is predominantly led by the PKK terror group's Syrian affiliate the People's Protection Units (YPG), has been battling since June to defeat Daesh terrorists in Raqqa, which served as the terrorist group's de facto capital in Syria