usbacked forces repel daesh attack near dam
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US-backed forces repel Daesh attack near dam

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Internally displaced Syrian women and children who fled Raqqa city rest in a camp in Ain Issa
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US backed Syrian forces repelled a major counterattack by the Daesh terror group militants holding out at the country's largest dam and in the nearby town of Tabaqa, the group and activists said on Sunday.

The dam is a key strategic target in the military campaign to isolate and capture the Syrian city of Raqqa, 40 km  to the east and Daesh's biggest urban stronghold.

The US-backed group said militants attacked their positions north-east of Tabaqa and at an air base to the south of the town where dozens of their fighters were killed; but the coalition of Kurdish and Arab militias was making slower advances in a village east of the town.

Jehan Sheikh Ahmad, a spokeswoman for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded by the powerful Kurdish YPG militia, said the militants were stepping up their resistance as SDF forces got closer to encircling the town and the dam. 

"Our forces are advancing...[Daesh] are facing large difficulties and so they are starting counter-attacks," said the official whose forces have US special forces with them.

The SDF began an assault to capture the dam and the nearby town almost two weeks ago after the coalition landed some of its fighters on the southern side of the Euphrates near Tabaqa, leading to its capture of an air base. 

The SDF has been waging a multi-phased offensive since November to isolate Raqqa, with backing from the US-led coalition taking territory to the north and east of the province. 

Fear of collapse

Hundreds of families with their cattle, property, motor bikes and vans continued on Sunday to flee from villages under Daesh control. 

The US-backed forces say at least 7,000 people have taken shelter in their areas since the campaign to capture Tabaqa. 

Many are also fleeing air strikes on civilian areas in Raqqa province that have left dozens dead according to activists and the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. 

Last month, strikes believed to be conducted by the US-led coalition hit a bakery and a local market in Tabaqa town with dozens of civilians killed. Another raid that hit a school sheltering displaced people near Raqqa also killed scores.

SDF denies civilians are targeted.

Daesh and the Syrian government have both said the hydroelectric dam is vulnerable to collapse after strikes by the US led coalition 

Syrian officials say that would lead to catastrophic flooding in the cities and towns in the Euphrates Valley downstream.

The SDF and the coalition have denied the dam is in danger.

Residents, however, say an SDF attempt last week to relieve the dam’s water levels by opening a canal from the Balikh River that flows into the Euphrates had flooded cultivated agricultural land in several villages.

source: Jordan Times

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