Kurdish-Arab forces enter IS Syria bastion of Manbij: monitor

Syrian Kurds march during the funeral of fighters, who died during an assault launched by

A US-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab forces pushed Thursday into the Islamic State group's bastion city of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitoring group said.

Fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces, who launched an assault to take Manbij last month, managed to enter the city with support from air strikes by a US-led coalition, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.