ISIS is using female suicide attackers to slow down the SDF’s advances in Northeastern Syria

The ISIS terrorist group has resorted to use female suicide attackers to hit the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Raqqa city, SDF media relations representative Mustafa Balli said Wednesday.

“Being pushed back by our fighters, the ISIS started using female suicide bombers to stage attacks in the city. This tactic won’t help them though; ISIS is gradually being encircled and their days are numbered,” Balli told the Turkish-language website of the Russia’s state news agency, Sputnik.

Balli also added that the SDF forces have reclaimed 15 city neighborhoods already, and recently managed to recapture the Civilian Affairs Department building.

“The Raqqa operation started over 3 months ago. The fighting still rages in the city center, in the area where the government buildings are located, and around the Saat and Delle squares where ISIS publicly executes civilians… . At this time the terrorists still control 30 percent of Raqqa,” Balli said, adding that the fighting continues in six districts of the city.

The official spokesman for the Euphrates Rage Operation Room said earlier this month that the SDF pushed back ISIS from 65 percent of Raqqa city’s neighborhoods.

Jeihan Sheikh Ahmad said that the Kurdish forces seized control over the neighborhoods of old Raqqa and al-Dar’eiyeh that were the most important strongholds of ISIS in the city.

He further added that the SDF has imposed control over 65 percent of Raqqa, including 14 neighborhoods of al-Sabahi, al-Romaniyeh, Hatin, al-Karim, al-Qadesiyeh, al-Yrmouk, Nazla al-Shahadah, Hosham bin Abdul Malik, al-Moshalab, al-Sina’a, al-Batani, al-Dor’eiyeh and old Raqqa that covers the neighborhoods of al-Masoureh and al-Rafeqah.

Source: Farsnews