The collapse of the caliphate: ISIS FLEE Aleppo and US-backed troops surround de-facto capital of Raqqa in Syria just hours after Mosul mosque is reclaimed in Iraq
Syrian Democratic Forces are now in control of all high-speed routes into Raqqa
It is a major blow to ISIS, which declared Raqqa its ‘caliphate’ three years ago
Iraq will also declare victory in the eight-month battle to retake second city Mosul from jihadists in the ‘next few days’
By JAY AKBAR
DailyMail.com
30 June 2017
The Islamic State group no longer has a presence in Syria’s Aleppo province after withdrawing from a series of villages where regime forces were advancing, a monitor said on Friday.
‘ISIS withdrew from 17 towns and villages and is now effectively outside of Aleppo province,’ according to British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
It comes as US-backed Syrian fighters seized the last road into ISIS’s de facto capital Raqqa, in Syria, after neighbouring Iraq declared ‘the end of the fake jihadi state’ in its war-torn nation.
Syrian Democratic Forces are now in control of all high-speed routes into Raqqa, captured by ISIS in 2013, from the south, a spokesman for the US-led coalition confirmed.
It was yet another major setback for ISIS which declared its ‘caliphate’ straddling Syria and Iraq three years ago, but has since lost most of its territory.
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