The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes have killed 20 ISIS fighters in the town of Albukamal on the Iraqi border as the radical group faces major attacks by the Syrian Kurds, Iraqi militias and the regime forces in eastern Syria, local monitoring group said Tuesday.
The U.S. strikes has intensified along the Syrian border with Iraq to cut supply routes and to encircle ISIS in small pockets facilitates the battle to end the self-declared an Islamic Caliphate in Mosul and Raqqa.
Clashes, also, have intensified between ISIS and the regime army in eastern Deir Ezzor province on Tuesday as the extremist group pressed advances in the southern neighborhoods of the city, sources said.
In return, ISIS has rocked the regime-held neighborhoods of al-Joura and al-Qusour with RPG and mortar rounds.
In Raqaa, the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said it had begun a battle to capture the city, ISIS' de facto capital in Syria, launching attacks from the east, west and north of the city.
ISIS captured the city from rebel groups in 2014 and has used it as an operations base to plan attacks in the West. The assault on Raqqa will pile more pressure on ISIS' self-declared "caliphate" with the group facing defeat in the Iraqi city of Mosul and being forced into retreat across much of Syria.
"The coalition has a big role in the success of the operations. In addition to warplanes, there are coalition forces working side by side with the Syrian Democratic Forces," Silo said.
