Kurdish forces overran a pocket of Isis-controlled territory on the Turkish border yesterday, giving them uninterrupted control of hundreds of miles of the frontier and freeing their troops to advance south towards Raqqa, the capital of the extremists’ self-declared caliphate.
In their latest victory in an almost month-long push, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) took the Isis-held area around Giri Sor, six miles west of Tel Abyad, the border town they took on Monday, giving them control over the eastern half of Syria’s frontier with Turkey.
Kurdish forces, advancing from both east and west, had besieged Giri Sor, before they took control yesterday, as the last Isis fighters there reportedly melted away.
Photographs over the past few days have shown heavily armed and