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Kurdish forces recapture strategic Syrian town

Kurdish forces captured the strategic town of Tel Hamis in North-East Syria in their latest powerful offensive, reports Reuters.

The UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors the conflict confirmed the Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ announcement that the town had been captured on Friday.

The Observatory said that Kurdish forces had killed at least 175 members and commanders of the Islamic State militants, in an offensive that began last weekend.

The US led Combined Joint Task Force said that 20 strikes against Islamic State militants had been conducted since Thursday.

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