IS militants dig in, anticipating assault on Syria's Raqqa

IS militants dig in, anticipating assault on Syria's Raqqa, Islamic State militants are stiffening their defenses for a accessible advance on their de facto basic of Raqqa, as all-embracing airstrikes accent on the Syrian city-limits in backfire for the Paris attacks. IS fighters are ambuscade in noncombatant neighborhoods and preventing anyone from fleeing, above association say.

The arctic Syrian city's estimated 350,000 humans are absorbed by fear, ashamed by able Russian and French airstrikes that agitate the city-limits daily. They are aswell afraid they would be trapped with boilerplate to go amidst signs of a looming arena aggression by U.S.-allied Kurdish and Arab armament in Syria, according to the above association who accept fled to Turkey and now address on contest in Raqqa through acquaintances and activists inside.

For months, the anti-IS armament accept been advancing gradually against Raqqa with abetment from American-led airstrikes, capturing IS-held towns to the arctic and east of the city. Afterwards IS claimed albatross for Friday's annihilation in Paris that dead at atomic 129 people, there are calls for even stronger activity in Syria.

Iraqi intelligence admiral this anniversary told The Associated Press that the operation was planned in Raqqa, area the attackers were accomplished accurately for this operation with the ambition of sending them to France. The attacks came anon afterwards IS claimed the downing of a Russian even in Egypt and baleful suicide bombings in Lebanon and Turkey.

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