US-backed forces seize Syria's Tabqa, dam from IS: monitor

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters today captured the key city of Tabqa and its nearby dam from Islamic State group jihadists, the force and a monitor said.

"The Syrian Democratic Forces seized control of Tabqa and the adjacent dam," Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told AFP.

Abdel Rahman said SDF forces were still combing through the city, which sits on the Euphrates River and on a strategic supply route about 55 kilometres west of Raqa, the Syrian heart of IS's so-called caliphate.

SDF spokesman Talal Sello told

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