Syria: Dozens of captured ISIL members pardoned during rebel offensive in Raqqa

Dozens of ISIL members, who were captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces – an alliance of rebel groups – during an offensive to remove ISIL from its stronghold of Raqqa, have been given amnesty in a goodwill gesture.

The pardon comes on the eve of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr.

Al Jazeera’s Natasha Ghoneim reports from bordering Turkish city of Gaziantep.

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Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon to the southwest, the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.

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