Kurdish forces are advancing against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group in the Syrian city of Tabqa, which has been under siege for weeks.
The US-backed forces are moving towards the armed group’s stronghold of Raqqa.
Al Jazeera’s Hashem Ahelbarra reports from Gaziantep, near the Syrian-Turkish border.
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