US-backed forces got ISIS fighters to surrender a Syrian town near Raqqa, and, surprisingly, it's not the first time.
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US-backed forces just got ISIS to surrender a Syrian city, and it's not the first time it's happened
The remaining 70 ISIS fighters were forced to dismantle all IEDs around the Tabqah dam and surrender their heavy weapons.
A Kurdish YPG fighter with her weapon near the al-Hawl area, the site of fighting between ISIS militants and Syrian Democratic Forces.
The Syrian Arab Coalition and Syrian Democratic Forces "
This is also not the first such capitulation by ISIS fighters. "Partner forces have negotiated limited withdrawals or surrenders like this before," Rankne-Galloway said. ISIS fighters agreed to withdraw from the Syrian city of Manbij last summer after battling the SDF for three months.
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