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Kurdish fighters take on Isis near Syria’s biggest dam
KURDISH militia said they were fighting Isis terrorists on the south side of Syria’s biggest hydroelectric dam yesterday.
Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spokeswoman Cihan Sheikh Ehmed said her forces were at the southern entrance of the Tabqa dam complex on the Euphrates River.
US helicopters airlifted SDF guerillas — mainly consisting of the Kurdish YPG militia — across Lake Assad upstream from the dam on Tuesday.
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