Thousands flood back to Syria’s Manbij with Daesh kicked out

The citizens of Manbij are flooding back to the northern Syrian town one day after it was wrestled from the grip of Daesh by the Kurdish-Arab alliance, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

"Thousands are coming back and shops are opening. Today is the first day life is returning to normal," said Spokesman for the SDF-allied Manbij Military Council Sharfan Darwish on Saturday.

According to Press TV quoting the alliance, the cars and vehicles of hundreds of displaced citizens could be seen during the day entering the city from make shift camps and villages surrounding it.

The US-backed SDF noted that it is currently engaged in restoring the city’s severely damaged infrastructure.

On Friday, the SDF announced that they had launched a final assault to flush the remaining Daesh terrorists out of Manbij, located 446 kilometers (277 miles) north of the capital Damascus.   

The SDF also says the Takfiris abducted some 2,000 civilians as they were leaving the town, but according to Reuters, the civilians were not abducted and were actually the terrorists’ family members.

Following Daesh removal from the city, residents began to celebrate the new freedoms, and poured into the streets.  

"You are our children, you are our heroes, you are the blood of our hearts, you are our eyes. Go out, Daesh,” said one woman thanking her liberators.

Manbij lies along the only supply line of Daesh between the Syrian-Turkish border to the north and the group’s main Syria stronghold of Raqqah, which lies to the southeast.

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