The YPG Press Office has said in a written statement that 6 more villages have been liberated in the scope of the operations in Kobanê and Cizîrê cantons of Rojava, while the Commander Rubar Qamislo Operation launched to cleanse the rural areas and the villages in the western parts of Cizîrê is continuing in its 19th day.

The statement said the operations of the YPG/YPJ forces against the ISIS gangs are continuing successfully to the southeast of Serêkaniyê, in which 2 villages were liberated. YPG added that the ISIS gangs used the people as a shield against the advance of the YPG/YPJ forces and that the Kurdish forces are acting carefully in order not to harm the people that the ISIS gangs have abducted.

YPG reported that 30 civilians who were abducted by ISIS and used against the advance of YPG forces as human shields have been evacuated from the area by the YPG/YPJ forces and added that the ISIS gangs exploded a bomb-laden vehicle in the midst of civilians, killing some of them and 2 YPG fighters. The number of the civilians killed in the explosion could not be ascertained, the statement noted.

The YPG Press Office further said the resistance in Kobanê is continuing in its 252th day and reported that the YPG/YPJ forces had launched a new operation on the areas occupied by ISIS to the east of Kobanê, liberating 4 villages. YPG added that a bomb laden vehicle of the gangs was seized in the operation by the resistance forces, while the number of the gang’s casualties could not be ascertained.