YPG Press Centre said in a written statement that a military campaign to eliminate ISIS threats and to liberate the rural district of Canton Cizîrê, Rojava, abundantly continues on its 8th day.

Military operations on the western border line of Cizîrê continued during day and night on May 13 near Alya area where the ISIS-occupied villages of Nufeliyê, Til Lebn and Megrîn Beggara as well as small villages Ehmedê Mele and Ebdulazîzê Cafer were effectively cleansed from gang groups; finishing mop-up operations are currently taking place in these locations.

Following this major campaign, -the statement said-members of the People’s Defense Units (YPG) and the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ) are similarly enduring their operations in the west of Hesekê city. On May 13, throughout the day, heavy and direct clashes between YPG/YPJ troops and ISIS elements have been experienced in and around the village of Rezaza, 13 kilometers western Hesekê – according to what has been confirmed, 37 terrorist fighters were killed on this front.

In the evening hours of the same day, ISIS forces attempted to carry out an attack on Mişêrfa village deploying an explosive-laden truck. With a quick intervention by Defense Units, the SVBIED was targeted and destroyed before reaching its target; 2 ISIS affiliates inside the vehicle were confirmed killed.

YPG Press Centre remarked that the heroic, persistent resistance to the occupation attempts of ISIS gangs around the city of Kobanê continued yesterday on the 241st day.

An assault operation – Remembering Martyr Medya Helinc – was conducted in the evening of May 13 in east Kobanê where Zerê and Gundik villages were fully cleansed from ISIS groups. While ISIS casualties there are yet to be confirmed, one PK machine gun, 300 PK bullets and 2 pairs of night-time scopes of the gang groups were seized, YPG added.