Villages that were taken by the gangs earlier were again taken back by SDF. Smaller attacks behind the frontline and in the city centers are carried out by sleeper cells of the gangs. This kind of attacks happened regularly over the last years and SDF seems to be prepared to repel them. The cities of Tepqa and Raqqa are fully under control of SDF forces and the attackers did not manage to cross the Euphrates river. While the gangs claim that they took control over the town of Mansura, fightings are taking place there right now. SDF announced they are ready to use new and modern techniques of warfare if the attacks continue. To prepare the city of Tepqa for an attack all ISIS prisoners have been brought to other regions in advance. Furthermore around 3000 displaced families that fled to Tepqa from Afrin and Shehba are on their way to the Cizîre-region in the East.

Against the war that is trying to take down the revolution, the Autonomous Administration declared the general mobilization of the people to join the defence and gather around SDF/YPJ: “The aim of these attacks is to undermine the brotherhood, […] to incite discord and violence among the communities of North-East-Syria, and to target the indigenous components of Syria, imposing a single ideology on all others.”

The war is threatening the very existence of the people and the democratic way of life in North- and East-Syria. In the spirit of the peaceful coexistence of all peoples of Syria SDF/YPJ are defending the revolution with the support of the society in North-East-Syria.