The most important events during the year 2015

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The most important events during the year 2015

May 2015

The month of May had witnessed tightening by ISIS on religious lessons that carry the idea of the competitions in neighborhoods and villages, as well as Zakat Chamber Activity to collect taxes under the Zakat pretext from the shops and not to recognize any Zakat paid by the owner of the shop previously and distribute most of that money to the families of its fighters in particular.

The international coalition aircraft continued to target sites ISIS, and committed the first mistake when they targeted barrier of ISIS which led to killing of number of agricultural workers near the site, while the shelling by the drones was focused on some leading characters in the ranks of ISIS, including Osama Alkrash and Abu Raad Wessat and other leaders of the first row, while ISIS flew MiG aircraft from the military airport of Tabqa for a limited distance and duration as a first steps to use the Air Force.

Also that month witnessed a progress for the joint forces in the north over ISIS and its control over more villages, and retreating of members of ISIS because of strikes of the international coalition aircraft, and the start of the Battle of burning lands of both parties, since ISIS began immunization operations in the vicinity of the city in reference to the fear of the progress of the joint forces toward the city of Raqqa in light of the Declaration of the volcano room of Euphrates battle to liberate Tel Abyad.

June 2015

The losses of ISIS were increased in north of Raqqa, they began to lose control of the whole region, while coalition aircraft struck most of the reinforcements that were sent north, not to mention the flight of families of the members of ISIS and its fighters and announcing about the public horn, but the beginning was the loss of ISIS of the Slook city then Tel Abyad and Ein Issa to become the northern province of Raqqa fully under the control of the people’s Protection Units of YPG,

In the middle of a very large displacement of the people of the northern region, where some of them displaced as a result of military operations while the others fled from the People’s Protection Units practices and from the existing factions in the region, where hundreds have been arrested, homes looting and property and forcing many villagers to get out of their homes in a systematic campaign by the people’s Protection Units of YPG

In turn, the international coalition aircraft committed a large number of mistakes in the north by targeting a car carrying civilians and their homes in the north and left nearly 20 martyrs, in light of deportation of Kurds by ISIS from Raqqa toward Palmyra, and forcible seizure of their property and the influx of large numbers of displaced people from Palmyra and Sokhna and northern countryside and overcrowded schools with hundreds of families.

July 2015

The strikes of the coalition aircraft continued over Raqqa and committed a massacre of five civilians as it targeted a car through the drone near the Hamida School in Raqqa, as it destroyed the full bridges that linking the city of Raqqa with the northern and the eastern and western countryside areas to prevent ISIS from sending reinforcements to the Northern side , also other raids targeted mechanisms belonged to ISIS was working on fortifying its positions on the outskirts of the city, coincide with the strengthen of its defenses around Raqqa city through digging trenches and dirt barricades, as the militias of the YPG has done more systematic displacements and confiscation of property and systematic plundering of the city of Slook and prevent the people from returning back to the city

As well as ISIS prevented the internet in the city to keep on the internet just inside the shops in an attempt to crack down on civilians, as was documented the first case of HIV infection in Raqqa to a Tunisian female immigrant.

In contrast, sharp differences emerged between immigrants and supporters against the backdrop of the fall of the northern countryside of the hands of ISIS that the princes of the northern side were responsible for it, which led to expelled them, before it turned into armed clashes.

August 2015

Air raids of the International collation continued over Raqqa, targeting both the city of Raqqa and Tabqa and sites belonged to ISIS in the countryside, in light of stability of the fighting fronts between ISIS and by the people’s Protection Units YPG.

On the other hand, violations practiced by the units to protect the people against the people of the northern region continues, the arrest and the displacement and the looting of property by violence and crack down on the movement of civilians and the night curfew , on another hand ISIS has continued to impose taxes on water, communications and the execution of several civilians on various charges, amid signs that prevent watching TV through Friday sermons ,fact that ISIS manages all mosques in the province, as well as a significant rise in the prices of food and ration bread prices as the price of a loaf of bread is 20 SP

For its part, People’s Protection Units arrested a group of women from the city of Slook against the backdrop of a protest for the return of people to the city who were banned from coming back months ago, and the rejecting by the General of Raqqa revolutionists and revolutionary events for the decision to annex Tel Abyad and the North region to Cantoni –Ein Arab and Ras al-Ain and the adoption of the principle of self-management in the region and the imposition of the YPG project by force.