Manbij, a city in the Aleppo province of Syria, fell under the control of rebels backed by the United States on Friday after heavy fighting.

US-backed Syrian rebels on Friday claimed that they had seized total control of a town that had been under ISIS control since 2014.

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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of mostly Kurdish fighters with some Arabs among their ranks that receives US support, had been campaigning to remove ISIS from the city for the last 73 days.

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Most of ISIS was repelled from the city last week, but dozens of fighters remained, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at the time.

Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters chat with an injured civilian

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The group on Friday said that about 500 cars carrying ISIS fighters and civilians were seen leaving Manbij heading toward an ISIS stronghold on the Turkish border.

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