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By Arutz Sheva North America Staff<\/p>\n

Arab-Kurdish fighters backed by the United States on Friday cut the Islamic State (ISIS) group’s main supply route between Syria and Turkey in a major setback for the jihadists.<\/p>\n

ISIS has come under growing pressure on various fronts in Syria and Iraq, where it established its self-declared “caliphate” in 2014.<\/p>\n

The extremists lost control Friday of a vital supply artery when Arab-Kurdish forces completely surrounded a key jihadist-held town.<\/p>\n

“The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) cut off the last road from Manbij to the Turkish border,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring group.<\/p>\n

Manbij lies at the heart of the last stretch of territory along Turkey’s border still under ISIS control, and was a key point on the jihadists’ supply line from Turkey.<\/p>\n

Other secondary roads to the frontier are more dangerous and difficult to access, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition backing the SDF, Brett McGurk, confirmed the road had been severed.<\/p>\n

“ISIL terrorists now completely surrounded with no way out,” he wrote on Twitter, using another acronym for ISIS.<\/p>\n

This week the SDF, backed by coalition air strikes, cut the road north out of Manbij to the ISIS-held border town of Jarabulus, which the jihadists had used as a transit point for fighters, money and weapons.<\/p>\n

Reports Thursday said more than 130 ISIS terrorists had been killed in the offensive on of Manbij.<\/p>\n

The SDF also blocked the road south out of Manbij heading to ISIS’s de facto capital of Raqa.<\/p>\n

“For the jihadists to reach the Turkish border from Raqa, they now have to take a route that is more dangerous because of regime troops nearby and Russian air strikes,” Abdel Rahman said.<\/p>\n

Russia launched air strikes in support of President Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria in September.<\/p>\n

Thousands of residents have fled Manbij \u2013 held by ISIS since 2014 \u2013 but jihadists who evacuated their families stayed to defend the town, the Observatory said.<\/p>\n

About 20,000 people are still living in the town, which had a pre-war population of about 120,000 — mostly Arabs, but about a quarter Syrian Kurds.<\/p>\n

Syria’s war has killed more than 280,000 people and displaced millions since it started in 2011 with the brutal repression of anti-government protests.<\/p>\n

The United Nations says a total of 592,000 people live under siege in Syria — most surrounded by government forces — and another four million in hard-to-reach areas.<\/p>\n

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