<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" id="mw0g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syrian civil war">Syrian civil war</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Democratic_Forces" id="mw0w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Syrian Democratic Forces">Syrian Democratic Forces</a> (SDF) launch an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa_campaign_(2016–2017)" id="mw1A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Raqqa campaign (2016–2017)">offensive</a> to capture the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raqqa" id="mw1Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Raqqa">Raqqa</a> from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant" id="mw1g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant">Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant</a> (ISIL).<sup about="#mwt123" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"}}' id="cite_ref-22" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_6#cite_note-22" id="mw1w" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 22;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw2A">[22]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-22"><cite about="#mwt120" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFTomson2016">Tomson, Chris (6 November 2016). <a class="external text" href="https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/kurdish-forces-capture-first-batch-villages-isis-campaign-liberate-raqqa/" id="mwBYE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"Kurdish forces capture first batch of villages from ISIS in campaign to liberate Raqqa"</a>. Almasdar News<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBYI">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBYM">8 November</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt120" class="Z3988" id="mwBYQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Kurdish+forces+capture+first+batch+of+villages+from+ISIS+in+campaign+to+liberate+Raqqa&amp;rft.pub=Almasdar+News&amp;rft.date=2016-11-06&amp;rft.aulast=Tomson&amp;rft.aufirst=Chris&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.almasdarnews.com%2Farticle%2Fkurdish-forces-capture-first-batch-villages-isis-campaign-liberate-raqqa%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+6"></span></span>