An Arab-Kurd opposition alliance said Sunday (August 14th) it has established a military council tasked with driving the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) out of the town of al-Bab in Syria's Aleppo province, AFP reported.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced the creation of "al-Bab Military Council" in a statement.
The last remaining ISIL fighters abandoned the city of Manbij near the Turkish border on Friday. Al-Bab is around 50 kilometres southwest of Manbij.
In Sunday's statement, the SDF promised it would "strike to liberate al-Bab" and the region around it, and called on the coalition "to back us in our struggle to liberate our land and our brothers from the ISIL terrorists".
The battle for Manbij lasted more than two months. As they fled the city, ISIL fighters took hundreds of civilians to use as "human shields" but later released many of them.
