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June 15th, 2015 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda “The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) have cut the route” leading south out of Tal Abyad, which lies on the Syrian-Turkish border, said Kurdish commander Hussein Khojer.
“Tal Abyad is completely surrounded,” Khojer told AFP, speaking by phone from near the town.
“There is nowhere Daesh can escape to,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for IS.
Khojer said Kurdish fighters, backed by Syrian rebel groups, had advanced on the strategic town in a two-front offensive from east and west.
“The YPG units from Kobane (in the west) and Jazira (in the east) met up south of Tal Abyad,” Khojer added.
Sherfan Darwish, a spokesman for the Burkan al-Furat rebel group fighting alongside the YPG, said the anti-IS alliance had advanced to the “outer neighbourhoods” of the town’s east and south.
“There are intense clashes there with Daesh,” Darwish told AFP, saying at least 19 IS militants were killed Monday.
He confirmed that Kurdish forces and their rebel allies had cut the road south of Tal Abyad, adding that most of the border town’s civilian residents had already fled the intensifying violence.
Khojer said Kurdish forces were being backed by US-led coalition air raids.
Over the weekend, fighting around Tal Abyad sparked an exodus of fearful civilians from surrounding villages.
Late Saturday, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) advanced to within five km of Tal Abyad, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
An AFP correspondent on the Turkish side of the border reported that thousands of would-be refugees were queuing behind the barbed wire seeking asylum.
There were widespread reports of sporadic border closure that prevented some Syrians from crossing into Turkey.
In the last week, approximately 16,000 people have fled into Turkey to escape the fighting but Ankara originally said it would only allow refugees in the event of a humanitarian tragedy.
Turkish authorities closed the border on Sunday after allowing in at least 3,000 people, leaving thousands of people stranded.
“If Turkey accepts a new wave of refugees from Tal Abyad, it means that Turkey should be prepared for an influx of at least 100,000 refugees,” Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday.
“We are of the opinion that there isn’t a humanitarian crisis in Tal Abyad, similar to Kobane or other regions in Syria,” he told private CNN-Turk television.
However, the authorities have since opened the border and allowed people to stream in. There have been no reports of border restrictions since.
Tal Abyad lies on a mostly Sunni Arab part of the border between mainly Kurdish Kobane and Syria’s most populous ethnic Kurdish region – Hasakeh province – in the northeast.
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