Syrian government seizes strategic town in Raqqa from Kurdish forces in an ongoing push eastward

Dozens of residents took to the streets of Tabqa to welcome government troops while waving the national flag after the seizure of their town. It came after tensions between Damascus and the U.S.-backed Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, flared earlier this month. Sunday’s military push in the province of Raqqa is viewed as critical because of a dam that controls the southward flow deeper into areas under SDF in northeastern Syria. (AP video by Ghaith Alsayed, production by Ali Sharafeddine) Subscribe: http://smarturl.it/AssociatedPress Read more: https://apnews.com​ This video may be available for archive licensing via https://newsroom.ap.org/home