Much celebration in Syria after they were liberated from ISIS rule in a northern stronghold in the country.
Woman where seen smiling in Manbij as they burned a niqab revealing their face for the first time since captivity. They where forced
to wear niqab by the Islamic State regime while another man could not stop
beaming as he had his beard cut.
The out-pour of emotion came after the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an
Arab-Kurdish force backed by the US, expelled most of the terror group's
troops from the town last week and took over the control of the town.
As the ISIS fighters left the town, they packed the civilians into cars that followed theirs closely to prevent the SDF from launching an attack on them.
ISIS previously held the control of the city for two-and-a-half years since seizing
it in January 2014, they took around 2,000 civilians to use as 'human
shields' as they fled.
