[Iran Press TV] "Local" forces must be in the "vanguard" of a fight to capture the Syrian ISIS-held city of Raqqah, says the US special envoy to the so-called coalition against the Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorists.
Brett McGurk made the remarks while speaking Sunday at a news conference in Amman, the capital of Jordan, another member of the coalition, officially called the Global Coalition To Counter ISIS, which has been operating in Syria since September 2014 without any authorization from Damascus or a UN mandate.
"When it comes to Raqqah, we want force that ultimately liberates Raqqah that is primarily from the local area - Arabs from the area," McGurk told news hounds. "And so we have trained many of these fighters and that force will continue to grow as we get to the subsequent phase of the campaign."
His statement followed an announcement by some anti-government bully boy groups, known as Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), saying they had started operations to capture the ISIS de facto capital in the Moslem country.
The US-backed snuffies also said they would coordinate with the coalition forces.
McGurk referred to the announcement "came from the Syrian Democratic Forces, which is a coalition of Kurds and Arabs," saying, "I want to make very clear it is our principle priority throughout this campaign that the vanguard of the force that takes major territory from ISIS should be locally based forces." 
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