Syrian Government Is Believed To Have Control 387 S.M Area Around Manbij City

Quoting to the Russian defense ministry, the  Russian based Interfax news agency has reported that about 1,000 Squire kilometers of the area around the Manbij city is under Syrian government forces control. Manbij is a city in the northeast of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria, 30 kilometers west of the Euphrates. In the 2004 census by the Central Bureau of Statistics,  Manbij had a population of nearly 100,000. The population of Manbij is largely Arab, with Kurdish, Circassian and Chechen minorities. Russian Ministry of Defence added that all major buildings including Tabqa military airfield, several hydroelectric power plants and key bridges across the Euphrates river are under Syrian government control.