SDF News

The development comes as a boost for the BJP while it is a big setback for former Sikkim chief minister Pawan Kumar Chamling.

After a very close battle, the SKM won an absolute majority in the Sikkim Assembly election 2019, bringing the curtain down on two and half decades of Pawan Chamling-led SDF rule in the Himalayan state.

RN Chamling floated a new party called Sikkim Rajya Manch at a public meeting at Sribadam in West Sikkim.

Raqqa will be part of a decentralised federal Syria now the city has been freed from Islamic State, the U.S.-backed militias that captured it said on Friday, tying its future to Kurdish-led plans to set up autonomous regions in the north.

Foreign fighters did not leave under the withdrawal deal.

The SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting with the U.S.-led coalition.

An alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting under the banner of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is trying to oust Islamic State from its headquarters in Raqqa.

The United Nations estimates some 100,000 civilians remain in Raqa, with the jihadists accused of using them as human shields.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have captured 80 per cent of Tabqa city from the Islamic State militant group.

Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) candidate Dilli Ram Thapa on Saturday won the upper Burtuk Assembly seat, garnering 8,406 votes in the bypolls.

A US-backed Kurdish-Arab alliance pushed closer to Raqa in Syria while Iraqi forces seized a key town near Mosul as offensives progressed against the two Islamic State group strongholds.

Islamic State militants have set off five car bombs targeting U.S.-backed Syrian armed groups attacking Raqqa, a Kurdish source said on Monday, saying the fight to drive IS from its stronghold city would "not be easy". 

The Pentagon said the operation had pitted "well over a thousand friendly forces" against "several hundred enemies".