Syria: Kurdish and Syria militia cooperate to fight IS in Deir ez-Zor

Footage was released on Friday of joint Syrian-Arab and Kurdish armed groups going to fight against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIL) at the border of the Syrian Deir ez-Zor Province. SOT, Arab fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (Arabic): “If we, Arabs and Kurds, do not unite, we will not liberate our homeland. But, thank God, we came together and liberated the district of Al-Shaddadah. If Allah lets us, we will free Deir ez-Zor and Raqqah. Our brothers, Kurds from Aleppo and