Kurdish-led fighters marching against IS near Syria's Raqqa
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BEIRUT (AP) — A spokeswoman for a Kurdish-led force fighting the Islamic State group in northern Syria says they are the verge of surrounding a wide area north of the IS stronghold of Raqqa.