Anti-Islamic State activist in Raqqa, Abu Ibrahim Raqqawi, posted the leaflet on Twitter Saturday.
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Members of the main Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), are also shown walking down a street with Arabic words saying “Freedom Will Come”.
Raqqa, known as Islamic State’s de-facto capital, was taken by the terror group amid the ongoing Syrian war in 2013.
Coalition warplanes have dropped such leaflets in the past.
By Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press on July 19, 2015.
YPG fighters have been advancing toward Syria’s Raqqa and are as close as 50 kilometers north of the city.
A previous batch of leaflets dropped over Raqqa in March featured a cartoon image of IS recruits being fed into a meat grinder.
The Islamic State group holds about a third of Syria and neighboring Iraq in its self-declared “caliphate”.
At least 115 people, including women and children, were killed in Friday night’s attack in the mostly Shiite town and more than 170 were wounded. Authorities there have fired the local police chief and three officers, while two others are being investigated, said senior Iraqi police officials speaking on condition of anonymity Sunday as they weren’t authorized to talk to journalists.
Yet, the Kurdish fighters say that despite the vocal support by the West and the USA, they have not received any material support on the ground.
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