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US-Led Airstrikes Hit Islamic State Near Turkey
[Ynet] Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group makes push for Kurdish region only to be hit by US-led Activists say the US-led coalition has struck targets of the Islamic State group near a besieged Kurdish town along Syria's border with Turkey. It was not immediately clear if Tuesday's The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes hit Islamic State fighters east and west of Kobani. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, also confirmed the Koubani has been under attack by the Islamic State group since mid-September. Despite US-led Militants of the Islamic State group were closing in Monday on a Kurdish area of Syria on the border with Turkey -- an advance unhindered so far by US-led coalition Islamic State fighters pounded the city of Koubani with mortars and artillery shells, advancing within three miles (five kilometers) of the Kurdish frontier city, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Nawaf Khalil, a Kurdish official. The Observatory says fighting around Koubani on Monday killed 57 fighters on both sides - the town's Kurdish defenders and the Islamic bad boys. Posted by: trailing wife 2014-10-01 |
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