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SDF forces take the fight to ISIS west of Euphrates
[RUDAW.NET] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have taken the fight to the 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.... (ISIS) to the western side of the Euphrates a day after the group was forced from east of the river. A news report by Today's Zaman on Sunday said that fighting continues on the western bank of the Euphrates as members of the SDF try to chase the ISIS faceless myrmidons from the area. The SDF is a coalition of anti-ISIS groups of Assyrian, Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen. The Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) group is the largest single gang in this coalition. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's has long declared west of the Euphrates a red line for the YPG, but the Kurds are a major force in the SDF advances against ISIS. The SDF has the backing of the US and other coalition powers. The group captured the Tishreen Dam from ISIS on Saturday as well as a strategically important bridge connecting an area divided by the Euphrates. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-29 |
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