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More than 5500 ISIS militants killed in clashes with Syrian Kurds in 2015
[ARA] At least 5800 turban fighters of 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) have been killed in festivities with the Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria during 2015. The YPG's leadership said in a statement on Thursday: "A total of 5875 faceless myrmidons of ISIS were killed in festivities with our forces during the year 2015." "Our units have conducted 453 military operations against the terror group; 392 festivities took place during these operations. The documented corpse count in the ranks of ISIS reached 5875 terrorists, and we have taken 38 faceless myrmidons as hostages," the Kurdish leadership said in its annual report. It added that the YPG units, in cooperation with the female fighters of the YPJ, have seized 204 ISIS military vehicles, 24 tanks, 26 armored vehicles and detonated 58 boom-mobiles, beside seizing a large deal of ammunition. On the other hand, 680 Kurdish fighters bit the dust while fighting ISIS over the year 2015. In cooperation with allied armed forces and with the support of the U.S.-led coalition's air force, the Kurdish units have regained control of strategic towns and cities from ISIS's fist in northern Syrian last year, including Kobane, Tel Abyad, Ain Issa, Tel Temir, Hasakah, Tel Hamis, Tel Brak, Suluk, Dahmaa, Mount Abdulaziz, army bases of '93' and Melabiyah, beside dozens of villages. The YPG leadership notified that these records do not include the gains of their joint operations in the ranks of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). According to the Kurdish leadership, the Turkish army has targeted 22 YPG headquarters in northern Syria in 2015, particularly in the northern countryside of Raqqa. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-02 |
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