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Arab-Kurd fighters kill 16 ISIS militants near Syria 'capital'
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Arab and Kurdish forces have killed at least 16 fighters from 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.... of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group during fierce festivities north of the murderous Moslems' stronghold of Raqqa, a monitor said Sunday. The murderous Moslemslaunched an offensive last Wednesday against areas held by the Syrian Democratic Forces coalition near to Ain Issa, a town held by the SDF some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Raqqa, killing 21 Kurdish fighters. Late on Saturday, "16 jihadists were killed and 19 maimed" in festivities with the SDF near Ain Issa, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The SDF also recaptured an area seized by ISIS a few days earlier, he said. The alliance, made up of units from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) and Arab fighters, has carried out several major operations against ISIS. On December 26, it seized the Tishreen Dam from ISIS along with several villages on the Euphrates' eastern bank. The dam, held by ISIS since 2014, helps generate electricity for large parts of the northern Aleppo province, the Observatory said. It was the alliance's second major operation, after clearing ISIS from some 200 villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. On the Euphrates' western bank, ISIS still controls swathes of territory stretching from Raqqa to Jarablus, on the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . Posted by: Fred 2016-01-04 |
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