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ISIS counter-attack pushes Syrian forces out of Raqqa province
[RUDAW.NET] 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) has reportedly pushed Syrian regime forces back out of the province of Raqqa in a large counter-offensive which has killed 40 soldiers, afflicting a serious setback on the regimes two-week old offensive against the murderous Moslems there. "ISIS [ISIS] has managed to drive out regime troops from the administrative borders of Raqqa province after a fierce counter-offensive," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor reported. ISIS launched this counter-offensive late on Sunday as the regime forces closed in on the town of Tabqa, home to a former airbase and Syria’s largest dam. Tabqa is 40 kilometers upstream, west, of the lovely provincial capital city of Raqqa, ISIS’s primary city stronghold in Syria. The Syrian Observatory reported on Monday that the regime has been forced to 40km from Tabqa airport after previously being only 7km away from it. Fearing losing Tabqa - and the regime successfully securing a foothold in Raqqa for the first time since August 2014 - ISIS poured hundreds reinforcements into that key town from Raqqa city. The Observatory estimates that 40 of the regime forces were killed, including an officer, while no fewer than 21 ISIS murderous Moslems were killed. This brings the total casualties in the regimes Raqqa offensive to 93 dead regime forces and 126 dead ISIS murderous Moslems, according to the Observatory’s estimates. Posted by: Fred 2016-06-22 |
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