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Major IS group setbacks in Libya, Syria and Iraq: a summary to date
In which the reversal of the ISIS conquests is laid out.
[AlAhram] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, which has just lost its Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte, has also suffered a series of major setbacks in Iraq and Syria.

The Islamist krazed killers, who since 2014 have seized swathes of territory in the three countries, are currently under attack in their strongholds of djinn-infested Mosul
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-06
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