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33 Daesh killed in clashes with army forces in central Syria
[Iran Press TV] More than 30 members of the Takfiri...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group have been killed when they engaged in fierce exchanges of gunfire with Syrian army soldiers and pro-government fighters from popular defense groups in the country’s central province of Homs. The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that at least 18 ISIS holy warriors had been killed as they sought to advance near the Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase, west of the ancient Semitic city of Palmyra. The UK-based monitoring group's head, Rami Abdel Rahman, said 12 pro-government fighters had also been killed, including seven in a kaboom. ISIS has tried for weeks to cut off the Syrian army’s access route to the airbase, but to no avail in the face of strong resistance shown by government forces. Additionally, Syrian soldiers killed more than 15 ISIS terrorists, and destroyed an armored vehicle and seven pickup trucks equipped with heavy machineguns south of Sharifa village, situated about 60 kilometers west of Palmyra. A Syrian military source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , also told Syria’s official news agency SANA that the army had established control over a number of strategic hills and checkpoints along al-Phosphate road in Homs province. Syrian government forces inflicted heavy losses on ISIS ranks and military equipment during the operations. Furthermore, Syrian army units, backed by the Air Force, targeted krazed killer hideouts in al-Maqaber area of the eastern city of Dayr al-Zawr as well as the nearby al-Tharda Mountain. ISIS executes dozen people in Palmyra Meanwhile, ...back at the desert island, Irene was indignant at the thought of doing such a thing without benefit of clergy... ISIS Death Eaters have reportedly beheaded and shot 12 captives in Palmyra in front of crowds of men and children. Several of the victims were said to have been killed inside a second-century Roman amphitheater, while others were murdered in the courtyard of the Palmyra museum, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Four of those reported dead were teachers and ISIS holy warriors retook Palmyra on December 11, just eight months after the Syria army drove them out. Separately, tension prevails on the outskirts of the northwestern Syrian city of Jisr ash-Shugur after members of the Takfiri Jabhat Fateh al-Sham ...formerly al-Nusra, the current false nose and mustache of al-Qaeda in the Levant... , formerly known as al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, attacked the headquarters and checkpoints of Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... krazed killer coalition in the town of Khirbet al-Joz on the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Lions of Islam also stormed Ahrar al-Sham’s positions in Z’einiyyeh area, where ensuing festivities between the two sides have reportedly caused a number of casualties. Posted by: Fred 2017-01-20 |
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