|
Raqqa in ruins as SDF try to finish off IS’ in former ‘capital’
[ALMASDARNEWS] Raqqa continues to suffer as US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces push further into the city against the self-proclaimed 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.... (IS; formerly ISIS/ISIS), Thursday. IS are thought to currently hold some 25 percent of the city, while between 5,000 and 7,000 civilians are thought to still be in the city, according to SDF officials. The fighting is posing a constant risk to the civilians that are trapped inside Raqqa. Human Rights Watch (HRW) documented, on Monday, the human toll of the US-led aerial campaign against IS in the city, accusing the coalition of being responsible for at least 84 civilians in just two attacks near Raqqa this July. Posted by: Fred 2017-10-01 |
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=498590 |