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SDF says to head toward Islamic State, south of Hasaka, reaching to Iraqi borders
Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Syrian Democratic Forces have announced heading toward 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.... ’s stronghold, south of Hasaka, to liberate the region from the myrmidons. In remarks to the Russian Sputnik news agency, Lilwa al-Abdallah, the spokesperson for the Operation al-Jazeera Storm, said the operation "is ongoing to eliminate presence of IS in eastern Euphrates and south of Hasaka. Our troops are heading toward al-Desheisha, located south of Hasaka to liberate it completely from the gunnies until reaching to the Iraqi borders." The operations to free Desheisha, according to Abdallah, are carried out "in cooperation with Iraqi troops at the joint task forces to eliminate IS from the region and prevent the gunnies infiltration to Iraqi and Syrian regions." After freeing Desheisha or Badiya region, according to Abdallah, "we will head toward Hegeen, which is considered the last and biggest strongholds of IS." In May, SDF, backed by Washington, announced resuming the battles to retake the last pockets of IS in east of Syria, after suspending the operations when ...the decaying remnant of the Ottoman Empire.... started in January attack against Efrin, controlled by the U.S.-led Coalition in northwest of Syria. The troops announced in September launching the Operation al-Jazeera Storm to liberate the eastern countryside of Deir az-Zour province. The U.S. started in May sending weapons and equipments to SDF to launch military operation to liberate Raqqa, from which the group announced it caliphate more than three years ago. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-30 |
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