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Syrian Air Force launches first airstrikes this month
[AlMasdar] For the first time this month, the Syrian Arab Air Force (SyAAF) launched a series of Arclight airstrikes across a region of Syria.

According to a military source in Sweida, the Syrian Air Force heavily bombarded 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....
’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) positions inside the Badiya al-Sham region.

The source said that the Syrian Air Force specifically targeted the Khirbat Hosn area at the provincial border of Sweida and Homs; this attack hit an Islamic State sleeper cell that was active in this part of the Badiya al-Sham region.

He would add that many of the Islamic State snuffies that were holed up in the al-Safa region in al-Sweida had managed to escape to this area of the Badiya al-Sham.

Another source in Damascus told al-Masdar that the Syrian Army is having a difficult time patrolling this desert region because of the large number of caves in the region.
Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-14
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