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Hundreds flee Syria jihadist enclave before final assault
[AlAhram] Hundreds of people crammed onto trucks leaving the last scrap of 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's "caliphate" in eastern Syria on Wednesday as US-backed forces prepared to deliver the final blow to holdout jihadists.
Several thousand people -- fighters and their relatives -- are believed to be cornered in the last pocket of IS-held territory, barely half a square kilometre near the Iraqi border.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-28
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