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Idlib: As IS Fight Nears End, Violence Flares on Other Syrian Front
[AnNahar] Violence in northwestern Syria has killed dozens over the past three weeks and displaced tens of thousands, raising concerns a truce reached six months ago between ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Russia is in danger. The violence in Idlib comes as the world is focused on eastern Syria, where U.S.-backed Kurdish-led fighters are on the verge of defeating 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in the last area they control. Idlib has been in the hands of opposition forces for years, even as Syrian  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... 's military retook other rebel enclaves, one after the other. The province is now home to some 3 million people, many of them displaced from other former opposition territory. Earlier this year, al-Qaeda-linked Death Eaters took over the province, squeezing out most other factions after festivities with Turkey-backed opposition fighters. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-13 |
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