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Car bomb in northern Syria leaves 19 dead
[DAWN] A boom-mobile killed 19 people, 13 of them civilians, in the The bomb, which struck a bus and taxi station in the town, also maimed 33 people, some of them seriously, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. ...just another cheapjack Moslem dictatorship, brought to you by the Moslem Brüderbund... and its Syrian proxies control several pockets of territory on the Syrian side of the border as a result of successive incursions in 2016-17, 2018 and 2019. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing but the Observatory said there had been persistent security incidents in the town since its capture by  ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in February 2017. The town, some 30 kilometres (20 miles) northeast of Syria’s second city Aleppo, was one of the westernmost strongholds of the jihadists’ self-styled "caliphate" which was finally eradicated by US-backed Kurdish forces in eastern Syria in March. Turkey blamed the boom-mobileing on the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) against whom it launched a new invasion further east last month. Kurdish fighters "continue to target innocent civilians using the same methods as ISIS," the defence ministry said on its official Twitter account using another acronym for IS. Posted by: Fred 2019-11-18 |
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