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| Syria Regime Forces Retake Gas Field from Jihadists |
| 2014-07-27 |
| [An Nahar] Syrian government troops Saturday recaptured the Shaar gas field in Homs province from the Islamic State, a week after the jihadists seized it, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Since this morning, there has been fighting around the Al-Shaar field between regime forces and the IS. The army has succeeded in ejecting the jihadists, and it now controls the site and surrounding hills," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. The powerful jihadist group, which operates in Syria and Iraq, killed around 300 members of the Syrian security forces in the battle for the key facility. Some of them were executed after being captured. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The Iraqi Sunnis will go along with IS until they throw off Baghdad's yoke (read: Shiites,) whereupon they'll either go after the IS or more likely, count on the IS to turn its gaze outward and leave them alone. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2014-07-27 18:59 |
| #1 I'm no expert and know only what I pick up from news blogs, but it strikes me that this story, as some others, says that IS is not invincible, and more to the point, that they may have bitten off more territory than they can control. Both Iraqis and Kurds have checked them in various places. And so far at least they have not hit Baghdad, where US SOF is present, as one deduces from Occupied White House statements. And as with AQI before them, their domestic relations dis-endear them to civilians. As a Saudi client, IS is not predictably a stable on-going fighting force. Again, I am not an expert, just making observations of what appear to my eyes skimming the surfaces of the multi-faceted phenomenon. God help the girls and women and massacre the misogynists. That is my prayer. |
| Posted by: TopRev 2014-07-27 14:13 |