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Iraq
Kurds Seize Iraq, Syria Border Post; Sunni Tribe Joins Fight Against Islamic State
2014-10-02
[Ynet] Iraqi Kurdish troops drove 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....
fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since US forces began bombing the Islamists.

The victory, which could make it harder for murderous Moslems to operate on both sides of the frontier, was also achieved with help from Kurds from the Syrian side of the frontier, a new sign of cooperation across the border.
And incidentally makes it easier for the West-armed Iraqi Kurds to share weapons and ammunition with their West-blockaded brothers in Syria.
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