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Kurdish forces attack ISIS headquarters near Hasakah, 17 militants killed
2015-02-17
[ARA] On Monday, at least 17 turbans 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 (IS/ISIS) were killed during attacks by the Kurdish fighters of the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the countryside of Hasakah in northeastern Syria, the YPG's Media Center reported.

Officials of the YPG's Media Center told ARA News their units carried out "strategic military operations" against IS forces of Evil near the village of Tweina (10 km west of Hasakah city), which resulted in the destruction of an IS-led armored vehicle.

"Our (YPG) units also clashed with another terrorist group, killing 5 and wounding some others."

"In the village of Matfina, our fighters were able to kill four IS forces of Evil and injure at least two others," the YPG's Media Center reported.

The Kurdish fighters of the YPG also attacked IS strongholds in Abu Rifaa farm near al-Kharita Square in southern Hasakah, killing eight IS hard boys.

ARA News could not verify the exact number of the YPG's losses in the recent battles.

Speaking to ARA News, Jomerd Temir, a member of the YPG forces in Hasakah, said their units carried out Monday evening another attack against IS headquarters on the road linking Tel Temir town to Hasakah city, which resulted in the destruction of a number of the group's manned-vehicles. No reports of casualties.

The military operations expanded in the countryside of Hasakah, where festivities broke out between the pro-Assad forces and the Islamic State turbans in the eastern and southern countryside of Hasakah, while similar festivities continue between the YPG forces and IS bully boyz in the western countryside of the city.
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