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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Post-war Kobane... a ghost city
2015-04-04
[ARA] Subsequent to four months of battles between the joint forces and bully boyz 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....
(IS/ISIS) in the Syrian border city of Kobane, the group was driven out of the area. However,
man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them...
the results were apparently disastrous in terms of the sheer number of residential buildings that were destroyed.

Speaking to News ARA News, Hana Osei, a 22-year-old girl, who came back to Kobane with her family a month ago, said: "We lived in one of our relatives' houses because our house was completely destroyed, and we hoped that the concerned authorities in the city would help rebuild the destroyed residential buildings in Kobane; however, there seems to be a sharp shortage of capacities to rebuild our hometown."
Posted by:Fred

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