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| At Least 42 Dead in Rebel-IS Clashes near Damascus |
| 2015-04-23 |
| [AnNahar] At least 42 fighters were killed in 24 hours of fierce fighting between Salafist tough guys and 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in Syria's Damascus province, a monitoring group said Wednesday. "At least 30 Salafist tough guys and 12 fighters from IS were killed in fighting since Tuesday" in the hilly region of Qalamun, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Qalamun is divided into a western portion, which borders Leb and is mostly controlled by the regime and its ally, Leb's Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... . The eastern sector has seen intense festivities between rebels and IS, and is strategic because it borders the "badiya," the Syrian steppe. These plains are used by rebels to transport weapons from the Turkish border to the north and the Jordanian frontier in the south. According to the Britannia-based Observatory, IS has already cut off one of these routes and aims to take more to "suffocate" the rebels. Meanwhile, ...back at the the conspirators' cleverly concealed hideout the long-awaited message arrived. They quickly got to work with their decoder rings... 13 civilians, including nine children, were killed Tuesday night in shelling in the northwest province of Idlib, whose quiet provincial capital was overrun by al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and allied rebels. Among them, a man and five children, three of them sisters, were killed in a regime air raid on Maarat al-Numan. Seven others, including a couple and their four children, were killed by rebel shelling on Jisr al-Shughur, one of the last regime-held cities in Idlib province. Since they lost control of Idlib city, regime forces have been trying to chip away at opposition-controlled parts of the province to protect their supply route between Ariha and Jisr al-Shughur. |
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