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| Islamic State seizes Syria's last border crossing with Iraq | |
| 2015-05-22 | |
| [Ynet] 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.... bad boy group has seized the last border crossing between Syria and Iraq controlled by the Syrian government after security forces withdrew, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Thursday. Iraqi officials said Iraqi security forces had also withdrawn from their side of the crossing known as as al-Waleed in Iraq and al-Tanf in Syria. The crossing is in Syria's Homs province, where Islamic State on Wednesday seized the historic city of Palmyra from government forces. It was not immediately clear when Islamic State took the site.
It was the last border crossing with Iraq still held by the Damascus government. Except for a short section of frontier in the north under Kurdish control, all the rest are now held by IS. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 See also TOPIX > ISIS CONSOLIDATES MIDDLE EAST "CALIPHATE" WID FALL OF RAMADI. * REUTERS > ISLAMIC STATE FIGHTERS OVERRUN IRAQI GOVT. LINES EAST OF RAMADI [Husaiba]. * RELATED YAHOO NEWS > ISLAMIC STATE TAKES LAST SYRIA REGIME-HELD CROSSING AT IRAQI BORDER | MONITOR [SOHR]. and * CNN AM > WOLF BLITZER "SITUATION ROOM GUEST PANEL = Guest Pert demoted that unless a potent or significant external force intervenes agz the ISIS/ISIL, IT IS UNLIKELY THE IRAQI GOVT-ARMY WILL BE ABLE TO DEFEAT OR STOP THE ISLAMIC STATE. VERSUS "Ask + Ye shall Receive", save from IRAN N-O-T vee the Bammer = USA ... * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US OFFICIALS: IRAN SENDING TROOPS TO IRAQI FIGHT FOR [Baiji/Beiji] OIL REFINERY - BUSINESS INSIDER. IRAN sending at present only MINOR Arty + Support Milfors to Baiji/Beiji, BUT MORE-N-BIGGER MAY BE FORTHCOMING??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-05-22 21:22 |