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| Kurds Push Back IS in Northern Syria Border Provinces |
| 2015-06-01 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish militia in Syria wrested control of a dozen villages from the hard boy 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 either side of the jihadist's bastion province of Raqa on Sunday, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the Kurdish People's Protection Units, backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition, seized eight villages from jihadists on the western edges of Raqa province. "Kurdish units and their allies advanced and took control of at least eight villages southeast of Kobane, amid air strikes by the international coalition," the Britannia-based monitor said. Kurdish militia and Syrian rebels pushed IS back from Kobane, which lies in northern Aleppo province on the Turkish-Syrian border, in January. Since then, YPG units have edged east towards Raqa, which IS declared the capital of its self-styled caliphate last year. Syrian Kurdish fighters also seized control of four villages from IS near a border town in Hasakeh, east of Raqa, the Observatory said. "There are still festivities between the YPG and IS southwest of Ras al-Ain," the monitor said, adding that at least eight IS fighters and three Kurdish militia were killed in the fighting. On Saturday, IS launched an assault on Hasakeh's picturesque provincial capital, advancing to within four kilometers (less than three miles) of the key city. |
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