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Islamic State fighters battle militants in northern Syria
2015-06-03
[RUDAW.NET] Activists say Syrian forces of Evil are sending reinforcements to fight 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 in the northern province of Aleppo, where they say the rival factions are battling near the Turkish border.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and Abu al-Hassan Marea, who is currently in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
near the Syrian border, said that the battles were raging Tuesday between the two rival sides on the northern edge of Aleppo province.

Islamic State fighters captured four villages and a town from al-Qaeda's branch in Syria, the Nusra Front, and its allies over the past days in battles in the area.

The fighting came a day after US State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said authorities heard reports forces loyal to Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now...
launched Arclight airstrikes supporting the Islamic State group's advance.
Posted by:Fred

#1  The trick is to get all the factions to fight down to the last man at the same time.
Posted by: Daffy Brown4464   2015-06-03 11:12  

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