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| Islamic State Attacks Hezbollah Near Border |
| 2015-06-10 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Since late March, an alliance of gunnies including the Nusra Front have seized nearly all of the northwestern province of Idlib at the Turkish border. 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.... has also seized the city of Palmyra from government control. In both cases, the Syrian military and militias fighting alongside it have appeared to withdraw rather than fight. Analysts say the decisions to retreat point to strain in the army after more than four years of combat. The pressure has prompted Western policymakers to suggest a window of opportunity for a political deal may be opening in Syria after a war that has killed 250,000 people and made some 8 million homeless. But the defeats have also triggered renewed statements of support for Assad from Iran, whose backing has been crucial to his survival. While Assad has suffered setbacks in the northwest, southwest and east, he has tightened his grip over the border zone with Leb thanks to a joint operation over the last month with the Iranian-backed Lebanese group, Hezbollah. The operation underway in the Qalamoun border region has cleared gunnies from hundreds of square kilometres between Syria and Leb. Hezbollah fighters came under attack from Islamic State murderous Moslems for the first time in the Qalamoun campaign on Tuesday, Lebanese sources briefed on the battle said. Eleven Islamic State fighters were killed, the sources said. |
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