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| Islamic State scores up gains and losses in Syrian fighting |
| 2015-07-01 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] 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.... fighters stormed the Syrian town of Tel Abyad on the Turkish border on Tuesday and captured a neighborhood from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, but suffered setbacks in the northeastern city of Hasaka, a monitor and the army said. Islamic State has launched simultaneous attacks against Syrian government and Kurdish militia this past week in the multi-sided Syrian civil war after losing ground to Kurdish-led forces near the capital of its "caliphate". Backed by U.S.-led air strikes, the YPG militia has advanced deep into the bad boys' stronghold province, Raqqa, capturing key positions from the jihadists, including Tel Abyad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said there were heavy festivities on Tuesday around Tel Abyad, which serves as a border crossing, and that hard boyz had taken control of an area in the eastern part of the town. YPG front man Redur Xelil said festivities were ongoing with the hard boyz who had infiltrated a village on the outskirts of the town. "They are encircled ... this will be mass suicide for them," he told Rooters. The British-based Observatory, which tracks violence across Syria through sources on the ground, said Islamic State had deployed scores of fighters across several villages. The ultra-radical group, which holds large tracts of Syria's thinly populated east, launched a lighting assault on the strategic northeastern city of Hasaka last Thursday in a bid to capture government-held districts. But in the last two days, the Syrian army has been able to regain most of the areas of the city the hard boyz had seized. The Syrian army's ability to hold on to Hasaka and also separately repel a major rebel assault on the lovely provincial capital of the southern province of Deraa on the border with Jordan, stands in stark contrast to a string of recent setbacks. Hasaka is important for all sides, because it sits between Islamic State-held territory in Syria and in nearby Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |