...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
group, ISIL (so-called 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....
in Iraq and Syria), on Saturday and Sunday, a monitor said.
The rest of the dead in the raids on the city of Raqa were ISIL Death Eaters, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
Dozens of people were also maimed in the raids which took place on Saturday and Sunday.US fighter jet
The US-led coalition, which launched an air war against ISIL in Syria last September, said it had carried out "significant" air strikes against Raqa.
"The significant air strikes tonight were executed to deny Daesh (ISIL) the ability to move military capabilities throughout Syria and into Iraq," front man Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Gilleran said.
"This was one of the largest deliberate engagements we have conducted to date in Syria and it will have debilitating effects on Daesh's ability to move from Raqa."
Coalition forces "successfully engaged multiple targets" throughout Raqa, the statement said, destroying IS structures and transit routes.
The strikes "have severely constricted terrorist freedom of movement," it added.
Washington is leading an international coalition fighting ISIL in Syria and Iraq, where the holy warrior group has proclaimed an Islamic "caliphate" in territory under its control.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
many reports make doubts about the real intentions of the US raids, pointing out that the coalition warplanes had dropped weapons and several supplies to the Takfiri bad boys.
Fearless Leader of the Islamic Revolution
...Iran's doddering head theocrat...
in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei had repeatedly accused the US of backing the Takfiris, saying that Washington is not honest in fighting ISIL.