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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Senior IS Leaders Said Killed In Syria
2015-07-14
[RFERL.ORG] Two senior 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....
leaders were killed in an air strike in northeastern Syria on July 13, a monitoring group said.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights identified the leaders as an Iraqi, Abu Osama al-Iraqi, and a Syrian named Amer al-Rafdan.

Rami Abdulrahman, head of the U.K.-based Observatory for Human Rights, said that it could not be determined whether it was the Syrian Army or the U.S.-led coalition, which runs a separate aerial campaign, that carried out the air strike in Hasaka Province.

Hasaka province borders The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to the north and Iraq to the east.

The Islamic State (IS) bad boy group is fighting both Syrian government forces and militia as well as Syrian Kurdish fighters, backed by air support from the U.S.-led coalition.

Iraqi had the title of a "governor" of the province IS had declared in northeastern Syria, while Rafdan had served as IS governor of Deir al-Zor Province, according to Abdulrahman.
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