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| Rebels kill foreign ISIS fighters in undercover strike |
| 2015-09-02 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] A group of Western-backed Syrian Lions of Islam said on Tuesday they had killed three imported muscle -- two Saudis and a Tunisian -- with 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group in an undercover raid into an area under the control of the ultra-radical Death Eaters. An alliance of rebel groups known as Jabhat al Shamiya (Levant Front) operating in the northern Aleppo countryside near the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... said the operation was conducted by their clandestine security unit and was the first of its kind. They pledged further such commando strikes in the future. "We promise Baghdadi (leader of Islamic State) more of these security operations in the heart of areas under the control of his fighters," a statement by the Levant Front said. The region has witnessed intensified fighting in Syria's civil war between Western-backed rebels and Islamist Lions of Islam who have gained further ground, threatening the fall of most of the northern countryside of Aleppo into their hands. Islamic State has now encircled the rebel-held town of Marea, 20 km (12 miles) from the Turkish border, an area that also falls within a "safe zone" Turkey said last month it would set up in northern Syria to help keep Islamic State at bay. The jihadists have since May made advances that threaten a major supply route used by rival rebels into the city of Aleppo. On Tuesday, Western-backed rebels accused Islamic State of firing at least 15 mustard gas mortars during heavy shelling of Marea. A loss of Marea would make it harder for Turkey and the United States to open a new front in the region against Islamic State in coordination with rival rebels on the ground. |
| Posted by:Fred |