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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Western states train Kurdish force in Syria, force's leader says
2015-09-11
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Western states have provided counter-terrorism training in Syria to Kurdish security forces that are battling 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....
, the head of the force said, in a significant expansion of support to the Kurdish administration in northern Syria.

The internal security force, known as the Asayish, is part of the Kurdish administration that has emerged in areas of northern Syria where the Damascus-based state has lost control since the eruption of the Syrian war in 2011.
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