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| Syria rebels seize main IS group supply route with Turkey: Monitor |
| 2016-04-08 |
| [AlAhram] Syrian rebels seized control Thursday of 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.... (IS) group's main supply route to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , a monitor said. "Rebel factions and Islamists took control of the northeast of Al-Rai," a town occupied by IS on the border between Syria and Turkey, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "This is the main and one of the last crossing points with Turkey." Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that rebels entered Al-Rai on Thursday following two days of festivities. According to Abdel Rahman, the jihadists still control a crossing point further east, in the town of Halwaniyeh, but "Al-Rai was where they mainly smuggled in jihadists, whereas Halwaniyeh is reserved for top commanders". A ceasefire that came into effect on February 27 has drastically reduced violence across Syria, but areas controlled by IS, the Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Nusra front, and other jihadist groups were exempt from the truce. Abdel Rahman said that IS had lost control of at least 18 villages in the northern province of Aleppo in recent days. Since Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011, thousands of people have gone missing -- many of them arbitrarily tossed in the clink Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! by armed forces -- across the country. More than 270,000 people have been killed and millions have fled their homes. UN-backed peace talks to bring an end to the conflict are set to resume next week in Geneva. |
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