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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US-led coalition pounds ISIS in town NW of Manbij
2016-07-29
...though neither the human rights organizations nor the journalist managed to find any details about damage to the enemy in their rush to hyperventilate. Still, we know it happened, which is something.
[AnNahar] At least 15 non-combatants were killed and dozens maimed in air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition in Syria on Thursday, a monitor sa

The strikes hit a northern town controlled by 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
jihadist group, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

"Airstrikes by international coalition fighter jets after midnight (Thursday morning) on the town of Ghandoura killed at least 15 civilians and maimed dozens," said the monitoring group's head, Rami Abdel Rahman.

The town lies 23 kilometers (14 miles) northwest of Manbij, a strategic waypoint between The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and the jihadist stronghold of Raqa.
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