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| Blast at Syria-Turkey border kills 29 rebels |
| 2016-10-07 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] At least 29 Syrian rebels were killed in a blast at a border crossing with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... on Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The Britannia-based monitoring group said it was unclear what caused the kaboom at the Atme crossing between Turkey and the northern Syrian province of Idlib, adding that around 20 people had also been maimed. ISIS, which has been fighting the rebels and their Turkish allies, said a "soldier of the caliphate" detonated a boom-mobile as the rebel fighters were crossing into Syria, US-based monitor SITE Intelligence Group reported. The ISIS statement said several commanders of the Islamist Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... rebel group were among the dead. Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency said the deadly blast took place during a "change of guard" among Syrian rebels in the area. Rebel fighters have been targeted at the crossing before. ISIS grabbed credit for a mid-August suicide kaboom there that killed at least 32. The rebels killed on Thursday were among those participating in Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield in neighboring Aleppo province. |
| Posted by:Fred |