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| Syrian rebels advance towards ISIS stronghold in Aleppo province |
| 2016-10-12 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] ISIS forces of Evil have withdrawn from their last salient near the Turkish border over the past 48 hours, handing over nearly a dozen villages southeast of Azaz to Turkish-backed rebel factions. Despite losing ground inside Aleppo city itself, Syrian rebel factions have seized over a hundred villages from ISIS in Aleppo's northern countryside during a major Turkish-backed offensive dubbed operation 'Euphrates Shield'. Given the current rate of advance, the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and 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... are expected to reach al-Bab before the end of 2016. The city of al-Bab is the last major ISIS stronghold in Aleppo province, thus representing an important buffer-zone into the Raqqa governorate, the de facto capital 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.... . |
| Posted by:Fred |