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| 'Massive' Campaign Launched To Retake Raqqa, ISIS' So-Called Capital |
| 2016-11-07 |
| NPR, in all its snooty glory: Targeting "the obscurantists [who] have taken this city as capital for their so-called state," Syrian rebel forces have launched a military offensive aimed at kicking ISIS out of Raqqa. The groups waging the campaign, Operation Wrath Of Euphrates, is U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led. Senior members of the rebel force proclaimed the start of the campaign this weekend in Ain Issa, a town about 35 miles north of Raqqa — halfway between the larger city and the Turkish border. From Beirut, NPR's Peter Kenyon reports for our Newscast unit: "There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military. Washington sees the Syrian Kurds as an effective partner in the fight against ISIS. Turkey, another ally in the coalition, disagrees sharply, calling them terrorists aligned with Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militants. Turkey has lobbied to be part of the operation in place of the Kurdish fighters. The push toward Raqqa comes days after Iraqi forces entered Mosul, an ISIS stronghold in Iraq that's around 280 miles to the east of the Syrian city. |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #1 actually, NPR is more of a obscurantist than ISIS when it comes to Islam and I think it is the clarity of the ISIS 'kill the apostate, kill the heretic, kill the infidel' approach (and some initial success on the battle field) that has proven attractive to some of the world's muslim population |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-11-07 11:37 |