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| ISIL preparing to withdraw from al-Bab: Turkish military sources |
| 2017-01-28 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) jihadists have started to leave their positions and withdraw from the northwestern Syrian town of al-Bab following an intense military campaign conducted by the Turkish army and Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) elements, military sources said on Jan. 27. Sources, citing intelligence from the region, stated that ISIS had relocated its headquarters and all other centers to the Tadif region south of al-Bab. "In light of recent information from the region, it can be said that ISIS is preparing to withdraw from al-Bab as a result of the military operation of the Turkish Armed Forces," sources said. ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... launched its Euphrates Shield Operation with the FSA on Aug. 24, 2016, clearing a 2,000-square kilometer area of ISIS jihadists. The TSK and the FSA have besieged al-Bab since late November but come up against stiff ISIS resistance. A majority of local people in al-Bab have fled the town despite ISIS’s measures and the city currently has only 15,000 to 18,000 residents, according to sources, who say the jihadists are using civilians as "human shields." |
| Posted by:Fred |