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| Syrian government forces take Palmyra citadel from Islamic State -- Hezbollah |
| 2017-03-02 |
| [Iraq News] Russian-backed Syrian government forces and their allies recaptured the historic Palmyra citadel, on the city’s western outskirts, from 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.... fighters on Wednesday, a military media unit run by Hezbollah said. The Syrian army also seized a modern palatial complex to the southwest, it said, in advances that brought it closer to storming the city and driving back the jihadists. Islamic State has captured Palmyra, whose ancient ruins are a UNESCO World Heritage Site, twice during Syria’s six-year-old conflict. The Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air support, recaptured the city from the ultra-hardline group in March last year, but Islamic State seized it again in December. The group has razed ancient monuments during both of its spells in control of Palmyra ‐ destruction the United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... has condemned as a war crime. A Syrian military source told Rooters earlier on Wednesday: "The army’s entry to the city will begin very soon." The army said it had captured an area known as the "Palmyra triangle" a few kilometers (miles) west of the city after rapid advances in recent days backed by Russian air strikes. |
| Posted by:Fred |