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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Four ISIS militants surrender to Kurdish forces, then detonate suicide belts
2017-04-04
[ALMASDARNEWS] Kurdish forces rubbed out four 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
prisoners of war as one jihadist lunged for his suicide belt meters away from positions held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northern Syria.

The newly emerged video occured on the battlefield near Tabqa Airbase in western Raqqa.

According to a SDF spokesperson, Kurdish troops did not sustain any casualties due to the last-second suicide kaboom. Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy was furiously chewing her cud and thinking...
Islamic State fighters are now besieged at Tabqa city following an additional advance in rural Raqqa on Monday.
Posted by:Fred

#2  I doubt many prisoners are being taken. Nothing in the news about ISIS POW's anyway.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-04-04 12:23  

#1  Attempting to do stuff like this will just mean that the next ones who try to surrender will just be killed.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2017-04-04 11:36  

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