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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Islamic State destroys army’s helicopter in Deir Ezzor
2017-07-03
Deir Ezzor (Syria News) The self-proclaimed 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....
Group shot down a helicopter belonging to the Syrian regime forces, using a remote controlled-rocket, near al-Assad Hospital, west of Deir Ezzor, the group’s news agency "Amaq" reported on Sunday.

In a related news, the army aviation carried out several air strikes on the city of Mayadin, east of Deir Ezzor, without causing any casualties.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, a little lightbulb figuratively appeared over Bossy's head...
ongoing festivities are taking place between the Islamic State and Syrian government forces, backed by foreign militia in al-Huwaika neighborhood, in the city of Deir Ezzor, amid mutual shelling.

It is noteworthy that the US-led international coalition conducted a violent air strike on the town of al-Haseen in the countryside of Deir Ezzor, killing a family of five civilians.
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