[ALMASDARNEWS] With pro-government forces, led by the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), now preparing to completely isolate and reduce the ISIS’s main stronghold in eastern Hama (centered around ’Uqayribat), the Russian Aerospace Forces (RuAF) have been carrying out both interdiction and strategic strikes against key 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....
targets in order to weaken the operational capabilities of the terrorist group in the region.
The latest ISIS asset to find itself a priority for the receiving of RuAF munitions is the jihadist group’s fuel trucks. The idea is to starve Islamic State motorized and mechanized forces of their core means to keep mobile.
In doing this, the RuAF will limit the ability of ISIS to conduct a mobile defense of the region under its control, reducing its operational options and creating a scenario where jihadist group’s losses will be increased at less effort for pro-government forces. |
