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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS virtually annihilated in Raqqa city as Kurdish forces begin final push
2017-09-23
[ALMASDARNEWS] With the battle for Raqqa entering its 109th day, a small 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....
garrison continues to resist the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) whose troops have cleared most of the city centre, and effectively seized over 90% of ISIS’ self-declared capital.

According to a military source close to al-Masdar News, festivities are especially fierce in the Hena, Nahda and Amin districts while YPG-led forces are trying to secure the al-Nayim and Dele crossroads along with the contested Hitin cemetery.

On Friday alone, a total of 17 ISIS holy warriors were neutralized while four machine-gun manned pickup trucks were destroyed. The corpse count included a jacket wallah who tried to reach SDF forwards units by cycle of violence.

On the other hand, the SDF sustained at least 5 casualties.

Meanwhile,
...back at the comedy club, Boogie was cracking himself up, but nobody else seemed to be getting the non-stop jokes...
Kurdish sappers disabled 70 booby traps and mines while US warplanes intensified their sorties over the ISIS-held northern suburbs.

With most of the elite ISIS fighting force killed in earlier stages of the battle, only a couple hundred jihadist fighters remain battle-ready, many of whom are crippled by skirmishes or Arclight airstrikes.

ISIS commanders are said to have set up a last stand around the al-Amin district which they hope to transform into an impregnable stronghold.

Posted by:Fred

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