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| Homs: Syrian troops push through deadly ISIS car bomb attacks to capture key hilltop near Qaryatayn |
| 2017-10-21 |
| [ALMASDARNEWS] The battle for the oasis town of al-Qaryatayn in central Homs province is heating up with besieged 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.... hard boyz now resorting to car kabooms to fend off pro-government forces. In recent hours, confirmation came in that Syrian Arab Army troops captured the key hilltop of Tel Deker to the northeast of al-Qaryatayn. However, today is that tomorrow you were thinking about yesterday... despite securing this important high-ground, Syrian forces are currently enduring a powerful ISIS counter-attack spearheaded by boom-mobiles. According to military-affiliated sources, Islamic State forces employed two car kabooms against pro-government troops near Tel Deker scoring mixed results. The first boom-mobile was successfully destroyed by pro-government fighters before it reached their lines, however a second ISIS boom-mobile managed to slip past the army’s fire control perimeter and strike a military checkpoint, killing one Syrian Army soldier and wounding 3 others. At the present time, there are no reports to suggest that pro-government forces have retreated from their new positions on and near Tel Deker, however the battle for the hilltop and the area around it is said to still be raging. |
| Posted by:Fred |