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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS annihilates Syrian rebels amid extermination battle in south Damascus
2018-02-18
[ALMASDARNEWS] A month-long operation by 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....
forces against al-Qaeda affiliate group Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham
(formerly Jabhat al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
) for control of the Yarmouk Camp distinct town in southern Damascus has seen the latter faction get totally annihilated by the former.

Both opposition and government observer sources in Damascus describe the fighting between ISIS Death Eaters and rival snuffies throughout Yarmouk Camp as particularly brutal.

Just like any battle with the Syrian Army, Islamic State turbans are taking no prisoners ‐ at least not without executing them soon after.

At the present time, ISIS is storming the Ar-Rija Square (map update available here) ‐ considered by sources to be Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham’s final defense line and last stronghold area within Yarmouk Camp.

Should Islamic State forces take Ar-Rija Square, then Ha’yat Tahrir al-Sham will have suffered absolute defeat within the district town ‐ the years-long battle for control of it finally coming to a sudden and very bloody end.
Posted by:Fred

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