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| IS counterattack in Syria leaves 32 dead,but then SDF backed by Coalition reverse their gains |
| 2019-01-09 |
| [DAWN] Militants defending their last bastion in eastern Syria used the cover of bad weather to launch a deadly counterattack against a Kurdish-led force, a war monitor said on Tuesday. The Lion of Islam 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.... group was unable to hold on to the positions they attacked but the assault killed 23 members of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and also left nine holy warriors dead. IS fighters took advantage of poor visibility to unleash suicide kaboomers on SDF forces along the front line in the Euphrates valley late on Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. "Twenty-three SDF fighters were killed and nine IS holy warriors were also killed in fighting that lasted all night and into Monday morning," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. The holy warriors often launch attacks under the cover of bad weather that cancels out their opponents' advantage of US-led coalition air power. The SDF launched what is meant to be the final offensive on the Lion of Islam organization four months ago with air and ground support from coalition forces. US-led coalition pounds IS-held village in eastern Syria [IsraelTimes] US-led coalition warplanes and artillery are pounding a village held by the 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.... group in the last area under their control in eastern Syria. Tuesday’s bombardment of the village of Shaafa in Deir el-Zour province comes a day after a war monitoring group said nearly two dozen US-backed fighters were killed in the area. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS fighters took advantage of bad weather on Monday and launched a counteroffensive against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, killing 23 fighters and wounding others. The group said nine IS fighters were also killed. DeirEzzor 24, an activist collective, also reports heavy bombardment of Shaafa on Tuesday. The SDF says it repelled the IS attack and gained more ground from IS near the Iraqi border. |
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