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US-led coalition airstrikes pound IS areas in eastern Syria |
2019-01-18 |
[IsraelTimes] Syrian activists are reporting intense ...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 country’s east where the jihadists’ control has been shrinking over the past weeks. The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the airstrikes hit the 15 square kilometers (5.8 square miles) controlled by IS in the eastern province of Deir el-Zour after US-backed Kurdish-led fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces scored gains in recent weeks. Europe-based activist Omar Abu Layla of the DeirEzzor 24 monitoring group confirms intense airstrikes are ongoing, adding that they were triggered by a counter-offensive carried out by IS during a strong fog. The airstrikes come a day after a suicide kaboom carried by IS Lions of Islam killed 19 people, including four Americans, in the northern town of Manbij. |
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