...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....
enclave in eastern Syria on Saturday after the jihadists who were still there surrendered.
Rooters could not immediately confirm the report.
The UK-based war monitoring group said the last few hundred Islamic State turbans, many of them foreigners, had surrendered in the past two days to the Syrian Democratic Forces. It said some bully boyz may still be hiding in underground tunnels.
With the help of U.S. air strikes, the Kurdish-led SDF has battled to crush Islamic State in the shrinking Baghouz enclave east of the Euphrates river near the Iraqi border.
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...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....
fighters still hold out in a pocket of central Syria's remote desert, and have gone underground as sleeper cells in Iraqi cities, able to launch new attacks, their territorial rule is, for now, almost over.
It ends a project launched from the great mediaeval mosque of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
in northern Iraq in 2014, when His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...seized advantage of regional chaos to proclaim himself caliph, suzerain over all Moslem people and land.
He set up a governing system with courts, a currency and flag that at its height stretched from northwest Syria almost to Baghdad, encompassing some two million inhabitants.
Civilians flee last IS enclave in Deir ez-Zor (video)
Footage filmed in the surroundings of the Syrian eastern village of Baghouz on Friday showed a number of civilians fleeing the last enclave of the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
The village in the eastern Deir ez-Zor region has been subjected to an offensive by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) for the past week, under the cover of US-led coalition airstrikes.
Some media reports have suggested that the civilians are associated with IS members. Militants are reportedly hiding among civilians in the area that was previously evacuated via a humanitarian corridor.
According to local sources, around 1,000 civilians, including children remained in the village, and militants of the so-called Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) are thought to be using them as human shields.
ISIS is nearly eliminated in eastern Syria as the SDF seizes last areas
[AlMasdar] The remaining militants from the Daesh terrorist group* are entrenched in a small area of Baghouz, the last terrorists-held village in Syria, head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) Media Center Mustafa Bali told Sputnik on Saturday.
A number of media outlets reported earlier in the day that the SDF had taken control of all of Baghouz.
“The Baghouz area has surrendered in military terms but the liberation [operation] is not over yet. Militants have entrenched themselves in the 700 meters [2,296 feet] long and [700 meters] wide territory, they continue using civilians as human shields. There are thousands of captives in that area,” Bali said.
The spokesman also denied media reports claiming that the SDF was negotiating with Daesh.
As the US-backed Kurdish forces noted, quoted by VOA, the terrorists had blocked the road leading to the SDF to prevent civilians from leaving the area. As one of SDF fighters reportedly stated, families of Daesh militants are among fleeing civilians.
SDF troops seize Daesh’s massive weapons cache in eastern Euphrates region (video)
[AlMasdar] The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) seized a massive weapons cache that was abandoned by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh) in the eastern region of the Euphrates River Valley.
According to the official media wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces, their troops uncovered this large weapons cache while combing through the recently captured town of Baghouz in the eastern countryside of the Deir Ezzor Governorate.
The Syrian Democratic Forces reportedly captured hundreds of assault rifles, a Metis ATGM launcher, missiles, and ammunition that were all left behind by the Islamic State this week.
Below is the video of the weapons cache that was seized by the Syrian Democratic Forces this weekend: