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| Syrian army retakes parts of Hasakeh from IS: Monitor |
| 2015-06-30 |
| [Al Ahram] Syrian regime forces took back several parts of a neighbourhood in the northeastern city of Hasakeh from 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 on Monday, but heavy festivities continued, a monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britannia-based monitor, said regime forces had seized parts of Al-Nashwa district in southern Hasakeh, which IS fighters entered last Thursday. But it said festivities were continuing around the neighbourhood with "shelling by both sides and air raids on the area where fighting is taking place". A security source in Damascus confirmed that fighting was still ongoing in the district. "In Hasakeh, combat is continuing today, and the army is pursuing Daesh wherever they find them," he said, using the Arabic acronym for IS. "Daesh is present mostly in parts of the Al-Nashwa district. They have tried to take other areas, but the army has pushed them back," he added. He said "deaders are still falling" in Hasakeh but gave no specific toll. IS launched a new bid to take Hasakeh city, a scenic provincial capital, last week, entering from the south and seizing two neighbourhoods. The city is divided between the control of regime forces and Kurdish fighters, who have largely kept out of the latest round of fighting. They have restricted their activity to defending the mostly northern neighbourhoods under their control. The Observatory said on Monday that IS forces had shelled several Kurdish-controlled districts in the city, but there were no initial reports of casualties. |
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