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U.S., allies target Islamic State with 26 air strikes in Syria, Iraq
2015-07-28
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The United States and its allies staged 26 air strikes against 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 in Syria and Iraq on Sunday, the coalition leading the military operation said in a statement on Monday.

In Syria, coalition military forces conducted 13 air strikes using fighter, bomber and remotely piloted aircraft to hit targets near Al Hasakah, Aleppo and Kobani, according to the statement.

In Iraq, the strikes hit multiple Islamic State targets near eight cities, including djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Sinjar and Tal Afar, according to the statement.

Posted by:Fred

#1  Note use of "remotely piloted aircraft" in the data. It seems likely that piloted airstrikes have not increased in recent months but drone activity (from Kurdistan) has.
Posted by: Clyde Borgia7976   2015-07-28 08:54