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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
US led strikes hit Islamic State, al-Qaida-linked group in Syria
2014-11-15
[JPOST] U.S. Arclight airstrikes hit 10 units of 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....
fighters in Syria in recent days, as well as forces of Evil with the al-Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group, US Central Command said in a statement on Friday.

Seventeen strikes near the Syrian border town of Kobani also destroyed 10 fighting positions, a building and several vehicles in addition to striking the Lion of Islam units, the statement said. A strike near Raqqa also destroyed an Islamic State training camp, it said.

Near Aleppo, Syria, another air strike hit fighters associated with the Khorasan Group, which US officials have said is plotting attacks in the United States and elsewhere, Central Command said.

The statement did not say how many fighters were hit.

Altogether, the latest US-led strikes conducted from Wednesday to Friday, included 19 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria and 16 strikes against the Lion of Islam group in Iraq, according to the statement, along with the strike on the Khorasan Group in Syria.
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