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| Kurds regain village near Raqqa, threatening capital of Islamic State |
| 2015-02-21 |
| [ARA] After fierce festivities with IS murderous Moslems, the joint Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units and the Peshmerga reported advances towards the city of Tel Abyad in Raqqa province, in northern Syria, a military source reported on Monday. The radical group of 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.... (IS/ISIL) has been in control over Tel Abyad and its surrounding for nearly two years. The Kurdish forces retook the first village near Tel Abyad after forcing IS Death Eaters out of the village. Speaking to ARA News, the YPG fighter Noureddin Gabani said the joint Kurdish forces were able on Monday to liberate the village of Baghdik, administratively linked to the city of Tel Abyad in Raqqa province. "Following intense bombardment by the Peshmerga forces against IS headquarters in the area, the joint forces took over strategic hills overlooking Tel Abyad," he added. Noureddin pointed out that the joint forces also seized control of the village of Jaada in southwestern Kobane, near the Qara Qozak Bridge, after an air strike launched by the U.S.-led coalition's warplanes on a checkpoint of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS) near the bridge. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also confirmed the news, saying: "The Kurdish forces in cooperation with the Syrian opposition forces (FSA) took over an IS-held hilltop (in reference to a hill overlooking the village of Baghdik) in Raqqa after bloody festivities." This is the first time the Kurdish forces have enter the province of Raqqa. At least 35 IS bully boyz were killed, while four members of the Kurdish forces were reported killed during the festivities. The Kurds have regained at least 163 villages in the countryside of Kobane in the past three weeks after expelling the IS Notably, the joint forces have blocked the international highway of Rodko from IS bad boys. |
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