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| US-led strikes in Syria kill 1,600 in five months |
| 2015-02-24 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] US-led air strikes against 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria have killed more than 1,600 people, mainly jihadists, since they began five months ago, a monitor said on Feb. 23. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said almost all of those killed were jihadists from IS and Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front, though it also documented the deaths of 62 civilians. The Britannia-based monitor said the strikes that began on September 23 had killed 1,465 members of ISIL, most of them non-Syrians. Another 73 fighters from Al-Nusra Front were killed, along with a man from a rebel group being held prisoner by ISIL in the group's de facto capital Raqa. |
| Posted by:Fred |