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| US, allies conduct air raids in Syria, Iraq |
| 2015-04-12 |
| [ARABNEWS] US-led forces have targeted 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) Lions of Islam with eight air strikes in Syria and nine in Iraq since early on Friday, the US military said on Saturday. In Syria, the air strikes hit IS positions near Al Hasakah and Kobani, the Combined Joint Task Force said in a statement. In Iraq, they hit IS positions near Bayji, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... among other places, it said. Meanwhile, ...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone...... heavy festivities between fighters and Syrian troops claimed nine lives. Hours after the shelling, helicopter gunships struck a market in Aleppo's fighter-held neighborhood of Maadi in apparent retaliation, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the opposition-run Aleppo Media Center. The Observatory said the The violence came as the head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees planned to undertake an "urgent mission" to Damascus later Saturday amid concerns over the situation in the Paleostinian refugee camp of Yarmuk, most of which has been captured by the IS. Government warplanes have dropped explosives-filled barrels on fighter-held neighborhoods in Aleppo and other cities, killing thousands. Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its former commercial hub, became a key front in the civil war after fighters launched an offensive there in July 2012. Pierre Krahenbuhl, head of the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, known as UNRWA, was meanwhile set to meet with Syrian and UN officials in Damascus about the humanitarian situation in Yarmuk camp, agency front man Chris Gunness said. Gunness said in a statement that there are deepening concerns over the safety of some 18,000 Paleostinian and Syrian civilians, including 3,500 children, who remain in the camp. Gunness later wrote on his Twitter account that UNRWA treated 31 Yarmuk evacuees, including two pregnant women who fled to the nearby neighborhood of Tadamon. He added that the youngest displaced person from the camp is six weeks old. IS Lions of Islam overran much of Yarmuk last week, establishing a foothold in the Syrian capital for the first time. The incursion is the latest trial for Yarmuk's residents, who have already suffered through a devastating two-year government siege, starvation and disease. Residents say there is barely enough food and water, and hospitals have long run out of drugs and supplies. The Syrian government has said it will launch a military operation in Yarmuk to evict myrmidons, which could cause even more devastation. |
| Posted by:Fred |