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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurds keep up offensive against extremists in northern Syria
2015-06-24
[Rudaw] Backed by US-led Arclight airstrikes and buoyed by battlefield successes, Kurdish fighters kept up an offensive through northern Syria on Tuesday, driving 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....
The wives and children of ISIS fighters were leaving Raqqa in droves Tuesday in anticipation of a possible attack, while the forces of Evil have redeployed to positions to better defend the city, according to the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
forces of Evil out of a town near the bully boys' de facto capital of Raqqa.

The capture of Ein Issa came just hours after the Kurdish forces had overrun a nearby military base, increasing the pressure on the Islamic State group less than two weeks after it lost the strategically located town of Tal Abyad on the Turkish border, severing a vital supply line.
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