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| Syrian Kurds say Islamic State shoring up de facto capital Raqqa |
| 2015-06-25 |
| [Ynet] 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.... fighters appear to be shoring up their defenses around their Syrian stronghold Raqqa city after losing ground to Kurdish-led forces this week, a front man for the Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday. A Kurdish-led advance deep into the heart of Islamic State territory is reversing the momentum of the bad boys, who seized major towns in both Syria and Iraq last month. Kurds and their Syrian rebel allies came within 50 km (30 miles) of Raqqa city, Islamic State's de facto capital, from which it rules over a self-declared caliphate across large areas of Syria and Iraq. On Wednesday YPG front man Redur Xelil said in an online message the Kurds had received information that Islamic State had "begun digging trenches in the vicinity of Raqqa to improve their defenses" following the Kurdish advances. |
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