[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] 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....
snuffies in Syria have stormed government-held neighborhoods in the predominantly Kurdish northeastern city of Hassakeh, capturing several areas of the city, AP reported.
Thursday's attack comes after the Islamic State group suffered several setbacks in northern Syria against Kurdish forces over the past weeks. The city of Hassakeh is divided between Bashir al-Assad's forces and Kurdish fighters.
Redur Khalil, a front man for the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, says IS snuffies attacked government-held neighborhoods on the southern edge of Hassakeh, and captured some areas.
Syrian state TV reported intense festivities inside Hassakeh's southern neighborhood of Nashawi.
Also Thursday, IS staged a new attack on the Kurdish town of Kobani, which famously resisted a months-long assault by the Islamic Death Eaters. The attack involved a suicide boom-mobileing that maimed scores.