[ARABNEWS] Daesh Death Eaters launched two major attacks in northern Syria on Thursday, storming government-held areas in the mostly Kurdish city of Hassakeh and pushing into Kobani -- the Syrian Kurdish border town they were expelled from early this year -- where they set off three cars bombs, killing and wounding dozens, activists and officials said.The attacks came after the Daesh (Arabic term for 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....
) group suffered several setbacks in northern Syria against Kurdish forces over the past weeks.
In Kobani, which famously resisted a months-long assault by the Daesh Death Eaters before driving them out in January, an activist group said 10 people died in fighting Thursday -- the first time in six months the bully boy group had managed to enter the town along the Syria-
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
border.
In the city of Hassakeh, Redur Khalil, a front man for the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, said Daesh Death Eaters attacked government-held neighborhoods on the southern edge of the city, and captured some areas. Hassakeh is divided between Syrian
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's forces and Kurdish fighters.
Syrian state TV reported intense festivities inside Hassakeh's southern neighborhood of Nashawi. According to the report, Daesh fighters killed several people they captured in the city, including the head of a military housing institution. It said the Death Eaters sustained many casualties, including the commander of the group who is a foreign fighter.
Daesh Death Eaters tried to storm the city earlier this month and reached its southern outskirts before facing strong resistance from Syrian government troops who pushed them away.
The attacks on Hassakeh and Kobani came just days after YPG fighters and their allies captured the Daesh stronghold of Tal Abyad on the border with Turkey and the town of Ein Issa to the south. Kurdish fighters have been advancing since January under the cover of
But in neighboring Iraq, government forces and allied Shiite forces of Evil have been slow in retaking Daesh-held territory. The Iraqis have also suffered occasional losses.
Iraqi troops drove Daesh Death Eaters from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in April, but lost Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province west of Baghdad, last month.