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| Fight against ISIS intensifies in Syria’s Hasaka | |
| 2015-07-23 | |
| [Rudaw] Kurdish forces claim they have seized strategic areas of Hasaka amidst reports of poisonous gas attacks by ISIS in the violently contested city. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) claimed they took control of the crossroads at Nashwa in Hasaka this afternoon, according to information obtained by Rudaw. Intense battles are ongoing in Hasaka between ISIS forces of Evil on one side and Kurdish forces, the Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... (FSA) and Syrian regime army. Much of the fighting has reportedly been centered at Nashwa. "The ISIS gunnies have been surrounded by the YPG fighters in one neighborhood, and the fight has turned into urban warfare," a source told Rudaw. "Several YPG fighters were killed with booby traps placed by ISIS. The radical group also used poisonous gas against the Kurdish forces in some areas," added the source. "The coalition
[Rudaw] Dozens of 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.... turbans were killed in alley-to-alley festivities Wednesday in the ethnically Kurdish city of Hasaka, in northern Syria, sources say. A Rudaw correspondent said intense festivities resumed in the Al-Nashwa district of south Hasaka at dawn between ISIS murderous Moslems, the Syrian Army, and the Kurdish forces known as the YPG, or People's Protection Units. "ISIS has planted bombs and landmines to halt any advance the YPG might make, but they have failed in stopping the YPG and the Syrian government forces," said the correspondent. Fierce fighting has raged in Hasaka for many days, with the YPG recently mobilizing forces to recapture the southeastern areas of the city. Street battles are currently ongoing in some urban areas. The Syrian military has launched air raids on ISIS leading to the deaths of several turbans inside Hasaka. | |
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