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| 25 Dead in IS Assault on Key Rebel-held Syria Town |
| 2015-08-12 |
| [AnNahar] At least 25 Syrian rebels were killed overnight in an attack by 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 fighters on an bad boy stronghold in Aleppo province, a monitor said on Tuesday. Fighting lasted until dawn on Tuesday in Marea, one of the most significant rebel bastions in the divided province. The town sits on a road linking eastern Aleppo city and the border with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... . At least eight IS fighters died, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, "including four jacket wallahs who blew themselves up with boom belts". Mamun al-Khatib, director of Shahba, an Aleppo-based activist news network, said in a Facebook post that "an IS cell infiltrated the town of Marea and its fighters bombed and fired upon civilians". Rebel fighters surrounded the jihadists, prompting them to blow themselves up, Khatib added. IS jihadists on Sunday seized full control of Umm Housh, one of four villages in the northern province of Aleppo that lie along a rebel supply line from Turkey, which is a major backer of Syria's opposition. At least 37 rebel fighters and 10 IS jihadists died in the battle for the town, the Observatory said. More than 240,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began with anti-government demonstrations in March 2011. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 It's a pity both sides can't lose. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-08-12 11:24 |
| #1 Which side are we rooting for? |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-08-12 11:17 |