...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 in Syria have diminished since they launched an air war against Yemeni rebels in March, a U.S. general said Tuesday.
Bahrain, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and the United Arab Emirates have carried out air strikes against IS in Syria but the three Gulf Cooperation Council members are also involved in an air and ground campaign in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
in support of exiled President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi.
"There is a mix of GCC that is participating in Yemen as well as in the operations in Iraq and Syria," said US Air Forces Central Command chief Lieutenant General Charles Q. Brown.
"Less so since March because they've been occupied with the Yemen operation," he told news hounds at the Dubai Airshow.
Washington has been leading mainly Western allies in carrying out air strikes against IS in Iraq since August last year.
In September last year, it launched air strikes against IS in Syria with the support of mainly Arab allies.
In September this year, Russia launched its own separate bombing campaign in Syria in support of its ally
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Scourge of Qusayr...
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