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Russia says 200 ISIL fighters killed in Syria air raid |
2017-08-22 |
[Al Jazeera] Russian fighter jets killed more than 200 ISIS fighters in a recent air strike in Syria, the defence ministry said on Monday, as part of an intensified air campaign to help ![]() Pencilneckal-Assad Supressor of the Damascenes... 's forces drive the group from its major stronghold of Deir Az Zor. The planes destroyed an armed convoy of at least 20 ISIS vehicles that were heading to Deir Az Zor, the ministry said in comments carried by state news agency TASS. It did not specify the date of the attack. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group monitoring the Syrian conflict via a network of contacts on the ground, confirmed that at least 70 fighters from the 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.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, also known as ISIS) group were killed in a Russian air strike on a convoy in countryside west of Deir Az Zor on Friday. |
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