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| Iraq Carries Out More Air Strikes against IS in Syria | |
| 2018-05-26 | |
...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, the third cross border aerial operation inside a month in its war-torn neighbor. "Iraqi F-16 planes carried out (Thursday) morning raids against the headquarters of IS terrorist gang leaders and an explosives depot occupied by A video released with the text shows a strike on a huge building surrounded by palm trees and a wall. The images show the wall and the building collapsing simultaneously. Several strikes have been carried out by Iraq or the international coalition since Thursday against the center of Hajin, the last major area held by IS in Syria, said the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor. At least 65 senior IS leaders live in Hajin, the Observatory's director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP. Hajin is in Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria, about 50 kilometers (just over 30 miles) from Iraq's border. It has been surrounded since the end of 2017 by the Syrian Democratic Forces, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by the United States and La Belle France, Abdel Rahman said. Several hundred prisoners are still held by the jihadists in Hajin, he added. Since April, Iraq's air force has carried out several air strikes on IS-held Syrian territory close to the border between the two countries. | |
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