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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS group repels US-backed forces from east Syria holdout: Monitor
2018-10-29
[AlAhram] 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) bad boy group has ousted a US-backed coalition of Kurdish and Arab forces from its holdout in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Sunday.

A Syrian Democratic Forces commander, asking not to be named, confirmed the SDF retreat from Hajin on the Iraqi border around seven weeks after it launched an anti-IS offensive backed by the US-led coalition.
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