Backed by heavy artillery and
s from the U.S. and French forces, the SDF attacked 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....
’s positions west of the imperative mountaintop of Jabal Baghouz.
No advances have been reported by the U.S.-backed forces as of yet.
The resumption of SDF’s offensive, today, comes just days after reinforcements arrived in the Deir Ezzor Governorate from the northeastern province of al-Hasakah.