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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
East Syria Death Toll Soars after Massive IS Attack
2018-11-27
[An Nahar] U.S.-backed fighters in Syria suffered record fatalities in an assault by 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....
group, a war monitor said Monday, as holdout jihadists kept up a fierce defense of their last Syrian redoubt.

It said a total of more than 200 people have been killed since around 500 IS fighters burst out of the fog shrouding the area in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq to launch their deadly assault on Friday.
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