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Deir ez-Zor: IS Kills Nine Iran-Trained Fighters in Syria, Says Monitor

2020-12-11

[AnNahar] The Islamic State

...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group killed nine Iran-trained Syrian fighters in an attack on one of their positions in eastern Syria on Thursday, a war monitor said.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an IS sleeper cell carried out the dawn attack on the desert outpost outside the Euphrates Valley town of al-Mayadeen.

Observatory head Rami Abdul Rahman said the fighters killed were Syrians led and trained by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

At least two IS fighters were killed in ensuing festivities.

Since March 2019, intermittent fighting has killed more than 1,000 government troops and allied Iran-backed militiamen, most of them in sparsely populated areas of the Syrian Desert, the Observatory says.

More than 580 IS jihadists have also died, the monitor says.

IS overran large parts of Syria and Iraq and proclaimed a cross-border "caliphate" in 2014, before multiple offensives in the two countries led to its territorial defeat.

The war in Syria has killed more than 387,000 people since it started in 2011, the Observatory says.

The dead include more than 130,500 pro-government fighters, among them foreigners.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1 Obviously better training is needed.

Posted by: Besoeker 2020-12-11 07:37

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