...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
’s (ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) forces traded attacks in eastern Syria this week, with both sides inflicting casualties on the other.
According to a report on Tuesday, the Syrian Arab Army targeted a pick-up truck carrying ISIS gunnies through the Badiya al-Sham region of western Deir Ezzor, resulting in a number of casualties in the ranks of the terrorist group.
Major General Nizar Ahmed al-Khader, head of the security and military committee in Deir Ezzor Governorate, commander of the 17th Infantry Division, revealed in a statement to Sputnik Arabic:
"During combing operations carried out by the Syrian Arab Army with the support of the allied Russian forces in the Syrian Badiya to eliminate remnants the (ISIS) terrorist organization, 1.5 km west of the al-Qarha area, two pickup trucks were spotted. One of them was destroyed and two of the gunnies inside were killed."
He added: "An automatic rifle, ammunition and wireless communication devices were found inside the destroyed vehicle, as the units of the Syrian Arab Army continue their operations until every inch of the desert is secured."
Meanwhile,
...back at the precinct house, Don Calamari's lawyer was getting even redder in the face...
along the Hama-Homs axis, the Islamic State continued its sabotage operations against the Syrian Arab Army and National Defense Forces (NDF), as they carried out hit-and-run attacks against the aforementioned forces near al-Sa’an District.
Despite losing the territories it once occupied, the Islamic State has established a large network of sleeper cells in central and eastern Syria that have terrorized the areas controlled by the Syrian Arab Army (west of the Euphrates) and Syrian Democratic Forces (east of the Euphrates).
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Badiya al-Sham region: 2021-01-31 Syrian military choppers search for ISIS terrorists in central Syria: video
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