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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Residents Flee Raqqa After US-Led Air Strikes
2014-09-24
[Ynet] Residents are fleeing Syria's city of Raqqa after US warplanes struck positions held by 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....
holy warriors in the city, two witnesses there said on Tuesday.

"There is an exodus out of Raqqa as we speak. It started in the early hours of the day after the strikes. People are fleeing towards the countryside," one resident told Rooters by telephone.
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