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| Syria Kurds Seize Territory in Anti-IS Offensive |
| 2015-02-23 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish fighters have launched an offensive against jihadists in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province and pushed them from several areas, a monitoring group and the main Kurdish party said. The offensive, launched late on Saturday, is aimed at retaking the town of Tal Hamis and areas around it that are under the control of 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.... group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Kurdish militia forces, known as the People's Protection Units (YPG), "managed to advance and took over some 20 villages, farms and hamlets in the area," the Britannia-based Observatory said. At least 12 jihadists were killed in the fighting, it said. It was not known if Kurdish forces lost any fighters. Warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition against IS carried out several strikes targeting jihadist positions in the area during the fighting, the Observatory said. Newaf Khalil, a front man for the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD), confirmed the advance and said fighting was raging in the area. "This is one of the YPG's biggest recent operations," Khalil said. The offensive began nearly a month after the YPG recaptured all of the town of Kobane on the border with Turkey from IS, after four months of fierce fighting backed by Syrian rebels and U.S.-led coalition air strikes. |
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