[RUDAW.NET] Aerial attacks in November by Syrian forces on the city of Raqqa -- the "capital" of the so-called 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....
(ISIS) -- killed scores of civilians and "may amount to war crimes," Amnesia Amnesty International (AI) said in a report Tuesday.
| I've heard that war is Hell, especially for women, children, small, fuzzy things, and the human shields of the evil ones. It seems this is herewith once again demonstrated. |
A series of Arclight airstrikes between November 11-29 "led to the deaths of up to 115 civilians, among them 14 children," the London-based international watchdog said in the report, titled "Al-Raqqa under attack: Syrian air force strikes against civilians." |