...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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) of responsibility.
"There are now 45 dead from last night's attacks in Hasakeh, as most of those who were at death's door passed away," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, after reporting 33 killed Friday night.
Two kabooms struck as members of Syria's Kurdish minority celebrated on the eve of Nowruz, the Kurdish new year, in the northeastern city of Hasakeh.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility on Friday, but Rami Abdel Rahman of the Britannia-based Observatory told AFP the bad boy ISIL was behind the attacks.
According to him, the kabooms were a few hundred metres (yards) apart from each other, with at least one of them caused by a jacket wallah inside a vehicle.
The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) control Hasakeh city, but ISIL Lions of Islam have launched attacks on towns nearby.
The jihadist offensive has sparked fierce festivities with Kurdish militia in the province, which is strategically located along Syria's borders with Iraq and
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
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UN chief
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
condemned the "heinous" attacks, while the commander of the Kurdish security forces, Joan Ibrahim, said "the crime that occurred today in Hasakeh will not pass without retribution."
ISIL killed more than 100 people in 24 hours of violence throughout Syria, after leaving more than 70 regime forces dead in attacks on government checkpoints in the central provinces of Homs and Hama