...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) Lions of Islam are trying to take over.
UNRWA Commissioner General Pierre Krahenbuhl and another senior U.N. official are in the Syrian capital to find ways to ease the plight of some 18,000 people estimated to be trapped in Yarmouk, which has been under government siege since 2013.
A Syrian military source said the army was giving a chance for solutions aimed at resolving the situation in Yarmouk, which U.N. Secretary General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
has said is "beginning to resemble a death camp".
ISIL's arrival in Yarmouk has given the jihadist group a significant foothold a few kilometres (miles) from Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's seat of power.
ISIL, which has already seized wide areas of eastern and northern Syria, has in recent weeks mounted several big attacks on regions closer to the main population centres of western Syria, both in government- and rebel-held areas.
Ban said last Thursday that residents of Yarmouk were being "held hostage" by ISIL
He also said they "face a double-edged sword - armed elements inside the camp, and government forces outside".