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Kurdish fighters in Syria on the march against ISIS militants
2015-05-30
[Rudaw] In contrast to the Iraqi army's failures, Kurdish fighters in Syria are on the march against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group, capturing towns and villages in an oil-rich swath of the country's northeast under the cover of U.S.-led Arclight airstrikes.

As the Kurds close in on Tel Abyad, a major commercial center on the Turkish border, their advance highlights the decisive importance of combining Arclight airstrikes with the presence of a cohesive and motivated ally on the ground -- so clearly absent in Iraq.
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