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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army Abandons Idlib to Defend The Defensible
2015-05-31
[AnNahar] The Syrian government has abandoned Idlib to concentrate on regions deemed vital for its survival, a security source and monitor said Friday, allowing al-Qaeda to seize the province's last regime-held city.

Rebels now control the vast majority of Idlib province after al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front -- al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate -- and its allies overran Ariha and surrounding villages on Thursday.
Posted by:trailing wife

#2  Pte. Thomas Cole: Why is it us? Why us?

Colour Sergeant Bourne: Because we're here, lad. Nobody else. Just us.
Posted by: Bov Flimbers   2015-05-31 23:42  

#1  Shortening the lines, stacking up the mealy bags, getting ready for the horror and praying for the arrival of the fleet.
Posted by: Shipman   2015-05-31 13:52  

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