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| Islamic State blows up Syria gas pipeline serving capital: activists | ||
| 2015-06-11 | ||
[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] ISIS hard boyz blew up a pipeline feeding natural gas from eastern Syria to the suburbs of the capital Damascus early Wednesday morning, an activist group said.
"This pipeline was used to carry gas into the suburbs of Damascus and Homs to generate electricity and provide heating in individual homes," said Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman. ISIS has seized a number of oil and gas fields in Homs province, most recently during its offensive on the ancient city of Palmyra. These fields were key to Syria's embattled regime, which relied on them for power generation in its dwindling areas of control. "Any hit to the regime's gas supply is important, because its resources are very low," Abdel Rahman told AFP.
Blowing up gas pipelines demonstrates that "the name of its game for now is denial of key resources to the regime," Sayigh wrote recently. Government forces lost Palmyra to ISIS on May 21, and ceded additional territory southwest of the city in the following days. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |