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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syrian Army Targets ISIL, al-Nusra Gunmen, Kills Top Leaders in Hama, Damascus
2015-07-11
[ALMANAR.LB] Syrian Army units inflicted more losses and casualties upon terrorist organizations in continued operations backed by air strikes in various areas across the country on Friday, state-run SANA news agency reported.

In Idleb, army units targeted gatherings of holy warriors in al-Sermaniyeh and Jannet al-Qura villages in southern Jisr al-Shughour in the southwestern countryside of the northern Idleb province.

A military source said many of the bad boyz were potted, while an armored vehicle was destroyed in al-Sermaniyeh and a bulldozer in Jannet al-Qura.

In the meantime, SANA quoted field sources as saying that many holy warriors of 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 and the so-called "Ahrar al-Sham
...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014...
Movement (Free People of Syria)" were killed as the army targeted their hideouts in the towns of al-Taman'eh and Kafr Oweid in southern Idleb province.

In the neighboring Hama province, five terrorist leaders were killed as the army artillery targeted their hideout while they were holding a meeting in Toloul al-Homr village to the east of Salamiyeh city in the countryside of the province, according to field sources.

An ammunition depot and a logistic supply route were hit and destroyed at the Agricultural Research building and Bawadi al-Azib in the eastern countryside of Salamiyeh.

In Quneitra, an army unit targeted dens of al-Nusra holy warriors in Mas'hara village, 12 km to the east of the city.

The army operation left a number of holy warriors dead and injured, and their arms and ammunition destroyed.

In al-Zabadani city in Damascus Countryside, the army air force destroyed a rocket depot and artillery bases and killed many holy warriors in a series of air strikes on their positions.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
a number of terrorist groups' leaders were killed and an ammunition depot was destroyed during army operations in Douma, Harasta, Masraba and al-Rihan in Eastern Ghouta.

In Hasaka, SANA news hound told that assembly points of the so-called '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....
of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
group and their hideouts were targeted in al-Villat al-Homr neighborhood and the area between al-Bassel and al-Panorama roundabouts in Hasaka city.

Syria was hit by a violent unrest since mid-March 2011, where the western media reports accuse countries, mainly the USA, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
and Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
of orchestrating the civil conflict in the country and providing terrorist groups with money, weapons and trained mercenaries.

On May 2011, Syrian army launched a wide-scale operation against gangs and gunnies operating in the country, who started to escape the army blows and infiltrate illegally to Leb.
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