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| Kurds 'Gain Ground in Syria's Hasakeh' in IS Fightback |
| 2015-07-26 |
| [AnNahar] Kurdish militia have expanded their control over portions of a major Syrian city in their fightback 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group, to the detriment of government forces there, a monitor said Saturday. "The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) are advancing in Hasakeh city against IS and at the expense of the regime," said Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The YPG and government forces have both been defending the city from an IS assault, which began last month. The Britannia-based Observatory said the YPG now controls a majority of the metropolis, despite Kurds making up just under a third of its population. "The YPG control 70 percent of Hasakeh city, IS controls 10 percent and the regime controls 20 percent," Abdel Rahman told Agence La Belle France Presse. Before the IS began its offensive by seizing territory in southern neighborhoods from regime forces, the Kurdish militia controlled less than half of Hasakeh. When the YPG pushed the jihadists out of some of these areas, they maintained control of them. The YPG also directly expanded into areas held by loyalists in the city center, although it did not engage in festivities with them. The militia now hold territory in Hasakeh north, west, center and south, said Abdel Rahman, with IS left "surrounded" in four small neighborhoods in the south. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 The front is ever advancing as foretold. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2015-07-26 07:27 |