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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS Militants Dig in, Anticipating Assault on Syria's Raqa
2015-11-19
[AnNahar] 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....
 murderous Moslems are stiffening their defenses for a possible assault on their de facto capital of Raqa, as international Arclight airstrikes intensify on the Syrian city in retaliation for the Gay Paree attacks. IS fighters are hiding in civilian neighborhoods and preventing anyone from fleeing, former residents say.

The northern Syrian city's estimated 350,000 people are gripped by fear, rattled by powerful Russian and French Arclight airstrikes that shake the city daily. They are also worried they would be trapped with nowhere to go amid signs of a looming ground invasion by U.S.-allied Kurdish and Arab forces in Syria, according to the former residents who have fled to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
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