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| Thousands flee ISIS offensive in northern Syria |
| 2016-05-30 |
| [ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Thousands of civilians have fled an offensive by ISIS against non-militant rebels in northern Syria into territory controlled by a US-backed Kurdish-led alliance, a monitor said on Sunday. The offensive against the towns of Marea and Azaz threatens to overrun the last swathe of territory in the east of Aleppo province held by non-militant rebels and bring ISIS to the doorstep of the Kurds’ Afrin enclave. At least 29 civilians have been killed since ISIS launched the assault early on Friday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. It came as the forces of Evil were under attack by the Kurdish-led alliance in Raqa province further east and by the army and allied militia around Fallujah in neighbouring Iraq. "More than 6,000 civilians, most of them women and kiddies, were able to flee areas in the countryside of Aleppo province... especially from Marea town and Sheikh Issa village" to its west, the Britannia-based monitoring group said. "The displaced arrived last night in areas in the west and north of Aleppo province under the control of the Syrian Democratic Forces," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. The SDF is an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters that Washington regards as the most effective force on the ground in Syria against the forces of Evil of ISIS. Washington’s support for the alliance, which is dominated by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), has severely strained relations with NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... ally Ankara which regards it as a terror group. AFP pictures of US commandos wearing the YPG insignia drew condemnation on Saturday from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... , whose government regards the group as a puppet of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which Ankara has been battling for more than three decades. ISIS launched its offensive against the rebel-held territory that separates it from the Kurds in Afrin on Friday. Heavy fighting ... as opposed to the more usual name-calling or slapsy... raged early on Sunday on the outskirts of Marea and around two villages on the supply route to the town of Azaz on the Turkish border to the northeast. The forces of Evil managed to cut the key supply line in a surprise assault early on Friday. At least 61 rebel fighters have been killed in the fighting, as well as 47 Death Eaters, nine of them jacket wallahs, the Observatory said. The United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... has expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... for some 165,000 civilians who have been trapped by the fighting between Azaz and the closed Turkish border. The UN refugee agency said fleeing civilians were being caught in crossfire and were facing "challenges to access medical services, food, water and safety". The supply lines to ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... have made Aleppo province one of the most contested battlegrounds of Syria’s five-year-old civil war. Parts are held by the government, parts by non-jihadist rebels, parts by the Kurds and parts by ISIS or its Death Eater rival Al-Qaeda. |
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