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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
IS Detain 900 Kurdish Civilians in Northern Syria in 3 Weeks
2016-06-25
[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....
group fighters have detained some 900 Kurds in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo over the past three weeks, amid fierce fighting for control of a nearby IS stronghold, a Kurdish official and Syrian activists have said.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday the 900 civilians were detained near the IS-held town of al-Bab.

Sherfan Darwish, front man for the U.S.-backed predominantly-Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that over 900 were seized in retaliation for an SDF offensive on the IS-stronghold of Manbij.

Darwish said that, "whenever ISIS is defeated they retaliate against civilians," using an Arabic acronym for IS.

The Observatory and Darwish said some of the detainees were forced to dig trenches in IS-held areas while others are imprisoned in detention centers.
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