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| Iraqi troops access Syria’s Deir az-Zour to support SDF: Newspaper |
| 2018-05-14 |
| Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have accessed the eastern flank of Syria’s Deir az-Zour, a Syrian newspaper reported on Sunday. In a report, Zaman al-Wasl newspaper said, "Iraqi troops progressed toward Iraq’s al-Bagouz village, which faces the Syrian al-Bagouz village, where they met with the Syrian Democratic Forces in al-Thahra region, which led to besieging the village between Euphrates and the Iraqi troops from one side and the joint troops from the northern side." The report also added that "after the Iraqi and Syrian troops met in Hawi al-Bagouz and the Badiya regions, the areas under 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.... control from Hegeen reaching to al-Bagouz, on the western Bank of Euphrates, became besieged and separated from other regions under the group’s rule at the border areas in Syria’s Hasaka and Iraq’s Anbar." The Iraqi troops, according to the report, "accessed Syria to support SDF through one task force that was established earlier." |
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