...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....
(ISIS) forces.
Backed by heavy
s from their air force, the Syrian military continued their major operation to clear the western countryside of Albukamal city on Sunday morning.Not long after resuming the attack, the Syrian Arab Army managed to liberate several areas, including a new Iraqi border region that was under the control of the Islamic State.
According to a military source in Deir Ezzor, the Syrian Arab Army liberated Post 400 at the Iraqi border, following a short battle with the Islamic State terrorists.
The source added that the Syrian Army’s operation covered over 1,800 square kilometers of territory, most of which was already under their control.
Due to the Islamic State’s abundance of sleeper cells in the region, the Syrian military launched this operation to finally clear out these terrorist hideouts and restore security to the area.
A separate military source told al-Masdar on Sunday evening that the Syrian Army has eliminated 90 percent of the believed Islamic State combatants in this area.
The source added that the Islamic State should not be able to launch anymore big attacks on the western part of Albukamal because their terrorist network has been significantly reduced.