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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Suicide Bombers, Rockets: Looking Back on The Last Days of the IS 'Caliphate'
2019-03-26
Once upon a time people fled them, gibbering in fear. Now all that’s left is scorn.
[AnNahar] Suicide bombers, snipers, rockets -- 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 did everything they could to defend their last scrap of territory in eastern Syria, but their diminished resources were not enough.

The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces on Saturday declared victory over the jihadists in the remote village of Baghouz, after reducing their once terrifying proto-state to a ghostly riverside camp.
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