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2015-11-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Official says 160 Russian IS fighters killed in Syria

[AlAhram] A Russian deputy foreign minister says that 160 Russians fighting for the 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 have been killed in Syria.

Russian news agencies on Thursday quoted Oleg Syromolotov as saying that out of some 2,700 Russians fighting in Syria, 73 have returned and been convicted and 36 placed under arrest.

Russia in September began carrying out attacks on IS positions to support

Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
's forces. President Vladimir Putin

...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
on Tuesday pledged to intensify Russia's air operation there after the Russian intelligence chief announced that a bomb brought down a Russian plane over Egypt on Oct. 31, killing all 224 onboard.

IS grabbed credit for the attack but Russians would not say whether they think the IS was behind it.

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