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2019-02-11 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Nearly 50 British ISIS members refusing to surrender in Syria
[ALMASDARNEWS] Despite ISIS’s recent string of losses in Syria, many of its members are refusing to give up and clinging to the remaining sliver of land that they have under their control.

Many of the hard-core ISIS* members who have decided to stay to make a last stand are imported muscle, who went to Syria and Iraq in 2014-2016, with up to 50 of them being British citizens, the Daily Star reported.
Good. Die there.
The British newspaper further wrote, citing sources in the YPG [Kurdish People’s Protection Units], that a total of around 500 high-ranking ISIS* bandidos Death Eaters remain in Deir ez-Zor to pick up the fight with Kurdish and Syrian forces.

According to the estimates of several YPG fighters, clearing the territory of ISIS remnants could take from several days up to several weeks to carry out.

"The time to negotiate and play around with these gunnies is over. They need to give up or they die", an anonymous YPG commander reportedly said.

However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
the mop-up operations are complicated by citizens fleeing from areas occupied by the terrorist group. One Kurdish fighter told the Daily Star that "hundreds" are fleeing every day, with most of them being "ISIS wives".

In addition to the continual series of defeats by Kurdish and government forces, ISIS is reportedly also suffering from internal squabbles.

The Guardian reported on February 8, citing anonymous intelligence sources, that the leader of the terrorist organization, His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...
, had survived an liquidation attempt on 10 January in a village near Hajin.

The attack was allegedly part of an unsuccessful coup organised veteran foreign fighter Abu Muath al-Jazairi, who now has a bounty on his head.

Posted by Fred 2019-02-11 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top
 File under: Islamic State 

#1 "I refuse to be repatriated to the land of bad food and worse dentistry.... and there are no virgins"
Posted by Glump Uloter4094 2019-02-11 09:31||   2019-02-11 09:31|| Front Page Top

#2 British passport holders who renounced their citizenship when they went for ISIS.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2019-02-11 10:29||   2019-02-11 10:29|| Front Page Top

#3 so they will be killed instead of taken prisoner

not much of a downside
Posted by lord garth 2019-02-11 11:02||   2019-02-11 11:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Can they charge Russian batteries?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-02-11 12:24||   2019-02-11 12:24|| Front Page Top

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