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| 51 dead as Islamist foes clash in Syria on Iraq border |
| 2014-04-11 |
| [Al Ahram] At least 51 jihadist and Islamist fighters were killed as rival forces clashed in Syria on the border with Iraq on Thursday, a monitoring group said. The fighting erupted at dawn after an assault by the jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original... on posts held by Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front and its allies. The festivities centred around the border town of Albu Kamal, from which ISIL was expelled from earlier this year, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It said 51 combatants were killed. The bodies of another 10 fighters, apparently executed by ISIL, were found at two sites near Albu Kamal, the Observatory said, adding there were reports of other summary executions in the same area. Earlier, the monitoring group's head Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that ISIL was advancing in Albu Kamal and had taken control of several districts previously held by Al-Nusra and other Islamist brigades. The festivities prompted soldiers on the Iraqi side of the border to reinforce their positions. The border crossing itself on the Syrian side remained in the hands of the mainstream rebel Free Syrian Army ... the more palatable version of the Syrian insurgency, heavily influenced by the Moslem Brüderbund... , according to a rebel chief and an AFP news hound on the Iraqi side. |
| Posted by:Fred |