...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....
group and the al-Qaeda-linked group the Nusra Front in the Bekaa Valley region in Leb.
Reports said that some 16 people were killed in the festivities, including two Hezbollah fighters.
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
Al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front takes control of area close to Israeli border, making headways in southern Syria.
Hezbollah clashed with hundreds of Sunni Islamist
The
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
the al-Qaeda linked Syrian rebel group said Sunday it has managed to take over a strategic area on the outskirts of Quneitra, not far from the border with Israel, in southern Syria.
The Nusra Front, said it captured the Al-Harra area along with other rebel groups. The news came as US-led
In recent months the Quneitra area has been scene to massive festivities between the Syrian regime and rebel groups.
According to Syrian opposition officials, the al-Qaeda-linked group's takeover of the area essentially opens up the most important routes connecting the western and northern outskirts of Daraa and the southern outskirts of Quneitra.
The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
quoted a senior IDF official who said Israel's main concern was upholding the 1974 ceasefire agreement with Syria, "if there's no sovereign military on the other side."
"Now we're planning for a different type of threat. The terror and Islamic Lion of Islam threat," he said.
The IDF would not provide details on spillover of fire from the Syrian Golan to the Israeli side, but noted there were less than 100 such cases.
Hezbollah, Islamic State festivities
Meanwhile,
...back at the buffalo wallow, Standing Buffalo drew a bead on his old enemy and squeezed the trigger...
at least 16 Sunni Moslem
"There are at least 16 dead from Nusra Front," the source said, adding that Hezbollah fighters from other parts of Leb had gone to defend the area.
Hezbollah clashed with rebels from the Islamic State group and the Nusra Front trying to capture land in a near the border between Syria and Leb, and both sides suffered casualties, sources said.
Lebanese media outlets reported the heavy fighting between Hezbollah soldiers and Islamic State and Nusra holy warriors in the Leb Valley area (Beqaa Valley). Lebanese media said that the festivities erupted following Nusra Front krazed killers' attempt to infiltrate Leb from Syria.
The Sunni
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Lord of the Baath...
in the Syrian civil war, fighting groups such as al Qaeda's Nusra Front and Islamic State which has seized tracts of land in Syria and Iraq.
Two Hezbollah fighters were killed and at least eight of the turbans, the sources added. Violence from Syria has often spread into Arsal and surrounding areas, where the Lebanese army has also battled turbans.
Fighters from Iran-backed Hezbollah have been aiding Syrian President Bashir al-Assad in the Syrian civil war, fighting groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda's Nusra Front. Islamic State has seized tracts of land in Syria and Iraq.
In August Islamic State and Nusra Front fighters stormed Arsal in the worst spillover of Syria's war into its neighbour to date, killing and capturing members of the Lebanese military. They have since killed at least three of the captive soldiers.