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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kobane Setback Puts Brakes on IS Syria Ambitions
2015-01-19
The poor darlings.
[AnNahar]. Once poised to overrun the Syrian town of Kobane, 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 has suffered a damaging blow to its ambitions at the hands of Kurdish fighters and U.S.-led warplanes.

The setback in the mainly Kurdish town on the Syria-Turkey border has knocked the momentum out of the jihadists' advance and dashed their hopes of a swift expansion of their territory, analysts say.
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