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| U.S.-Led Raids on IS in Syria after Kurdish Plea |
| 2015-03-15 |
| [AnNahar] The U.S.-led coalition fighting 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group launched air strikes against the jihadists in a key Syrian village overnight after Kurdish forces appealed for action, a monitor said Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes near the northeastern village of Tal Tamr were the first by the U.S.-led coalition in the area since an IS advance there began in late February. There were no immediate details on casualties in the raids, which the Britannia-based monitor said hit IS positions near the village in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. The strikes came just hours after the Kurdish forces battling to prevent IS from seizing Tal Tamr and the nearby border town of Ras al-Ain appealed for international action. In a statement, the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) called on "the international coalition forces to take part in the battle for Tal Tamr". The village is one of a number that IS has attacked in Hasakeh province since it began an offensive there in late February. It has so far seized several villages and kidnapped more than 200 Assyrian Christians in the area, prompting thousands of residents to flee to the safety of nearby cities. Tal Tamr, while small, has strategic value because it lies on a road that runs across the Iraqi border to the east and on to IS's bastion there, djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... . It also sits on a road leading north to the Turkish border and the town of Ras al-Ain, which is also under IS assault. On Friday, YPG front man Redur Khalil said IS was bringing reinforcements to the Ras al-Ain area and Kurdish fighters there were expecting an "imminent attack". The IS offensive in Hasakeh came after Kurdish fighters backed by U.S.-led air strikes expelled the jihadist group from the key border town of Kobane. |
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