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| IS forced to withdraw from village under Kurdish fire |
| 2015-05-11 |
| [ARA] The Kurdish forces of the People's Protection Units (YPG) announced control over the village of Tel Majdala in the western countryside of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria, after heavy festivities with 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 (IS/ISIS), Kurdish military sources reported on Saturday. The YPG's leadership issued a statement, of which ARA News received a copy, saying that the festivities erupted on Friday between the Kurdish units and the IS bully boyz in the villages of Ashra and Majdala, and lasted until Saturday evening. "The festivities ended with the YPG's control of the Majdala village." The YPG's leadership pointed out that the IS radical group brought in more reinforcements to combat the Kurdish forces in the areas surrounding the two villages, stressing that the YPG killed 38 IS bully boyz during the festivities and seized a large deal of weapons and ammunition. On the other hand, activists from Hasakah city told ARA News that the U.S.-led coalition's warplanes resumed sorties over locations of the IS turbans in the western countryside of Hasakah. "Fire flames were seen in the agricultural lands in the western areas of ​​Tel Majdal," eyewitnesses from the Nashwa district (that overlooks the western countryside of Hasakah) told ARA News on Saturday. In the past two days, the U.S.-led coalition's fighter jets conducted several sorties on the western areas of ​​Tel Majdal (14 km west of Hasakah) amid festivities on the ground between the YPG and the IS group. |
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