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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Kurdish-Syrian force advances on key border town held by Islamic State
2015-06-14
[WASHINGTONPOST] A Kurdish-Syrian force is advancing toward one of 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....
's most strategically vital possessions, capturing territory in the group's landmark province of Raqqa and threatening to inflict what could potentially be the most significant defeat yet for the bad boys.

The Kurdish-led force, backed by U.S. Arclight airstrikes, closed in from the south, east and west on Saturday on the Syrian-Turkish border town of Tal Abiyad, a key Islamic State stronghold on which the gunnies rely for trade with the outside world and also the flow of imported muscle who sustain their strength on the battlefield.

The Kurdish militias and their allies are now within six miles of the town and could soon be in a position to encircle it completely, isolating the Islamic State's self-proclaimed capital in the city of Raqqa further south, according to statements from the People's Protection Units, or YPG, the main Kurdish fighting force.

The advance is forcing the Islamic State on to the defensive only weeks after the group celebrated important victories in the Iraqi city of Ramadi and the Syrian city of Palmyra, after both the Iraqi and Syrian armies crumbled.

The progress demonstrates that success is possible when a well-motivated and coordinated force is backed by U.S. Arclight airstrikes, said Abu Shujaa, a front man for Thuwar al-Raqqa, or Raqqa Revolutionaries, one of the Syrian rebel battalions fighting in the coalition force.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Mass numbers of Refugees are repor fleeing the fighting into TURKEY, even iff they have to forcibly climb or breach Turkey's border fences to get in.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-06-14 22:05  

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