...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
accused Kurdish militia in northern Syria of persecuting civilians on Tuesday and said it saw signs of "a kind of ethnic cleansing", drawing a parallel to the actions of 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....
faceless myrmidons and forces loyal to
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
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Syrian Kurdish-led forces captured the town of Tel Abyad from IS on the Turkish border on Monday, driving the jihadists away in an advance backed by US-led air strikes.
Turkey is uncomfortable with the gains by Kurdish militia, which now controls almost half of the Syrian side of Turkey's 900km border, fearing it could inflame separatist sentiments among its own Kurdish minority.
"Daesh (Islamic State) attacks and kills those it captures. PYD/PKK (Kurdish militias) seize certain regions and force people living there to migrate," Mevlut Cavusoglu, a Turkish politician told state broadcaster TRT during a trip to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
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"It doesn't matter who comes; the regime, Daesh, the PYD, they are all persecuting civilians."
He said the latest fighting had triggered a new influx of refugees to Turkey, already hosting 1.8 million Syrians, and that more than 23,000 people had crossed in the past week.