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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hundreds of Syrian Christians flee ISIS
2015-08-09
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Hundreds of Christian families have fled a central Syrian town as 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....
 of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) fighters advance toward it, activists said Saturday, the anniversary of the U.S. beginning Arclight airstrikes against the murderous Moslems in Iraq.

A U.S.-led coalition has conducted nearly 6,000 Arclight airstrikes against ISIS, expanding its operations to target the murderous Moslems in Syria as well. But a year later, ISIS remains able to launch attacks across its self-declared "caliphate" in both countries, despite some gains by Kurdish fighters and allied Iraqi forces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, Buford bit the snake and Eloise began speaking in tongues...
 searches continued in Egypt for a missing Croatian hostage that an ISIS affiliate had threatened to kill.

On Saturday, Osama Edward, the director of the Christian Assyrian Network for Human Rights in Syria, said "hundreds of families" have fled the Christian town of Sadad toward the government-held central city of Homs and the capital, Damascus.

Syria-based activist Bebars al-Talawy said intense festivities took place Saturday near the central town of Qaryatain, which ISIS captured on Thursday. Qaryatain is about 25 kilometers (15 miles) northwest of Sadad.

Qaryatain lies in the middle of a triangle formed by the cities of Homs, Palmyra and Damascus. Activists say it has a mixed population of around 40,000 Sunni Moslems and Christians, as well as thousands of internally displaced people who earlier fled Homs.
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