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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
ISIS takes 5 Syrian villages near Turkish border
2015-08-28
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] 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....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has seized five villages from Syrian rebels in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Thursday, advancing in an area where The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and the United States are planning to open a new front against the group.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Rooters on Monday that the two NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
allies would soon launch "comprehensive" air operations to flush ISIS fighters from the border region.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Could the media and the gov't be lying???

Nah, our betters wouldn't lie to us (sarc on).

This follows a birth-death process--so far the birth rate is greater than the death rate.
Posted by: JohnQC   2015-08-28 10:29  

#2  Wait a minute, I thought that the JV was getting whupped all over the place. How are they gaining territory?

Could the media and the gov't be lying???
Posted by: AlanC   2015-08-28 08:31  

#1  Giving Darth Vlad an excuse to keep Baby Assad in power in Syria, + militarily intervene in Turkey.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-08-28 01:03  

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