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| IS captures artillery battalion near Deir Ezzor military airport |
| 2015-09-11 |
| [EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] Dozens of Syrian regime troops and 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.... fighters have been in fighting around Deir Ezzor air base in eastern Syria in a region that is a stronghold for the jihadists, activists and monitoring groups said on Thursday. Islamic State used at least two boom-mobiles in its latest attack on the air base near the city of Deir Ezzor, where regime troops are holed up, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. According to the group that tracks war in Syria at least 18 soldiers and 36 Islamic State fighters had been killed. The base is one of Bashir al-Assad's last footholds in eastern Syria. There was no mention of the attack on state media. ISIS news feeds said the hardline group has captured an artillery battalion near the city's military airport. Saray Ed-Din al-Deiri, local media activist, told Zaman al-Wasl that regime army has targeted ISIS fighters with toxic gas bombs, many of suffocation cases reported by medics of the next door city of al-Mayadeen. After more than four years of war, Assad's sway is now mostly confined the cities of western Syria, with the rest held by Islamic State, other Lion of Islam groups, or a Kurdish militia, which controls much of the north. On Wednesday, Syrian state TV said regime troops had quit the Abu al-Duhur air base in the northwesterly Idlib province after a two-year siege by snuffies including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, Rooters reported. Deir Ezzor province borders territories in Iraq that are also controlled by Islamic State, and its oilfields are a major source of revenue for the group. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 but to hear the pols talk they're not "really" Moslems. I say that we compromise and start calling them un-Islamic terrorist. Let the PC mongers chew on that one. |
| Posted by: Elmirt Chereck5838 2015-09-11 14:18 |