You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name
Your e-mail (optional)
Website (optional)
My Original Nic        Pic-a-Nic        Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Bold Italic Underline Strike Bullet Blockquote Small Big Link Squish Foto Photo
Syria-Lebanon-Iran
At least 40 Islamic State fighters killed in air strike in Syria
2015-10-19
[DAWN] Air strikes on a convoy 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....
group killed at least 40 IS gunnies in central Syria at the weekend, a monitoring group said on Sunday.

The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said unidentified warplanes hit the 16-vehicles motorcade overnight between Saturday and Sunday in Hama province, killing the myrmidons.

The Observatory, which monitors the war in Syria and has a network of sources on the ground, was not immediately able to say whether the raids were carried out by Russian warplanes or Syrian regime ones.

"But they don't belong to the coalition led by Washington," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman. Charred bodies of IS fighters were found at the scene, he added.

Syrian regime aircraft bombard almost daily the eastern countryside of Hama where IS has positions.

Abdel Rahman said the convoy was hit as it was heading from the self-declared IS capital of Raqa in northern Syria to the Hama countryside.

Russia, a key ally of the Syrian regime of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Horror of Homs...
, has been carrying out a campaign of air strikes against his opponents since September 30.

Last year, a US-led coalition launched an air campaign against IS which controls swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
Posted by:Fred

#3  Any particular POTUS or any POTUS since Teddy?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2015-10-19 09:24  

#2  Gosh it's like the west wasn't actually doing anything despite saying it would.

How F**Ked up is the world when you trust Putin more than you do the POTUS?!?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2015-10-19 08:02  

#1  Does Syrian Observatory for Human Rights do bomb damage assessment? Do they make a phone call and ask uncle Moonif? Do they stick a finger in the air and judge the wind speed? Or what?
Posted by: Sven the pelter   2015-10-19 00:46  

00:00