It was unclear if the raids in Deir Ezzor province, which is mostly controlled by 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
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, were carried out by Russian or regime warplanes, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
| ISIS does like its human shields... which makes their deaths its responsibility according to international law. |
It added that dozens of people were maimed and the toll was expected to rise.
| The Lions of ISIS get such medicine and competent doctoring as is available, while the rest get whatever outcome Allah (or Darwin) wills. |
The strikes come as the regime battles IS jihadists who launched a major assault on Deir Ezzor city over the weekend.
The fighting there has killed at least 439 people since Saturday, according to the Observatory, including combatants who died in strikes or festivities, and civilians executed by IS.
While IS holds most of Deir Ezzor province, the regime has clung onto parts of the historic provincial capital, as well as the nearby military airport.
But with its multi-front assault, IS now controls 60 percent of the city, and has tightened a siege of the roughly 200,000 people still inside it.
Russia, a staunch ally of
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Light of the Alawites...
's government, began an air campaign in support of Damascus last September.