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| ISIS Claimed Bombing against Kurds in Syria's Hasakeh |
| 2016-07-08 |
| [AnNahar] 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 said on Wednesday that it carried out a suicide kaboom that killed 16 people in a mainly Kurdish city in northeastern Syria. Tuesday evening's blast in Hasakeh struck outside a bakery in a Kurdish neighborhood where a large crowd had gathered as they prepared to break the last daytime fast of the Moslem holy month of Ramadan. The bomber infiltrated the Salihiah district then blew up his explosives belt in the middle of the crowd, IS said in a statement on social media. A Kurdish police source said the bomber, who was on a cycle of violence, also maimed 40 people. Fifteen of them were at death's door, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right said. Parts of Hasakeh remain under Syrian government control but most of the city and nearly all of the surrounding province are held by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG). The YPG, who have declared an autonomous region across the mainly Kurdish northern areas they hold, are regarded by the Pentagon as the most effective fighting force against IS on the ground in Syria. |
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