[ALMASDARNEWS] Minutes ago, the pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (Hashd al-Sha’abi) liberated the Safouk Border-Crossing into the Syrian province of al-Hasakah.The PMU was able to take control of the Safouk Crossing after launching a surprise assault, tonight, from the recently liberated town of Ba’aj, east of the Syrian border.
The Safouk Crossing was an important site along the Syrian border that 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....
used to resupply their fighters in the al-Raqqa, Deir Ezzor, Homs, and al-Hasakah governorates.
Iranian militias capture 30 villages along Syria border
[AlManar] The commander of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) Second Brigade, Karim Al-Khaqani, announced that its units managed during the past two days to liberate 30 villages near Syria border, adding that the PMF troops will hold all the bordering area and bolster the defense lines.
It is worth noting that, PMF units had liberated Ba’aj district in Western Mosul on June 4, inflicting heavy losses upon ISIL terrorists.