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| Coalition strikes kill 42 in IS Syria |
| 2019-01-27 |
| [DAWN] Coalition missile strikes have killed 42 people including 13 civilians in what remains of the krazed killer 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.... (IS) group's last holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said. The Syrian Democratic Forces, with backing from a US-led coalition, are battling to expel the last murderous Moslems from hamlets in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said short-range missiles late on Friday hit homes on farmland near the village of Baghouz, killing 42 people. Among them were 13 civilians, the Britannia-based monitor said. They included seven Syrians linked to the IS including three children from the same family, as well as six Iraqi non-combatants, it said. The coalition was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!" but has in the past said it does everything to avoid targeting civilians. "The area is a launchpad for krazed killer counterattacks," Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said. The SDF have since September been battling to expel IS from their last pocket of territory on the eastern banks of the Euphrates River in Deir Ezzor. The SDF has advanced swiftly in recent weeks, taking control of a series of key villages, with IS scrambling to retaliate. On Thursday, the IS failed to retake Baghouz from the SDF in one counterattack that left a total of 50 fighters dead on both sides, the Observatory said. |
| Posted by:Fred |