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| Aleppo: Seven Manbij Military Council fighters killed in ‘terror attack’ |
| 2019-03-27 |
| [Rudaw] Seven fighters of the Manbij Military Council were killed in a midnight "terror attack" on a checkpoint in the city, the force announced Tuesday morning. "A terrorist attack was staged on one of the checkpoints inside the city of Manbij at midnight and as a result seven fighters on guard duty were martyred," the Manbij Military Council said in a statement. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described it as a "bloody attack" staged by a suspected 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.... (ISIS) sleeper cell. Later on Tuesday, ISIS grabbed credit for the attack, AFP reported. The target was a checkpoint of the self-defence forces on the Manbij-Aleppo road, the Observatory stated. A number of other fighters were also injured, some critically, so the corpse count may rise. Manbij is in a state of alert while forces look for the perpetrators of the attack, according to the Observatory, noting the attack came a few days after the arrests of more than 100 people suspected of belonging to ISIS or associated with The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared the end of the so-called ISIS caliphate in a ceremony in eastern Deir ez-Zor province on March 23. At the ceremony, co-chair of the Syrian Democratic Council (SDC), Ilham Ahmed, said the next stage of the fight against ISIS is to eliminate sleeper cells and then combat the group’s ideology. Manbij, located at a crossroads in northern Syria, was once an ISIS hub. It was liberated from the group in August 2016 by the SDF, led by the local Manbij Military Council and backed by the global coalition against ISIS. The multi-ethnic city has remained a flashpoint, however, with ...the most dubious NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... ally.... repeatedly threatening a military operation to remove Kurdish forces from the city. The United States reached a deal with Turkey that has seen their two militaries conduct joint patrols in the Manbij area. |
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