Posted on 05/26/2015 3:29:00 AM PDT by markomalley
Syrian regime strikes against ISIS in and around the ancient city of Palmyra have failed to halt their advance towards Damascus, a monitor said on Sunday.
The intense strikes came after the fall of Palmyra, named Tadmor in Arabic, to the militants last week. But so far, the strikes had failed to halt the militants, who advanced towards the capital Damascus and overran major phosphate mines about 70 kilometers south of Palmyra.
“ISIS has made further progress on the Tadmor-Damascus highway and grabbed the Khnaifess phosphate mines and nearby houses,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of sources on the group for its reports.
“It has extended its control over larger areas and even greater economic interests,” added the monitor.
A Syrian military source on Sunday told Agence France-Presse that the air force struck more than 160 ISIS targets.
“We are pursuing Daesh wherever they are,” the source said, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS.
“The air force struck more than 160 Daesh targets, killing and wounding terrorists and destroying weapons and vehicles equipped with machine guns” on Palmyra’s outskirts and elsewhere in the east of Homs province, the source said.
“Military operations, including air raids, are ongoing in the area around Al-Suknah, Palmyra, the Arak and Al-Hail gas fields and all the roads leading to Palmyra,” he said.
State television said “more than 50 Daesh terrorists” had been killed in the air strikes.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least four civilians had been killed in the raids, which were the most intense since the militants overran the city on Thursday.
The strikes targeted several areas of the city, including some close to the city’s famed Graeco-Roman ruins, a UNESCO world heritage site, Observatory director Rami Abdul Rahman told AFP.
Dozens of people had also been wounded in the raids, and ISIS was believed to have taken losses when a military security building was hit, Rahman said.
ISIS is accused of executing hundreds of people in and around Palmyra since it swept into the oasis city last week after a lightning advance across the desert from its stronghold in the Euphrates Valley to the east.
Doesn’t the Bible mention something about Damascus being left in ruins?
Isaiah 17:1
Syria will be so much better after Bammy and Juan finally get rid of that Basher guy.
The only reason that ISIS is expanding and doing so well militarily with lots of American equipment is because Obama doesn’t want to stop them and is conducting an ineffective air campaign for PR purposes only.
Yup and Israel takes it out. IS in control, would certainly bring that about. It is prophesied as needing to happen first, before the end of days.
So will Iran let Damascas fall to ISIS?
...and should the US pick a side? If so, why?
ISAIAH 17:1
The burden of Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
In Palmyra , Zenobia did dwell.......
One of these days!
According to what I’ve seen in the reports obtained by Jucicial Watch, Obama was complicit in the creation of ISIS.
Study the Prophecy of the seven Shepherds very close.
According to what I’ve seen in the reports obtained by Jucicial Watch, Obama was complicit in the creation of ISIS.
Castro asked for US help prior to his revolution, we supported the loser Batista.
Ho Chi Min asked for US help, post WWII, we supported the loser X and then loser Diem bros.
The Taliban and Mujaheddin asked for US help against USSR and got it, thus paving the way for Bin Laden.
Noriega asked for US help...
Papa Doc in Haiti asked for US help...
Every regime we support or counter insurgency we support backfires so if it is true Obama created ISIS, nothing new folks...
The real question is, will he let them conquer Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and then launch Armageddon by attacking Israel or...will Obama just let his friends in Iran nuke the Jews of Israel, only to come after the US after that.
THANK YOU FOR A FINE MESS MR. PRESIDENT...
Has Iran made their peace with ISIS?
Ho Chi Minh was a Comintern agent from the 1920s. He was a Soviet stooge from the get go.
Raqqa is isis’ capital, and has not been bombed. What does that tell you?
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