Posted on 08/16/2014 3:42:02 AM PDT by elhombrelibre
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Far from being depleted by its recent sweep into Iraq, the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is pressing deeper into Syria, regaining territory it had lost to the mainstream Syrian insurgents just as the Syrian Army has come within five miles of encircling the insurgent-held section of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.
The dual advance is on the verge of dealing a potentially fatal blow to the mainstream insurgents, leaving them besieged in the city while ISIS, a group deemed too extreme even by Al Qaeda, faces the Syrian government across a crucial front line at the city and surrounding province of Aleppo, the linchpin of northern Syria.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq relinquished his post to fellow Dawa Party member Haider al-Abadi on Thursday evening.
Maliki Agrees to Relinquish Power in IraqAUG. 14, 2014
Displaced Yazidis, who fled violence from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, took shelter this week in abandoned houses on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.
Despite U.S. Claims, Yazidis Say Crisis Is Not OverAUG. 14, 2014
To those entering Raqqa Province, home to about a million people, ISIS makes clear, immediately, who is in charge.
In a Syrian City, ISIS Puts Its Vision Into PracticeJULY 23, 2014
The developments, some of the most strategically important in Syria’s three-year war, come as the American military for the first time strikes ISIS fighters in Iraq. The United States says it aims to prevent massacres of Iraqi civilians, but apparently has no plans to strike the group in Syria, where it incubated into perhaps the world’s most dangerous Islamist extremist group.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Far from being depleted by its recent sweep into Iraq, the extremist Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is pressing deeper into Syria, regaining territory it had lost to the mainstream Syrian insurgents just as the Syrian Army has come within five miles of encircling the insurgent-held section of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.
The dual advance is on the verge of dealing a potentially fatal blow to the mainstream insurgents, leaving them besieged in the city while ISIS, a group deemed too extreme even by Al Qaeda, faces the Syrian government across a crucial front line at the city and surrounding province of Aleppo, the linchpin of northern Syria.
The developments, some of the most strategically important in Syria’s three-year war, come as the American military for the first time strikes ISIS fighters in Iraq. The United States says it aims to prevent massacres of Iraqi civilians, but apparently has no plans to strike the group in Syria, where it incubated into perhaps the world’s most dangerous Islamist extremist group.
NYT is again creating fictional groups and characters - like “white hispanic”
“Mainstream Syrian Rebels”
ISIS, Russia, Iran, and the Assad regime collude to destroy the FSA.
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