[AnNahar] The United States and its Arab allies unleashed deadly bomb and missile strikes on jihadists in Syria on Tuesday, opening a new front in the battle against 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group.
| The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 50 Al-Qaeda gunnies were killed, as well as more than 70 members of IS. |
Dozens of IS and Al-Qaeda gunnies were reported to have been killed in the raids, which Washington said had partly targeted murderous Moslems plotting an "imminent attack" against the West. |