[Ynet] A Syrian activist group says US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes 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 and other holy warriors have killed more than 860 people, including civilians, since they began in mid-September.
The Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the vast majority those killed -- 746 people -- have been Islamic State myrmidons. It says another 68 people killed were members of al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate known as the Nusra Front.
The Observatory also said on Wednesday that at least 50 civilians, including eight children and five women, have been killed in the Arclight airstrikes.
The US-led coalition's aerial campaign in Syria began on Sept. 23. The Islamic State group has been the primary target, although on at least two occasions the United States has carried out strikes targeting the Nusra Front as well. |