SeaGypsy wrote:So much for all powerful Allah being on their side. Every few days they still publish videos of themselves beheading & otherwise murdering bound men. I feel sorry for the poor bastards being killed by these scumdogs in their last throes.
Hey MBS, do you have any comments on Iran's contribution to destroying ISIL?
"Albu Kamal is free of the Daesh organisation," said the commander in the military alliance supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
On Wednesday, after a month's-long advance through central and eastern Syria, the Syrian army and allied Shi'ite militias encircled and attacked the town in eastern Syria, close to Iraq's border.
The attack was spearheaded by the paramilitary wing of Lebanon-based Islamist militant group, Hezbollah.
Oil has been a key revenue source for ISIS, yet new data shows that production has steadily declined in areas under the group's control. Historically, it has been difficult to get an accurate measure of ISIS's oil production. Past estimates extrapolated from chance observations at a small number of production sites — typically wherever journalists have had a source or intelligence documents have been seized. But that is like counting employees at a few McDonalds locations to draw conclusions about the number of workers across the fast food industry. Keep reading 146 words To arrive at a more precise figure, my colleagues and I developed a tool, as reported in a recent paper, that uses satellite imagery to evaluate in real time all 42 of the oil production sites once controlled by ISIS. The results show that
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42260814
The UK will "bring destruction" to those who fight for so-called Islamic State, the defence secretary has said.
Gavin Williamson said British armed forces were "making sure terrorists have nowhere to hide" across the globe.
Speaking at the commissioning of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, he said UK forces were driving IS out of Iraq and Syria.
He earlier told the Daily Mail: "Quite simply, my view is a dead terrorist can't cause any harm to Britain."
Mr Williamson had said no British citizen who has fought for so-called Islamic State should be allowed back into the UK.
At least 800 Britons have gone to Syria and Iraq to fight for IS and 130 of those have been killed in conflict.
dissident wrote:Erdo-turd gets only part of the blame. Uncle Scumbag gets at least half. As part of the obsession with getting rid of the Syrian government, the USA decided to move on to the Kurd minority as its main proxy after the "moderates" failed. Turkey sees a Kurd state east of the Euphrates as a threat since eventually the Kurds could actually make a claim on their homeland inside Turkey. At the very least, a Kurdish state carved out of northern Syria would serve as a base for guerrilla activity inside Turkey.
The Europeans and the USA could have helped the Kurds establish a homeland after WWI when the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Instead they shafted them and engaged in all sorts of nonsensical Rwanda-Burundi style carve-ups such as Kuwait-Iraq, etc.
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