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Canadian pleads guilty in ISIS-inspired plot in New York City: U.S. authorities
THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Friday, October 06, 2017 06:24 PM EDT
NEW YORK — U.S. authorities said a 19-year-old Canadian pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges in connection with what they call an ISIS-inspired plot to target landmarks in New York City more than a year ago, including Times Square and the city’s subway system.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York says the Canadian, identified as Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, of Mississauga, Ont., has been in custody since the FBI arrested him in New Jersey in May 2016.
The arrests were first announced Friday following a court’s unsealing of federal terrorism charges against the three men. A spokesman for the justice department said late Friday that the case needed to be sealed for more than a year to protect the ongoing investigation, but he did not elaborate.
The other two accused are identified as Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen residing in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.
U.S. authorities allege the three men communicated through Internet messaging applications, allegedly plotting to carry out bombing and shootings in heavily populated areas of New York City during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2016.
They also allege that while in Canada, El Bahnasawy purchased bomb-making materials and helped secure a cabin within driving distance of New York City to use for building the explosive devices and staging the attacks.
El Bahnasawy and Haroon began communicating with an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter, and declared their allegiance to the terror group.
El Bahnasawy stated to the agent that “1/8t3/8hese Americans need an attack” and that he aspired to “create the next 9/11” with plans to come to New York from Canada, American authorities alleged. They also said he sent the agent a photo of Times Square, saying, “1/8W3/8e seriously need a car bomb at times square. . Look at these crowds of people!”
The unsealed court documents also alleged that El Bahnasawy also expressed a desire to “shoot up concerts cuz they kill a lot people. ... We just walk in with guns in our hands. That’s how Paris guys did it,” the papers said in an apparent reference to the slaughter by men armed with assault weapons at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris during a performance of the rock group Eagles of Death Metal in 2015.
The documents said El Bahnasawy purchased and arranged to have bomb-making equipment, including 18 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, shipped to the agent in the U.S. ahead of the planned attack.
The RCMP issued a statement saying it collaborated with the FBI in the investigation that led to El Bahnasawy’s arrest.
The statement also says that at no time was the safety or security of the public at risk.
“This investigation is a good example of how law enforcement must continually work together to rapidly to gather evidence, irrespective of where that evidence may be found, to interdict those who would commit terrorist atrocities,” it says.
The charges against El Bahnasawy include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and conspiracy to commit acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries, both which carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
El Bahnasawy is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12, 2017. His attorney, Sabrina Shroff, declined to comment Friday.
American justice officials said extradition proceedings are ongoing in Pakistan and the Philippines to bring the other two suspects to the U.S. to face the charges.
With Files from The Associated Press
Canadian pleads guilty in ISIS-inspired plot in New York City: U.S. authorities

 

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Rapists, wife beaters drawn to ISIS: Study
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Monday, October 09, 2017 02:34 PM EDT | Updated: Monday, October 09, 2017 02:55 PM EDT
Rapists and wife beaters were keen to join ISIS because of the death cult’s freewheeling attitude towards slavery and sexual assault, a new study reveals.
According to the Henry Jackson Society, Islamic State’s wink and nudge to horrific sex abuse served as a recruiting tool for “attracting, retaining, mobilizing and rewarding fighters.”
And it gave them a means of hitting “kafirs” with hyper-cruel punishment.
Many convicted sexual sadists and domestic abusers ended up joining the ranks of ISIS to fulfil their twisted desires, the study said.
“These cases indicate an existence of a type of terrorism that is sexually motivated, in which individuals with prior records of sexual violence are attracted by the sexual brutality carried out by members of Islamic State,” study author Nikita Malik told The Guardian.
The study revealed that many ISIS fighters from the west had an abusive background.
Malik said it underlines the relationship between “committing terrorist attacks and having a history of physical and/or sexual violence.”
Islamic State poohbahs would bend themselves into pretzels, twisting religious teachings as justification for rape and slavery. Human trafficking also helped the jihadists raise cash.
Among the leading lights:
•Brit Ondogo Ahmed served eight years in prison for raping a 16-year-old girl. He joined ISIS in 2013.
•Another Brit, Siddhartha Dhar, a former bouncy castle salesman, trafficked and enslaved Yazidi women and girls. ISIS believed the Yazidis could be raped and enslaved — without consequence.
•The study added that London Bridge killer Rachid Redouane and Westminster terrorist Khalid Masood both did time for sexual offenses.
ISIS went out of its way to promote the fact that jihadists could rape as they pleased. It was a particularly tantalizing welcome mat for men from more conservative Muslim societies were casual sex is frowned upon, the study added.
Rapists, wife beaters drawn to ISIS: Study | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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Toronto-area teen terrorist who plotted to bomb NYC subway, other landmarks a drug addict: Court docs
Liam Casey, THE CANADIAN PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 02:06 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 07:34 PM EDT
An Ontario teen who admitted plotting to attack New York City landmarks suffered from drug addiction and mental health issues, newly released court documents show.
Letters from defence lawyers and a New York prosecutor filed with an American court show Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, of Mississauga, Ont., suffered a relapse in prison and tested positive for a prescription drug used in opioid-addiction treatments, a finding that led to the loss of family visitations for seven months.
The letters also said a psychiatrist and a psychologist visited the 19-year-old in prison, but details related to both his drug addiction and his mental health issues are redacted.
“He has a long history of drug use, drug treatment, and relapse,” his lawyers, Sabrina Shroff and Clay Kaminsky, wrote in a letter to Judge Richard Berman as they argued for the court to restore his family visits.
The lawyers noted that El Bahnasawy’s family had travelled frequently from Ontario to New York to visit him at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan until his visits were halted after a disciplinary hearing on Nov. 22, 2016.
The defence team also painted a picture of a lonely teen.
Save for an unspecified amount of time spent in an inpatient drug treatment program, his lawyers said the teen lived with his parents, Osama El Bahnasawy, Khadiga Metwally, and his older sister, Basma El Bahnasawy, for his entire life.
“He has no friends outside of his close-knit family,” the lawyers wrote.
Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy was born in Kuwait and moved to Canada as a child, according to a transcript recently unsealed by the court. He told a judge he went back to Kuwait at one point for two years of school and then returned to Canada but never finished Grade 11, the transcript shows.
On Friday, officials in the U.S. released details of El Bahnasawy’s guilty plea to multiple terrorism-related charges, which was heard by a New York court last October. The records were sealed as federal agents worried about tipping their hand to two other suspects who were outside the country.
Despite the various allusions to mental health issues in court documents, El Bahnasawy told a judge he felt well mentally and physically when he pleaded guilty. The judge deemed him mentally competent to enter the plea.
In late August, his lawyers argued for more time to prepare for sentencing, saying a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist “need more time for their work with Mr. El Bahnasawy to be helpful and meaningful to the court.”
“Mr. El Bahnasawy himself needs time for his condition to continue improving so that he can fully participate in his presentence interview and sentencing,” his lawyers wrote to judge on Aug. 25.
Details about both experts’ dealings with El Bahnasawy are redacted.
El Bahnasawy is scheduled to be sentenced in December.
U.S. authorities allege he and the two others accused in the case communicated through Internet messaging applications, allegedly plotting to carry out bombing and shootings in heavily populated areas of New York City during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2016.
El Bahnasawy was communicating with an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter and declared his allegiance to the terror group, court documents said.
He had shipped hydrogen peroxide for the construction of homemade explosives to the United States and had entered the country with his family on May 21, 2016, where he planned to meet up with the undercover agent to carry out the attacks. He was arrested that day.
The other two accused are identified as Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen residing in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.
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ISIS sex slave describes horrifying scenes: 'Forced to do things that were disgusting'
POSTMEDIA NETWORK
First posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 08:25 AM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2017 12:03 PM EDT
Depraved ISIS thugs are little more than serial rapists who claim sex assault is a byproduct of implementing teachings of the Qur'an.
The grisly details are laid out in a new report by Nikita Malik called, “Trafficking Terror: How Modern Slavery and Sexual Violence Fund Terrorism.”
In it, a Yazidi survivor describes how ISIS henchman would line up young girls against walls before groping their chests.
“If they had breasts, they could be raped; if not, they would wait three months to check again,” Victim 1 said, according to an interview cited in the report.
The girls – many of them minors – were raped together in rooms as children looked on, she said after finally eluding ISIS’ grip.
Victim 1 also described how she was raped by six ISIS guards one night after attempting to flee.
“She was raped in every place possible," the report reads. "She was forced to do things that were disgusting to her and they kept her without clothes in this room so that anybody could come at any time and rape her.”
Yazidi women were told by brainwashed ISIS brides that they needed to be raped to become fully Muslim, according to the report.
They were often sold, but lost monetary value the more times they were purchased by men in Iraq and Syria.
The report also describes how sexual depravity continues to act as a pull factor for prospective terrorists
“Sexual slavery serves as an incentive for new recruits and foreign fighters, with the promise of wives and sex slaves.” writes Malik.
The Henry Jackson Society reports human trafficking brought Islamic terrorist groups upwards of $30 million last year.
It’s believed ISIS could turn to kidnapping and sex slavery as a means to sustain itself as its shrinking caliphate continues to crumble.
http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/HJS-Trafficking-Terror-Report-web.pdf
http://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201516/ldselect/ldsvc/123/123.pdf
ISIS sex slave describes horrifying scenes: 'Forced to do things that were disgu

ISIS White Widow killed in drone strike
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Thursday, October 12, 2017 07:02 PM EDT | Updated: Thursday, October 12, 2017 10:52 PM EDT
A punk-rock-loving party girl who turned into the hate-spewing ISIS fanatic known as the White Widow has been killed by a CIA drone hit.
Blond Brit Sally Jones — one of the death cult’s key recruiters of female jihadis — was iced in June somewhere near the Syria-Iraq border.
“The Americans zapped her trying to get away from Raqqa. Quite frankly, it’s good riddance,” an intelligence source told the U.K. Sun.
Jones, 50, fled her home in southern England in 2013 along with her then eight-year-old son, JoJo, to join ISIS terrorists in Syria.
“I’m f------ glad she’s dead,” her ex-boyfriend and JoJo’s dad, Darren Dixon, told the Daily Mail.
Intelligence agencies reportedly kept the hit on the down low as they scrambled to determine if Jones’ son was also killed.
Brainwashed JoJo Jones had been photographed on numerous occasions dressed like an ISIS fighter performing mock executions.
The White Widow herself was last seen escaping the crumbling caliphate’s Raqqa heartland. It’s believed she hoped to cross the border into Iraq.
A former guitarist in an all-girl punk band, Jones was one of the CIA’s top ISIS targets. From a fun-loving single mom, her life took a sinister turn when she met her ISIS extremist hubby, Junaid Hussain, online.
The romance blossomed, drawing Jones deeper into ISIS’s sinister clutches.
Four years ago, she fled the U.K. for Syria’s killing fields, taking her son with her where she wed Hussain. He was killed by a drone in 2015.
Jones soon became a poster girl for Islamic State.
She posted anti-Semitic rants, a photo of herself wearing a niqab and waving an AK-47. Jones boasted her deepest desire was to cut the throats of Christians with a “nice blunt knife”.
One man whose sister was recruited by Jones, told ITV he had mixed feelings about her demise.
“Sally Jones was an evil woman who has destroyed our family and I hope she rots in hell,” the man said.
“My sister was a nice and caring person until she met Sally Jones online and within months, she radicalized her and then she changed. I am sad these people have used my beautiful religion to bring hatred.”
ISIS White Widow killed in drone strike | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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Kurdish-led Syrian forces capture ISIS 'caliphate' capital Raqqa
Sarah El Deeb, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 11:48 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 12:59 PM EDT
BEIRUT — U.S.-backed Syrian forces liberated the city of Raqqa on Tuesday from Islamic State militants, a senior commander said, in a major defeat for the collapsing extremist group that had proclaimed it to be the capital of its “caliphate.”
Although clashes in Raqqa have ended, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces are in control, combing the city in northern Syria for land mines and searching for any IS sleeper cells, Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo told The Associated Press.
Sillo said a formal declaration that Raqqa has fallen would be made soon, once troops finish their clearing operations in the city on the banks of the Euphrates River.
Col. Ryan Dillon, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said it has not yet received official reports that the city was cleared, describing mines and booby traps throughout Raqqa that have killed returning civilians and senior SDF commanders in recent days. One of those killed Monday was the head of the internal security force affiliated with the SDF.
Another challenge for the troops is searching the tunnels that were dug by the militants around the city, Dillon said.
“This will take some time, to say that the city is completely clear,” he told AP. “We still suspect that there are still (IS) fighters that are within the city in small pockets.”
The loss of Raqqa will deprive the militants of a major hub for recruitment and planning, Dillon said, because the city attracted hundreds of foreign fighters and was a place where attacks in the Middle East and Europe were planned. He added that the militants remain active in Syria, farther south around the eastern province of Deir el-Zour.
“This has been the wellspring of (IS) as we know it,” he said. But he stressed that the military defeat of the militants “doesn’t mean the end of (IS) and their ideology.”
In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 16, 2017 and provided by The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighter, waves his Kurdish party flag at the front line where they battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria. (Syrian Democratic Forces via AP)
Dozens of militants who refused to surrender made their last stand earlier Tuesday in Raqqa’s sports stadium, which the group had turned into a notorious prison in the more than three years it held the city.
The SDF forces earlier captured Raqqa’s main hospital, the other last remaining IS holdout that had served both as a medical facility and an IS command centre. The SDF fighters have not gone through it to clear it, Dillon said.
Dillon said the coalition has not carried out any airstrikes in the past three days to allow civilians to leave. The SDF has also called on IS fighters to surrender, and about 350 have turned themselves in, he said, adding that none were high-value targets.
In recent months, the Islamic State has steadily lost territory in Iraq and Syria, including Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul.
After the group seized Raqqa from other Syrian rebels in early 2014, it transformed the one vibrant metropolis into the epicenter of its brutal rule where opponents were beheaded and terror plots hatched.
In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 16, 2017 and provided by The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, flash victory signs at the front line where they battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria. (Syrian Democratic Forces, via AP)
IS militants had been cornered in and around the stadium, and it was not immediately clear after Sillo’s statement whether any were still inside it.
“The stadium is a huge structure with underground rooms and tunnels. There are also buildings around it” still under the control of IS, said SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali.
A senior Kurdish commander said later that the stadium has been checked and cleared of land mines. SDF forces raised their own flag in the stadium, he added.
Earlier, he said 22 IS militants were killed in the advance on the hospital.
On Monday, the SDF captured “Paradise Square,” Raqqa’s infamous public square that was used by the militants to perform beheadings and other killings in front of residents who were summoned by loudspeakers and forced to watch. Bodies and severed heads would be displayed there for days, mounted on posts and labeled with their crimes, according to residents, who later dubbed it “Hell Square.”
With the capture of the hospital, the last black IS flag was taken down, according to the Kurdish-run Hawar news agency. A video released by the news agency showed the clashes around the hospital, which appeared riddled with bullets and partly blackened from a fire.
In this picture taken on Monday Oct. 16, 2017 and provided by The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces outlet that is consistent with independent AP reporting, shows Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters, stand on destroyed street where they battle against the Islamic State militants, in Raqqa, Syria. (Syrian Democratic Forces via AP)
A senior Kurdish commander said there was no sign of civilians in the stadium or around it, but he added that his troops were being cautious because of possible land mines. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The battle for Raqqa began in June and has dragged for weeks as the SDF fighters faced stiff resistance from the militants. The city suffered devastating damage, with most of its buildings levelled or in ruins. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 1,000 civilians were killed in the campaign.
Kurdish-led Syrian forces capture ISIS 'caliphate' capital Raqqa | World | News

'The scale ... is greater than ever before': UK intelligence boss says terror threat worse than ever
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 01:27 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 01:58 PM EDT
LONDON — Britain’s domestic intelligence chief warned during a rare public speech Tuesday that the terrorist threat the country faces has accelerated at an alarming pace and is worse now than at any time in his 34-year career.
MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said his agency, also known as the Security Service, is constantly expanding and upgrading its capability, but cannot realistically prevent all attacks targeting civilians.
“In 2017, with all that has happened and much that has not, it is clear that we are contending with an intense U.K. terrorist threat from Islamist extremists,” Parker told journalists in London. “That threat is multi-dimensional, evolving rapidly, and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before.”
He noted a “dramatic upshift” in the threat this year, with successful attacks in London and Manchester that killed 36 people combined.
“Twenty attacks in the U.K. have been foiled over the past four years,” Parker said. “Many more will have been prevented by the early interventions we and the police make. There have been a record number of terrorism-related arrests: 379 in the year to June.”
He said continental Europe has faced a similar surge, particularly in France, Belgium, Germany and Spain.
“The scale at which we are operating is greater than ever before,” he said.
Parker said MI5 has more than 500 live investigations involving roughly 3,000 people known to be involved in extremist activities.
In addition, he said, more than 20,000 individuals have been scrutinized in the past for possible terror ties and there are undoubtedly “violent extremists” who have thus far not been detected by the Security Service.
The risk is further heightened by the possible return to Britain of citizens who joined the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, Parker said.
He said MI5 is well-equipped to cope with the deepening threat, with its ranks set to grow from 4,000 to 5,000 over the next few years.
Parker cautioned, however, that it is impossible to stop every attack.
“Attacks will occur sometimes because this is a free society, a liberal democracy, and we do not monitor everybody all the time,” he said. “Nor would we want to live in a country that was like that.”
The director called on technology companies to work with the government on preventing their social media platforms from being used by extremists for communications that cannot be monitored.
When asked if Facebook and Google were doing enough on this front, Parker declined to discuss specific companies.
He praised advancements in communications technology, but said an “unintended side effect” has been to make it easier for extremists to avoid legal monitoring by using apps, including many that provide encryption, to avoid detection. He said companies should to more to prevent this abuse of their communications systems.
“For the companies there must be an ethical responsibility,” Parker said. “The way to move forward is in partnerships together.
'The scale ... is greater than ever before': UK intelligence boss says terror th

 

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Any of those Muslim scum bags that went to fight for ISIS from Canada should be wiped out before they get a chance to return to Canada.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/piety-and-porn-in-raqqa-the-laptop-secrets-of-an-isis-wife

 

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ISIS vows Russia World Cup slaughter
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 02:34 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 02:39 PM EDT
From the rubble of its crumbling caliphate, Islamic State is vowing to unleash bloodshed at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
ISIS has swamped social media with photos of the front of the Volgograd Arena in southern Russia, where some of the action will take place.
An image of an AK-47 wielding jihadi with a bomb emblazoned with the death cult’s banner completes the chilling photo.
The terrifying image was shared on pro-ISIS channels and urges sympathizers to murder Americans and Russians at every opportunity.
With the World Cup fast approaching, the meaning wasn’t lost.
“Lie in wait for them at every chance to ambush,” the text reads below photos of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. “The Levant is the graveyard of the Russians and Americans.”
Terrorism is a particularly vexing problem for Russia. About 2,400 Russians from central Asia are believed to have joined ISIS in 2015 alone.
“Despite his government’s defence doctrines stating that the U.S. and NATO is Russia’s greatest threat, I have always felt that Putin regards Islamic extremism to be the most immediate threat,” Atlantic Council fellow Ian Brzezinski told the Daily Mirror. “Putin cut his teeth destroying the Chechens.”
Brzezinski added: “He regarded their rebellion as a manifestation of Islamic extremism. He also bolstered his own personal popularity in Russia by demonizing the Chechens as Islamic terrorists and by brutally crushing them.”
Meanwhile, the U.K.’s top spymaster is warning that terrorism in Britain is likely to get worse — much worse.
“The threat now means operations are at a scale and a pace we have not seen before,” MI5 Director General Andrew Parker said. “We have seen a dramatic upshift in terror threats that are higher than at any other time in my 34-year career.”
He added: “We have not yet reached the high water mark.”
Parker said that his country has broken records this year for terror-related arrests — 379 by June alone. There are also about 500 active counter-terror operations underway.
Many of the suspects have returned from Syria and Iraq.
“That threat is multi- dimensional, evolving rapidly and operating at a scale and pace we’ve not seen before,” he said, adding “But so too is our response. Islamist terrorism is an acute and enduring challenge.”
ISIS vows Russia World Cup slaughter | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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You missed a few memos, like the US air-lifting the ISIS commanders out before abandoning the grunts on the groups.
Mother earth to the local collective, ISIS is the US Allie in Syria.

IS Syria Stronghold Raqa Falls, but Where are Its Fighters?
The Islamic State group has lost its Syrian stronghold Raqa, but the fate of hundreds of its foreign fighters who had been expected to battle to the death remains a mystery.
Captured by IS in 2014, the city became a "terror capital," where the jihadists carried out some of their most gruesome abuses and also planned devastating foreign attacks, like the Paris massacres of 2015 and August's Barcelona attack.
- Who were the IS fighters in Raqa? -
After the 2014 declaration of its self-styled "caliphate" straddling Syria and Iraq, thousands of local and foreign fighters flocked to the jihadist group's ranks, with Raqa becoming its de facto Syrian capital.
U.S. officials estimated as many as 40,000 fighters traveled to join the jihadists over the years, dispersed across a territory that was once the size of Britain.
In Raqa, the jihadists put up a fierce fight after the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces broke into the city in June.
But in four months the SDF seized around 90 percent of the city, and fewer than 1,000 Syrian and foreign fighters were left in their onetime stronghold.
- Where did the fighters go? -
Senior IS commanders are believed to have left Raqa before the SDF penetrated the city, and hundreds of its fighters were killed in clashes with the SDF and in U.S.-led coalition strikes.
As the battle neared its final phase, local officials negotiated a deal that saw several hundred Syrian IS fighters surrender with their relatives to the SDF forces.
The Raqa Civil Council that negotiated the deal, as well as the U.S.-led coalition, insisted no foreign fighters were among those who surrendered over the weekend.
Before the end of fighting, the coalition and SDF officials had estimated hundreds of diehard, mostly foreign fighters remained in the city.
But there was no public sign that those fighters had either surrendered en masse or been killed in the last 24 hours of fighting for the city.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201707131055506148-us-israeli-plan-syria/
What Derails Planned 'US-Israeli Military Operation' in Syria

The United States and Israel were jointly preparing a military operation in Syria but the plan was abandoned following reports about S-400 missile defense systems put on combat alert in the region, according to Syrian political adviser Suleiman al Suleiman.

According to the adviser, the operation was planned to be carried on July 2-4.
"The operation was cancelled after reports emerged that Russia’s S-400 missile defense systems and a missile attack warning system had been activated in Syria," al-Suleiman said in an interview with Sputnik Arabic.
Moscow deployed the S-400 system to Syria after in November 2015 a Turkish jet downed a Russian Su-24 bomber on the Syrian-Turkish border.

 

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Lollydoo....Sputnic news as a source...
The online news that brings you this...... This Man Is Pregnant With His Husband
You must also read National inquirer...:lol: lol: lol:

 

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The story is from the US so that is the material you are exposed to. The National Enquirer would be a step up from the news that comes out of the traps of the local Jewish collective. lol
The US papers still have them and Israel winning the war in Syria.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/israe...s-hit-by-syrian-s-200-missile-reports/5613807

Israel Is Hiding the Fact that Its State of the Art F-35 Warplane Was Hit by Syrian S-200 Missile – Reports



https://www.timesofisrael.com/could-israeli-f-35s-turn-the-tables-on-iranian-s-300-missiles/
Could Israeli F-35s turn the tables on Iranian S-300 missiles?

Purchase of the costly jets has provoked years of controversy. But with Russia now to deliver its air-defense system to Iran, the IAF's chief acquisition officer stands firmly behind much-maligned aircraft



There you have it, Jews lie all the time about everything. Time you took off the dress and put some pants on and start acting like an adult. When pigs can fly is when that will happen, lol. Until then continue to redefine what 'stupid' really means.

 

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Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Israel will not allow' Iranian bases in Syria
Israel says it "will not allow" Iran to build up a long-term military position on its borders, according to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Netanyahu delivered the warning to Russia, which has been Iran's partner in backing Syrian President Bashar Assad, during a meeting in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. The talks occurred as coalition forces are nearly finished liberating the Islamic State's capital of Raqqa as key world powers try to secure long-term strategic gains out of the Syrian civil war.
"Iran is attempting to establish itself militarily in Syria," Netanyahu tweeted Tuesday after a meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. "I told [Shoigu]: Iran needs to understand that Israel will not allow this."
Netanyahu's message gets at the deeper logic of the Syrian civil war. Where world powers have united in condemnation of ISIS, much of the conflict reflected longer-term objectives than the defeat of the terrorist group. Russia and Iran partnered to support Assad as he fought a combination of terrorists and U.S.-backed rebels. With Assad in power, Iran hopes to have enough military influence in Syria to cooperate directly with their terrorist proxies in Lebanon.
That's intolerable to Israel, which shares a border with Syria and Lebanon. "Iran is busy turning Syria into a base of military entrenchment and it wants to use Syria and Lebanon as war fronts [in] its declared goal to eradicate Israel," Netanyahu said in August.
Russia replied with a veiled rebuke of Netanyahu. "If anyone in the Middle East or [an]other part of the world plans to violate international law by undermining any other country's sovereignty or territorial integrity, including any country in the Middle East or North Africa, this would be condemned," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters.
Israel ignored that warning Monday by striking a Syrian anti-aircraft battery that Israeli Defense Forces said fired toward one of their aircraft flying over Lebanon.
"The Syrian regime is responsible for the anti-aircraft fire," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson said in a series of tweets. "The IDF maintains its ability to thwart hostilities against Israeli civilians. Preserving the relative stability is a common interest. Israel has no intention of destabilizing the situation."


https://sputniknews.com/analysis/201710131058214697-us-daesh-syria-iraq/
Evidence of US Alleged Support to Terrorists in Syria, Iraq Continues to Emerge

Evidence continues to emerge that the US military forces in Syria and Iraq are cooperating with the Daesh terrorist group, Iranian political analyst Seyyed Hadi Afghahi told Sputnik. According to Iranian, Syrian and Russian military officials, the US support to terrorists undermine the efforts to end the war in Syria and Iraq.

There is a high probability that the US military forces are cooperating with Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) on the ground in Syria and Iraq, former Iranian diplomat and political analyst Seyyed Hadi Afghahi told Sputnik.
"The documents and videos available on the Internet, as well as the actions of American helicopters aimed at evacuating injured [terrorists] and the relocation of Daesh commanders, prove [this collaboration]," Afghahi told Sputnik Persian. "The US has even gone further and instructs other countries how to act in order not to harm Daesh: Otherwise, they themselves may become the target of American aircraft."
In mid-September, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh reported that having infiltrated American military command and control centers the IRGC obtained evidence of the US support for Daesh terrorist group: "We have documents showing the behavior of the Americans in Iraq and Syria; we know what the Americans did there; what they neglected and how they supported Daesh."

 

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WATCH: Drone video shows utter devastation in Raqqa, Syria
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Friday, October 20, 2017 06:37 AM EDT | Updated: Friday, October 20, 2017 06:52 AM EDT
RAQQA, Syria — Drone footage from the northern Syrian city of Raqqa shows the extent of devastation caused by weeks of fighting between Kurdish-led forces and the Islamic State group and airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition.
Footage from Thursday shows the bombed-out shells of buildings and heaps of concrete slabs lay piled on streets littered with destroyed cars. Entire neighbourhoods are seen turned to rubble, with little sign of civilian life.
The video showed entire blocks in the city as uninhabitable with knocked-out walls and blown-out windows and doors, while some buildings had several stories turned to piles of debris. The stadium that was used as an arms depot and prison by the extremists appears to have suffered less damage compared with surrounding buildings.
Long before the ground offensive by the Syrian Democratic Forces began in Raqqa in early June, warplanes pounded the city for months.
The U.S.-backed Kurdish-led SDF announced Tuesday they have driven IS militants out of the city after weeks of fighting.
The SDF is scheduled to hold a news conference in Raqqa on Friday during which the city will be declared free of extremists for the first time in nearly four years. The SDF will likely hand over authority in the city to the Raqqa Civil Council, which is made up of local officials and tribal leaders and will be in charge of returning life to normal in the city.
Omar Alloush, a senior member of the Raqqa Civil Council, said the body has a quick-response plan that will begin with removing mines left behind by IS then move to removing debris and opening roads before fixing water and power stations.
An SDF commander, Brig. Gen. Talal Sillo, said residents will be allowed to start returning to the city once the mines and explosives are removed. In other cities that the extremists lost earlier, experts worked for weeks to remove booby traps and explosives that kept maiming and killing people long after IS left.
The top U.S. envoy for the anti-IS coalition, Brett McGurk, tweeted this week that IS fighters placed 150 explosive devices in and around a water treatment plant near Raqqa, but said it has been cleared and is being restored.
The fall of Raqqa marks a major defeat for IS, which has seen its territory steadily shrink since last year. The group took over Raqqa, located on the Euphrates River, in January 2014 and transformed it into the epicenter of its brutal rule.
The spokesman for the coalition, Col. Ryan Dillon, tweeted Thursday that the SDF has cleared 98 per cent of the city, adding that some militants remain holed up in a small pocket east of the stadium.
WATCH: Drone video shows utter devastation in Raqqa, Syria | World | News | Toro

 

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"airstrikes by the U.S.-led coalition"

If troops were already in the city why did the US feel it necessary to make it look like Dresden. Oh wait ,that is the reason, scorched earth policy, if the US can't steal it make the whole place a big rubble pile. At least the US and their proxy army are toast, too bad the citizens back home are being fed so much bullshit about Syria and everything else that is covered by their media.

US-Backed Syrian Kurds Transfer Key Gas Field To Russians - Freedoms Phoenix

US-Backed Syrian Kurds Transfer Key Gas Field To Russians After Secret Talks

In a move that surprised many observers of the ongoing war for Deir Ezzor province, the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) handed over one of Syria's largest gas fields to Russian forces on Thursday, possibly as the result of unprecedented direct talks between high ranking Russian officials and Kurdish leaders in Qamishli in northeastern Syria.
Conoco gas plant (also locally called Al-Tabiya, which is the plant's main feeder field) lies on the eastern side of the Euphrates outside of Deir Ezzor city - which was recently liberated from ISIS as the Syrian Army and Russian forces approached from the west of the Euphrates. The Conoco field had been held by ISIS since 2014, and was taken by the SDF on September 23rd as the mainly Kurdish force advanced from the east. The now fast crumbling Islamic State relied on much of its financing through its prior consolidation over many oil and gas sites in the resource rich Deir Ezzor province.


PressTV-Syria discovers Israeli arms at Daesh hideout: Video

Syrian forces recover Israeli, NATO-made arms from Daesh hideouts

Syrian military forces have discovered a large cache of Israeli-made weapons in the strategic city of Mayadin in Dayr al-Zawr province, days after retaking the eastern city from Daesh terrorists.
The weapons included several types of heavy, medium and light firearms that beside Israel, came from some European countries as well as members of the NATO military alliance, Syria's state news agency SANA reported Thursday, citing a field commander.
The commander said they had also found mortars, artillery equipment, large quantities of anti-armor munitions and a NATO- made 155mm cannon with a range of up to 40km (about 25 miles).
This was not the first time that the Syrian government forces made such discoveries from terrorist hideouts across the country.


Jews don't seem to want to be subject to being put in the line of fire. Not a huge surprise from a group who does their best fighting from the shadows.
https://www.rt.com/in-motion/407307-israel-orthodox-jews-protest/
Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked the main arteries into central Jerusalem on Thursday. The demonstrators were protesting a decision by the High Court of Justice to strike down a law that exempts Ultra-Orthodox Jews from conscription.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201710211058433968-us-syria-raqqa-liberation/
The recent military activities in the area have been purely theatrical, with the US manipulating both the SDF and Daesh like puppets. Washington's goal is to set up a Kurdish enclave there and settle into the area for the long term, Turkish and Russian military analysts told Sputnik.

On Friday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), with the support of the US announced that they have fully cleared Raqqa from Daesh. The report has been confirmed by the US-led coalition.
Later reports revealed that SDF raised a flag with the portrait of Abdullah Ocalan, leader and one of the founding members of Kurdistan Workers' Party, (PKK), outlawed in Turkey.
Speaking to Sputnik Turkey, Turkish military analyst Koray Gurbuz, an expert at the Ankara-based Bilkent University and former chairman of Turkey's Council of Veterans, stressed that it only demonstrates the "falsity of US claims that there is no direct linkage between the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), the major comprising group of the SDF, and Turkey and Iraq-based PKK."

Koray Gurbuz noted that the operation resembles more of a "puppet show with the US pulling the strings of both the SDF and Daesh."
"The US are making attempts to set up new order in the Middle East with the support of various terrorist organizations in Syria, such as Daesh and the Syrian affiliate of Kurdistan Workers' Party, Kurdish People’s Protection Units," he told Sputnik.
For this reason, the US supplies arms to both Daesh and YPG. No matter how hard the US tries to deny it, the facts speak for themselves, the military analyst explained. Thus Washington tries to clear the way for YPG and Barzani (President of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region) to set up a Kurdish corridor in the region.

 

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ISIS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack
Amir Shah, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, October 21, 2017 09:29 AM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 21, 2017 11:27 AM EDT
KABUL — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque in the capital as Afghan officials on Saturday raised the number of casualties from the attack to at least 39 dead and at least 41 wounded.
In a statement on its website late Friday, ISIS said claimed its fighter Abu Ammar al-Turkmani “detonated his explosive vest among the apostates” during Friday prayers in the Imam Zaman mosque in western Kabul.
The attack was one of two on mosques in the troubled, war-torn country. A suicide bombing in western Ghor province struck a Sunni mosque, also during Friday prayers, killing 33 people, including a warlord who was apparently the target, said Mohammad Iqbal Nizami, spokesman for the provincial chief of police.
The attacks were the latest in a devastating week that saw Taliban attacks kill scores across the country.
The so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan has taken responsibility for most of the attacks targeting Shiites, a minority in Afghanistan whom the Sunni extremist group considers to be apostates. Earlier this year, following an attack claimed by IS on the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul, the militant group effectively declared war on Afghanistan’s Shiites, saying they would be the target of future attacks.
Several mosques have been attacked following this warning, killing scores of Shiite worshippers in Kabul and in western Herat province. Residents say attendance at local Shiite mosques in Kabul on Friday has dropped by at least one-third.
The Interior Ministry released a statement Saturday saying it was investigating the attack in Kabul’s Dashte-e-Barchi neighbourhood. It said the assailant blew himself up as worshippers began their prayers.
Eyewitness Ali Mohammad said the mosque was packed with worshippers, both men and women praying at the height of the Muslim week. The explosion was so strong that it shattered windows on nearby buildings, he said.
Dashte-e-Barchi is a sprawling neighbourhood in the west of Kabul where the majority of people are ethnic Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims.
As attacks targeting Shiites have increased in Kabul, residents of this area have grown increasingly afraid. Most schools have additional armed guards from among the local population.
Abdul Hussain Naseri, a Shiite cleric, condemned the attack and said more security is needed for Shiite mosques in the city.
The attack on the Sunni mosque in Ghor province took place in the Do Laina district, according to Mohammad Iqbal Nizami, the spokesman for the provincial chief of police. He said the target apparently was a local commander, Abdul Ahed, a former warlord who has sided with the government. Seven of his bodyguards were also killed in the bombing. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
It has been a brutal week in Afghanistan, with more than 70 killed, mostly policemen and Afghan soldiers but also civilians as militant attacks have surged. The Taliban have taken responsibility for the earlier assaults this week that struck security installations in the east and west of the country.
Funerals were scheduled for Saturday at several cemeteries in western Kabul.
Associated Press writer Maamoun Youssef in Cairo contributed to this report.
ISIS claims responsibility for Afghan mosque attack | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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Everybody knows ISIS never lies.

Russia Likens U.S. Coalition Bombing of Raqa to WWII Dresden

Russia on Sunday accused the U.S.-led coalition in Syria of having flattened Raqa with a Dresden-like bombing campaign and masking the destruction with a rush of humanitarian aid.
In a statement, the defense ministry said that Raqa -- the capital of the Islamic State group's self-proclaimed caliphate -- "inherited the fate of Dresden in 1945, razed to the ground by Anglo-American bombings."
U.S.-backed Kurdish-led forces last week recaptured Raqa, the capital of IS' self-proclaimed caliphate and its last major stronghold in Syria.
U.S. officials hailed the event, led by President Donald Trump who, using another acronym for IS, said "the end of the ISIS caliphate is in sight."
"The bravura statements by official representatives of the U.S. administration about the 'outstanding victory' over IS in Raqa prompt bafflement," the Russian ministry said.
The U.S. is overplaying the strategic significance of the fall of Raqa, it charged.
In reality, Raqa is a "provincial city" that is much smaller than Deir Ezzor, where a Russian-backed Syrian regime operation is underway, the ministry said.
It accused Western countries of pumping aid into Raqa to mask the degree of destruction inflicted on the city.
Moscow, it said, had previously received only refusals from the West to its requests for international humanitarian aid.
"There is only one (reason) -- the aim is to sweep away traces of barbaric bombings by U.S. aviation and the 'coalition' that buried in Raqa's ruins thousands of peaceful citizens 'liberated' from the IS," the ministry claimed.

 

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54 Egyptian cops killed in ambush: Officials
Menna Zaki, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
First posted: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:59 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 21, 2017 01:03 PM EDT
CAIRO — At least 54 policemen, including 20 officers and 34 conscripts, were killed when a raid on a militant hideout southwest of Cairo was ambushed, officials said Saturday. The ensuing firefight was one of the deadliest for Egyptian security forces in recent years.
Two police officials told The Associated Press that the exchange of fire began late Friday in the al-Wahat al-Bahriya area in Giza province, about 135 kilometres (84 miles) southwest of Cairo.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief media.
The firefight began when security forces acting on intelligence moved against a militants’ hideout in the area. Backed by armoured personnel carriers and led by senior counterterrorism officers, the police contingent drew fire and rocket-propelled grenades, according to the officials.
The officials said what happened next is not clear, but added that the force likely ran out of ammunition and that the militants captured several policemen and later killed them.
The officials said the police force appeared to have fallen into a carefully planned ambush set up by the militants. The death toll could increase, they added.
Those killed included two police brigadier-generals, a colonel and 10 lieutenant colonels.
Egypt’s Interior Ministry, which is in charge of police, announced a much lower death toll, saying in a statement read over state television that 16 were killed in the shootout. It added that 15 militants were killed or injured, later releasing photos of some of them.
The last time Egypt’s security forces suffered such a heavy loss of life was in July 2015 when militants from the extremist Islamic State group carried out a series of co-ordinated attacks, including suicide bombings, against army and police positions in the Sinai peninsula, killing at least 50. However, the army said only 17 soldiers and over 100 militants were killed.
An official statement issued Saturday said Friday’s incident would be investigated, suggesting that the heavy death toll may have been partially caused by incompetence, intelligence failures or lack of co-ordination. The officials said prosecutors will look into whether the police’s counterterrorism agents failed to inform the military of the operation or include them.
Two audio recordings purportedly by policemen who took part in the operation circulated online late Friday. One policeman, apparently using a two-way radio, was heard in the nearly two-minute recording pleading for help from a higher-ranking officer.
“We are the only ones injured, sir,” the policeman said. “We were 10 but three were killed. After their injury, they bled to death, sir.”
“They took all the weapons and ammunition,” he added, “We are now at the foot of a mountain.”
The second recording was purportedly by a policeman warning others. “I can’t identify any direction. Only planes can see us. Take care every one,” he was heard saying, adding that militants were pursuing them.
The authenticity of the recordings could not be immediately verified.
The heavy loss of life will likely lead to the restructuring and streamlining of the country’s counterterrorism effort, the officials said, with better co-ordination between the police, military and security agencies high on the list of objectives.
It’s also likely to be cited by government critics as a vindication of their long-held argument that suppressing freedoms, jailing opponents and cracking down on civil society does not, as the pro-government media insists, help in the war against terror.
No militant group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which bore all the hallmarks of the Islamic State group. A local affiliate of the extremist group is spearheading an insurgency whose epicenter is in the Sinai Peninsula, which borders Israel and the Gaza Strip.
The United States condemned the attack in a statement issued by State Department, offering “profound condolences to the families of the deceased and the government and people of Egypt... at this difficult time.”
The incident comes a few days after militants staged a brazen daylight attack in the heart of el-Arish, the largest city in the Sinai Peninsula, attacking a church and a nearby bank and reportedly making away with some $1 million. Seven were killed in the Monday attack.
Attacks by militants have significantly increased since the 2013 ouster by the military of an Islamist president, who was freely elected but whose one-year rule proved divisive. Attacks have also spread outside Sinai and into the country’s mainland and areas close to the porous Libyan border to the west.
The country has been under a state of emergency since April, following a spate of suicide bombings targeting minority Christians that have killed more than a 100 since December. The attacks were claimed by IS.
Egypt blamed the attacks on the Christians on militant cells trained and armed in neighbouring Libya, where mostly Islamist militias, including extremist groups like IS, control territory or maintain a foothold in the vast, oil-rich nation. In response, Egypt has stepped up security along its desert border with Libya, where it supports an eastern-based army general fighting militant groups.
In July 2014, gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guard post in Egypt’s western desert in a brazen assault that killed 21 troops deployed close to the Libyan border.
54 Egyptian cops killed in ambush: Officials | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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The West must be having a few problems with this false flag event. The reason it is important is because it was the first assassination via a drone strike.
Mashnouq Hails Aoun, Says STL Rulings within 2 Years
nterior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq on Sunday lauded the performance of President Michel Aoun while noting that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will issue its rulings in the murder of ex-PM Rafik Hariri within a period not exceeding two years. “President Aoun’s stances greatly improved this year in the direction of more openness towards all parties, understanding of all constitutional mechanisms that are necessary for the country, and political tolerance of opposing ideas,” Mashnouq said during a Mustaqbal Movement seminar.
“The settlement that led General Aoun to Baabda has suffered minor shocks that we have managed to overcome,” Mashnouq added.
He also pointed out that Aoun is “very keen on political consensus and is abiding by the Constitution and the laws.”
“Had it not been for his support, Cabinet would not have been able to settle a lot of files,” Mashnouq added.
Separately, the minister said he expects the U.N.-backed STL to issue verdicts in the Hariri case “withing a period not exceeding two years.”

 

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In photos: ISIS fighters
By Brad Hunter, Toronto Sun
First posted: Saturday, October 21, 2017 05:31 PM EDT | Updated: Saturday, October 21, 2017 05:52 PM EDT
The war against ISIS has produced a plethora of villains that could have been ripped from the pages of a Marvel comic.
A veritable super team of killers and kooks.
This sick death cult has long preyed on the young, the foolish, the mentally unbalanced and other assorted losers. And the ISIS Super Friends were no different.
“Not just naïve, we are stupid,” one recruit told CBS. “We were deceived very easily.”
Here’s the rogue’s gallery for the ISIS Avengers:
bhunter@postmedia.com
In photos: ISIS fighters | World | News | Toronto Sun

 

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Yet you feel no shame about them being a proxy army for Israel and the US. That pretty twisted to say the least.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-mossad-other-foreign-agents-killed-in-aleppo-strike/
Russian state media reported that Israeli Mossad agents and other foreign military officers were killed in Aleppo on Tuesday in a Russian missile strike.
According to the Arabic-language version of Russia’s Sputnik news agency, some “30 Israeli and Western officers” died when they were hit by three Kalibr cruise missiles fired by Russian warships in a “foreign officers’ coordination operations room” in western Aleppo, near Mount Simeon.

In addition to the Mossad agents, the Russian report claimed, military officials from the United States, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Turkey — virtually every country hated by Iran, Syria and Russia — were killed in the strike, according to “battlefield sources.”
The foreign officers were “directing the terrorists’ attacks in Aleppo and Idlib,” the Iranian Fars news reported, referring to the rebel groups that control the Syrian cities.
The Israeli government did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

 

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