IS retakes almost entire vital Syrian border town

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Beirut, Lebanon -- The good news is we're defeating ISIS in many areas of the Middle East. The bad news is Islamic State 'fightin' scum wafers' have recaptured almost all of Albu Kamal. This was their last significant Syrian town under their control, and they fought hard to retake it, a monitor said Saturday.

On Thursday, Syrian regime forces along with allied militia, overran Albu Kamal (translation: "Albu's favorite Camel") which lies along the border of with Iraq. But they faced fierce IS counter-attacks (which is why Trump was right to say he would "bomb the s**t out of them.")

On Saturday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said IS "ambushed" the attacking forces and managed to oust them from most of the town.

"IS has almost completely retaken control of Albu Kamal, pushing pro-regime forces to its southern and eastern edges," Rami Abdel Rahman said. Rahman is head of SOHR, which is British-based.

The real reason IS didn't want to give up control of Albu Kamal is more likely due to the fact that it has a working shower and the town is expected to soon be supplied with additional indoor plumbing in the form of a town pay toilet in which all of the proceeds will go to fund the 'religious jihad.'

"Every flush will be a bullet for the cause of Allah" IS says.

Saturday saw more fighting since the counter-attacks began on Thursday.

"It was Daesh's biggest ambush operation, tricking the attacking forces into thinking they had controlled the city," Abdel Rahman said, using the Arabic acronym of IS, which IS hates. 

But tricking the enemy is what fighting forces are supposed to do, so they probably suck at strategy since they didn't see it coming.

Albu Kamal is at the heart of what IS, in 2014, called its "caliphate." It expanded over swathes of Iraq and Syria. Losing Albu Kamal would have been the cherry on top of their needing to go underground as a guerilla organization, a term having nothing whatsoever to do with ape-like creatures often confused by liberals.

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