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US-backed Syrian fighters said Thursday a “large number” of Islamic State jihadists and their families were surrendering a day after intense fighting in the last speck of land the extremists still hold in eastern Syria.
At the edge of the village where the militants are still holed up, men, women and children climbed a road that winds along a cliff overlooking what remains of a somewhat odiferous tent encampment. Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they searched the evacuees as they reached the front lines looking for explosive devices and weapons.
Many of the scumwafers carried rolls of blankets and clothes but cast them aside as they made their way up the hill.
At the edge of the village where the militants are still holed up, men, women and children climbed a road that winds along a cliff overlooking what remains of a somewhat odiferous tent encampment. Members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said they searched the evacuees as they reached the front lines looking for explosive devices and weapons.
Many of the scumwafers carried rolls of blankets and clothes but cast them aside as they made their way up the hill.
Women carried babies as little jihadi munchkins slowly made their way up the rocky terrain. Most of the men were wounded, with many limping or gimping along with crutches, and they carried little aside from water bottles and made the women, or whoever was under those burqas, do all the work.
Women were weighted down with duffel and non-recyclable plastic bags, and children holding onto their arms or onto the black coffins in which their apparent mothers were clad.
The sound of sporadic gunfire echoed off the cliff and US-led coalition planes flew overhead, bombing and rocketing the crap out of the crap-weasels below.
SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali said after an intensive offensive Wednesday from multiple fronts, “a large number” of IS members and their families “started to surrender” [as opposed to being blown to little bite-size pieces] early Thursday.
The UN said in a Wednesday report that some 7,000 new evacuees are expected to arrive at an already overpopulated displaced people’s camp to the north over the next few days. The Democrats are hoping they will come here through Mexico.
The SDF forces said the militants took advantage of dusty and windy conditions a day earlier to launch multiple counterattacks. The US-backed forces fought back, repelling the offensive and apparently triggering the latest evacuation.
Windy conditions continued on Thursday, and SDF commanders inspected front-line positions early in the day.
A day after heavy bombing and clashes, it was quiet Thursday. By early afternoon, it began drizzling. The battle to retake Baghouz and surrounding villages began in September, but has been paused on a number of occasions to allow civilians out.
Some fighters have surrendered in recent weeks, but hard-core militants, including many foreigners, are still holed up in the shrinking space along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River. Since early February, more than 10,000 civilians were evacuated from the IS-held pocket, most of them religious family members of IS fighters.
The capture of Baghouz would be a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to dismantle the terror group’s self-declared caliphate, which once covered a vast territory straddling both Syria and Iraq.
Wind and dust storms give the extremists a short break from airstrikes and aerial reconnaissance. The militants have also burned tires and oil to thicken the air cover above their tent encampment in Baghouz, where an unknown number remain holed up. Thankfully they have not captured any pilots to burn as they had in the past.
SDF spokesman Adnan Afrin reported heavy clashes late Wednesday, saying IS sent suicide bombers to blast open gaps in their lines. At one point, ISIS surrounded a group of SDF fighters, but reinforcements managed to liberate them.
The civilians evacuated from the area have been sent to al-Hol, a camp for the displaced. The U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday that over 53,000 have arrived at the camp since December, mostly women and children. It said the camp’s 67,000 residents are living in “uninhabitable” conditions, with harsh weather, overcrowded tents and lax security, but it beats being killed.
The UN said aid groups are overwhelmed and cannot access parts of the camp because of a lack of resources or safety issues. Some 200 people took part in violent protests in the camp earlier this month.
Violence is how they roll.
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The sound of sporadic gunfire echoed off the cliff and US-led coalition planes flew overhead, bombing and rocketing the crap out of the crap-weasels below.
SDF spokesman Mustafa Bali said after an intensive offensive Wednesday from multiple fronts, “a large number” of IS members and their families “started to surrender” [as opposed to being blown to little bite-size pieces] early Thursday.
The UN said in a Wednesday report that some 7,000 new evacuees are expected to arrive at an already overpopulated displaced people’s camp to the north over the next few days. The Democrats are hoping they will come here through Mexico.
The SDF forces said the militants took advantage of dusty and windy conditions a day earlier to launch multiple counterattacks. The US-backed forces fought back, repelling the offensive and apparently triggering the latest evacuation.
Windy conditions continued on Thursday, and SDF commanders inspected front-line positions early in the day.
A day after heavy bombing and clashes, it was quiet Thursday. By early afternoon, it began drizzling. The battle to retake Baghouz and surrounding villages began in September, but has been paused on a number of occasions to allow civilians out.
Some fighters have surrendered in recent weeks, but hard-core militants, including many foreigners, are still holed up in the shrinking space along the eastern banks of the Euphrates River. Since early February, more than 10,000 civilians were evacuated from the IS-held pocket, most of them religious family members of IS fighters.
The capture of Baghouz would be a milestone in the devastating four-year campaign to dismantle the terror group’s self-declared caliphate, which once covered a vast territory straddling both Syria and Iraq.
Wind and dust storms give the extremists a short break from airstrikes and aerial reconnaissance. The militants have also burned tires and oil to thicken the air cover above their tent encampment in Baghouz, where an unknown number remain holed up. Thankfully they have not captured any pilots to burn as they had in the past.
SDF spokesman Adnan Afrin reported heavy clashes late Wednesday, saying IS sent suicide bombers to blast open gaps in their lines. At one point, ISIS surrounded a group of SDF fighters, but reinforcements managed to liberate them.
The civilians evacuated from the area have been sent to al-Hol, a camp for the displaced. The U.N. Population Fund said Wednesday that over 53,000 have arrived at the camp since December, mostly women and children. It said the camp’s 67,000 residents are living in “uninhabitable” conditions, with harsh weather, overcrowded tents and lax security, but it beats being killed.
The UN said aid groups are overwhelmed and cannot access parts of the camp because of a lack of resources or safety issues. Some 200 people took part in violent protests in the camp earlier this month.
Violence is how they roll.
I hope you'll follow Brain Flushings and have a few laughs while you get a conservative viewpoint. Politics is the new NFL without the mindless kneeling and this blog will both inform you and hopefully entertain you bigly.
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