Islamic State counter attack causes fierce clashes in Syria's Raqqa
Source: Reuters
Islamic State mounted a fierce counter-attack against the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance of militias in the city of Raqqa on Friday, but there were divergent accounts of its success in regaining ground.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based war monitor, said the group had managed to regain control over most of Raqqa's industrial district, but the SDF said fighting was limited to the edges of that area and the attack was repelled.
West of Raqqa, the Syrian army advanced on Friday, driving the group from its last territory in Aleppo province in a move that relieves pressure on an important government supply route, a Syrian military source said.
The SDF, a U.S.-backed alliance of Kurdish and Arab groups, took the industrial district this month in its biggest gain so far in Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital of Raqqa.
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It reminded me (for about the MILLIONTH TIME) how Dick Cheney deserves to be tried as a war criminal (along with his toady Scooter Libby). Oh yeah, and Rummy. And Condi. Oh heck, the whole gang needs a one-way ticket to Den Haag.
