ISIS launches assault on pro-Assad forces in western Syria
7 years ago
By Kareem Shaheen for The Guardian -- Islamic State(ISIS) militants have killed dozens of pro-Assad regime fighters in a two-pronged offensive in western Syria that threatens the ancestral homes of the Ismailis, a minority Muslim sect, and which opposition activists fear Damascus will exploit to provoke fresh sectarian tensions. The assault, which began over the […]
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