Biden’s coming, the heat is off, and so for the Islamic State, it’s Let the Good Times Roll.
“Syria: dozens killed in Isis bus attack,” by Bethan McKernan, Guardian, December 31, 2020:
At least 37 people in Syria have been killed in one of the biggest attacks carried out by Islamic State since the fall of the self-proclaimed caliphate last year.
The assault on Wednesday reportedly targeted a convoy of Syrian regime soldiers and militiamen returning from leave to their posts in Deir ez-Zor province, a mainly desert area on the border with Iraq.
The official state news agency, Sana, reported that a terrorist attack on a bus on the main highway killed 25 civilians and wounded 13. Other sources, including local residents, a military defector and the UK-based monitor Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), put the toll higher and claimed soldiers were onboard. One source told Reuters that the men were from Bashar al-Assad’s elite Fourth Brigade.
According to SOHR, the bus was ambushed in a well-planned operation near the village of Shula by jihadists who set up a checkpoint to stop the convoy and detonated bombs before opening fire. Two more buses managed to escape.
“It was one of the deadliest attacks since the fall of the Isis (self-proclaimed) caliphate” last year, the Observatory head, Rami Abdel Rahman, told AFP….
Avenger says
I doubt this ambush is the work of ISIS, their focus now is working with Turkey to destroy the Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan. It is more likely the US military and their mercenaries the Free Syrian Army who would have the in-depth knowledge of the movement of Syrian army ground forces.
Crusades Were Right says
Actually, “Nagorno-Karabakh” (another name for the Armenian Republic of Artsakh) is not a “region of Azerbaijan” – it is, in fact, partly OCCUPIED by the Azerbaijan Turks.
born saturday says
remains a mystery what the two million christians of syria an some more in iraq who were the victims of the most brutal treatment by the jihajists did not ever make it to migrate in a christian country as refugees when there is “refugees” from allover islam and pakistan in europe……
Walter Sieruk says
One of the explanations as to how such totally unconscionable, ruthless, vicious and murderous actions are committed by the Muslim terrorists who compose the brutal and deadly jihad entity ISIS is answer in the following . The jihadists of ISIS are engaging in the Islamic doctrine of “Muruna” which is the dogma of Islam that teaches committing evil for the greater good is a noble part of the jihad for Islam. This is, in essence, the same type of “philosophy” that the communists had gone by in the twentieth century. That it’s a “good thing “ to commit many evils to obtain a “worker’s paradise.” Likewise, during World War II even the Nazis had this line of thinking.”
To express, as in to illustrate this idea, even more, is by using a twenty-first century movie. Near the end of this movie, just before the final defeat of the super-arch –villain General Zod , that super villain said “No matter how brutal and deadly I was I did it for the greater good.” That is the common mindset of many villains including those of ISIS.