Amazing how many posters are not interested in what is happening in this region with regard to ISIL. If you or I were caught in this region, the same fate would await us as these soldiers.
Islamic State fighters capture military base in Syria, behead soldiers
Islamic State militants in Syria seize military base, behead dozens of soldiersAfter lull in fighting between Islamic State and Syrian forces, militants have launched several recent attacksMilitants with the Al Qaeda breakaway group Islamic State seized control of a military base in northern Syria late Thursday night, beheading dozens of soldiers and displaying their headless bodies, activists said.
It is only the latest victory for the extremist group that has made rapid advances in both Iraq and Syria in recent months as it pursues its goal of creating an Islamic caliphate.
Every government soldier they capture they execute immediately.
- Abu Muhammad, an activist with the Masar Press Agency, on the Islamic State's capture of a military base in northern Syria
There have been sporadic skirmishes around the base, called Division 17, in Raqqa province for months, but on Wednesday Islamic State fighters launched a concerted offensive. The fighting began when two militants blew themselves up in with suicide car bombs near the bases chemistry battalion, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition watchdog group based in Britain.
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http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-islamic-state-military-base-syria-
Islamic State fighters capture military base in Syria, behead soldiers
Islamic State militants in Syria seize military base, behead dozens of soldiersAfter lull in fighting between Islamic State and Syrian forces, militants have launched several recent attacksMilitants with the Al Qaeda breakaway group Islamic State seized control of a military base in northern Syria late Thursday night, beheading dozens of soldiers and displaying their headless bodies, activists said.
It is only the latest victory for the extremist group that has made rapid advances in both Iraq and Syria in recent months as it pursues its goal of creating an Islamic caliphate.
Every government soldier they capture they execute immediately.
- Abu Muhammad, an activist with the Masar Press Agency, on the Islamic State's capture of a military base in northern Syria
There have been sporadic skirmishes around the base, called Division 17, in Raqqa province for months, but on Wednesday Islamic State fighters launched a concerted offensive. The fighting began when two militants blew themselves up in with suicide car bombs near the bases chemistry battalion, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a pro-opposition watchdog group based in Britain.
Continue reading at:
http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-islamic-state-military-base-syria-
