In what is shaping up to be among the bloodiest single exchanges of the entire Syrian Civil War, ISIS moved against an important gas field in Homs Province yesterday, seizing it after a 12-hour battle.
The initial reports said about 23 people were dead, but there were hundreds missing at the time, and the news isn’t good. The latest figures from rebel mouthpiece the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights puts the toll at 270 killed, including Syrian troops, paramilitary guards, and workers.
Even this massive toll may not be the end of it, as 90 other guards and workers who were at the site still remain unaccounted for, and were believed captured by ISIS during the attack.
Not only does the takeover of the gas field, near Palmyra, give ISIS another major energy asset, but it is among their deepest westward expansions into Syria, underscoring that the size of their “caliphate” is not set in stone, and is continuing to increase.
Ok, so no credible source for this supposed ISIL 'victory'. SOHR is a joke! A pro-terrorist, anti-Assad operation, probably linked to brit intel. I have caught it spreading disinfo many times before.
I love their grossly inflated casualty counts for government supporting forces while at the same time downplaying the terrorist losses.
I don't understand these stupid Arabs!!! Why do they fight each other??? Can someone answere this. Look what Israel is doing to Gaza, right or wrong they are still killing Arabs ! Yet the arab world does nothing.
much of this "arab" ISIS thing is a big-bucks mercenary army. anyone want to guess where the bucks come from ? also they seem to be getting some quality satcom and intel. and then there's this name, ISIS. wasn't that the name of some kind of masonic god or something ?
but i think Luca is right. a lot of this purported success is fabricated out of whole cloth
John John, Israel is a nuclear state with the fourth largest military in the world. What they are doing in Gaza is child abuse to make themselves feel big and strong. Attacking Israel also means attacking the US, the works most brutal country.