ISIS USE US MISSILE STRIKES TO LAUNCH NEW OFFENSIVE NEAR PALMYRA

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ISIS use US airstrikes to attack strategic Palmyra oil fields (they clearly had foreknowledge of the airstrikes) but fail in their effort to seize control of them.

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Taking advantage of the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase, Islamic State forces launched a major offensive to gain control of strategic oil areas near Palmyra, but failed, a local governor told RT

RT – APRIL 7, 2017

Taking advantage of the US missile strike on a Syrian airbase, Islamic State forces launched a major offensive to gain control of strategic oil areas near Palmyra, but failed, a local governor told RT.

“The US aggression was aimed at the Shayrat airbase, which backs the Syrian army’s military operations against terrorists, and IS in particular. The base is in 45 kilometers from eastern Homs,”  he said.

The attack on this base is “a direct act of aggression against the Syrian Army with the aim of weakening its capacity to fight IS,” the governor added.

Earlier, unnamed sources reported that Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) had launched a massive offensive…

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