jerusalem post
Seth J. Frantzman
July 21, 2018 13:19
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https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Syrian-regime-pounds-ISIS-near-Golan-563061 The Syrian regime and its Russian backers launched widespread air and artillery strikes against ISIS-held positions next to the Golan on Saturday.
Over the last 24 hours the Syrian regime launched an offensive against the ISIS affiliate that holds a section of the southern Golan in Syria.
Since 2015 ISIS was able to attract hundreds of followers to a group called Jaysh Khalid bin-Walid and take over a dozen villages near the southern Golan and Jordan. Until this year they skirmished with the Syrian rebels but after the rebels retreated from a Syrian regime offensive earlier this month, ISIS has been fighting the Syrian regime.
