

Using 3 data sources including records, interview, and focus group, this narrative inquiry provides evidence for SLS affordances in MMOG play. SLS explores how second language learners become members of the target language social groups. The resident said that the operation lasted for several hours, and there was no exchange of fire with the American forces.Ī spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting Islamic State did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The present study investigates second language socialization (SLS) in a massively multi-player online game (MMOG) called Stronghold Kingdoms. One of them said that American helicopters landed in the village after midnight and asked residents through loudspeakers to stay in their homes and turn off the lights. Other residents in the area confirmed to Reuters that the raid took place. The local source said that US forces also raided a building used by Syrian security and arrested people there.Ī spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting ISIS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “People thought he was a sponsor, no one knows his true identity,” the source added. He went on to say that the US forces took his body with them during their withdrawal.Ī local source stated that the man had moved to the village of Molouk Saray in recent years, coming from the village of Taif, near the border with Iraq, which was once a stronghold of ISIS. The second source said that the dead man was an ISIS official. The source added, “This operation aims to expand the scope of the capture of members of this organization across different regions of Syria.” The source added that the dead man was responsible for coordinating between the sleeper cells of ISIS in the area.

One of the security sources said that “the airborne operation targeted a prominent leader of the “ISIS” organization who is in an area controlled by the Syrian government. Two security sources later told Reuters that the dead man was an ISIS leader wanted by the United States. Joseph Puccino told Reuters that US forces “targeted” an ISIS member in a dawn raid in northeastern Syria, but he did not confirm whether the person had been killed or arrested. He added that one person was killed and others were arrested, without giving details of their identities.
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The United States has carried out previous raids in Syria against members of the “Islamic State” organization, but Thursday’s operation may be the first known operation in an area controlled by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.Īnd the official Syrian TV said on its Telegram channel early Thursday that US special forces had carried out a rare operation on the government-controlled village of Molouk Saray in the northeastern province of Hasaka. Two security sources said that an ISIS official was killed today, Thursday, in a rare raid by a US helicopter on a government-controlled village in northeastern Syria where he was hiding.
