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July 26: Looks like Division 17 has fallen to ISIS.
 * SOHR Facebook, July 26:
 * Al Raqqa Province: The regime forces retreated completely from the Division 17, while 300 soldiers and officers are still in in the village if Al Rahyat located on the northern boundaries of the Division, and hundreds of soldiers have been relocated to the Division 93 in Ayn Esa area.
 * 50 soldiers from the regime forces were killed when they were trying to retreat towards the northern countryside of Al Raqqa but they were ambushed by the Islamic State fighters in the village of Abo Shareb, most of them were executed after arrest.


 * same, hours later:
 * al-Raqqa province: rose to 85, the number of regular soldiers who were killed by clashes, executions, and ISIS suicide vehicles inside the 17th division, the fate of 200 others is still unknown.
 * ISIS had put corpses of tens of corpses of regular soldiers in the streets of al-Raqqa city, some of them were beheaded.


 * RT:
 * By Friday evening, the Sunni jihadists began to post video and photo evidence from inside the Division 17 living quarters, in which its fighters burned the portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad while displaying alcohol and other forbidden items that they purportedly found in soldiers' lockers. They also claimed that government troops had scattered to nearby villages. Those who were caught were summarily executed. ISIS posted a picture of beheaded officers on Twitter, their heads placed in the central town square. 

Spoke with "a Syrian fighter with ISIS reached in Raqqa on Skype," not authorized to speak to the media. He saw "like, 70" corpses and said about 300 soldiers had fled.
 * NYT:
 * The fighter said the assault began with two suicide bombers, both Saudis, driving into the base in separate attacks and detonating explosives. “Our brothers stormed the building where dozens of soldiers were inside. We lost 13 martyrs in these battles,” the fighter said. He added that the ISIS dead included seven Syrians.

Guess who claims the opposite:
 * SYRIAN ARMY DIVISION 17 KILLS 520 ISIS SAVAGES IN SPECTACULAR DEFENSIVE OPERATION!, Syrian Perspective, July 26, 2014
 * Warning to all readers: As you know, ISIS is being helped by American, British (read: BBC) and Zionist psyops experts in presenting its narrative of victory to a naive audience of rat supporters and derelicts – essentially people who wouldn’t have known that paper comes from wood. Be careful, and look at the source of the information before you regale me with any nonsense in the comment section.  Because, here is the absolute truth.