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ISIS security chief in Ninevah has a Very Bad Day
[ARA News] DUHOK – A group of gunmen broke into the Islamic State’s (ISIS) Hisba police department in Iraq’s northwestern Nineveh province and killed a number of ISIS militants, including the ISIS security chief Abu Ayoub. Informed sources reported that the ISIS security headquarters in the Baaj district of Nineveh province was attacked by a group of unknown gunmen on Sunday. “Five security members were killed in the attack, including Mahmoud Sulaiman al-Muslih, also known as Abu Ayoub, the ISIS chief of security in the Baaj district,” head of Nineveh media centre Raafat al-Zarari told ARA News. Subsequent to the attack, clashes broke out between the gunmen and ISIS militants in Baaj. “Two of the gunmen were killed in the clashes, while the others were able to escape the clashes area,” local media activist Ali Saddawi told ARA News, adding that the gunmen had infiltrated into the Hisba police department “mainly to assassinate Abu Ayoub”. “The target was known for torturing prisoners in ISIS detention centres across Nineveh. He was promoted by the group to the position of security chief for his strong ties with the ISIS’s leadership in Iraq,” the source said. In the meantime, ISIS militants imposed a curfew in the Baaj district and installed new security checkpoints on Sunday in a bid to capture the attackers. 7 ISIS Bad Guys eat dirt in airstrike in Ninevah (IraqiNews.com)Nineveh – Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Nineveh province, announced on Sunday, that seven ISIS members were killed and a laboratory of booby trapping cars was destroyed in airstrike west of Mosul, around 405 km north of Baghdad. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan media official in Nineveh Ghyath Alsurja said, “International coalition aviation at noon today launched an airstrike targeting a factory of making car bombs belonging to ISIS in Tall Afar, west of Mosul, killing seven ISIS members. ” Alsurja added, “The bombing also completely destroyed the lab,” said the source without giving further details. Posted by: badanov 2016-09-05 |
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