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Anbar Antics: 5 ISIS fighters and an Iraqi bomb defuser dead
ISIS fighters killed in coalition airstrikes in Anbar: army

Anbar – (IraqiNews.com) Five Islamic State militants were killed and three others were wounded when US-led coalition fighter jets and Iraqi artillery bombarded a booby-trap workshop and another hideout in Anbar, an Iraqi army commander said Thursday.

Qassem al-Mohammadi, commander of the army’s Al-Jazeera Operations said in statements that the strikes targeted the district of Sakra, west of Haditha.

“Our cameras detected the death of five militants, while three others were seriously wounded,” said, Mohammadi , adding that a stack of missiles and other weaponry were destroyed in the strike.
In Rawa, the strikes destroyed a booby-trap workshop, which included two boob-trapped vehicles ready for detonation, according to the military official.

Bomb expert killed while defusing IED in Anbar

Anbar – (IraqiNews.com) A bomb expert was killed on Thursday when an IED went off while he was defusing it in Anbar.

“The deceased was among officers who had fought the Islamic State over the past three years, and over that period, he had managed to defuse more than 1000 IEDs across the precinct,” said Khamis al-Essawy, commander of the al-Hashd al-Sha’bi’s brigade in Ameriyat al-Somoud, 23 kilometers south of Fallujah.


Posted by: trailing wife 2016-11-25
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