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Anbar Antics: 12 die
 12 ISIS Turbans now Pining for the Fjords. Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Twelve Islamic State militants were killed on Tuesday as US-led fighter jets bombed their locations in Anbar’s western town of Rawa, a military official said. The ISIS haven was targeted after reconnaissance missions, commander of the army’s al-Jazeera Operations, Qassem al-Mohammadi, was quoted as saying by Alghad Press. The towns of Annah and Rawa are ISIS’s last major strongholds in Anbar, and Iraqi air forces, backed by international coalition jets, have been targeting the group’s location at those areas where they used to launch attacks on security and civilians. Iraqi security and tribal forces are still preparing for a major operation to liberate Anbar’s towns which the extremist group occupied along with other areas of the country in 2014. ISIS is currently fighting oto defend its last major stronghold in Iraq, Mosul, where Iraqi security forces and US fighter jets have been in a wide-scale campaign since October to retake the city. Kops find munitions cache in Fallujah Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Anbar Police Command announced on Tuesday finding a large cache of weapons and explosive devices, inside one of the houses in al-Jaghifi area, in central Fallujah. The Command said in a press statement, “Security information allowed the police forces to discover a large cache of weapons and explosive materials and devices, inside one of the houses in al-Jaghifi neighborhood, in central Fallujah.” “The ISIS members prepared a number of secret caches of weapons and hideouts in different areas of Fallujah, in order to be used against security forces after the liberation of Fallujah,” the statement explained. “Security forces are working continuously to discover the rest of ISIS hideouts that were prepared by the terrorist sleeper cells in Fallujah,” the statement further added. Posted by: badanov 2016-12-14 |
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