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Iraqi warplanes strike Daesh positions in Syria
[AA.TR] Iraqi warplanes have struck a number of sites associated with the ISIS terrorist group inside Syrian territory, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Friday.

"We ordered our air force to strike terrorist targets in Husaybah [in Iraq’s western Anbar province] and in Abu Kamal inside Syria," al-Abadi said in a statement broadcast on state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
Located on the Euphrates River near the Iraqi border, the city of Abu Kamal is in Syria’s eastern Deir ez-Zor province.

According to al-Abadi, the targeted sites -- both in Iraq and Syria -- had served as "staging areas" for recent terrorist attacks in Baghdad.

"These sites were the staging areas for the recent terrorist bombings in the capital," the prime minister asserted.

Last week, ISIS grabbed credit for a massive boom-mobile that killed dozens of people in Baghdad’s eastern al-Bayaa district.

Iraqi warplanes had struck their targets "with great success", al-Abadi said without elaborating.

In a statement issued Friday morning, the Iraqi army’s Joint Operations Command confirmed that Iraqi F-16s had struck several ISIS targets inside Syrian territory.

It is the first time for Iraqi military aircraft to target ISIS positions outside of Iraq since the terrorist group overran vast swathes of territory in both Iraq and Syria in mid-2014.
Posted by: Fred 2017-02-25
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