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Thirteen Islamic State militants killed sneaking into southern Mosul village
[Iraq News] Iraqi police potted thirteen Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
Lions of Islam who were sneaking into a village south of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
as security forces continue to comb the recaptured city.

The Iraqi Joint Operations Command, which had led the campaign against IS in Mosul, said IS had lost more than 25.000 of its fighters in more than eight months of fighting.
Cap. Amir Watheq, from Nineveh police service, told BasNews website that the Lions of Islam were sneaking into al-Houd village in Qayyara, south of Mosul, coming from the eastern side of the city of Shirqat, Salahuddin.

He said security forces exchanged fire with the Lions of Islam after they attacked the troops. Thirteen Lions of Islam weer killed and three coppers were maimed, he added.

Iraqi government forces continue to comb Mosul for hidden Islamic State cells since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi officially declared that the city became under troops’ control early July. Islamic State members have launched intermittent attacks against security forces and civilians over the past few weeks.

The Iraqi Joint Operations Command, which had led the campaign against IS in Mosul, said IS had lost more than 25.000 of its fighters in more than eight months of fighting. The government plans to launch further offensives to retake a few remaining havens in Nineveh, Kirkuk,
... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time...
Anbar and Salahuddin provinces.

Posted by: Fred 2017-08-05
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