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Fourteen Iraqi soldiers killed, injured in armed attack, west of Anbar
Anbar (IraqiNews.com) Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed, while seven others were maimed in an armed attack, carried out by unidentified button men, west of Anbar, news agencies quoted a security source from the province as saying on Thursday."Army troops carried out a wide-scale operation in the desert, southeast of Rutba, when 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... gunnies attacked them," the source said. The army, according to the source, who asked to remain anonymous, "killed several gunnies during the confrontations." Earlier today, six IS members were killed in  launched by the Iraqi jets in west of Anbar, the Iraqi News Agency reported."Iraqi military jets shelled a secret tunnel of IS in al-Kaara region in Qaim town, leaving six gunnies killed and two vehicles destroyed," a source from al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) said. The shelling took place during an operation to comb border exits, he added. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-03-16 |
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