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36 Islamic State militants killed in Iraqi airstrikes against Syrian territories
Baghdad (Iraqinews.com) ‐ As many as 36 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.... (IS) bully boyz were killed on Sunday after Iraqi warplanes targeted their terrorist hotbed located in Syria, a front man for the Iraqi Security Media Council was quoted as saying. Alghdad Press quoted Brig. Gen. Yehia Rasool as saying in a statement that Iraqi Air Forces launched a series of  s on Syrian territories using F-16 jets to eliminate Islamic State terrorists, who were planning to carry out terrorist attacks in Iraq.According to the statement, the air raids left 36 IS bully boyz dead, including six big shots who were gathering at one of their hotbeds inside Syria.
"According to our information, the raids took place while there was a meeting of terrorist leaders and it achieved its goal with the death of 36 of them," General Yahya Rasool, front man for the Joint Operations Command (JOC), which coordinates the fight against IS in Iraq, says. The US-led coalition battling IS jihadists confirmed the raid, which took place near the town of Hajin in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, about 30 miles from the Iraqi border. "These raids prove Iraq’s commitment to destroy the remnants of IS that continue to threaten citizens," Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said on Thursday, adding that the operation was planned and executed by JOC, with support from the coalition. Posted by: trailing wife 2018-04-23 |
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