Airstrike kills 4 Islamic State militants in Iraq’s Nineveh
Nineveh (IraqiNews.com) ‐ Four 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....
forces of Evil were killed on Saturday in an Arclight airstrike that targeted their hotbed in Nineveh province, the Iraqi military announced.
"A force of the 20th division of the Nineveh Operations Command came under attack by a group of Islamic State forces of Evil during a security operation in Atshana Mountains in Nineveh," Ayn Al Iraq website quoted the Security Media Center as saying in a statement.
"The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace after the attack into a tunnel at the Atshana Mountains," the statement read, adding that the U.S.-led international coalition later launched an airstrike targeting the tunnel, killing four Islamic State myrmidons.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-12-23 |