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Iraqi security forces defeat ISIS attack on Saladin oilfield
[Rudaw] Iraqi security forces "fiercely" repelled an attack staged by ISIS Death Eaters on an oilfield in Saladin province on Sunday night, confirmed officials.

The North Oil Company police announced that their forces tasked with protecting the Saladin province's oilfields "defeated an ISIS attack on the Alas Oilfield."

It added the group suffered casualties as a number of the attackers were killed and some others maimed.

"They retreated to an unknown place taking back the maimed with them," it added.

Iraq declared the group defeated in 2017. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
they frequently carry out attacks against security forces and civilians, especially in security vacuums between Kurdish and Iraq forces.

The NOC commended the Hashd al-Shaabi saying they came to the aid of NOC coppers in fighting off the jihadists.

The fresh ISIS attack came a day after the group staged a similar attack on a Hashd al-Shaabi force in Shingal.

Citing a Shiite official in the region, Rudaw's Tahsin Qasim said that three ISIS Death Eaters believed to have infiltrated Iraq from Syria blew themselves up after engaging in a brief confrontation with the Shiite militias.

He said the Hash force did not suffer any fatalities.

After a five-year-long heavy battle, Kurdish-led forces pronounced the death of the 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....
group early on March 23 after flushing out diehard jihadists from their very last bastion in Deir ez-Zor province, eastern Syria.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-26
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