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Diyala dead dudes: turbans snipe 2 Iraqi troops, innocent kaboomed
 ISIS snipers kill two Iraqi soldiers in disputed city near Iranian border [Rudaw] Two Iraqi soldiers were reportedly killed by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS  ...embracing their inner Islamic Brute...) snipers on Monday night in the Diyala province as the group appears to be regaining strength in disputed territories in the north of the country. "Last night, ISIS snipers attacked an Iraqi army base killing two soldiers [in Sherk village] ," Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Mustafa of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces’ intelligence in Khanaqin told Rudaw on Tuesday, referring to the bad boy group by its Arabic acronym. Since its defeat in late 2017, ISIS has carried out regular attacks against Iraqi and Kurdish security forces in the northern provinces, including in Diyala near the Iranian border. In late July, an ISIS attack on Kurdish "Asayesh" security forces left four high-ranking officers dead and eight others maimed. On August 27 on one of its Telegram channels, ISIS claimed credit for shooting killing two Iraqi soldiers in the Khanaqin area. Mustafa, who monitors ISIS activities in the area, says that it is difficult to estimate the number of ISIS gunnies in and around Khanaqin, but he believes there are over 40 gunnies there and in nearby Jalawla. Khanaqin is a disputed territory claimed by both Baghdad and Erbil. It was under control of the Peshmerga from 2014 until October 16, 2017, when Kurdish forces were forced out by an Iraqi offensive following the Kurdistan independence referendum, as they were from other disputed areas in the Kirkuk and Nineveh provinces. The result was a security vacuum between Iraqi and Kurdish lines that ISIS has been able to exploit. ISIS remnants have returned to earlier insurgency tactics of ambushing security forces, kidnapping, executing suspected informants, and extorting money from vulnerable, rural populations in the disputed territories as well as near djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and desert areas near the Syrian border. The Peshmerga, Iraqi army and Iran-backed Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF, also known as Hashd al-Shaabi) have launched several raids and operations against ISIS remnants in the region, yet the turbans remain active. As part of the fourth phase of its "Will of Victory" operation to hunt down ISIS sleeper cells in the deserts of the western Anbar province, the Iraqi Defense Ministry announced on Sunday they had killed four ISIS bully boys. "The aim of the operation is to clean the desert of Anbar from Islamic State sleeper cells," the Iraqi Security Media Cell said in a statement on Saturday. According to a report from the Pentagon Inspector General which covers April to late June, the US-led anti-ISIS coaliton known as Combined Joint Task Force ‐ Operation Inherent Resolve (CJTF-OIR) reported that ISIS in Iraq is attempting to expand its influence over populations in the Sunni-majority provinces north and west of Baghdad, including the Diyala province, and has reorganized its leadership and established safe havens in rural Sunni-majority areas. Bomb blast wounds Iraqi civilian in Diyala Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi civilian was maimed Tuesday in a kaboom at an agricultural land in Diyala, a security source was quoted as saying. "An explosive charge went off Tuesday at an agricultural land in al-Waqf basin, northeast of Baqubah, leaving a civilian maimed," the source told Iraqi TV channel Mawazin News. "The maimed civilian was moved to a nearby hospital for treatment," added the source. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-08-28 |
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