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Senior ISIS commander killed by Peshmerga in Kifri: commander
[Rudaw] An 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) emir was killed by Peshmerga forces during a two-day operation against the group near Kifri town, according to a commander. Barham Mohammed, commander from Peshmerga Forces’ Unit 70, told Rudaw that the operation targeted several ISIS sleeper cells in Mount Ghara near Kifri town on Thursday. The operation was supported by US-led Coalition forces. Mohammed reports that eight ISIS positions were destroyed in the operation, which saw the killing of an emir reportedly named Othman. The commander described the raid as "retaliation" for the deaths of two Kurdish shepherds in the same village after an improvised bomb, suspected to be planted by ISIS, went kaboom!on January 12. Kifri town is located near Tuz Khurmatu and Kalar, in the Garmiyan administration. It is governed by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). The Peshmerga commander noted that they spotted two additional ISIS members in the village with the aid of drones, adding that the snuffies were able to escape through the assistance of a shepherd. Peshmerga and the coalition forces were not able to target them due to the presence of civilians, he claims. Mohammed added that Iraqi army fired at the ISIS krazed killers, but they got away. "They were able to cross the Hamrin river and then reach the Hamrin mountains," he noted. "Previously, we had information about the escape of ISIS fighters in two military vehicles and five cycle of violences in the area," the commander added, using the Arabic acronym for ISIS. ISIS controlled swaths of Iraqi land in summer 2014, but the Iraqi army announced the territorial defeat of the group in December 2017. The krazed killer group’s sleeper cells are still present in rugged areas and those areas that are disputed between Erbil and Baghdad. The group has exploited the lack of coordination between Peshmerga and Iraqi forces there. An improvised bomb suspected to be set by ISIS sleeper cells in Makhmour town killed four members of a Kurdish family on October 21. Related: Kifri: 2020-08-10 One more meeting to go until joint ISF-Peshmerga attacks on ISIS: military spox Kifri: 2020-07-31 ISIS-affiliated group releases video of former Kurdish Peshmerga's beheading Kifri: 2020-02-05 Kurdish forces capture 'major' ISIS militant in Diyala Related: Garmiyan: 2020-11-24 Three men in Kalar arrested for hanging their sister Garmiyan: 2020-08-31 Four ISIS suspects arrested in Sulaimani in July: statement Garmiyan: 2020-08-24 Lack of services, security hinder return of Diyala IDPs six years after ISIS liberation Posted by: trailing wife 2021-01-24 |
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