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Coalition destroys five ISIS hideouts in Hamrin mountains
[Rudaw] The international coalition destroyed five 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) hideouts in the Hamrin mountain range, the coalition's spokesperson announced on Sunday, amid an uptick in ISIS attacks in the disputed territories. "The @Coalition continues to coordinate with our #ISF partners to provide much-needed support in their fight to #DefaetISIS. Based on intel, @CJTFOIR fighter jets conducted 9  ...KABOOM!... s resulted in the destruction of 5 ISIS hideouts in Hamrin mountains," Col. Wayne Marotto tweeted. The offensive was also confirmed by Iraq's top military spokesperson Yehia Rasool. The coalition strikes come amid a recent uptick in reported ISIS attacks in the security vacuum void of Iraqi and Kurdish forces which stretches across parts of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... Diyala, Salahaddin, and Nineveh provinces. Over the past three weeks, ISIS has killed around a dozen Iraqi and Peshmerga soldiers. In its weekly propaganda newspaper al-Naba, ISIS claimed on Thursday that it had conducted 62 attacks across Iraq between May 6 and May 12, killing and injuring 67 people. Related: Hamrin mountain: 2021-04-14 ISIS revives a strategic camp between Saladin and Diyala and deploys, local officials say Hamrin mountain: 2021-01-24 Senior ISIS commander killed by Peshmerga in Kifri: commander Hamrin mountain: 2020-09-02 Iraq adopted new strategy to pursue ISIS terrorists and thwart attacks Posted by: trailing wife 2021-05-17 |
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