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ISIS kills two members of Iraqi security forces in Diyala: Police
[Rudaw] At least two members of the Iraqi security forces were killed overnight in a suspected 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) attack in Diyala province, a police source said on Sunday. Haytham al-Shammari, spokesperson for Diyala police, told Rudaw that four ISIS fighters in a white Kia truck …oh dear. Everyone knows that the proper jihadi drives a white Toyota truck not that down-market Kia thing (not that I am judging, mind you, but people do talk, donchaknow)… opened fire around 9:30 pm on Saturday at a base of security forces in the province’s Muqdadiya district (known as Sharaban in Kurdish), killing two. "The truck driver was killed and other [ISIS] fighters escaped the scene," Shammari said. In December, a deadly ISIS attack in the same district killed 10 civilians and 17 injured. ISIS rose to power and seized control of swathes of Iraqi territory during a brazen offensive in 2014 but was declared territorially defeated in 2017 when its so-called caliphate in the country fell as Iraqi and Kurdish fighters, supported by a US-led international coalition, claimed back lands lost to the jihadists. Despite its territorial defeat, the group has continued to pose a serious security threat to the country through hit-and-run attacks, bombings, and abductions in several provinces, particularly in areas disputed between Erbil and Baghdad which stretch across the provinces of Salahaddin, Diyala, Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... and Nineveh. Iraqi and Kurdish forces frequently launch anti-ISIS operations in the disputed areas. Related: Diyala province: 2024-01-07 ISIS kills two PMF fighters in Salahaddin Diyala province: 2023-12-30 Kurdish parties lose majority in Kirkuk provincial polls, Final results announced across Iraq Diyala province: 2023-08-27 Two ISIS suspects arrested in Kirkuk Related: Muqdadiya district: 2024-01-08 Iraq announces killing of ISIS leader in Diyala Muqdadiya district: 2023-12-03 ISIS attack in Makhmour kills Iraqi soldier: Peshmerga Muqdadiya district: 2023-08-07 Five wanted terrorists arrested in Baghdad and Diyala Posted by: trailing wife 2024-10-08 |
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