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Iraq
Iraqi forces continue offensive against militants
2014-06-13
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi forces have continued their offensive against turbans from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
... the current version of al-Qaeda in Iraq, just as blood-thirsty and well-beloved as the original...
(ISIL) by pounding their gathering sites in Salahuddin and Nineveh provinces.

Witnesses said on Thursday that the Iraqi Air Force launched four air strikes on the turbans occupying the palaces of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in Tikrit, the scenic provincial capital of Salahuddin Province.

The Iraqi forces also engaged in fierce festivities with ISIL turbans in the northern villages of the city, killing a number of them.

The army also hit the al-Ghazlani military camp that had been turned into a hideout for the turbans in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, the Nineveh scenic provincial capital.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella grabbed the cocoanut cream...
the ISIL confirmed the death of its second man in command, Adnan Ismail al-Bailawi, who was reportedly killed along other bully boyz during a battle east of Mosul last week.

Also, the Kurdish Peshmerga forces said they are now in control of the northern city of Kirkuk.

"The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of Peshmerga," said Peshmerga front man, Jabbar Yawar.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said on Thursday that the situation in the country's northern cities of Mosul and Tikrit had "stared to be reversed," stressing that the al-Qaeda-linked turbans are now "on the run."

On June 10, Nineveh Province fell into the hands of the hard boys. The Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
attacks have reportedly forced more than half a million people in and around Mosul to flee their homes.
Posted by:Fred

#1  They will roast their bellies and bathe them in a sea of fire.
Posted by: Shipman   2014-06-13 16:22  

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