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| Iraq |
| Kurdish, Iraqi leaders claim gains against Islamic State |
| 2015-03-16 |
| [USATODAY] Kurdish peshmerga forces on Sunday claimed to be driving Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're 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 the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... fighters from the southern regions of Iraq's Kirkuk province and away from valuable oilfields, military officials said. Peshmerga commanders told the Kurdish media network Rudaw that their forces were within 12 miles of Hawija, just south of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. They said they had deployed heavy weapons and troops in the area. Last week, Kurdish forces backed by coalition ISIL Death Eaters have been fleeing north to Hawija from Tikrit, where the Iraqi Army has been conducting a joint offensive with Iranian-backed Shiite militias for two weeks. Iraqi officers on Saturday claimed that in Tikrit a dwindling band of Islamic State Lions of Islam were in "total collapse." Iraqi government leaders predicted ISIL fighters would be driven from Tikrit within a few days. |
| Posted by:Fred |