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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Prominent ISIL Commanders Killed in Iraq Airstrikes
2015-07-07
[ALMANAR.LB] Prominent commanders in the ranks of the Takfir group, ISIL (so-called 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in Iraq and Levant) were killed in nine wide-scale operations in Iraq.

Top Iraqi officer, Lieutenant General Abdel Amir al-Zaidi, told Arabic-language al-Sumaria satellite television network that the Iraqi and the US-led coalition aircraft carried out several Arclight airstrikes on ISIL's strongholds in the northwestern province of Salahudin.

The operations were carried during the last two weeks and were based on accurate intelligence information which contributed to "major achievements," al-Zaidi said according to al-Sumaria.

Two High-ranking commanders were among the ISIL Death Eaters killed in the raids the Iraqi officer said.
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