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| US steps up air strikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq |
| 2015-07-14 |
| [YNETNEWS] US-led forces stepped up air operations in Iraq against 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.... positions, with 29 of 39 air strikes in the country on Sunday coming near the Anbar bustling provincial capital Ramadi, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said in a statement on Monday. There also were nine air strikes in Syria targeting Islamic State forces with bomber, fighter-attack and drone aircraft, seven coming near Al Hasakah and one each near Raqqah and Kobani, according to the statement. The US military statement said air strikes were conducted in Iraq on Sunday near seven cities using bomber, attack, fighter-attack and drone aircraft. Most came near Ramadi, according to the statement, targeting Islamic State staging areas, excavators, an armored personnel carrier and another vehicle. Other air strikes in Iraq came near Al Huwayjah, Habbaniyah, Hit, Makhmur, Sinjar and Tal Afar, the statement said. |
| Posted by:Fred |