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Iraq
Coalition airstrikes kill 30 ISIS militants on Saturday
2015-07-19
[Rudaw] The US-led coalition forces hammered 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....
bases west of the group's stronghold of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, killing at least 30 radicals, a Peshmerga source told Rudaw.

The source, who spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity, said on Saturday the coalition Arclight airstrikes conducted against ISIS in Badosh and Halabiya region, west of Mosul, have killed at least 30 radicals.

According to the Peshmerga source, commanders and military experts were also among ISIS casualties.

"Apart from casualties, a number of military bases have been vanished by the Arclight airstrikes," the source has added.

Months of Arclight airstrikes by the US-led coalition believed to be a preparation to retake ISIS self-claimed capital of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city that fell to the snuffies last June.
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