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| Several Peshmerga, police killed retaking Dubis mayor’s office from ISIS militants | |
| 2015-11-04 | |
| [Rudaw] Six Peshmerga soldiers and coppers were killed Tuesday evening when ISIS hard boyz and jacket wallahs attacked the small Kurdish town of Dubis south of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... local police said. Brig. Sarhad Qadir of the Kirkuk police told Rudaw that four hard boyz managed to break into the mayor's office after the building was attacked by four suicide bombers. The town police whose compound is adjacent to the mayor's office responded to the Death Eater attack and engaged them in an intense firefight. The police were soon joined by a special Peshmerga force who together surrounded the mayor's office with the hard boyz inside. Brig. Qadir said that four hard boyz who took position inside the building were killed and the Kurdish forces regained control of the mayor's office. The attack took place at around 8:00 pm local time after office hours. Brig. Qadir added that in a simultaneous and related attack a fifth suicide bomber blew himself at a checkpoint on the road between Dubis and Kirkuk. He said that a number of coppers and Peshmerga were also injured in the confrontations.
...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.... jihadist group killed four people and maimed 15 on Tuesday in a relatively rare attack behind Kurdish lines in northern Iraq, officials said. Dibis is located near the Bai Hassan oilfield northwest of the Kirkuk bustling provincial capital, far from the areas of the province held by IS which overran large parts of Iraq last year. Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region, which wants to incorporate Kirkuk, solidified its control over parts of the province after federal forces fled a sweeping IS offensive in June 2014, but the jihadists hold areas in southwest Kirkuk. Attacks in Kurdish-held areas of Kirkuk province that are behind the front lines have decreased compared with before the offensive, and are now relatively rare. | |
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