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Iraq
Airstrikes blast ISIS west of Kirkuk
2015-12-04
[Rudaw] US-led coalition Arclight airstrikes 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 Kirkuk on Wednesday night, killing 10 holy warriors.

"Last night warplanes heavily bombarded the Islamic State group also known as Daesh [Islamic State] in Humayria village," Sarhad Qadir, director of police in Kirkuk province, told Rudaw on Thursday.

Qadir said at least 10 ISIS snuffies were killed during Wednesday night's operation.

"We also heard a big sound that seemed to be the Daesh [Islamic State] military storehouse being blown up due to the bombardment," the police director added.

Peshmerga forces backed by coalition Arclight airstrikes have recaptured large swaths of territory in the past few months west of Kirkuk province that were previously under ISIS control.
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