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Iraq
US-led warplanes slam ISIS on Gwer front
2015-12-13
[Rudaw] A Peshmerga official said Saturday that his forces repulsed an attack by 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....
(ISIS) snuffies on the Gwer front shortly after coalition fighter jets bombed the group's bunkers in the area.

"At around 7:00am ISIS fired mortar shells at the Peshmerga frontlines and later the Peshmerga repulsed an attack," Brig. Tahir Jadir, a Peshmerga commander on the Gwer front, told Rudaw via telephone.

Jadir added that coalition warplanes "launched 10 consecutive Arclight airstrikes, destroying an ISIS base."

The confrontations ended without any losses to the Peshmerga casualties. ISIS casualties remains unknown.

Meanwhile on Friday coalition fighter jets destroyed 15 ISIS tunnels south of Kirkuk.

Peshmerga commander Kemal Kirkuki told Rudaw that his forces did on the same day capture a number of ISIS snuffies disguised among civilians returning to their liberated areas.

ISIS has been pushed back in all Kurdish areas in the past several months, but the group engages the Peshmerga in daily skirmishes along the Kurdistan Region's 1050KM border with the hard boy group.
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