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| Peshmerga foil 9 car bombs on northern Mosul front | |
| 2015-12-17 | |
| [Rudaw] Peshmerga forces foiled nine boom-mobiles deployed 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) bully boyz on the Nawaran front in northern djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... on Wednesday, where festivities are ongoing, a Kurdish Peshmerga commander told Rudaw. The commander, who spoke to Rudaw on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the media, said there were casualties among the Peshmerga, but that no official figure has been released so far. The Nawaran front is on the Nineveh plain, 10 kilometers from northern Mosul. Earlier Wednesday, the bully boyz launched several assaults against the Peshmerga on different battlefields. Six Peshmerga soldiers were killed when their base near Kaske, west of Mosul, was attacked by ISIS jacket wallahs. Two other suicide bombers were killed before they could detonate their payloads. On Wednesday afternoon, ISIS bully boyz breached Peshmerga defense lines near the Domez military base in Shingal with two boom-mobiles. One was taken out by a Milan missile and the other by coalition warplanes, according to Brig. Hakar Mohsin, a Peshmerga commander on the front. He said there were no injuries or casualties to the Peshmerga from that attempt.' Also Wednesday, ISIS bully boyz launched a prolonged mortar barrage at a military base in Bashik in eastern Mosul, where Turkish forces are training Sunni militiamen, killing two of the trainees and wounding six. The Turkish trainers were reportedly unhurt.
Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces repelled a multi-pronged offensive by the Islamic State group in the northern province of Nineveh on Wednesday, officials said. One of the targeted areas included a base housing Turkish soldiers that has been at the heart of a bitter dispute between Baghdad and Ankara. Peshmerga forces repelled coordinated attacks by IS in Nawaran, Bashiqa, Tal Aswad, Khazr and Zardik, the Kurdistan Regional Security Council (KRSC) said. "This was an attempt by (IS) to breach peshmerga defensive lines following significant losses in recent months," it said. "A number of fronts, including Bashiqa and Nawaran and Khazr north and east of djinn-infested Mosul, were attacked by (IS) holy warriors this evening," Jabbar Yawar, the secretary general of the ministry responsible for the peshmerga forces, told AFP. The jihadists "used boom-mobiles and mortars and rockets and after that launched attacks on peshmerga sites on all of these fronts", Yawar said. The KRSC, which is headed by de facto regional president Massud Barzani's son Masrour, claimed that more than 70 IS members were killed in the attacks. That claim could not be independently verified, and the statement provided no indication of possible peshmerga casualties. | |
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