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| Iraq |
| Iraqi Forces Continue Operations In Ramadi |
| 2016-01-11 |
| [NRTTV] Two weeks after declaring victory over the 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.... (IS) in Ramadi, Iraq's military continues to face pockets of resistance and explosive traps in clearing operations. Iraqi soldiers could be seen on Friday firing into IS positions with armored vehicles while columns of smoke rose from the city skyline. They were backed by six air strikes, the U.S.-led coalition said in a statement that day. "We are now on the western side (of Ramadi) and the 16th (Army) Unit and private operations participated in cleansing the city and the morale of our fighters and leaders are high and they are advancing as we planned," Iraqi Lieutenant General Riyadh Jalal said. Baghdad has designated djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... as the next target for Iraq's armed forces. Foreign special forces have been carrying out raids on an IS stronghold in northern Iraq, ahead of an offensive planned later this year, according to Iraq's speaker of parliament. Several attacks behind IS lines around Hawija, 210 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad, were carried out in recent weeks, Salim al-Jabouri told Rooters on Thursday (January 7) Both the U.S. and Iraqi military have denied that U.S. forces have carried out military operations on the ground in Hawija since October, when U.S. special forces rescued 69 Iraqis in a raid that killed one U.S. commando. But Dubai-based al-Hadath TV and Iraqi media have reported at least half a dozen raids in and around Hawija since late December, led by U.S. special forces. |
| Posted by:Fred |