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US, allies target IS group with 33 strikes over two days: US military
2016-05-13
US leads 19 strikes against ISIS in Iraq, Syria on Wednesday

[Ynet] The United States and its allies conducted 19 strikes against 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....
Death Eaters in Iraq and Syria on Wednesday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement Thursday.

The Combined Joint Task Force said 13 of the strikes hit targets near 10 Iraqi cities, including near djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
where two strikes destroyed nine rails used to launch rockets, as well as a vehicle and assembly area used by Islamic State Death Eaters. The US led coalition, working with Iraqi forces, are trying to retake the key city.

Two other strikes hit hear Al Baghdadi, striking two units of myrmidon fighters, among other targets, the task force said.

US, allies target IS group with 14 strikes on Tuesday: US military

[AlAhram] The US-led coalition on Tuesday staged 14 strikes against Islamic State in its latest round of daily strikes on the myrmidon group in Iraq and Syria, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement.

In Iraq, nine strikes near seven cities hit two units of Islamic State fighters, a weapons caches and several pieces of equipment, among other targets, the Combined Joint Task Force said in the statement released on Wednesday. One strikes near Ar Rutbah was inconclusive, it added.

Five strikes near three Syrian cities hit five of the myrmidons' tactical units, three fighting positions and two vehicles, the task force said.
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