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| Iraq Kurds retake nine villages from Islamic State group |
| 2016-05-31 |
| [Al Ahram] Iraq's Kurdish peshmerga forces wrapped up an operation east of 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.... group's northern hub of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... Monday after recapturing nine villages, a statement said. The Kurdistan Region Security Council said the operation launched before dawn on Sunday "had achieved its key objectives". The KRSC statement listed nine villages that had been occupied by IS group since the summer of 2014 and were previously mainly inhabited by northern Iraq's Kakai and Shabak minorities. The operation involved around 5,500 peshmerga fighters backed by US-led coalition air strikes and reconquered an area of 120 square kilometres (46 square miles). The area, near Khazir, lies near the main road between Mosul and the autonomous Kurdish region's capital Arbil. The KRSC claimed that in the course of the two-day operation, 140 IS group fighters were killed and 14 boom-mobiles were destroyed. The peshmerga officer in charge of the region said at a news conference that four Kurdish forces were killed and 34 others maimed during the operation. The fresh push against the myrmidon organization in the north came a week after Iraqi forces launched an operation against Fallujah, ... the City of Mosques, which might have somthing to do with why it's not called Center of Prosperityor a really nice place to raise your kids... IS group's only other major urban hub in Iraq. |
| Posted by:Fred |