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| Iraq |
| Iraqi forces push Islamic State out of western Iraqi town |
| 2016-08-20 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] Iraqi forces pushed 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.... fighters out of a pocket of territory near the key western city of Ramadi on Friday evening, the military said, following a string of recent victories against the Sunni holy warrior group in the sprawling western Anbar desert. Iraqi forces are now largely moving north, ahead of an eventual push on the country’s second-largest city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , which has been under Islamic State group’s control for the past two years. Mosul is also the IS’s last remaining urban bastion in Iraq. The development came as a powerful Iraqi Shiite holy man in Baghdad expressed discontent with the country’s new ministers appointed this week, after months of political wrangling -- a reflection of the still simmering political crisis. The town retaken Friday from IS -- Khaldiyah, 55 miles (90 kilometers) west of Baghdad -- lies between Ramadi and 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... the two key cities in Anbar province retaken from IS by Iraqi security forces over the last year. |
| Posted by:Fred |