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| Iraq |
| Kirkuk Kombat Chronicle |
| 2016-12-23 |
| Airstrikes cause 17 casualties amongst ISIS Turbans near Kirkuk Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Seventeen Islamic State fighters were either killed or wounded Thursday in airstrikes by US-led coalition forces west of Kirkuk, a security source has reported on condition of anonymity. The source told Alsumaria News that fighter jets bombed Taza, al-Rashad and Daqouq south and southwest of Kirkuk, killing five militants and injuring 122. The airstrikes were carried out based on Iraqi intelligence information, the source explained. ISIS fighters have been in control over several regions in southwestern Kirkuk since the group proclaimed a self-styled ”Islamic Caliphate” in several Iraqi cities in 2014. The group has used those locations as launching points for its attacks on Kirkuk and Salahuddin. Preparations are underway for a joint campaign by security and popular forces to retake those regions. Battles between Iraqi government forces and IS in Mosul and Kirkuk have forced at least 125.000 people to flee homes to refugee camps. Airstrike destroys ISIS war council in Kirkuk Kirkuk (IraqiNews.com) Al-Hashd al-Shaabi’s leader Jabbar al-Maamouri announced on Thursday, that an air strike targeted the so-called “War Council” in Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk, and killed two elite leaders of the Islamic State. Maamouri said in a press statement, “Yesterday, an air strike bombarded a meeting of the so-called War Council of the Islamic State in Hawija district, southwest of Kirkuk.” “The air strike was very successful, and killed a number of the Islamic State’s leaders, including two assistants of IS Wali of Kirkuk,” Maamouri added. “The War Council was invented by the extremist group to synchronize between the efforts of its leaders against joint security forces and al-Hashd al-Shaabi,” Maamouri further added. “The people of Hawija are cooperating with security forces, as well as providing them with information about the headquarters and hideouts of the Islamic State,” he explained. The self-proclaimed Islamic State group is controlling the district of Hawija, southwest of Kirkuk, since June 2014. |
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