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Iraq
Drone kills 4 Islamic State militants in western Mosul
2017-03-02
[Iraq News] A drone killed four 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....
members on Wednesday as U.S.-backed Iraqi government forces and allied militias continue their push to clear the region from the murderous Moslem group.

A source told Alsumaria News that four members of IS were killed when they parked their armored vehicle near an intersection in Wadi Akab region.

Islamic State and Iraqi forces have exchanged drone attacks over the weeks that followed the recapture of the eastern region by government troops late January, leaving several deaths on both sides as well as among civilians.

Military commanders from the Iraqi forces and the allied U.S.-led international military coalition have said IS resistance was remarkable weakening in the west compared to the eastern side. Government forces became closer Tuesday to a government complex in central djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, having retaken the city’s airport, a major military base, a vital bridge linking both sides of the city and a handful of districts in the southwest.

The Federal Police command said recently that more than 900 IS fighters died in encounters with security forces since the launch of operations at the west.
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