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Iraq
Several airstrikes destroy 4 IS headquarters and rockets plant in Iraq
2017-03-06
[Iraq News] Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced on Sunday, that several air strikes destroyed 4 headquarters belonging to 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and a rockets plant in Nineveh Province.

The ministry said in a press statement, "Iraqi Air Force destroyed four headquarters belonging to the Islamic State group and a rockets plant in Qayrawan area and al-Sena’a area in Nineveh Province."

"Security forces also destructed a number of vehicles belonging to the Islamic State inside a farm in Tal Afar District, west of the city of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
," the statement added.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
Commander of Iraqi Army Aviation, Lieutenant General Hamed al-Maliki announced that the Army Aviation conducted more than 3250 air strike since the start of Nineveh liberation Operations.

"The majority of Arclight airstrike was a night strikes, and inflicted heavy human and material losses on the Islamic State group," Maliki said.

He also declared that the Army Aviation’s engineers developed US rockets to be used in Mi 28 and Mi 35 aircraft.
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