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Iraq
Three IS militants die in coalition airstrikes west of Mosul: officer
2017-05-19
Baaj (IraqiNews.com) Three 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 were killed on Wednesday when fighter jets from the U.S.-led coalition bombarded the group’s location west of djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
and near the Iraqi borders with Syria.

Col. Kheder Hussein, from the Iraqi Federal Police, said coalition fighters pounded IS locations in the desert areas of Baaj region, west of Nineveh, killing the trio and destroying a munition reservoir belonging to the group.

Coinciding with the major government operations in Mosul, Iraqi and coalition fighter jets are backing a parallel operation recently launched by ground paramilitary troops of the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) to clear Baaj and neighboring Qayrawan from IS.
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